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Cop Formerly Charged Over Murder of Freddie Gray Now in Charge of Investigating The Same Department 12 August 2022 In 2015, the world would be exposed to the horrifying practice of “nickel rides” following the death of Freddie Gray. Out of the six officers charged in Gray’s death, Lieutenant...

Greg Abbott Screwed Over Truck Drivers in a Misguided Attempt to Increase Border Security The new inspection initiative duplicated screenings that were already being carried out, irking trade officials and truckers—even those who have supported Abbott up until this point. 15 April 2022 Last...

Texas Man Got Caught Trying to Abuse Minor Over Snapchat Days Before He Was Scheduled to Start Work as Jail Guard: Deputies 7 March 2022 A young Texas man had been planning to show up to jail Monday as a new guard. Instead, his would-be colleagues locked him up as an alleged sexual predator...

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence 5 March 2022 Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail. His...

Texas Deputy Who Tased Unarmed Refugee Child Won’t Be Disciplined 10 February 2022 A Texas sheriff’s deputy won’t face punishment for tasing an unarmed refugee child at one of the federal government’s shelters for migrant children in 2020. After Reveal from The Center for Investigative...

San Antonio police officer arrested on DWI charge 9 February 2022 A San Antonio police officer who has been with the force for 17 years has been arrested for drunk driving, according to the department. Police received a call from a motorist on the side of the road on Tuesday, Feb. 8...

Texas Town To Start Issuing Traffic Tickets By Text Message 2 February 2022 Way back in 2014, Oklahoma state senator (and former police officer) Al McAffrey had an idea: what if cops could issue traffic tickets electronically, without ever having to leave the safety and comfort of their...

WATCH: 13yo Girl Repeatedly Punched by Police, Tackled for “Getting Too Close: 2 February 2022 Phoenix police are conducting damage control this week after video was posted online of one of their officers punching a girl, who is reportedly just 13-years-old. According to police, the girl was...

Migrants Detained in Texas Border Operation Are Fighting Back — and It's Not Going Well For Gove. Greg Abbott A Texas judge ruled that the state’s arrests of migrants caught crossing the border is an unconstitutional encroachment on federal authority. 26 January 2022 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s...

He Was a Board Member of the Oath Keepers. Now He’s Holding State-Approved Trainings for Law Enforcement in Texas. Richard Mack wants your sheriff to defy the government. 29 October 2021 On a glorious Saturday morning in October, about 75 people are gathered inside an airy warehouse on the...

Cop Fired for Savagely Beating Handcuffed Pregnant Woman on Video, Hired at New Dept. (first half of article is actually about Woodlynne's itinerant gypsy cop) 11 December 2021 As TFTP reported in June of 2021, several teenagers were hanging out with friends, on their own property when...

SAPD officer fired for repeatedly punching handcuffed pregnant woman still fighting to win back job Suspension records show pattern of Officer Elizabeth Montoya having issues interacting with the public 1 November 2021 San Antonio Police officials have released body-worn camera footage...

Twice-fired cop accused of sending woman her own explicit photos fighting to get his job back Javier Perales, Jr. was indefinitely suspended from SAPD Jan. 2018; a previous indefinite suspension for threatening texts has already been overturned 18 November 2021 A San Antonio police officer...

Videos Are Making It Hard To Trust the Cops2 10 November 2021 There's a lot to dislike about the increasingly pervasive surveillance state, but a little of its danger is offset when the forces of officialdom are themselves captured by the all-seeing eye. All too often, official versions of...

Ex-San Antonio police officer hospitalized after shootout with Tennessee deputies Lee Rakun was fired 6 times by SAPD and reinstated 5 times before retiring last year 12 August 2012 Ex San Antonio, Texas, Cop Lee Rakun A former San Antonio police officer who retired after a long history...

Black man Mathias Ometu arrested while jogging sues SAPD a year after being mistaken for domestic violence suspect 22 September 2021 A man seen on camera being forced into the back of a San Antonio police patrol vehicle after officers mistook him for a domestic violence suspect last year has...

James Nicholson (left), Dezi Rios (center), Shane Nagy (right) SAPD officers arrested in recent months suspended, fired, records show 16 September 2021 Three San Antonio police officers who were arrested in separate incidents earlier this year have been fired or suspended, according to...

Robert Ferraro, charged with DUI New Haven Police officer killed in crash in Las Vegas, 2nd officer charged with DUI 17 September 2021 New Haven police are mourning the death of a veteran officer who was killed in an early morning crash in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday. The officer...

White House says images of Border Patrol with apparent whip are 'obviously horrific' 20 September 2021 White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday called pictures that appeared to show a U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback with a whip to deter migrants "horrific," but declined to say...