U.S. News/Police Violence
Bank Records Show Biden Family Received $10M in Payments From China:
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-reveals-new-evidence-in-biden-familys-influence-peddling-schemes
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/10/james-comer-biden-probe-00096067
Ron Johnson calls out 'corrupt' media for ignoring Hunter Biden sex trafficking allegations:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ron-johnson-calls-corrupt-media-ignoring-hunter-biden-sex-trafficking-allegations
America’s state media: The blackout on Biden corruption is truly ‘Pulitzer-level stuff’
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4003066-americas-state-media-the-blackout-on-biden-corruption-is-truly-pulitzer-level-stuff/
Boston man charged with working with Beijing to identify protesters:
https://conandaily.com/2023/05/11/is-boston-massachusetts-litang-liang-a-chinese-spy-bond-set-at-25k/
https://www.universalhub.com/images/2023/liang-indictment.pdf
“Independent” Ukrainian “Kill List” Actually Run By Kiev, Backed by Washington:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/independent-ukraine-kill-list-actually-run-by-kiev-backed-by-washington/284639/
Growing Pushback Over BlackRock In Ukraine: "Taxpayers Pay The War Bills, Private Firms Get The Profits"
US Spending on Weapons and War Remains Higher Than 144 Other Nations Combined:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-much-does-the-us-spend-on-military
Deep State Technocrats Convene in D.C. Spy Museum:
Court Denies Idaho's Total Abortion Ban Which “Presumes The Defendant Guilty Until She Proves Herself Innocent”
https://webservices.courthousenews.com/sites/Data/AppellateOpinionUploads/2023-05-5--12-00-12-329.pdf
Santa Ana Police Threaten Christian Group With Fines, Prosecution for Giving the Homeless Muffins, Coffee:
https://reason.com/2023/05/11/city-threatens-christian-group-with-fines-prosecution-for-giving-the-homeless-muffins-coffee/
Homeless vets are being booted from NY hotels to make room for migrants:
How Parole Conditions Trapped Me in Homelessness:
https://theappeal.org/parole-post-prison-supervision-homelessness/
America Has Decided That Homeless People Aren't People:
COVID-19 sliced away freedom in the United States:
"March must be a bad month for civil liberties. In addition to the third anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns, it’s the twentieth anniversary of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Both have sliced away freedom in the United States, and their stories are intertwined."
https://www.ocregister.com/2023/03/19/covid-19-sliced-away-freedom-in-the-united-states/
DHS Official Gets Life for Raping, Torturing and Threatening Two Women:
At today’s hearing, Judge Bernal said, special agent with Homeland Security Investigations John Jacob Olivas had engaged in “systematic torture of women” and was an individual whose “senseless” crimes would cause his victims to “live with this trauma for the rest of their lives.”
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/former-federal-agent-sentenced-life-prison-sexually-assaulting-two-women-and
Texas governor deploying new tactical border force (Blackhawks,C130's):
Border patrol agent arrested got drug-smuggling and human trafficking:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2023-05-11/san-diego-border-patrol-agent-hernandez-arrest
Border Patrol union rips DHS for warning of ‘targeted enforcement’ in Texas:
https://twitter.com/BPUnion/status/1655792368937996288
CBP One App Locks Out Asylum-Seeking Migrants:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2023-05-11/cbp-one-asylum-error
Mandatory use of CBP One mobile application violates right to seek asylum:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/usa-mandatory-cbp-one-violates-right-asylum/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr51/6754/2023/en/
Prelude to More Maine Highway Checkpoints? CBP encourages residents to report suspicious activity in border towns:
“The men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol, who work day and night to disrupt this criminal activity, depend on the support and cooperation of the public by reporting suspicious activity in and around the border.”
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/border-patrol-and-local-communities-come-together-combat-cross-border
US Enhanced Border Security Partnership − Exchange of views:
https://www.statewatch.org/news/2023/april/usa-border-plan-requires-continuous-and-systematic-transfers-of-biometric-data/
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32016R0679
La Crosse Regional Airport to host TSA PreCheck Enrollment Center May 22-26th:
https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2023/04/26/la-crosse-regional-airport-host-tsa-precheckr-enrollment-center
Helena Regional Airport to offer TSA PreCheck enrollment in June:
https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2023/05/04/tsa-precheckr-enrollment-option-coming-helena-regional-airport-early
The War on Terror Has Not Waned. It’s Used Against Black and Brown Communities:
A network of 80 surveillance-oriented “fusion centers” around the US are eroding our privacy and civil rights.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-war-on-terror-has-not-waned-its-used-against-black-and-brown-communities/
DHS Created “Radicalization” Scenarios, Including An Online Gamer Who Uses “Mean” Language And A “Budding Conspiracy Theorist”
https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-releases-new-internal-dhs-documents-revealing-the-government-is-funding-trainings-intended-to-target-conservative-americans/
https://aflegal.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/09040902/2022-HQFO-00179-AFL.pdf
Domestic Terrorism Prosecutions: The Reality Behind the Government’s Inflated Numbers
The DOJ has thus far reviewed some 1,140 dockets. According to its monthly releases of docket numbers, in only 71 (roughly 6 percent) did the DOJ make a clear connection to domestic terrorism (e.g., in charging documents, sentencing memoranda, requests for sentence enhancement, and press releases). While the FBI’s open domestic terrorism investigations have more than quadrupled to 9,049 since 2013, the list of “FBI-Designated Significant Domestic Terrorism Incidents” appended to the 2021 report contains only 85 examples of cases in the period 2015-2019, of which almost 90 percent involve militias, sovereign citizens and other anti-government groups, and attacks motivated by racial animus. Only seven are tagged as “Animal Rights/Environmental Extremism.”
https://www.justsecurity.org/86456/u-s-domestic-terrorism-prosecutions-the-reality-behind-the-governments-inflated-numbers/
FBI Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide: Anarchist Violent Extremism
https://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-AnarchistViolentExtremismSymbols.pdf
FBI Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide: Militia Violent Extremism
https://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-MilitiaViolentExtremismSymbols.pdf
Punishing Rioters Is Wise. Bogus 'Seditious Conspiracy' Charges Are Not:
https://reason.com/2023/05/08/punishing-rioters-is-wise-bogus-seditious-conspiracy-charges-are-not/
FOIA litigation sheds light on border surveillance of journalists, activists in 2018:
"You would think these federal agencies that are tasked with securing our border are organized, but the truth of the matter is that the surveillance list was kind of put together haphazardly. It was really piecemeal. U.S. government agents said, “Oh, you got a name? Let’s throw it on there. Let’s look into this person, or let’s deny their entry.” [Decisions] were really based on flimsy information."
https://www.rcfp.org/nbc7-operation-secure-line-secrets/
BS Warning: FTC to vote on corporate biometric data collection May 18th
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/ftc-announces-tentative-agenda-may-18-open-commission-meeting
The OBIM needs private companies to help manage DHS's biometric collections of Americans and foreigners:
https://sam.gov/opp/44a48f98c21344469183436c3a2c02ac/view
Thales Group Earns Top Marks in DHS Facial Recognition Tech Rally:
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/countries-americas/united-states/press-release/thales-earns-top-marks-dhs-biometric-tech-rally
University of Miami Health System and the Miller School of Medicine are collaborating with CLEAR:
https://communitynewspapers.com/coral-gables-news/university-of-miami-health-system-and-the-miller-school-of-medicine-are-collaborating-with-clear/
First man wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition testifies as California weighs new bills:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/27/california-police-facial-recognition-software
AI's facial recognition failures: Three times crime solving intelligence got it wrong
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ai-facial-recognition-failures-three-times-crime-solving-intelligence-got-it-wrong
California's wrong to expand the use of facial recognition systems:
Four Virginia Counties To Install Rank One Facial Recognition In Schools:
https://wvpublic.org/four-counties-to-implement-facial-recognition-for-school-safety/
Onfido To Pay $28.5M To Settle Biometric Privacy Claims:
Starbucks Is Trialing Palm Scanner Payment In Coffee Shops. Are Consumers Ready?
How Amazon’s Big Bet on ‘Just Walk Out’ (Palm Scanning) Stumbled:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-amazons-big-bet-on-just-walk-out-stumbled
Appeals Court Reverses Conviction For Man Talked Into Criminal Acts By Undercover FBI Agents:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/08/sixth-circuit-reverses-conviction-for-man-talked-into-criminal-acts-by-undercover-fbi-agents/
Must See Documentary Tells Inside Story of Vigilante App Citizen:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kb87/watch-new-documentary-tells-inside-story-of-vigilante-app-citizen
https://tubitv.com/movies/100003305/vice-news-presents-vigilante-inc
Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force:
"The news comes after Citizen offered a $30,000 bounty against a person it falsely accused of starting a wildfire."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7evbx/citizen-app-private-security-leaked-emails
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/business/citizen-app-arson-wildfire-devin-hilton.html
Milwaukee judge blocks new policy for release of police body cam videos within 15 days:
(Nothing ever changes when it comes to police transparency.)
Police union attorney Brendan Matthews cautioned that “video alone without explanation is dangerous,” as body camera footage removed from context doesn’t actually portray what an officer is seeing or perceiving. “Really bad things can happen” when false or incomplete narratives circulate before all the facts are known about a police shooting, he said.
https://www.courthousenews.com/milwaukee-judge-blocks-new-policy-for-release-of-body-cam-video/
Cops Are Incorporating Private Cameras Into Their Real-Time Surveillance Networks:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/neighborhood-watch-out-cops-are-incorporating-private-cameras-their-real-time
https://www.context.news/digital-rights/privacy-or-safety-us-brings-surveillance-city-to-the-suburbs
Atlanta Fusion Center Creates A Massive 30,000 Surveillance Camera Network Targeting Black People (Fusus)
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2022/02/atlanta-fusion-center-creates-massive.html
LAPD to deploy real-time Axon Fleet 3 AI dash-cams in patrol cars:
https://www.axon.com/products/axon-fleet-3
https://my.axon.com/s/axon-fleet3?language=en_US
Motorola Solutions Launches Real-Time Mobile Broadband Body Cams:
https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/video-security-access-control/body-worn-cameras/v700.html
Cop City Protesters Face Felonies for Flyering as Police Repress Student Sit-Ins:
U.S. Military Now Has Voice-Controlled Bug Drones:
Department of the Interior Wants a Fleet of Drones ‘On Call’ to Help With Wildfires, Other Emergencies:
“UAS will supplement the manned fleet by providing the capability to operate during dense smoke/inversion situations,” the document states. “Infrared/thermal camera technology will be utilized to penetrate smoke and gather/disseminate information to increase strategic and tactical situational awareness.”
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2023/05/interior-wants-fleet-drones-call-help-wildfires-other-emergencies/386239/
St. Paul, Minn., Wants More Public Input on Police Drones:
https://www.startribune.com/st-paul-police-drones-city-council-privacy-surveillance-emergency-response/600272238/
https://www.twincities.com/2023/05/03/st-paul-city-council-privacy-community-input-among-concerns-over-planned-police-use-of-drones/
Florida legislators offer $25M to police departments to replace drones:
Zipline Home Drone Delivery to deliver food and much more in Salt Lake City:
https://www.flyzipline.com/articles/zipline-expands-united-states-operations-and-adds-new-customers-in-the-food-retail-and-transportation-sectors
A2Z Drone Delivery Launches RDSX Pelican Commercial Delivery Drone:
https://www.a2zdronedelivery.com/missionlogblogblog/new-product-rdsx-pelican-hybrid-vtol-commercial-delivery-drone
Police Violence
Supreme Court: Police Allowed to Use Force Against Unarmed Individuals Who Have Already Surrendered
https://www.rutherford.org/files_images/general/2-2-23_Salazar_Amicus.pdf
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-564/258185/20230316094850237_22-564%20Brief%20in%20Opposition%20Final.pdf
Excessive Police Use of Force: Experts Push for Legal Solutions Focused on Training and Culture
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/excessive-police-use-of-force-experts-push-for-legal-solutions-focused-on-training-and-culture/
White Army sergeant convicted of murdering BLM protester may be pardoned by Texas governor:
https://apnews.com/article/black-lives-matter-protest-shooting-texas-sentence-3fff311aa2ebcca5c2dd31a4c9b02c29
‘Back the Blue’ Act, Which Pushes For Death Penalty For Killing Cops, Promoted By GOP Members:
How an Arkansas prosecutor advocated for her pedophile uncle:
Supreme Court Justice Thomas’s wife accepted over $80K from conservative legal activist:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/
Right-wing billionaire asked to provide full account of gifts to Supreme Court justices:
Senate Finance Chief Blasts Justice Thomas' Billionaire Friend for Obstructing Gift Probe
https://www.commondreams.org/news/wyden-clarence-thomas-billionaire-friend
NY Judge Removed For Making Sexual Comments About His Wife's Sexual Preferences To Attorneys:
https://cjc.ny.gov/Determinations/P/Persons.Jeremy.L.2023.02.23.DET.pdf
Montana judge gets unpaid suspension for courthouse hallway comments:
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/montana-judge-gets-unpaid-suspension-for-courthouse-hallway-comments
Virginia judge who argued with a cop for texting while driving to have pay suspended for six months:
https://webservices.courthousenews.com/sites/Data/AppellateOpinionUploads/2023-08-5--12-30-24-db43a08d-64e3-4098-b69d-4aa820cb9192.pdf
Cross-Ideological Coalition Calls on House Judiciary Committee Leadership to Reform Civil Forfeiture:
https://ij.org/press-release/cross-ideological-coalition-calls-on-house-judiciary-committee-leadership-to-reform-civil-forfeiture/
New report on NJ police misconduct underscores disparities in cop discipline:
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/05/12/new-report-on-police-misconduct-underscores-disparities-in-cop-discipline/
https://www.nj.gov/oag/iapp/docs/Major%20Discipline%201-01-22%20to%2012-31-22.pdf
California AG launches investigation over racist texts by Antioch cops:
Handcuffed Colorado man sues Las Animas County Sheriff’s for tasing him 35 times and once in the face:
Attorney Kevin Mehr said one probe was lodged 3 centimeters into Kenneth Espinoza’s gum, according to medical records. He estimates Espinoza was hit about 35 times by Tasers, mostly in the “drive stun” mode directly to his body.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/04/las-animas-county-sheriffs-office-lawsuit-taser-colorado
Four deputies who fired 50 bullets at unarmed man talking to his mother cleared of any wrongdoing:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-police-shooting-survivor-says-deputies-opened-fire-moth-rcna83153
Cops sicced K-9 on unarmed 53-year-old Black man sitting on his porch:
https://nnpa.org/unarmed-black-alabama-mans-lawyers-obtain-bodycam-footage-showing-police-dog-attack-for-no-reason/
Ex-cop who plead guilty to assaulting Jaleel Stallings an anti-police violence protester gets 2 years probation:
https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/05/10/former-cop-pleads-guilty-to-assault-apologizes-for-historical-and-institutional-problem-at-mpd/
Jaleel Stallings objects to plea deal for MPD officer who beat him:
Minneapolis police chief signed off on hiring Virginia cop who struck, used stun gun on unarmed Black man:
https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/05/04/mpd-chief-signed-off-on-hiring-virginia-officer-who-struck-used-stun-gun-on-unarmed-black-man/
Family of CA man who yelled 'I can't breathe' before dying in police custody in 2020 reaches $24M settlement:
https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/48889863/family-of-california-man-who-yelled-i-cant-breathe-before-dying-in-police-custody-in-2020-reaches-24-million-settlement
Appeals court: TN bailbond bounty hunters who enter homes without a warrant are not state actors
https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/OpinionsPDFVersion/Majority%20Opinion%202022-326-CCA.pdf
Appeals court: Scent of marijuana in a vehicle does not justify searching drivers
https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/10/2023/2023-Ohio-1550.pdf
Prosecutors recommend 5+ years for former State Police Association of MA president, union lobbyist:
"Former State Police Association of Massachusetts President Dana Pullman, and lobbyist Anne Lynch, 72, of Hull, were convicted in federal court in November of one count each of racketeering conspiracy, honest services wire fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and three counts of wire fraud."
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/07/prosecutors-recommend-5-years-for-ex-state-police-association-of-massachusetts-president-union-lobbyist/
Ex-president of MA state police union, sentenced to 2.5 years in prison:
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/10/dana-pullman-ex-president-of-massachusetts-state-police-union-sentenced-to-2-5-years-in-prison/
MA cop who helped plan 2017 white supremacist rally decertified:
Prosecutor: Not enough evidence to charge deputy who hit, killed 13-year-old girl
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/prosecutor-not-enough-evidence-to-charge-former-cabell-county-deputy-who-hit-killed-13-year-old/ar-AA1b4RFf
Off-duty deputy who struck, killed a 13-year-old girl resigns:
https://wvmetronews.com/2023/04/14/deputy-who-struck-killed-girl-in-cabell-county-resigns/
MA cops handcuff a Black 9-year-old special needs student to a pole:
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/05/04/massachusetts-black-child-special-needs-handcuffs
Off-duty NY cop punched a 14-year-old boy and slammed his face into brick wall at communion party:
https://westchester.news12.com/middletown-police-officer-suspended-amid-probe-into-assault-on-child-in-restaurant
NYC Calls The Cops On Unruly Elementary Schoolers Hundreds of Times Each Year:
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/5/4/23710323/schools-students-mental-health-crisis-nypd-911
NYPD Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man. Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage:
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-kawaski-trawick-killing-investigation-questions
NYPD cop testifies partner made ‘mistakes’ in fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/12/nypd-cop-testifies-partner-made-mistakes-in-fatal-bronx-shooting/
NYPD cop arrested for shoplifting groceries from a ShopRite store:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/11/nypd-cop-busted-on-shoplifting-charges-at-yonkers-supermarket/
NYPD arrests 11 people including photojournalist at protest demanding arrest for Jordan Neely’s death:
https://news.yahoo.com/nypd-arrests-11-people-including-152518979.html
CCRB opens probe into NYPD arrest of photographer during Jordan Neely protest:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/ccrb-opens-probe-into-photographer-arrest-during-jordan-neely-protest/
NYPD May Start Ticketing People That Varies With Their Income:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/nyregion/nyc-fines-income.html
NYPD's Mentally-ill Incarceration Isn’t Treatment — It’s Violence, Survivors Say:
https://truthout.org/articles/psychiatric-incarceration-isnt-treatment-its-violence-survivors-say/
Concerns Rise Over Low Felony Conviction Rates In New Orleans:
https://www.fox8live.com/2023/05/05/criminal-justice-watchdog-concerned-about-low-violent-felony-conviction-rate-new-orleans/
Kansas Highway Patrol Superintendent admits to never disciplining troopers for illegal "two-step" policy:
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2023/05/11/kansas-highway-patrol-supt-herman-jones-on-trial-over-traffic-stops/70200584007/
College Student Protesters Were Arrested. The Man Who Got Violent in the Parking Lot Wasn’t:
https://www.propublica.org/article/conway-arkansas-school-board-high-school-arrests
Use of Paper License Plates is Hindering Philly Police From Solving Crimes:
BS Warning: To Solve a Young Mother’s Death, a Celebrated Texas Ranger Turns to Hypnosis
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/05/08/murder-texas-rangers-hypnosis-true-crime-interrogation
Cops Gone Wild? Series of sex romp claims dog law enforcement as 'defund' movement may add fuel to fire:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cops-gone-wild-series-sex-romp-claims-dog-law-enforcement-defund-movement-may-add-fuel-fire
How a police chief's phone tracking his steps led to his arson conviction:
Florida cop accused of stealing dead man's credit card, using it for personal expenses:
NJ corrections officer demoted for reporting superior choking inmate in mugshot:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/07/nj-jail-guard-demoted-for-reporting-inmate-choked-in-mugshot/
One cop opens a car door, and another looks inside. Did they search without a warrant?
"Citizen Non-Cooperation and Police Non-Intervention as Causes of Justice Failure and Crime"
Coverage of Brookside Police Department's Predatory Fines and Seizures Earns Journalists a Pulitzer:
POWER Act seeks to equip law enforcement with devices to detect dangerous substances:
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department paid $1.1M ransom to hacker:
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/san-bernardino-county-paid-1-1-million-ransom-to-hacker-that-caused-network-disruption-within-sheriffs-department
EPIC Urges FCC to Lower Prices, Reduce Surveillance on Prison Telecommunications:
https://epic.org/epic-urges-fcc-to-lower-prices-reduce-surveillance-on-prison-telecommunications/
Inflation and Prisons Why Price Hikes Are Even Worse Behind Bars:
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/05/02/why-inflation-price-hikes-are-even-worse-behind-bars