More cases of police abuse including in Milwaukee

More examples of police violating our civil rights. This is one of the most abusive cases. Andrew Henderson is a man who while legally filming outside of his apartment residence in Little Canada (by St. Paul, Minnesota) videotaped a person being taken away by local...

Police abuses once again including 12 year old in handcuffs

Here are more examples of police violating the basic liberties of their fellow citizens. I wish that there came a time when there weren't more examples, but sadly I can't even write about all of them, unless I devote my column to just police abuses, and no other issues. In...

Police abuses around the country

In Salt Lake City, Utah, police are illegally targeting minority students for gang membership in high schools.. In fact, they selectively choose minority students for interrogation when they lock down a school. Here is the case of one student, named K.W. and his experience ...

It's O.K. to change your sex and police abuses once again

A number of different issues today. I. There is a woman who was born a man playing basketball for a small woman's college basketball team. A talk show host asked rhetorically, did she have the right to have this operation to go from a man to a woman. Well, it's her body. The...

Police arrest you for filming them.

In Salt Lake City, Utah, police are illegally targeting minority students for gang membership in high schools.. In fact, they selectively choose minority students for interrogation when they lock down a school.  Here is the case of one student, named K.W. and his...

Couple arrested for reporting found drugs to the police

The War on Drugs is stupid and stupid cops like to enforce it. Yes, there stupid cops, and they never seem to be fired. A couple in Clayton County Georgia (the Atlanta area) who owned a property were arrested for "tampering with evidence" after reporting to police illegal...

Police assault woman with cellphone

If you film the police in Austin, Texas, or anywhere else for that matter, should you have to be 50 feet away? Also, should everyone be 50, or even 60 feet away, or just those filming the police? Can other bystanders be closer? Also, if the filming is at a crowded event with...

Police engage in illegal seizures of money

Julian Miller, who filmed with his cell phone the shooting of Darius Kennedy by the New York Police Department, had his cell phone taken away by the NYPD and never returned. Miller was also told, again illegally, not to talk to the media. Where is that cell phone and what...

Why are Republicans arresting people for filming them?

I have written before about Wisconsinites being arrested for filming their Wisconsin legislature, though there is a guaranteed right in the state statutes to film the legislature in session. But, a rule has been imposed to allow arrests for peaceful and quiet filming. A rule...

Chicago P.D. draws guns on journalists in order to erase video

This is disturbing story out of Chicago. It seems a number of young journalists covering the anti-NATO protests in Chicago were targeted for harassment by the Chicago Police Department. Batteries and external hard drives of theirs were smashed and the cell phone of one...

Victory for free speech, jury affirms right to film police

Victory for freedom of speech and the press. A federal jury awarded damages to an Oregon man who was illegally arrested for filming a cop who he believed, was infringing on his First Amendment right to protest outside of a bank. Now, it seems that this guy had set up a table...

How police violate freedom of the press

In this case out of Denver, CO, a man offers to be a witness for a driver stopped by the police. He offers to testify that the driver did in fact, stop at a stop sign. Frankly, I don't know if the driver did or not, but I am more interested in the reaction by the police. The...

Victory for First Amendment, jury affirms right to film police

Victory for freedom of speech and the press. A federal jury awarded damages to an Oregon man who was illegally arrested for filming a cop who he believed, was infringing on his First Amendment right to protest outside of a bank. Now, it seems that this guy had set up a table...

Chicago P.D. draws guns on journalists

This is disturbing story out of Chicago. It seems a number of young journalists covering the anti-NATO protests in Chicago were targeted for harassment by the Chicago Police Department. Batteries and external hard drives of theirs were smashed and the cell phone of one...