Police claim “race wasn’t a factor” in the brutal incident. What do you think?
(Counter Current News) -- No, it’s not the McKinney pool incident. But shortly after the Texas altercation that went viral, a very similar situation happened in Fairfield, Ohio. Fairfield was the home of John Crawford, who was killed last summer for holding a BB-gun he picked up off a suburban Walmart shelf. In the Fairfield suburb of
Ford’s death was overshadowed in the media, as it came only two days after the fatal police shooting of unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
The Los Angeles Police Department has just cleared two police officers in the shooting death of an unarmed African American man, described by his family as “mentally challenged.” The slaying of Ezell Ford, 25, sparked protests over police brutality and murder, according to the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck along
“I don’t think an answer to this, honestly, is to go in a direction of legalizing any of these currently illegal drugs,” … “This whole movement in various parts of the country is a big mistake.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) A cargo ship which has been linked to anti-drug Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell was stopped and searched before departing from Colombia recently, with approximately 90 pounds of cocaine found on board by the Coast Guard. But now, Senator McConnell is doubling down on
“Instead of adhering to the warrant requirement,” … “today’s decision tells the police they may dodge it, never mind ample time to secure the approval of a neutral magistrate.”
Much to the surprise of the general public, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of expanded the ability of law enforcement to search without warrants. Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority of the court which ruled 6 to 3 that “when occupants of a residents disagree on whether they will admit police without a warrant, the objecting
“Things like this don’t happen in a vacuum. There’s nothing that we’ve been able to get that identifies the officers, that identifies the action that occurred…”
An 82-year-old man was shocked to find a Texas SWAT team storming his home. Before Herman Crisp could even ask any questions the uniformed officers, clad in military gear, knocked him down, broke his hip and denied him medical assistance. Herman Crisp explained in an interview with local KTBC news that the Georgetown SWAT deputies threw
Try as they might, the Chicago Police Department was unable to keep a Cook County judge from hiding their secret image.
It’s the picture the Chicago Police Department doesn’t want the public to see. The image is of two Chicago Police officers posing with rifles over an unidentified suspect as though he was hunted. Nearly all who have seen the image have noted the obvious racial tone of the image. Few, even within the department, have tried to deny that the image of
The video shows Brown begging for water and air as they covered his head in bag.
Sgt. James Brown checked into jail for a two-day sentence over a court fine. But even though he was supposed to have been let out once his mother paid the fine, that never happened until jail deputies had killed him. The active-duty soldier served two tours of duty in Iraq and informed the jail that he suffered from PTSD. The video shows