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Hard to Believe: Police are Treating Protest Movements Like They are Terrorists
Hard to Believe: Police are Treating Protest Movements Like They are Terrorists But that’s not stopping activists from pushing back. The New York Police Department has reportedly been giving young adults free tickets to screenings of “Selma,” and last month, on Martin Luther King Day, officers with the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood even drove a group of […]
The Police State Is Upon Us
The Police State Is Upon Us Anyone paying attention knows that 9/11 has been used to create a police/warfare state. Years ago NSA official William Binney warned Americans about the universal spying by the National Security Agency, to little effect. Recently Edward Snowden proved the all-inclusive NSA spying by releasing spy documents, enough of which […]
Boiling point: Hundreds of anti-fascist protesters clash with police in Italy
Boiling point: Hundreds of anti-fascist protesters clash with police in Italy Clashes broke out at an anti-fascist rally in Cremona, Italy when around 2,000 protesters took to the streets to object to an attack by far-right group supporters. The fracas left a political activist in hospital. A couple of thousand anti-fascist protesters attended the rally […]
Haiti protesters urge president’s departure
Haiti protesters urge president’s departure Anti-government protesters burn tyres and hurl items at police in clashes amid stalemate over long-delayed elections. Protesters have burned tyres and thrown rocks and glass bottles at riot police during another anti-government demonstration in Haiti’s capital amid a political stalemate over long-delayed elections. The demonstration of mostly young men reached […]
More Police Does Not Mean Less Crime
More Police Does Not Mean Less Crime According to a interactive crime map, crime in the city of Hamilton was on the rise with 380 incidents in the month of December. The map clearly shows that most of the criminal activity was in the downtown core. Which is interesting considering that this area of the city […]
Over 30 arrests as Sao Paulo erupts in protest over bus fare price
Over 30 arrests as Sao Paulo erupts in protest over bus fare price A massive rally against a bus fare hike has turned violent in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Shops were pillaged and objects thrown, with riot police resorting to tear gas and rubber bullets. This is the first such incident since the World Cup protests […]
Moscow Anti-Corruption Protest Escalates, Riot Police Arrive – Live Feed | Zero Hedge
Moscow Anti-Corruption Protest Escalates, Riot Police Arrive – Live Feed | Zero Hedge. As the crowd in Moscow grows to an estimated 10-15,000 protesters chanting “No Putin, No War”, Russia has unleashed police in riot gear, apparently fearful of the consequences of this ‘unlawful’ assembly. The massive crowd of protesters gathered in Moscow’s Manezhka Square on […]
For police, when it comes to law and order, ‘order’ historically comes first
For police, when it comes to law and order, ‘order’ historically comes first. Police misconduct has ignited a political firestorm in New York and many other cities across the nation, not seen in quite some time. Relations between the public and the police are fraught with tension, mistrust and violence. Many are outraged. Politicians and […]
Windsor Police Unveil Military “Armored Tactical Rescue” Vehicle | Canadian Awareness Network
Windsor Police Unveil Military “Armored Tactical Rescue” Vehicle | Canadian Awareness Network. Windsor police unveiled their new armoured tactical vehicle on Friday – don’t call it a tank, they hate that — stressing it will only be used in very specific cases. Essentially, police said they will use it in rare, extreme “critical” response and […]
Mexicans fight back over their missing – Features – Al Jazeera English
Mexicans fight back over their missing – Features – Al Jazeera English. Baja California, Mexico – Mexico has been in the grip of civil unrest since 43 student teachers from southern Guerrero state went missing after they drove to protest what they perceived as discriminatory hiring practices by the government. Police intercepted the students’ convoy and […]
Here’s Why Hong Kong Police Are Beating Umbrella Protesters
Here’s Why Hong Kong Police Are Beating Umbrella Protesters. Fear. That’s the explanation the son of a police officer arrived at to answer the question of why police acted aggressively towards protesters during the Hong Kong protests. Chiang Kang, a writer for Hong Kong news website inmediahk.com, recently asked his father, who’s a Hong Kong cop, why the […]
Cops of the future? British bobbies get a sci-fi makeover | UK news | The Guardian
Cops of the future? British bobbies get a sci-fi makeover | UK news | The Guardian. Home Office researchers are looking into a range of sci-fi equipment that will transform British police officers into figures closer to Robocop than Dixon of Dock Green. Innovations on the Home Office wishlist includes a robotic exoskeleton to take the load […]
Civil Unrest is Rising Everywhere & Government Digs in its Heels | Armstrong Economics
Civil Unrest is Rising Everywhere & Government Digs in its Heels | Armstrong Economics. I have warned that governments always turn against the people. Illinois just made it a felony to film police abuse in the USA. The Spanish government has followed the same course. Despite protests from political, judicial and population, the politicians who […]
Policing Justice Requires Economic Justice, Part I | Occupy.com
Policing Justice Requires Economic Justice, Part I | Occupy.com. Demonstrating in Ferguson late in the summer, activist and former Green Party vice presidential nominee Rosa Clemente posted to Facebook: “We ran to get away and were surrounded on a small path on [a] bridge, surrounded by all types of police and told to lie down […]
Now Eric Garner | KUNSTLER
Now Eric Garner | KUNSTLER. The Beauty Shop had barely stopped smoldering in Ferguson, Missouri, when the Eric Garner grand jury decision came down on Staten Island — no probable cause to indict one particular cop for something — manslaughter? — in his choke-hold take-down of the 300-pound cigarette-seller. For my money, they should have […]
