Matt Agorist

VIDEO: Innocent Man Stands Up To Entire SWAT Team Raiding His Home With No Warrant

Case after case we see SWAT teams kick down doors to homes, shoot dogs, throw grenades at babies, and even kill innocent people because they are at the wrong house, or acting on incorrect information.

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A Duplin County Sheriff’s Office special response team prepares to shatter a door, and presumably it's owners 4th Amendment rights, during a training exercise.

Odessa, TX — On Thursday morning, an Odessa man and his family were rudely awakened by a dozen militarized DEA and SWAT officers with AR-15s at their front door. Instead of cowering to the men who were clearly not authorized to be there, this man stood his ground and sent them on their way. “We were rudely awakened, they just started banging on

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‘Blue Lives Matter’ Bill Adds Police To ‘Protected Class’

The bill would make resisting arrest a hate crime.

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Baton Rouge, LA — Last year, in an outburst of pure insanity, the National Fraternal Order of Police, a union representing over 300,000 officers, called for cops to be included under Congress’s hate crimes statute. This demand has now materialized into actual legislation being presented to Louisiana lawmakers. Bill HB 953 would change the state’s

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Arizona Poll Worker Confirms Rigged Primary

The election rigging was so obvious that a hearing was held the following week in the House Gallery to discuss possible courses of action to correct it.

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As the Free Thought Project reported, voter suppression in Maricopa County, and the rest of Arizona ran rampant last month during the primary. The number of polling locations was drastically reduced, leaving many voters with a wait time of 5 hours just to vote. Others were left with no voting locations at all. The election rigging was so obvious

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White House: Imprisoning People For Victim-less Crimes ‘Devastating The Economy’

Since 1980 alone, the US prison population has skyrocketed by nearly 5 times.

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A prison guard on horseback watches inmates return from a farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.

On Saturday, economists in U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration released a report detailing the adverse effects on the economy derived from locking non-violent drug offenders and criminals behind bars. For decades, a guiding philosophy of authoritarians was that locking more people up would result in less crime. This has created a prison

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Maryland Ends Mandatory Minimums For Drug Users, Lets Non-Violent Offenders Out Early

On Monday, as the 90-day session of the Maryland General Assembly came to an end, lawmakers agreed to make sweeping changes to their criminal justice policies. In particular, they voted to end mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. This is a huge victory in the war on drugs. Mixed in with a slew of tax […]

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An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona

On Monday, as the 90-day session of the Maryland General Assembly came to an end, lawmakers agreed to make sweeping changes to their criminal justice policies. In particular, they voted to end mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. This is a huge victory in the war on drugs. Mixed in with a slew of tax legislation were two

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Gunman In Texas Air Force Base Shooting Identified As Former FBI Agent

FBI officials walk behind an military vehicle near the scene of a shooting at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Friday, April 8, 2016, in San Antonio. (John Davenport/The San Antonio Express-News via AP) The man responsible for the deadly shooting at Lackland Air Force Base last week has been identified as Steven D. Bellino. A statement […]

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FBI officials walk behind an military vehicle near the scene of a shooting at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Friday, April 8, 2016, in San Antonio. (John Davenport/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

The man responsible for the deadly shooting at Lackland Air Force Base last week has been identified as Steven D. Bellino. A statement from the Air Force identified the deceased as Tech. Sgt. Steven D. Bellino and Lt. Col. William A. Schroeder. They did not name Bellino as the shooter. However, a federal official close to the investigation,

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Infuriating Video Shows Muslim Family Kicked Off Plane For “How they Looked”

As Islamaphobia spreads across the globe thanks to the media and government stoking the flames of ignorance, innocent people are suffering simply for the way they look.

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Chicago, IL — Last week, the Free Thought Project reported the story of a woman who was threatened by a D.C. cop because of her choice of headwear. She was threatened with handcuffs and forced out of a public library for wearing a hijab. Now, this week, an entire family was forced off of a United Airlines flight because the way they looked and

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