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Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Las Vegas, NV — It was their sixth citizen shooting of 2018. Las Vegas police shot a young woman — 7 times — for holding a snow shovel. After being placed on paid administrative leave LVMPD officer Ondre Wills quietly resigned — in a likely attempt to avoid accountability — for dumping seven rounds into Sommer Richards, 34, as she turned to walk away from him. Now, the taxpayers of Las Vegas will likely be held liable. Continue reading “Cop Shoots Tiny Woman 7 Times As She Walked Away Holding a Snow Shovel”

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Human Rights Watch has condemned the decision by Israel to deport Omar Shakir, HRW’s director for Israel and Palestinian territories. Israel revoked his visa over activism on behalf of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS).

Shakir, a US citizen, was placed on a flight out of Ben Gurion International Airport on Monday, after the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the government’s decision to expel him from Tel Aviv. The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Shakir has been an outspoken advocate of the BDS movement prior to his work at HRW, and that they have every right to expel him under a 2017 amendment to the rules of entry and residency.  Continue reading “‘No other democracy’: Human Rights Watch slams Israel’s expulsion of director over BDS activism”

The Mind Unleashed – by Elias Marat

Police in the United States have quietly begun integrating advanced robots into officers’ ranks, raising alarm among civil liberties advocates and police watchdogs in the country.

Video of Boston Dynamics robots climbing stairs, carrying boxes, and doing basic parkour have long circulated around the internet, creeping out viewers with the lifelike motion of its humanoid robot model and it’s semi-autonomous four-legged robot “Spot”—a customizable bot which resembles a metal dog without a head that, understandably, some people call “terrifying.”  Continue reading “US Police Have Quietly Brought a “Terrifying” Robot Dog Into Their Ranks”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Opa-locka, FL — In the land of the free, police frequently and unapologetically carry out military-style raids on completely innocent people by descending upon the wrong home. Whether it’s due to the wrong address on the warrant, faulty GPS, or just blatant carelessness, the results are the same. Innocent people are traumatized, terrorized, assaulted, beaten, or even killed. One video from Florida this week, gives the rest of the world a glimpse into the government-sponsored terrorism being carried out on innocent families by cops who continuously fail at doing their jobs.  Continue reading “Cop Dressed Like a Terrorist Violates Innocent Family as They Play With Their Baby”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Hoover, AL — On Thanksgiving night, 2018, an armed assailant opened fire inside an Alabama shopping mall, shooting an 18-year-old male and a 12-year-old girl. Shortly after the shots rang out, a Hoover police officer engaged a man with a gun, opened fire, shot him in the back multiple times and killed him. Police then released a statement championing their officer and patting themselves on the back for stopping a potential mass shooting. But the man they shot was not the shooter—he was the hero trying to stop him.  Continue reading “Taxpayers to Be Held Liable After Cop Shows Up to Mass Shooting, Kills Hero Who Stopped It”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Lake Charles, LA — In May of 2017, then-Lake Charles Police Officer Robert Hammac initiated a traffic stop that would end with him savagely beating an unarmed and surrendering man in a fit of rage. After the incident Hammac was allowed to resign and thought he got away with it. However, earlier this year, he was finally indicted. He pleaded guilty to the charges in August and this month, he was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in prison. Continue reading “Cop Sentenced to Prison for Snapping During Stop, Pummeling Man Who Had His Hands Up”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Tulsa, OK — If you were to read the police and press report Marico Ferrick’s arrest in September, you would think that this “criminal” with “ten charges” attacked an innocent police officer for no reason, head-butted him, and spit in his face. However, the officer’s body camera footage, released two months later, shows a completely different story of a young man getting held at gunpoint, choked, pepper sprayed, and kidnapped all over stop for a broken taillight.  Continue reading “Man Held at Gunpoint, Cuffed, Choked, Pepper Sprayed—Over Stop for Taillight”

The Guardian – by Tom McCarthy

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a presidential run on Sunday, unveiling a minute-long campaign video that called the billionaire, one of the richest men in the world, a “middle class kid who made good”.

“I’m running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “We cannot afford four more years of President Trump’s reckless and unethical actions. He represents an existential threat to our country and our values. If he wins another term in office, we may never recover from the damage.” Continue reading “Michael Bloomberg confirms White House run and kicks off $30m ad buy”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

West Memphis, AR — West Memphis police (WMPD) are under fire this week for detaining by force and nearly arresting a grieving mother. Her crime? She was walking around the parking lot of her hotel while calling concerned family members distraught over the loss of her four-year-old daughter who had just passed away in a car accident. Continue reading “Cops Tackle, Detain Innocent Mom As She Grieves the Death of Her Daughter”