A new video shot during last week’s G20 protests in London shows a man being attacked from behind and thrown to the ground by a police officer in riot gear – all just moments before he would suffer a heart attack and die.
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The man, 47-year-old Ian Tomlinson, is shown walking with his hands in his pockets and not resisting or speaking to police before a baton-wielding officer appears to strike him in the leg from behind, and then pushes him onto his back and the ground.
The video was shot by a New Yorker in London on business who decided to attend the April 1st protest “out of curiosity,” according to the UK newspaper The Guardian, to which the American gave his footage.
“The primary reason for me coming forward is that it was clear the [Tomlinson] family were not getting any answers,” the New Yorker is quoted by newspaper as saying.
The Guardian will soon hand over the footage along with a collection of testimonies from witnesses at the scene of Tomlinson’s death to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), England’s police watchdog.
One witness named Anna Branthwaite said she saw police assault Tomlinson, a newspaper seller who was on his way home from work.
DALLAS (AP) — A police officer was placed on administrative leave Thursday over a traffic stop involving an NFL player whom he kept in a hospital parking lot and threatened to arrest while his mother-in-law died inside the building.
Officer Robert Powell also drew his gun during the March 18 incident involving Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats in the Dallas suburb of Plano, police said.
“I can screw you over,” he said at one point in the videotaped incident. When another officer came with word that Moats’ mother-in-law was indeed dying, Powell’s response was: “All right. I’m almost done.”
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Drunken drivers beware: If you drink and drive, especially during the last weekend of February, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and other area law enforcement will be out for blood.
PBSO deputies plan to set up driving under the influence checkpoints. If they suspect a driver is under the influence, they’ll offer an on-the-spot Breathalyzer. If drivers refuse, deputies will ask to draw blood from their arms.
“I think that’s really personal and I think that if you deny a Breathalyzer and you say that you don’t want that, I think that’s outrageous if they take blood without your consent,” driver Courtney Liddle said.
Attorney David Olson said that “would only be lawful if a warrant is issued by a judge.”
That’s just what deputies plan to do. They’ll actually drive to a judge’s home for a signature and return to the checkpoint.
Olson said drawing blood from drivers is usually done in extreme cases like homicides and fatal collisions. Olson said he’s not sure a judge would actually sign a warrant. Read More
At roughly 2:15 am on Nov 2, Vincent Sims and I were crossing the intersection of Highland Ave on Water St when two police officers yelled from half a block away for us to stop and talk to them. Up until this point, Vincent and I had done nothing wrong and had no reason to be included in any sort of police investigation.
I told the officers from a distance that we had done nothing wrong and therefore were not interested in having a discussion. As mentioned, it was 2:15 am and we were in the process of hailing a cab. The moment I turned away from the officers, they both proceeded to sprint in my direction and forcibly restrain and handcuff me. Without any sort of explanation, I was thrown in the back of a squad car and driven to a nearby station. Vincent was left on the sidewalk having no idea why I had been abducted. (more…)
The WOU student who was falsely arrested and charged with possession of a firearm in a public building, had all his criminal charges dropped by the Polk County DA tonight.(02-10-2009)
The DA admitted no wrongdoing on his part, or on the part of the police who arrested Jeff Maxwell for a “crime” that does not exist.
In a statement released to OFF’s attorney, the DA said “I believe the Monmouth Police Department issued the citation in good faith and that there was an arguable violation. However, a careful reading of the statute and the facts led me to conclude the charge was not in the best interest of justice.”
“Not in the best interest of justice.” There was NO CRIME. But it gets worse. Much worse.
The college still got to “try” Jeff Maxwell. And they did tonight.
The tribunal that tried Marine veteran Jeffery Maxwell laughed after suspending him from Western Oregon University and sentencing him to: The college still got to “try” Jeff Maxwell. And they did tonight. (02-10-2009)
The tribunal that tried Marine veteran Jeffery Maxwell laughed after suspending him from Western Oregon University and sentencing him to:
a “psychological evaluation stating he is not a threat to himself of others” and
a mandatory “ten page paper” ” with references, “citing, but not limited to:
1) the importance of following the law,even through civil disobedience.
2) the importance of accepting responsibility for one’s actions
3) and recognizing the impact possession of weapons on college campuses has on others.”
So, Maxwell has been told his lawful possession of a firearm on campus is evidence of mental illness and he must “confess his sins.” Welcome to the new Politburo. Maxwell may as well been judged by the Hitler youth for his “thought crimes.”
Jeffery Maxwell’s “jury” were four unnamed students and one staff member of WOU.
The “prosecutor” was Patrick Moser moserp@wou.edu “Acting Coordinator of Campus Judicial Affairs”
Maxwell asked to have his “trial” open to the public, which is his right, but was denied.
The tribunal was told repeatedly that they lacked the authority to impose a rule dealing with firearms. But the children who sat in judgment of the veteran were not interested in the law or the facts. They were only interested in attacking and embarrassing a man who had committed no crime but had chosen to exercise his right to protect himself and others.
The “trial” was a sham. No one present even seemed to know what the “charge” was. When confronted by the fact that the school has no authority to make rules about firearms, they said that was “not relevant.” Then they said they were not charging Maxwell with having a firearm. When asked what they WERE charging him with, they seemed to not know. They then said they were charging him with having a “knife and a rifle in his car.” When told they had no authority to make rules about guns in his car, they said THAT was not “relevant.”
The children who sat on Maxwell’s “jury” and their staff advisors seemed to have no idea what they were actually charging Maxwell with. But they had no problem sentencing him. Gun owners, and all Americans should be outraged.
OFF is committed to continuing Maxwell’s defense. We are shocked and disgusted by the treatment he received by the staff and the students of WOU,
We ask your continued support of our legal battle for Jeff Maxwell. We promised Jeff what he promised the men he served with. We will not leave him behind.
April M. Washington, Rocky Mountain News
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Denver police launched an internal investigation into a family’s claim that four police officers beat a 17-year-old boy for 15 to 20 minutes for no apparent reason, a department spokesman said today.
A dozen family members demonstrated Wednesday at the edge of Civic Center to complain about the alleged beating of John Crespin on Jan. 20 in the 600 block of Perry Street. Read More
In an advance copy received by World Net Daily, it appears that the President’s new administration is going to try a bold new approach regarding the nation’s youths. President Obama’s staff is furiously working to finish the first draft of a new youth program, which would rival the traditional boy scouts.
Known as the “America Scouts,” these programs would be announced on March 1 of this year and the program would begin building a skeleton during the summer. On August 4, or Obama’s 48th birthday, the program would begin accepting children between the ages of 4 and 18.
While the exact specifications of the program are either secret or yet to be established, it is believed that there will be three classes of scouts.
“Liberty” scouts for children betweeen 4-8.
“Patriot” scouts for those between 8-12 and
“Constitution” scouts for those up to 18.
It is yet unknown if these “Constitution Scouts” would then move up to President Obama’s planned civilian reserve force.
What was made clear by contacts in the Administration is that portions of the White House believe that the Boy Scouts are too old and sedentary. In addition, their ties with religion are undesirable to the new Administration. A fresh start would focus these new scouts on the government, especially in these times of change.
As long as the program is passed by Congress, the America Scouts will be officially run by the federal government, but would be administered by each of the 50 states. The President would have the power to appoint a Scout Commissioner for an 8-year term.
Costs for the America Scouts have not been determined. However, it appears that the program could cost up to $2 billion a year. In order to make up for the costs, parents will be encouraged to contribute and special “reeducation” projects such as “Social Responsibility” will be paid for directly by the federal government.
In order to apply for employment, please write to:
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Moments before he was killed, Oscar Grant was punched in the face — but not by the BART officer who shot him.
A new cellphone video shows another BART officer punching Grant just before he was shot by BART Officer Johannes Mehserle, who was arrested on murder charges nearly two weeks ago.
The grainy video raises new questions about what role BART officers played in escalating the scene, which began when Grant was pulled off a San Fransisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Authority train on New Year’s Day. Six days letter, protests turned to riots in Oakland, Ca.
The officer who punched Grant in the face is the same officer who investigators say had his knee on Grant’s neck when the 22-year-old man was shot. Aside from Mehserle, no BART officers have been charged with wrongdoings.
“There’s no question in my mind that that’s vivid powerful evidence that he committed a vicious physical assualt, unprovoked on a citizen, for absolutely no reason,” said UC Hastings and Golden Gate law professor Peter Keane, who believes the officer should be fired and charged with assault. “That punch was totally unjustified… That officer is committing a crime.”
BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger has pledged to investigate the officer’s actions in the new video.
“I take this new allegation of police use of unreasonable force extremely seriously,” Dugger said in a prepared statement released Saturday night, KTVU.com reported. “I have directed (BART) Police Chief Gary Gee to conduct a rigorous internal affairs investigation into this officer’s actions.”
U.C. Berkeley law school professor Franklin Zimring said the district attorney must charge another BART officer with a crime. “If the district attorney is saying he’s not going to charge any officer except Mehserle in my opinion, he’s not doing his job,” Zimring says in the video below. “Police officers are not…immunized from the normal laws that govern when assault is criminal conduct.”
Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff would not comment on the possibility of charging a second BART police officer, KTVU.com reported.
Although unmentioned in the KTVU report, the video could potentially incriminate another BART officer. Since the female officer is shown in the video observing her colleague punching Grant, she would have been required to report what she saw to authorities.
This video is from KTVU, broadcast Jan. 25, 2009.
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A young, black man in New Orleans is dead, slain by police officers on New Year’s Day, in an incident that has outraged a community and triggered protests over what family members are calling a “murder.”
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The New Orleans man, 22-year-old Adolph Grimes III, traveled to his grandmother’s home near the French Quarter in order to celebrate New Year’s Eve with his fiance and their 17-month-old son. Three hours after arrival, around 3 a.m., he was found dead a block from the front door.
The Orleans Parish coroner said Grimes was shot 14 times, including 12 times in the back.
“This violence has to stop. My child’s death will not be meaningless. He did not die in vain,” said Grimes’ mother, Patricia Grimes.
Despite the fact that the seven officers involved in the incident have been reassigned, Superintendent Warren Riley has refused to answer “fundamental questions” about the shooting and maintains that Grimes fired upon his men first.
Several dozen people protested the New Orleans Police Department on Thursday morning to demand justice for Grimes’ death.
A mix of people walked paced in front of a police station carrying signs with slogans like “Down with the government” and shouting to passers-by “You could be next!”
A group of black ministers and advocates has called for the department to be purged of “trigger-happy” officers and the Grimes family’s attorney, Richard Jenkins is certain an investigation will show rogue cops and sloppy police work.
“I just think it was some bad officers who were out there and imposing their will on the community,” Jenkins said.
The shooting of Grimes by the NOPD marks the third high media incident of an officer or officers shooting a seemingly innocent black male thus far in 2009.
In Oakland, Calif, a BART officer shot a 22-year-old black male in the back on New Year’s Eve. The slaying was caught on multiple videos, all of which showed the man unarmed, subdued and helpless. The city is still struggling to contain the public’s reaction to what appears to be an execution.
Also, in Houston, a 23-year-old black male was shot in his own home’s driveway by a white police officer during the early hours of New Year’s Eve. According to published reports, the officer thought the man’s vehicle was stolen. An internal investigation is underway. While the department has denied allegations of racial profiling related to the shooting, no effort to explain why the officer suspected the vehicle to be stolen has been offered.
A protest over the fatal shooting by a BART police officer of an unarmed black man mushroomed into several hours of violence Wednesday night as demonstrators smashed storefronts and cars, set several cars ablaze and blocked streets in downtown Oakland.The roving mob expressed fury at police and frustration over society’s racial injustice.
OAKLAND, Calif. (Map, News) - Law enforcement officials urged patience while they investigated details surrounding the fatal New Year’s Day shooting of a 22-year-old man by a transit agency police officer.
Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Chief Gary Gee said on Sunday that the agency is “committed to completing an unbiased, thorough and detailed investigation” of the shooting death of Oscar Grant.
“This case is not even four days cold. We’re in the early stages of the investigation and we will do a very thorough job,” he said.
Several unanswered questions remained after BART officers went to Oakland’s Fruitvale station to investigate reports of a supposed brawl on a train on which Grant was riding around 2 a.m. Thursday. Read More
A naked man wandering around an apartment complex near Houston, Texas died after police shocked him with a taser four times.
This video is from ABCNews.com, broadcast Dec. 26, 2008.
Texas’ KPRC reports, “A naked man who banged on doors and cars at a north Harris County apartment complex died after he was shocked by a Taser gun, deputies told KPRC Local 2. An autopsy will determine the cause of the man’s death.”
The article continues, “The deputies involved have been put on administrative duty pending the outcome of investigations by the internal affairs and homicide divisions.”
The Houston Chronicle provides the police account of what transpired: “The resident ‘did not know who he was,’ said Lt. John Legg of the Sheriff’s Office. The first deputy arrived within minutes. ‘He was immediately confronted by the suspect, who ran toward his patrol car, opened the front passenger door and climbed in,’ Legg said.”
The Houston Chronicle story continues, “The deputy ordered the man out, but the man ignored his commands, yelling and flailing his arms, Legg said. ‘He was incoherent,’ the lieutenant said. ‘The deputy said his eyes appeared glassed over.’ The deputy’s Taser had little, if any, effect, officials said. After the man got out of the patrol car and pulled out the stun gun’s prongs, the deputy fired it again while struggling with the man, officials said. Another deputy arrived and ordered the naked man to back away, then used his Taser, investigators said.”
Earlier this year, members of the NYPD’s Emergency Unit tasered an emotionally disturbed man who was waving a fluorescent light while standing naked on a a building ledge, who then fell over ten feet to his death. The tasering “violated departmental guideline,” but no charges were brought against the officers involved. Not long after, the NYPD lieutenant who ordered the tasering committed suicide.
“Torturing and killing the mentally ill with tasers is becoming commonplace,” Hullabaloo’s Digby blogs,”There must be a better way.”
Tasers have have killed more than 400 people in the United States and Canada since 2001, according to a recent study.
“Taser International, based in Arizona, dismissed the study as flawed,” Nick Juliano recently reported for Raw Story. “The company maintains that its weapons are safe.”
We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian government. Our Constitution is at risk. President-elect Barack Obama’s selections of James L. Jones, a retired four-star Marine general, to be his national security adviser and, it appears, retired Navy Adm. Dennis C. Blair to be his director of national intelligence… could pave the way for these respected military officers to reverse the current trend of Pentagon encroachment upon civilian government functions, or they could complete the silent military coup d’etat that has been steadily gaining ground below the radar screen of most Americans and the media. While serving the State Department in several senior capacities over the past four years, I witnessed firsthand the quiet, de facto military takeover of much of the U.S. government.
From the Rodney King riots to unannounced “training” exercises over American cities, the US military is being trained to turn the United States into a dictatorship.
Here you see the local police, dressed up like Nazi thugs, lined up military fashion to join the war games. Across America our “peace officers” have transformed into “law enforcers.” Whereas the blue and white garbed friendly policeman of the past was someone you might call to help rescue your cat out of the tree or invite in for a cup of coffee, law-abiding Americans now dread a visit from the ski-masked, jackbooted thugs. Over and over again, the innocent are victimized by out-of-control police “forces” that repeatedly raid the wrong houses, violate the Fourth Amendment, stooping so low as to shoot family dogs. Think that the way the police in this picture look like the military is a coincidence? Think again. The move to militarize the police has been snowballing over recent years. Police now train like the military, dress like the military, use military weapons and call citizens “civilians”. And of course they have been working with the military, as they are prepared to turn America in to a Police State.
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com California cops tasered a distraught son whose father was drowning after he and his brother complained that police were not doing enough to rescue their dad, while authorities prevented the two sons from making any kind of rescue effort themselves.
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The latest example of police brutality unfolded in Mendocino Country California. A San Francisco family was visiting Portuguese Beach when the father accidentally fell into the water and was washed away from the shore.
Police arrived with rescue crews but made no effort to save the drowning man, named as 54-year-old Maurizio Biasini, and prevented his two 18-year-old sons, Dario and Andriano Biasini, from helping their dad as they insisted on waiting for the Coast Guard and a Sheriff’s boat. Read More
‘ The Mendocio County Sheriff’s Office is guilty of contributing to the death of 54-year-old Maurizio Biasin by making no effort to save the drowning man, named and prevented his two 18-year-old sons, Dario and Andriano Biasini, from helping their dad as they insisted on waiting for the Coast Guard and a Sheriff’s boat.
The sons’ protests about the inaction of the authorities led to a struggle and cops tackled one while the other was restrained. The son who the cops tackled was then tasered as he lay on the floor and tasered a second time as he attempted to get up.
To call the Mendocino County Sheriff’s office express and your outrage
On Monday Dec.1 a swat team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange Ohio, herded the family on to the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents,children,infants and toddlers,for 9 hours.
Videotape obtained by 27 News of a woman fan who was subjected to a taser during a Badger football game suggests the incident created chaos.To see the video and read more CLICK HERE
Is there any doubt that we are now living in a Fascist Police State?
The answer people to 1984 is 1776.
To Call the University of Wisconsin Police Dept.
Dial- 608-264-2677
Tell them you heard about it from Freedom Fighter Radio.net
I have not been harping on the one aspect of America’s devolution into a police state that bothers me most: namely, the double standard by which a police officer can assault and even murder innocent people with legal impunity while the average Joe/Jane is crushed beneath a jackboot for the slightest perceived infraction. (BTW, I know some people think I should be more upset by other aspects…but that’s the chocolate v. vanilla debate.) What prompts me to write about the thugs who call themselves “peace officers” is my stumbling over four different stories in close succession.
Number 1: You won’t see this story in an episode of Cops!: A newlywed killed by police after he stepped outside his home to confront suspected burglars was shot in a case of mistaken identity, police said.
As I understand the article, the four kids suspected of burglary were eventually apprehended, questioned and not even arrested. In pursuit of the non-arrested (and presumably unarmed) kids, a 10-year-veteran of the police force — and, so, not a nervous or ‘cowboy’ newbie — considered the situation to constitute such a threat to public safety that he conducted a foot chase at night through a residential area with gun drawn, prepared to use deadly force. Which he did. For shooting an innocent, unarmed man twice through the chest, the officer in question has been placed on paid leave. What a great job! If I shot a man to death as part of my job as a writer, my ass would land and hard in a jail cell. This clown gets a paid vacation pending investigation by people who have a vested interest in finding the shooting to have been justified. I hope the woman he married the weekend before, who is expecting their first child, goes for justice rather than hush-money from the police department.
Number 2: WorldNetDaily reports: A Florida sheriff who trespassed and punched a driver in the face during a road-rage fight will not face criminal charges or lose his job – despite 13 citizen complaints filed against him in 12 years. The story: Jacksonville sheriff Sgt. Roderic Feacher claims Charles Rowe tried to run him off the road. (Sounds like someone passed him on the highway.) The off-duty Feacher pursued Rowe to his home and refused to leave the property when asked to do so. Rowe and a neighbor claim the officer began punching the man without provocation and choked him. However, the officer claims Rowe “belly-bumped” him, so he only threw one punch. According to the Florida Times Union, The State Attorney’s Office declined to file criminal charges, preferring to dock the thug 10-days pay.
Number 3: From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: A Texas man was arrested for letting girlfriend eat off his plate in a buffet restaurant. Dan Linscomb, 40, of Texas City, Texas, ate the buffet at the Iron Skillet restaurant in northwest Atlanta on Oct. 21. He admitted, an Atlanta police report said, that his girlfriend “ate a couple bites from his plate.” When he was charged for two $7 buffet meals, Linscomb refused to pay for one of them. He said that “there were no signs in the restaurant that said someone could not have some food off your plate,” the report said. The restaurant staff called police, who came to the restaurant on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway and arrested Linscomb on a charge of theft of services. He was taken to Fulton County Jail.
Number 4: From WorldNetDaily: A Kansas resident is claiming he has been unfairly threatened by officers after he hand delivered a note to a police department administrator explaining why he will not vote for Obama He was charged with criminal trespass. Chapter 21, Section 3721(a) of Kansas law states criminal trespassing is when a “person enters or remains therein in defiance of an order not to enter or to leave such premises or property personally communicated to such person by the owner thereof or other authorized person.” But Garner said he was never aggressive, and he left Murphree’s property immediately. However, police still met him on his doorstep.
In other words, the police can beat and kill you (the average person) with legal impunity while you must walk on legal eggshells re: the most minor of civil infractions…which, arguably, may not arrestable offenses at all.
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Officer To Protesting Reporter: ‘I Can Do Whatever I Want’
After a week of bloody shootings in the city of Newark, family members of the victims killed by gun violence marched in front of churches Sunday to ask the clergy for help.
The march ended, however, when a Newark police officer put a CBS 2 photographer in a choke hold, handcuffed him, and put him in the back of a police car.
What started as a peaceful demonstration by parents whose children were murdered on the streets of Newark turned violent.
“Put your hands behind your back,” the officer said. “He’s going with me. Put your hands behind your back.”
When CBS 2 HD’s reporter on the scene, Christine Sloan, protested and said he couldn’t arrest the cameraman, the officer said, “I can do whatever I want.”
The camera kept rolling, as the officer put CBS 2 photographer Jim Quodomine in the choke hold and placed him under arrest.
Witnesses took pictures of the incident and told CBS 2 HD what they saw.
“He went to put the camera down,” witness Latrice Smith said. “Before he had the opportunity to [do so], the police officer came and knocked it down.
“[The officer] just started grabbing him, putting handcuffs on him, grabbed him by the neck,” Smith said. “It was out of control for no reason.”
The allegations and claims of the arrest as stated by Rev. Mahoney are false and nothing short of lies. On Thursday night August 28 Freedom Fighter Radio made a call to Lt. Ron Saunier Commander of IA (Internal Affairs) of the Denver Police Dept. who stated to us in a exclusive interview that no arrests occurred and there was only temporary detentions which are lawful and all subjects were released since no crimes were committed.
Note: Rev Mahoney office has been contacted numerous times for a comment but so far as refused to comment on this situation.But his press release says otherwise. Is this another lie by the Rev. Mahoney?
Below is the original story remember based upon our investigation into this matter we feel that some of the claims in the story below may be false and or inaccurate.
Two girls, ages 15 and 17, were attacked and arrested without warning by police while peacefully exercising their First Amendment Rights outside Sen. Obama’s hotel
Denver, CO – Two young girls were brutally attacked by police Wednesday evening without warning as they were chalking the sidewalk with pro-life messages outside the Westin Hotel, where Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama is staying. The girls were knocked to the ground, kneed in the back, handcuffed, and painfully dragged away.
Arrested were Jayne White, 17, and Julia Giacopuzzi, age 15, who were participating in a peaceful demonstration that was part of A Prayer For Change events.
Also arrested was Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition.
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According to Rev. Mahoney, the group had received permission to sidewalk chalk from Denver City Attorney David Fine and Denver Deputy Chief Police John Lamb and had been “sidewalk chalking” for six days prior to the arrests without incident.
They were later released and are now consulting attorneys in anticipation of possible legal action against the city.
“I am shocked at how cowardly these police officers behaved by attacking little girls without warning or provocation,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Operation Rescue condemns this act of violence against peaceful demonstrators. There was absolutely no reason for it. Police officers are expected to control themselves better than that, and if they can’t they should not be in law enforcement. We call for immediate disciplinary action against the officers involved in the brutality incident involving Miss White and Miss Giacopuzzi.”
“Operation Rescue spent the week participating in A Prayer For Change with Rev. Mahoney and these young people, who have conducted themselves peacefully and appropriately at all times,” said Newman.
Rev. Pat Mahoney is available for comment at 540-538-4741.
wyff4.com — An 18-year-old was punched 13 times in the face by a deputy, and it was all caught on tape. The deputy, Brian Tollison, has been fired and had been charged in the incident. The video show other deputies Taser and kick 18-year-old Jeremy Rucker several times. “Then they have the audacity, to treat this man as if he’s a piece of meat” Read More
FederalJack.com) - This trailer hasnever before seen footage recovered by hackers of the arrest and assault of a FederalJack.com reporter on Miami Beach during Memorial Day weekend. This is the trailer for the upcoming FederalJack.com documentary entitled “Throwing it Down: A Guide to Direct Action and Information Warfare.” The documentary will detail effective methods for sovereign individuals to resist tyranny and oppression in all forms. The anticipated release is Winter 2008.
Multi-Jurisdictional Gang Task Force violently abducts reporter, police destroy footage
If you have encountered any police brutality during the festivities at South Beach, please submit any stories, images, video, or documents to jack@federaljack.com
KY 3 News’ Sara Sheffield reports on an injured teen from Ozark, Missouri who was tasered up to 19 times by police.
Passing motorists called Ozark police out of concern for the teen as he walked along the busy overpass. When the police arrived, the young man was lying on the shoulder of the highway directly underneath the 30 foot high overpass with a broken back and foot.
Doctors believe 16-year-old Mace Hutchinson broke his back and heel after falling, as his injuries are consistent with such a fall. The boy’s family does not understand why police would have tasered the the teen 19 times after he was so seriously injured.
The teen’s father said that the use of the taser caused Mace to develop an elevated white blood cell count, leading to a fever that delayed the young man’s otherwise immediate surgery by two days.
Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset attempted to explain why the taser was used:
“He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him. He is making incoherent statements; he’s also making statements such as, ‘Shoot cops, kill cops,’ things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers.”
Ozark police say that while there remains unanswered questions in the case, the reason for the use of the Taser is not one of them.
This video is from KY3 News, broadcast July 24, 2008.
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This is Jonathan from We Are Change Colorado and I have launched a massive campaign to get back on youtube with full force. I have setup multiple accounts to which I will have mirrors of the We Are Change videos. (Mysteriously our previous youtube account was shut down without any reason given or notice. Conspiracy? Hmmmmmm……)
I have found in the We Are Change Colorado Archives a video of a street action when Sander Hicks was with us where the police were called on us and a cop showed up, all of this I have caught on video tape, and the police officer told us that handing out DVD’s for free was considered literature and was protected by the 1st amendment. THIS WAS ON THE 16th street mall!!!
Rob just got arrested for doing this and I have video that will show that the cops were breaking the laws they knew were in place 3 months prior.
More footage from the Lindsey Graham protest in Columbia, SC. The tape begins with Jim confronting the two Lindsey Graham supporters the airport commissioner Rogers and his wife.Their vehicle tag says airport commissioner #3 who tried to mow us all down as we stood in the parking lot protesting. Note that they acted innocent now that they have a police escort.Also the black officer is with the Department of Homeland Security his last name is Fredrick and his personal vehicle tag is South Carolina 514-WCV. He ordered the City not to take a report.Can you say Nazi Germany ?
On the afternoon of June 7th long time activist Jim Stachowiak and friends were speaking out against the open border, pro – amnesty policies of public servant Senator Lindsey Graham during a campaign stop in Columbia, South Carolina.
Stachowiak’s small group was there to bring awareness to the crisis of illegal immigration and the intentional dismantling of U.S. sovereignty. Two issues you would expect a self-proclaimed pro family values conservative Republican and his supporters to defend. However on this day at the Sterling Garden Center these outspoken proponents of Constitutional rights would experience a contradiction in conservative values from Graham’s pro – amnesty supporters, as many attendees of the event took the time to hurl curse words popular with Vice President Dick Cheney toward the group as they walked into the campaign event.
One Graham supporter was so enraged witness’s claim she aimed her silver G35 Infinity at Stachowiak and his group. Fortunately Stachowiak was able to get his friend seen in the video out of the path of the vehicle but he was slightly grazed as the car passed. The vehicle bearing the plate “Airport Commission 3” parked nearby, the occupants an older man and women preceded into the Graham campaign event, when the victims asked the driver about her reckless behavior the elderly man with her paused only to say, “We don’t know what you are talking about.”
Concerned about safety, Stachowiak approached an officer with the Department of Homeland Security parked less than 100 feet away to request assistance. The officer claimed not to have seen the incident and would not take a report or investigate. Unable to get any help from the apathetic DHS officer Stachowiak called 911 only to wait one hour for two City of Columbia police officers to arrive who also showed little interest in investigating the minor hit and run.
Stachowiak is in the process of filing a report with the City of Columbia office of Internal Affairs concerning the day’s events. When asked about the dangers of speaking out at public events,
Stachowiak said, “One must be willing to stand up and take risk to protect the rights earned by those who made great sacrifice for our freedoms.”
While protesting Lindsey Graham outside one of his campaign fundraising dinners, we encountered several hostile Lindsey Graham supporters. One man came across the road and swore at us (”F*** you”), in a clear display of Christian family values flaunted by Lindsey Graham and his supporters. Another car of supporters physically tried to drive through us while we stood on the sidewalk in a clear attempt of aggression. At the beginning of the protest, the first cop on the scene told us that we were fine were we where, and told us we weren’t on the road and as such we were fine. These cops say we were on the road and didn’t even consult with the first police officer. These police refused to even take an incident report, in a clear display of selective enforcement as we were threatened with arrest for using a bullhorn earlier.
Call the Police Dept. of Columbia South Carolina and voice your outrage Main-803-545-3500 Chief carter-803-545-3510
Part 2 coming as soon as it’s compressed!
Police confrontation at Lindsey Graham protest
Freedom Fighter Radio Confronts DHS @ Lindsey Graham Protest
Free speech being Destroyed by HOMELAND SECURITY
(Enemies of the State)
FACT: WE CAN NO LONGER TRUST THE HOMELAND SECURITY CROWD OF WORTHLESS PC BUREAUCRATS
THIS AGENCY IS NOT ONLY WORTHLESS AGAINST REAL TERRORISTS BUT HARMFUL TO OUR 1ST AMENDMENT ! MICKEAL CHERTOFF IS AN OVER PAID “PC” IDIOT LACKING ANY BACKBONE !
Lone Protester- An Abuse of Power
It is D-Day +2. Operation Overlord is advancing with all five beachheads at Normandy firmly in Allied hands. 150,000 American, British and Canadian soldiers are ashore with over 6,000 ships offshore and 13,000 aircraft are overhead in support. Allied units are in assembly areas preparing for the assault onto the European mainland. Meanwhile, in England , General George Patton is readying the US Third Army to be the spearhead. In Southern Europe, American forces are entering Rome and in the South Pacific, MacArthur and Nimitz are on the prowl for Japanese forces. The invasion of Saipan is days away and the Marianas Turkey Shoot is occurring in the Philippine Sea with hundreds of Japanese planes shot down and two carriers sunk. We have sustained approximately 30,000 American casualties worldwide so far during that 48 hours.
And 64 years to the day later I am watching an abuse of power by US Homeland Security and the Columbia , SC Police Department. We are outside the Sterling Garden Center in Columbia protesting Senator Lindsey Graham and his liberal policies even though he claims to be a conservative Republican. I watch a man and his wife pull into the parking lot where we are protesting, which is guaranteed under the US Constitution. She sideswipes two American citizens. She gets out of her car along with her husband and she screams out F#%k You! and slams the door of her car right in front of two police officers. She and her husband go inside to support Lindsey Graham. Jim Stachs of Freedom Fighter Radio and Virginia are almost flattened onto the pavement because of this woman’s actions. When they try to press charges against her, an officer from our celebrated Department of Homeland Security refuses to allow the police officers to file a complaint.
The woman is the wife of one of Columbia ’s elite. Her husband is a commissioner at our airport and the license plate reads Airport Commissioner car #3. These police officers, two of Columbia ’s finest, refuse to write up a ticket or take this woman to jail. They threaten us, tell us to back up. They listen to a Homeland Security officer, his last name is Frederick , issue them an unlawful order to not file charges. And they obey him. They do not listen to the two people that were physically hit and verbally assaulted, no, they listen to someone who has no authority. I just wonder what they would have done if I had uttered the words “you cheap bastard”? This is the state of affairs, currently in the USA , 64 years after ten of thousands of Americans have given their lives for this country. A Homeland Security officer has given an illegal order (shades of Nazi Germany) and our law enforcement officials obey without question. To hell with what the citizens want, and demand, and what our laws say, the elites must be obeyed without question, even if it circumvents the US Constitution.
And you wonder why the American people are angry? Our newspapers exist because of the protections under free speech. Yet they condemn us because we protest under that same Constitution. We are guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, yet a Homeland Security official has the power to order our police officials to not enforce the law. A woman, who does not like that we are protesting her Senator, screams curse words at us, hits us with her car, and she is not taken to jail. That is simply an abuse of power, and I invite everyone that reads this letter to call our new Police Chief, our Mayor and our airport and demand that this man be fired because of the actions of his wife. He was beside her, in the car with her and was complicit in her actions. It is called aiding and abetting a crime.
This is the state of affairs in Columbia , SC. If you are part of the elite here, you get a free pass from breaking our laws. If you advocate for illegal aliens and their criminalemployers, you get a free pass. On the other hand, if you are like me, Jim Stachs or Virginia, complaints are ignored because you are not one of the elite. They will put me in jail for uttering a curse word but they will ignore the curse words of a woman because she and her husband are supporting Lindsey Graham. We do not matter because our voices are not loud enough. Because of this man’s job and his position in our community, law enforcement will not take his wife to jail. Because of his position he gets a free pass. His wife gets a free pass. Is this America ? The home of the brave and land of the free? Or is this a police state, where ours laws are enforced when our elites are inconvenienced?
Is it okay for our elites to curse and commit crimes but not the rest of us? Is it okay for Senator Lindsey Graham to advocate for anarchy and amnesty? Is it okay for one of our elites to scream curse words at us, hit US citizens with her car, with her husbands complicity and not be taken to jail? Is it okay for a Homeland Security officer to order our police to not enforce our laws? Is it okay for those police officer’s superiors to agree with that officers order?
I do not think so. Than man should be fired from his job at our airport. His wife needs to be in jail along with her husband and the two officers that listened to that ignorant Homeland Security officer Frederick. I demand that Mayor Bob Coble and our new police chief fire those people. And Officer Frederick of Homeland Security should be fired also because they are not upholding our laws under the US Constitution. When they support the elites and forget We The People, then this isn’t America anymore. This is a dictatorship, plain and simple. This is a country that is governed by a few jerks, that have forfeited the right of Constitutional law, because they are the ones in power. I do not care that Mayor Bob Coble has been Mayor of Columbia for years or that our new Police Chief has only been in office for a few weeks, I demand that both of you resign because because you are lackeys. You simply enforce laws that you feel comfortable with and not the laws under the US Constitution. You both feel free to select what laws which you will enforce and leave it up to South Carolinians to defend themselves.
You both feel free to enforce the laws against Americans but you feel free to not enforce the laws as enacted under our Constitution! You feel free to not arrest the wife of a Columbia Airport official, who aids and abets her crime, yet you will arrest me who called one of your supporters a cheap bastard! You both advocate for anarchy, yet you have forfeited your rights to hold office. You will enforce some laws but you forfeit your obligation to uphold all laws. Under our Constitution and our state laws.
It is okay for your supporters to break our laws but not your opponents. It is okay for you to advocate for illegal aliens and their employers but not for your opponents to demand that our laws be upheld. It is okay for your supporters to treat the citizens like dirt, but it is not okay for us to protest your insane policies. It is okay for your supporters to curse us and intentionally hit us with their cars because you will give them a free pass.
But I say to you, to hell with your selective enforcement of our laws, to hell with your advocating for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, to hell with your advocating with their employers. You are breaking our laws, and you are the Mayor and Police Chief of Columbia , SC ! You are two dirt bags and criminals, pure and simple and you both deserve to be in jail and not representing the citizens of the great state of South Carolina .
And Senator Lindsey Graham, you are a piece of crap. You hide inside that building, see what happens outside and you keep your mouth shut. You are a piece of crap from the word go. You are so worried about keeping your office that you close your eyes to what is happening outside. It is very important for you to stay in office because that is your overriding concern. Nothing matters more to you than holding onto your office and betraying the citizens of South Carolina. It does not matter to you that two of your citizens was hit by one of your supporters, what matters to you is to remain in office and kiss John McCain’s backside. What matters to you is to stay in office and to continue to call us bigots and to tell us to shut up! You are the epitome of Benedict Arnold, in every form.
