In England, Swansea Crown Court Judge Geraint Walters wanted to know why prosecutors dropped charges against photographer Dimitris Legakis on the eve of the trial. Legakis had been arrested for taking photos near a crime scene and charged with assaulting an emergency worker, obstructing or resisting a police officer, and using threatening or abusive words […]
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law today that will prohibit bystanders from getting too close to police and other first responders. The legislation, Senate Bill 184, makes it a second-degree misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of a first responder after receiving a verbal warning to stay away. The law includes […]
In May 2023, the St. Louis County SWAT team used a battering ram to knock down the door to Brittany Shamily’s home in Ferguson, Missouri. Cops detained her and her family while they ransacked the place, searching for evidence related to a carjacking that had happened earlier that day. One of the victims told police […]
The government is attempting to take away a Mississippi woman’s three children after her young son was shot in the chest last year. Bitterly ironic is that it was the government—not the mother, Nakala Murry, or anyone in her company—who did the shooting. In May 2023, Aderrien Murry, then 11 years old, dialed 911, reportedly […]
Dewonna Goodridge, a 57-year-old Junction City resident, says she worked 12-hour shifts, six days a week as a machine operator to save up money for her 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe. All it took for Kansas law enforcement to take it from her last June was a traffic stop that didn’t involve her and an evidence-free claim […]
In August 2022, Bruce Frankel’s fiancee dialed 911 after Frankel began having a grand mal seizure. But instead of receiving medical help, a police officer burst into Frankel’s home and tased him. Making matters worse, police engaged in an attempt to cover up their mistake by launching bogus charges against Frankel. Frankel has now launched […]
Did somebody say something about never letting a crisis go to waste? That may well have been on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mind when he announced the installation of hundreds of surveillance cameras in Oakland to address public concerns about crime. Whether or not robberies and assaults decline because of police monitoring, you can bet […]
What if you come home and find strangers living in your house? I assumed you order the squatters out, and if they resist, call the police, and they will kick them out. Wrong. Pro-tenant laws passed by anti-capitalist politicians now protect squatters. If a squatter just lies about having a lease, the police won’t intervene. […]
Two lawsuits filed this week accuse Michigan sheriff’s offices of colluding with large prison telecom companies to end face-to-face jail visitations and then price gouge families who are forced to rely on expensive phone calls and video chats, in return for major kickbacks. Civil Rights Corps, a criminal justice advocacy nonprofit, filed the two class-actions […]
A Texas SWAT Team raided an innocent family’s house in 2019, barging into the family’s home and holding them at gunpoint before realizing they were at the wrong address. But when the family sued, officers were granted qualified immunity. In a request for additional review filed earlier this month, the Institute for Justice (I.J.), a […]