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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...

Rush to Judgment Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened? 5 March 2022 Dr. Thomas Young is adamant: Melissa Lucio should not be put to death. “This would be a horrible, horrible tragedy if she ends up getting executed over this,” he said. “It’s just not right.”...

Episode 5: The Evidence In the wake of a scandal within the Houston police crime lab, Charles Raby’s lawyers discover that forensic evidence was hidden from the defense at trial. 1 March 2022 Foreign DNA is found under Edna Franklin’s fingernails. And in the wake of a scandal within the...

This Prison in California Forced Incarcerated People to Drink Arsenic for Years 13 February 2022 On April 5, 2012, three years into his stay at (KVSP) in Delano, California, Silus Valson sought medical attention for severe headache, stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting and dark urine. The next...

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...

Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine. 17 February 2022 As Amazon's dominance of global e-commerce has grown, so has its vast...

The FBI Seized Almost $1 Million From This Family—and Never Charged Them With a Crime "It's completely changed my belief in fairness," says Amy Sterner Nelson. 18 February 2022 Carl Nelson and Amy Sterner Nelson's pre-pandemic lives look a lot different than the ones they live now. There are...

Austin cuts police budget by 1/3 amid national 'defund' push The Austin City Council has voted to cut one-third of the city's $434 million police budget amid national calls for “defunding” law enforcement in favor of spending more money on social services 13 August 2020 In a unanimous vote...

Fort Worth officer arrested on suspicion of DWI while on duty in police vehicle 10 February 2022 A Fort Worth police officer has been arrested for suspicion of driving a police vehicle while intoxicated, according to police. Police said in an emailed statement that the officer is accused of...

Harris County, Texas, Constable's Office Constable Alan Rosen (left), Assistant Chief Chris Gore (center), and Lt. Shane Rigdon (right) Texas Deputies Say They Were 'Molested and Traumatized' by Colleagues During Federally Funded Prostitution Stings 25 May 2021 Texas "'bachelor party'...

Appeals Court Rules Ohio Cops Didn't Have Cause To Arrest Man Wearing 'Fuck the Police' Shirt The sheriff's deputies are also not entitled to qualified immunity because the First Amendment right to offend police has been repeatedly upheld. 9 February 2022 Sheriff's deputies in Ohio didn't...

Capitol Police Spies ‘Dressed Like Construction Workers’ To Surveil GOP Congressman’s Office 9 February 2022 Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) has lodged a bombshell accusation against the Capitol Police, who he says broke into his office without his knowledge and photographed sensitive documents. Two...

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...

Mercedes Cop Arrested, Accused Of Drunken Driving 2 February 2022 A Mercedes police officer has been placed on leave after being arrested on a charge of driving drunk. John Henry Vega was pulled over early Thursday morning in McAllen on North 10th Street, just south of Trenton Road. Mercedes...

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...

It is an expected outcome to the ever worsening epidemic of police violence. In Political Science 101 fifty years ago, we would have called this a question of legitimacy. With their increasingly violent attacks on the citizens that they are supposed to serve, that part of our government is...

Lake Worth officer who struck man with patrol SUV later fatally shot another man, chief says Officer Jonathan Granado, who has since resigned from the department, was sued in Fort Worth federal court on Monday. 25 January 2022 The former Lake Worth police officer who is being sued for...

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...

Ex Shelby County, Texas, jailer Korey Lanier McClure Jury indicts former jailer accused of grabbing inmate inappropriately, accepting bribes 9 August 2018 A jailer who is accused of touching an inmate inappropriately and accepting a bribe has now been indicted. Korey Lanier McClure, 42, of...