“An investigation showed he intentionally ran down and hit a fleeing suspect with his police cruiser.”
“The justices said the automobile exception does not apply when searching vehicles parked adjacent to a home.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/05/29/us/politics/ap-us-supreme-court-vehicle-search.html
“It’s not just happening in California. Nashville, Tenn., Seattle, Wash., and Somerville, Mass., now have ordinances requiring local government approval for surveillance technology on the books.”
“The proposed legislation would offer hate crime protections to police officers, making police officers an even more protected class.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/government-police-are-latest-persecuted-victim-group
“A confidential informant claimed to have bought pot from him for a total of $100. On April 16, 2015, the task force battered Betton’s door open with a ram, then almost immediately opened fire, releasing at least 29 bullets, nine of which hit Betton. An expert hired by Betton’s legal team estimates that over the course of his lifetime, his medical bills will run between $6 million and $17 million.”
Echoes from the past in modern-day Amerika:
“Police might be tracking a lot more than we even know on our phones, often without the warrants that are usually needed for comparable methods of invasive surveillance.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/03/cyrus-farivar-book-excerpt-stingray-218588
“The mob scene generated by the bureaucracy creates a major security problem in itself with respect to possible lunatic bombers.”
Read more: https://www.cato.org/blog/tsa-still-awful-after-17-years
“The federal government took 13 years of his life savings. But first they strip-searched Kazazi and interrogated the 64-year-old, covered with a towel, without a translator.”
“These are the goals, in Marx and Engels’ own words, followed by an analysis of how deeply they have seeped into the United States governing structure.”
“No matter who sits on the throne, the office of the president of the United States has, for all intents and purposes, become a unilateral power unto itself.”