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New Arizona Law Will Make it Illegal to Film Within Eight Feet of Police Civil liberties groups oppose the law, saying it will impede First Amendment–protected activity and protect bad cops. 8 July 2022 Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, signed a bill into law Wednesday that will make it...

Possible Problems With Lethal Injection Drugs Stop Tennessee Execution Meanwhile in South Carolina, the state Supreme Court delays a planned execution by firing squad. 22 April 2022 A scheduled execution in Tennessee Thursday night was put on temporary hold by the governor, but it's not...

Dillard’s Employee Records On-Duty Cop Trying to Coerce Her Into Back of Store to Sexually Assault Her 30 March 2022 Before he was busted attempting to force a department store employee into the stock room to service him sexually, officer Darryl Felkel was raking in nearly $70,000 in regular...

As America Slips Deeper Into Authoritarianism, State Brings Back Executions Via Firing Squad 22 March 2022 As TFTP reported, the Justice Department quietly amended its execution protocols in December 2020, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and...

Police Repeatedly Question Mom of 6 Who Let Kids Pick Up Litter Outside "There are no known stories of any abductions here," says Anna Hershberger. 16 March 2022 Massachusetts mom of six Anna Hershberger has had the police called on her three times this past year. What has this recidivist...

Video Shows California Cops Arresting Mom and Grandma for Filming Them Mariah Herefored says police in Hemet, California, smacked cell phone cameras out of her and her mother's hands and violently arrested them 8 March 2022 Police officers in Hemet, California, arrested a mother and...

Sgt. Bradley Grice Deputy John James Deputy Pierre Frazile Deputy Andrew Herring Deputy Brian Leister Deputy Ryan Humburg Deputy Kyle Alexander ‘Haha! He Pissed Himself’: Cops Beat the Hell Out of Innocent Mentally Disabled Man, Laugh as He’s Sent to ICU 28 February 2022 On the day he was...

Trapped in the Floods with Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces 12 February 2022 [ The flooding in Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county was...

Bully boys: James Berggrun (left) & Charles Lancster (right) Not pictured: Jonathon Cooper, John Thomas Edwards, Michael Kastner Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit filed against 5 deputies with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office 31 August 2021 Five deputies with the Greenville County...

Stonewalling coverup in progress? It's really a shame when the victim's family can't get any substantive info our of their local police department. A real sign that a coverup is in the works: The family learned of the release of the officers’ names during the news conference, which sparked...

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...

This Coastal Town Needs Federal Aid for Climate Adaptation. It Will Get a Military Truck Instead. But in Iowa, sheriffs have never even used their “mine-resistant” armored vehicle during blizzards. 23 December 2021 Surfside Beach, South Carolina is on the frontlines of climate change. Rising...

Revealed: LAPD used ‘strategic communications’ firm to track ‘defund the police’ online 15 December 2021 The Los Angeles police department worked with a Polish firm that specializes in “strategic communications” to monitor social media and collect millions of tweets last year, including...

The Supreme Court Declines To Determine if You Have a First Amendment Right To Film the Police 1 November 2021 The Supreme Court has just refused to hear a case at the nexus of police abuse and the First Amendment, declining to consider a petition from a man who says his free speech rights...

The Bad Apples Control The Bunch: USA Today Report Details Law Enforcements Punishment Of Good Cops 30 November 2021 Plenty of people try to minimize police misconduct by claiming what we witness day after day after day is just the work of a few "bad apples." That's only half of the adage...

The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops Busted taillights, missing plates, tinted windows: Across the U.S., ticket revenue funds towns — and the police responsible for finding violations. 31 October 2021 Harold Brown’s contribution to the local treasury began as so many others...

Former Summerville PD officer assaulted person during August 2020 traffic stop, warrants show 29 October 2021 A former Summerville police officer has been arrested for assaulting a person while conducting a traffic stop. Warrants so Robert Barrineau, 37, stopped a driver on Palmetto Street...

Michael Justin Mims previously worked as a full-time Special DUI Prosecutor for the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office. ‘I Guess Ted Bundy Was a Nice Guy, Too’: Attorney Horrified by DUI Prosecutor’s Alleged ‘Torture’ of Family 25 October 2021 A now-former South Carolina prosecutor is facing...

Upstate deputy arrested for DUI, suspended without pay, officials say 20 October 2021 A Spartanburg Sheriff's deputy is suspended without pay after he was arrested and charged with DUI Friday. Anthony Muñoz, 53, was arrested by South Carolina Highway Patrol at 9:49 a.m. and released at 12:24...

SC beach town police chief texted explicit and racist messages to women, lawsuit says 8 October 2021 Two Richland County women are suing the police chief of a small South Carolina beach town, accusing the Sullivan’s Island police chief of sending them a stream of sexually explicit, racist and...