As expected, the St. Louis County grand jury that we’ve all been waiting to hear from these past several weeks has decided not to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri this summer, setting in motion weeks of tense protest that would […]
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No Indictment in Ferguson… Local protests planned for Tuesday
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Aura Rosser, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Missouri, police, police abuse, police brutality, police state, police tactics, Tamir Rice, the militarization of the police 76 Comments
Every cop with a gun should also be outfitted with a video camera
Earlier this week, after an inquest jury essentially vindicated London police officers in the 2011 killing of 29 year old Mark Duggan, authorities announced that, henceforth, some number of London’s 2,300 firearms-carrying officers would begin wearing vest-mounted video cameras. And, as much as I consider myself a privacy advocate, and despise our ever expanding surveillance […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged Bernard Hogan-Howe, big brother, California, David Ware, excessive force, Gary Schiff, London, Mark Duggan, Minneapolis, police, police brutality, Police Foundation, privacy, Rialto, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, the militarization of the police, Tony Farrar, video, video surveillance 17 Comments
Iraq War vet critically injured in police crack down on Occupy Oakland
Last night, in downtown Oakland, police were sent in to forcefully evict protesters sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street movement from two public parks. Things escalated through the night, as 500 riot police moved in, and protesters refused to leave. The police, in the immediate aftermath, denied using rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades on the […]
Posted in Other, Politics, Predictions, Uncategorized Also tagged Frank Ogawa Plaza, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Oakland, police brutality, police state, protests, rubber bullets, Scott Olsen, Veterans for Peace 39 Comments