FBI Whistleblower LEAKS Bureau’s ‘Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide’ on ‘Militia Violent Extremists’
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/fbi-whistleblower-leaks-bureaus-domestic-terrorism-symbols-guide-on-militia/
Ted Cruz grills FBI director over leaked documents listing patriotic symbols as extremist:
President Barack Obama, who was sworn in directly underneath two Betsy Ross flags," Ted Cruz told FBI Director Christopher Wray. Cruz then reminded Wray that the Gadsden Flag can be currently found on Virginia license plates.
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-ted-cruz-grills-fbi-director-over-leaked-documents-listing-patriotic-symbols-as-extremist
Cop admits to putting murder suspect in a gang database for wearing a t-shirt of a murder victim:
He added, “In the music video which Thomas Ortiz is seen in, he was wearing a memorial shirt of Rashawn Williams. Did this go into your investigation of Ortiz being a gang member?” Robert Trujillo, a sergeant of the San Francisco Police department responded, “Yes.”
https://www.davisvanguard.org/2022/08/officer-in-murder-trial-admits-he-assumed-accused-in-gang-based-on-t-shirt-choice-where-accused-was-raised-and-friends/
MA Prosecutor Sets Up Hotline for Reporting, Among Other Things, People "Espousing … Hate-Filled Views"
"Distasteful ideologies, advocacy of political or social positions, use of discriminatory rhetoric, or the general philosophic embrace of biased or hate-filled beliefs are not crimes. Under federal law, investigations may not be based solely on an individual's beliefs or their protected First Amendment activity."
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/05/federal-prosecutor-sets-up-hotline-for-reporting-among-other-things-people-espousing-hate-filled-views/
North Carolina county putting AR-15s in every school for security:
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3590055-north-carolina-county-putting-ar-15s-in-every-school-for-security/
China Accuses U.S./ICE of Surveillance Abuse:
The U.S. is the No. 1 empire in hacking, eavesdropping and stealing secrets, MOFA spokesperson Zhao Lijian said. "This is an irrefutable fact and a brilliant satire of the U.S. boasting about human rights, the rule of law and rules," he said, adding that the country's actions will be resisted by the American people and the international community.
https://peoplesdaily.pdnews.cn/china/us-ice-surveillance-scandal-might-be-tip-of-iceberg-mofa-271084.html
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2511_665403/202207/t20220725_10727739.html
Prominent Wuhan lab can ask University of Texas to destroy ‘secret files’ and other records:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Wuhan-lab-UTMB-17113462.php
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/wuhan-lab-had-agreement-with-texas-university-over-destroying-secret-files
Pfizer CEO Complains to Investors About Lower Drug Prices Under the Inflation Reduction Act:
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/03/pfizer-investors-drug-pricing/
Most of the “Fact-Checking” Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Are Funded by Washington:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/facebook-fact-checking-organizations-ukraine-funded-washington/281618/
U.S. troops dump $100M per year into Defense Department-owned slot machines:
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/defense-department-slot-machines-millions/
State Department approves $5B in missile defense for UAE, Saudi Arabia:
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/08/state-department-approves-5-billion-in-missile-defense-for-uae-saudi-arabia/
How Much Land does the U.S. Military Control in Each State?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-much-land-does-the-u-s-military-control-in-each-state/
Trump-Appointed DHS Watchdog Covered Up Secret Service Text Deletions:
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-appointed-dhs-watchdog-covered-up-secret-service-text-deletion-dems-say/
Why Did the Pentagon Erase Jan. 6 Messages From Officials’ Phones?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/02/pentagon-jan-6-phones-wiped/
Pentagon reminds top officials not to wipe their phones:
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3588746-pentagon-reminds-top-officials-not-to-wipe-phones-after-jan-6-data-scrub/
Republicans Introduce Legislation Requiring Biden Admin to Regain Control of Our Southern Border:
https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2022/8/tillis-colleagues-introduce-legislation-requiring-biden-admin-to-regain-control-of-our-southern-border
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7260/text
Republican Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Law Enforcement Operations at Southern Border:
https://flores.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=42
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4436/text
CBP fingerprinted 1M migrants at our southern border:
https://www.azmirror.com/2022/04/21/border-numbers-hit-highest-level-in-20-years-as-end-of-title-42-looms/
CBP Agents Are Trashing Sikh Asylum-Seekers’ Turbans:
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/02/sikh-turban-border-patrol/
CBP Traveler Identity Verification (Facial Recognition) and Efforts to Address Privacy Issues:
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/gambler_testimony_bsfo_072722.pdf
Checks on CBP’s facial recognition partners ‘vital to building trust’
OIG letter says TSA PreCheck presents a “substantial and specific danger to public safety"
Statement in response to a OIG letter published by the Office of Special Counsel regarding TSA PreCheck facial recognition:
Plaintiffs argue Clearview’s source code is not 'highly confidential information'
https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/tech/litigants-fight-over-source-code-in-clearview-ai-biometric-privacy-litigation/
Dozens of US Companies Were in a Leaked Database of Users for a Russian Facial Recognition Company:
NYPD ordered to hand over documents detailing facial recognition surveillance of BLM protesters:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/usa-nypd-black-lives-matter-protests-surveilliance/
NYPD police abuse lawsuit payouts on track to be highest in recent history:
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-lawsuit-payouts-on-track-to-be-highest-in-recent-history
Marion County Schools to use Rank One Computing facial recognition to ID everyone:
"Rank One Computing CEO Scott Swann added that in addition to the data uploaded into the system by the schools. They could team up with local law enforcement to create a database of people that they feel should not be allowed in the schools."
Rank One: "Top-ranked Face, Object, & Text Recognition solutions."
https://rankone.io/
Mercedes-Benz Stadium to use facial recognition to ID Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United fans:
Broncos Stadium bar (TendedBar) to use facial recognition to ID customers:
Michigan State University researchers use facial recognition to ID people from VHS tapes:
https://cvlab.cse.msu.edu/pdfs/Liu_Kim_Jain_Liu_ECCV2022.pdf
IriTech and the Institute of Blockchain Technology work together to ID customers using their Iris:
The Most Surveilled Place in America (Ajo, AZ) Uses Predator Drones and Much More to Spy on Migrants:
https://www.theverge.com/c/23203881/border-patrol-wall-surveillance-tech
Sen. Lees Challenges FBI Director on Their Disregard for FISA Law:
San Diego City Council Approves Police Surveillance Tech Ordinance:
All the Data Amazon’s Ring Cameras Collect About You:
Ring gets your name, phone number, email and postal address, and any other information you provide to it—such as payment information or your social media handles if you link your Ring account to Facebook, for instance. The company also gets information about your Wi-Fi network and its signal strength, and it knows you named your camera “Secret CIA Watchpoint,” as well as all the other technical changes you make to your cameras or doorbells.
https://www.wired.com/story/ring-doorbell-camera-amazon-privacy/
Ring Loses Bid to Dismiss Biometric Claims Over Doorbell Cameras:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/ring-loses-bid-to-dismiss-biometric-claims-over-doorbell-cameras
New Orleans City Council takes second look at police surveillance, creates group to study role for judges:
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_efec81b8-1445-11ed-ba5c-d3c9cde02f15.html
Why Digital Policing is Different:
Many Fourth Amendment debates boil down to following argument: if police can already do something in an analog world, why does it matter that new digital technology allows them to do it better, more efficiently, or faster. After all, if ten law enforcement agents can track your whereabouts for a month, what difference does it make if a GPS device tracks you for the same amount of time? If a detective can stakeout your home for a year, what difference does it make if a digital pole camera monitors the same home for a year? If a police officer can photograph your backyard from a plane, what difference does it make if planes with wide-area digital cameras record the backyards of everyone in a city. Of course, there are significant differences in terms of time, scale, and scope in the revealing nature of the police activity, but the open question is whether the new superpowers inherent in surveillance technology should change the Fourth Amendment analysis. If, as scholars have suggested, “digital is different” when it comes to technology-enhanced searches, the question is why.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4133670
ShotSpotter Asks Court To Hold It In Contempt Rather Than Turn Over Information To Defense Lawyer:
ShotSpotters new slogan: "Time is Tissue"
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article262942138.html
Vice media retracts allegations that ShotSpotter altered gunshot location evidence:
https://www.shotspotter.com/press-releases/vice-media-retracts-allegations-that-shotspotter-altered-evidence/
Are our rights being unknowingly violated by police AI and algorithms?
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/08/are-our-rights-being-unknowingly-violated-by-ai-and-algorithms-aclu-wants-to-find-out.html
Watch This "Police Robot" Pull a Car Over:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/police-robot-pull-over-driver
Anderson police receive community safety grant from CenterPoint Energy to purchase drone:
Phoenix fire department launches drone program:
https://www.azfamily.com/video/2022/06/22/phoenix-fire-department-launches-drone-program-asses-respond-fires/
Appeals court upholds FAA rules on drone identification:
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-appeals-court-upholds-faa-drone-identification-rules-2022-07-29/
Police Violence
NH night out for police: indoctrinating kids (complete with bouncy houses)
https://www.unionleader.com/news/human_interest/a-night-out-for-police-and-the-community/collection_a8e7eabd-4dee-5bf5-99b8-df4fe63f1a48.html
https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-communities-take-part-in-national-night-out/5213616
Major news outlets sue Texas police for withholding Uvalde shooting records:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/news-outlets-sue-texas-agency-uvalde-shooting-records
Denver police ban food trucks after shooting six innocent bystanders waiting in line at a food truck:
"It comes weeks after DPD officers shot a man with a gun outside a LoDo bar. Officers injured six innocent bystanders, some of who were waiting in line at a food truck."
More than 70 women victimized, assaulted or harassed by detective can't sue because police sealed his records:
"For the two women who have now inquired about filing lawsuits, their legal path would be much more difficult than the McIntyres’ because the state’s statute of limitations on sexual assault lawsuits has run its course."
https://www.swoknews.com/ap/national/a-kansas-police-officer-victimized-countless-women-lawyers-say-the-state-hinders-them-from-suing/article_1ffcece1-3b84-5dd3-acee-bc8b262f376c.html
Trooper who attacked a woman 40 times in past year arrested again:
https://www.middletownpress.com/hartford/article/CT-state-police-trooper-to-appear-in-court-again-17351126.php
Irony: Off-duty cop arrested by ICE sues for discrimination
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/08/oregon-cop-sues-federal-immigration-agents-alleging-unlawful-stop-and-seizure.html
Miami plans to roundup homeless and send them to an island:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article264197216.html
Prosecutor Who Got Defendant Pregnant and Had Affair With Juror Is Now Running for Judge:
Prosecutors Who Want Credit for Investigating Police Corruption Are Happy To Steal Money From Innocent People:
https://reason.com/2022/08/04/prosecutors-who-want-credit-for-investigating-police-corruption-are-happy-to-steal-money-from-innocent-people/
Republican bill would give cops more protections and make it easier to prosecute people filming them and arrest protesters:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/27/senate-gop-bill-stiffen-laws-violent-crime/
"If a person acts in a manner which is assaultive toward a federal official, without specifically intending harm or the apprehension of imminent harm, the official still would be impeded in the performance of his official duties. Federal courts, including the United States Courts of Appeals have correctly interpreted section 111 of title 18, United States Code, to be a crime of general intent rather than a crime of specific intent."
Right-wing sheriffs are doing some really shady political organizing against the election system:
Sheriff ordered raid on Batmobile garage in Indiana as favor to friend:
https://abc7news.com/batmobile-raid-indiana-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-fiberglass-freaks-of-logansport-factory-raided/12083955/
Florida deputies attempt to evict woman at wrong house:
https://www.wfla.com/news/pasco-county/video-pasco-county-deputies-attempt-eviction-at-wrong-house
Cop fired for tasing motorist after he puts hands up and beats him with stun gun:
https://www.kron4.com/news/richmond-officer-charged-with-felony-terminated-from-force/
Troopers lied about murdering a Black motorist (Ronald Greene) claimed he died in a car accident:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/us/ronald-greene-louisiana-da-case-file
Two years later, four LMPD cops who conspired to lie to the FBI about Breonna Tyler are charged:
https://www.wave3.com/2022/08/04/update-several-lmpd-officers-charged-by-fbi-breonna-taylor-case/
https://eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2022/08/04/ex-lmpd-detective-joshua-jaynes-charged-fbi-breonna-taylor-case/65391852007/
11-year-old Black boy tackled and questioned by police for playing near fairgrounds:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-black-boy-was-tackled-by-officers-at-california-state-fair-his-family-alleges-racism/ar-AA10eoGf
MA police arrest innocent Black man while chasing a white suspect, removing his mask and jamming their fingers down his throat:
“This is the type of police misconduct that is precisely what fuels the mistrust between communities of color and law enforcement,” Mirian Albert, staff attorney at LCR said.
Cops Looking for Black Teens Arrested a Black Couple at Gunpoint:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akeepk/texas-rosenberg-police-lawsuit-over-black-couple-arrest
Black college quarterback arrested for not wearing a helmet on a scooter:
https://www.wrbl.com/news/crime/auburn-football-player-who-inked-historic-nil-deal-arrested-by-police
Officer who killed a 73-year-old woman during a demonstration on police violence six years ago still on probation:
Alaska cops violated policy in ‘white privilege’ stop:
Two Anchorage police officers violated department policy during a traffic stop last month when a woman in town for a rally by former President Donald Trump showed them a “white privilege card” instead of a driver’s license and was not ticketed.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2022/08/03/anchorage-police-officers-violated-policy-in-traffic-stop-where-woman-used-white-privilege-card-deputy-chief-says/
Bodycam footage of disabled vet killed by police K-9 for panhandling released:
Bodycam Footage Shows Cops Drop Handcuffed Schizophrenic Woman From Patrol Car:
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article264036621.html
Deputies who mistook a man’s diabetic shock for drug overdose and died in jail lawsuit:
Cop who performed anal cavity search of motorist in public is still on the job:
https://wset.com/news/abc13-investigates/lynchburg-police-officer-anal-body-cavity-search-2020-violating-man-lawsuit-virginia-law-cam-warren-brad-garrett-search-warrant-abuse-of-power-protocol-policy-buttocks-rectum-sexual-asault-foia-freedom-of-information-act-traffic-stop
Murder Convictions for Three Ex-Sheriff’s Deputies in Inmate’s Death Overturned:
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/3-ca-prison-officers-sentenced-to-15-years-in-inmates-death/
Magnet Fishers Fined, Threatened with Arrest for Pulling 86 Rockets Out of a River:
Public Defenders and Defense Attorneys: Help ProPublica Report on Criminal Justice
Why Victims of Police Misconduct Lose, Even When They Win In Court:
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/08/03/why-victims-of-official-misconduct-lose-even-when-they-win-in-court/
A Judge Says Shaken-Baby Cases Rely on 'Junk Science'
https://reason.com/2022/08/01/a-judge-says-shaken-baby-cases-rely-on-junk-science/
'Detective of the Year’ charged for sending sexual messages to he thought was a child:
Appeals Court: Deputy who forced a woman to expose her breasts and vagina while he masturbated cannot be sued
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-40590-CV0.pdf
Appeals Court: Wyoming cops cannot be sued for arresting and injuring a person handcuffed for free speech
https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/010110716333.pdf
Appeals Court: Kentucky cops who 'kettled' and arrested peaceful protesters cannot be sued because protesters did not accuse them of excessive force
https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/22/07/211524P.pdf
Appeals Court: Washington probation officials who keep people locked up past their parole eligibility cannot be sued because they are quasi-judges
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/07/26/21-35265.pdf
Appeals Court: Kentucky corrections officers who through scalding hot water on inmates can be sued
https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/22a0306n-06.pdf
Appeals Court: Iowa cops who smell marijuana coming from an apartment can wait up to 6 days to search for drugs
https://www.iowacourts.gov/courtcases/16073/embed/CourtAppealsOpinion
Women in Massachusetts Prisons Targets of Sexual, Mental Abuse:
https://plsma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/PLS_A-Different-Way-Forward-2022_07_11.pdf
Incarcerated Illinois Women Win Court Battle Against Brutal “Tactical Team”
Corrections Officer Had Sex with Inmate Multiple Times in Utility Closet and Recreation Yard:
Prison Cells Can Reach Nearly 150 Degrees in the South:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bbba/prison-cells-can-reach-nearly-150-degrees-in-the-south
Feds Under Fire Over Conditions at Atlanta Federal Prison:
https://reason.com/2022/08/02/federal-government-under-fire-over-conditions-at-atlanta-federal-prison/
Judge Places County Jail Into Receivership After County Fails To Comply With Consent Decree:
A New Book Exposes the Junk Science That Leads to Wrongful Convictions:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/book-junk-science-wrongful-convictions-hero-texan/
Allergan reaches tentative $2.37B settlement for opioid marketing:
W.VA cities, counties reach $400M settlement with 'Big Three' opioid distributor:
Cabell County and Huntington plan to appeal opioid verdict:
Tennessee AG sues Walgreens over opioid exploitation:
https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2022/8/3/pr22-29.html