“It’s absurd to think that the crime of ‘ethnic intimidation’ was meant to include citizens who angrily rant at cops who are arresting them.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/29/hate-crime-cops-nazi-black-man
“With a phone pressed to the side of their sanctimonious faces, this army of volunteer state minions get to feel like their local police–tyrannical psychopaths.”
“The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/eade4e6efbf442328b0e1eefabd98f05
“AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion.”
“Children are being needlessly ripped from homes at such an alarming rate that hundreds of parents in one state have gone so far as to create a counter-kidnapping organization to stop it.”
“Two-thirds of the US lives inside this so-called 100-mile border zone, which includes many major cities and several entire states, including Florida, Michigan, Maine and Hawaii, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/us/maine-new-hampshire-border-patrol-checkpoints/index.html
“Is it a sign of progress that the news media no longer automatically cheers heavy-handed crackdowns by federal agents?”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/time-media-cheered-gestapo-immigration-tactics
“SiiP’s database will include samples from YouTube, Facebook, publicly recorded conversations, voice-over-internet-protocol recordings, and other sources where individuals might not realize that their voices are being turned into biometric voice prints.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/interpol-voice-identification-database/
“This isn’t even the first time five police cameras all conveniently malfunctioned at a critical time.”
“ICE came into existence in the early 2000s, when the federal government was reorganized and the Department of Homeland Security was created — so it’s a relatively new branch of the federal government. Its creation led to more deportations, which escalated during the Obama administration, especially during his first term.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/28/17514806/abolish-ice-protest-democrats-immigration