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Please come take our 3rd Annual Worst Police Misconduct Video of the Year reader’s poll and vote for the videos you think were the worst examples of police misconduct in 2010.

It may not seem important, but the poll helps us see how the public views misconduct and helps bring attention to the issue. I know most are hard to watch, but if I have to watch and read about them every day, you can do it for a few minutes, so go vote today!

Voting ends at midnight, December 31, 2010.

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A U.S. Navy officer jumped to his death at Manila’s airport after he was arrested with what was thought to be cocaine, Philippine officials said Tuesday, but tests later showed the white powder wasn’t an illegal drug.

Lt. Cmdr. Scintar Buenviaje Mejia died of head injuries after jumping from a second-floor staircase Monday while a security guard escorted him to the bathroom, aviation police chief Pedro Desuasido said.

The 35-year-old Mejia, a U.S. citizen of Filipino descent, was arrested a day earlier at an airport X-ray machine after security officials found a plastic packet containing what was suspected to be cocaine in his bag, Desuasido said. He was about to board a flight to Los Angeles.

Desuasido said Mejia shouted and threw the packet at security officials. He denied the packet was his and claimed he was set up.

Dionisio Santiago, head of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, said chemical tests on the powder in Mejia’s bag showed it did not contain drugs. The tests, however, didn’t determine what the powder was.

Wossie Mazengia, a U.S. Embassy spokeswoman, said American officials were aware of what happened to Mejia. She said Philippine National Police officials were investigating.

Drug smugglers and border bandits have been threatening citizens and law enforcement in southern Arizona for long enough and one county Sheriff is taking a stand.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has announced his police department plans to use deadly force, if necessary, to finally drive the dangerous criminals out of the area. Local ABC affiliate KGUN reports:

The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office has recently been in the spotlight for sniffing out smugglers and their drug loads. Sheriff Babeu told KGUN9 News he’s about to go on the offensive with a massive show of force to stop smugglers and bandits.

“We’re sending out three different teams of eight to fifteen deputies in each that are heavily armed, even with sniper teams, out to the desert at all hours of the day and night,” Babeu said.

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Fox News:

“Apocalyptic pain” from an out-of-control debt could cause 18 percent unemployment and a massive contraction in the economy that would destroy the middle class, a leading Republican deficit hawk said in an interview that aired Sunday.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who recently issued a report on government waste, warned that the U.S. only has about three or four years to get its fiscal house in order or it could find itself facing austerity measures seen in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and earlier in Japan.

The end of cheap oil, the end of work and the end of affluence: welcome to The Last Christmas in America (TLCIA).As unemployment rose toward 10%, the January 1975 cover of Rampartsmagazine blared: The End of Affluence: The Last Christmas in America. (TLCIA)

The government responded quickly to unemployment, high inflation and rising budget deficits: it started manipulating data to mask the politically inconvenient realities of rising inflation, unemployment and deficits by playing switcheroo with Social Security Trust Funds, inflation data, etc.–games it continues to play to cloak reality from the media-numbed public.

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano may have spoke at the funeral of slain border patrol agent Brian Terry, but her family is far from happy, honored, or impressed. According to news reports, some family members exchanged words with Napolitano over the administration’s position on border security.

“‘I said you gotta wake your man up in the White House,’” Brian’s father Kent Terry told Arizona’s KGUN-TV. “And she said, ‘He’s done more in the last two years than any other president.’”

That wasn’t good enough for Kent and other members of the family. “She spoke with us and they were empty words today when she spoke,” said step-mom Carolyn Terry.

When the reporter asked “Why?” the family let loose:

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SACRAMENTO, CA – An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.

Update: Whistleblowing pilot explains why he did it

The 50-year-old pilot, who lives outside Sacramento, asked that neither he nor his airline be identified. He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit.

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Source: KZVTV10

CORPUS CHRISTI – An Odem man who was in possession of explosives back in September plead guilty in federal court this week.

35-year-old Jeremy Davenport was arrested by Corpus Christi police at the HEB on Weber road back on September 29th. According to police, Davenport got into an argument with a woman who claimed he was stalking her.

A search of his car turned up a homemade grenade, while the search of two homes turned up an improvised explosive device an 19 weapons, including a machine gun.

Davenport pleaded guilty to possession of an improvised explosive device and to being in possession of a firearm while under the influence of a controlled substance. He had admitted to police he was a cocaine user. Davenport faces up to10 years in federal prison along with a $250,000 fine when sentenced in March 2011.

As part of the plea deal, Davenport agreed to forfeit all the weapons and explosives, including a grenade launcher and 11,450 rounds of ammunition

Source: CNEWS

Police confirmed Monday that an explosive called ammonium nitrate was found in the gas tank of a contractor’s bulldozer at Vale’s Coleman mine in September.

In late September, Vale contacted police about an act of mischief after a bulldozer was inoperable.

“When they started looking at why the bulldozer stopped working, they found something had been poured into the gas line in the bulldozer,” Sgt. Rick Waugh said.

After investigating, tests show the substance is ammonium nitrate, an explosive “commonly used” in the mining industry, Waugh said.

Vale spokeswoman Angie Robson said the company is helping police with the investigation.

Waugh and Robson wouldn’t speculate on a possible motive, but a nearly year-long strike of more than 3,000 steelworkers at Vale’s Sudbury operations ended in July. Many Steelworkers were angry that some contractors helped Vale operate during the labour dispute.

Ammonium nitrate is a white crystalline solid at room temperature and standard pressure. It is commonly used in agriculture as a high-nitrogen fertilizer, and it has also been used as an oxidizing agent in explosives.

Ammonium-nitrate-based explosives were used in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people on April 19, 1995. Timothy McVeigh, an American militia movement sympathizer, detonated an explosive-filled truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building downtown.