NBC News – by JACQUELLENA CARRERO

Michigan police are apologizing for handcuffing a 7-year-old boy at his elementary school last month.

The incident happened on October 12 at Brownell STEM Academy’s after-school program, which is run by the Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce. Chrystal McCadden, the mother of 7-year-old Cameron McCadden, said she got a call from the school to pick up her son. When she arrived, his wrists were bound.   Continue reading “Police Apologize For Handcuffing 7-Year-Old Student in Flint, Michigan”

Campus Reform – by Peter Fricke

In a sequel to the outrageous Project Veritas video, originally reported by Campus Reform Tuesday, administrators at Cornell, Syracuse, and Yale Universities join their colleagues from Vassar in ripping up the Constitution in response to a fake student’s complaints.

The first video depicted two different administrators at Vassar agreeing to shred a copy of the Constitution in an effort to soothe the feelings of a “student” (actually a Project Veritas reporter) who claimed to have been deeply upset and offended when she was offered a free copy by a group on campus.     Continue reading “Yale, Cornell, and Syracuse administrators destroy ‘oppressive’ Constitution”

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The American Police State has become a monster.

Police across the country are forcing motorists to give them blood, saliva (DNA) and much worse.

The National Highway Safety Administration, the agency that funds “No Refusal” DUI checkpoints and forcible blood draws, is also funding nationwide roadblocks that provide police with “voluntary” DNA samples.   Continue reading “Police claim forcing people to submit their DNA will help reunite families”

Anti-Media – by Claire Bernish

The Land of the Free — America has just been stripped of its favorite longstanding self-designation — the official title of ‘Land of the Free’ now belongs to its neighbor to the north, Canada.

In fact, the Legatum Institute’s 2015 Prosperity Index found Canadians experience the greatest personal freedom and general social tolerance of all 142 nations in the report — while the U.S. trailed behind in ninth place. But that’s only part of the story.   Continue reading “Why America’s Land of the Free Title Was Just Revoked”

Huffington Post – by Laura Barron-Lopez, Travis Waldron

WASHINGTON —  The Department of Defense doled out as much as $6.8 million in taxpayer money to professional sports teams to honor the military at games and events over the past four years, an amount it has “downplayed” amid scrutiny, a report unveiled by two Senate Republicans on Wednesday found.

Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake began looking into the Defense Department’s spending of taxpayer dollars on military tributes in June after they discovered the New Jersey Army National Guard paid the New York Jets $115,000 to recognize soldiers at home games.
Continue reading “Pentagon Paid Up To $6.8 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Pro Sports Teams For Military Tributes”

CBS Tampa

OVIEDO, Fla. (CBS Tampa)– An eighth-grader in Florida got detention for hugging friends before school, according to WKMG.

“I just like hugged them. It was literally for a second,” Ella, an eighth-grade student at Jackson Heights Middle School, told the station.   Continue reading “Florida Eighth-Grader Gets Detention For Hugging”

Huffington Post – by Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON — The residents of Coos County, Oregon, passed a ballot initiative Tuesday night that requires their sheriff to block the enforcement of state and federal gun laws that he thinks seem unconstitutional.

The 2nd Amendment Preservation Ordinance passed with 61 percent of the vote. The measure directs the sheriff to decide whether certain state and federal gun laws violate the Second Amendment. If he thinks they do, the county is then banned from using any resources to enforce those laws. Any county employee who violates the ordinance will be fined $2,000.   Continue reading “Oregon County Passes Measure Directing Sheriff To Block State And Federal Gun Laws”

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USA Today’s Brad Heath shows an out of control American Police State claiming traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles is SUSPICIOUS!   Continue reading “Police State America claims traveling from one city to another city is SUSPICIOUS”

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DHS/Coast Guard are spying on American boaters and they’re forcing them to send their location to the Coast Guard every 15-30 seconds!

DHS is forcing boaters to purchase their own transponders which can go from $500 dollars to thousands of dollars! These transponders will ping their speed and location to DHS/Coast Guard,  FOREIGN governments and the UN!   Continue reading ““Boaters have “no expectation of privacy” according to DHS’s new boater surveillance program”

New York Post – by Sophia Rosenbaum

A worker at a Canadian pharmacy accidentally gave out out bipolar medication to trick-or-treaters instead of candy, according to a report.

The mix-up unfolded after a woman unknowingly dropped her 17-year-old son’s prescription drugs while on her way out of a Beauport pharmacy.   Continue reading “Pharmacy accidentally gave kids bipolar pills instead of candy”

Vox – by German Lopez

Most states in America lets police take and keep your stuff without convicting you of a crime.

These states fully allow what’s known as “civil forfeiture”: Police officers can seize someone’s property without proving the person was guilty of a crime; they just need probable cause to believe the assets are being used as part of criminal activity, typically drug trafficking. Police can then absorb the value of this property — be it cash, cars, guns, or something else — as profit, either through state programs or under a federal program known as Equitable Sharing that lets local and state police get up to 80 percent of the value of what they seize as money for their departments.   Continue reading “These states let police take and keep your stuff even if you haven’t committed a crime”

Courthouse News Service – by MARIA DINZEO 

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The city and county of San Francisco is unconstitutionally criminalizing poverty by keeping poor arrestees in jail because they can’t afford to post bail, a federal class action claims.

“Nobody should be detained because they’re too poor to pay an arbitrary amount of money,” Phil Telfeyan of the Washington, D.C.-based Equal Justice Under the Law told reporters Thursday. “A very, very dangerous criminal might be released if they can post $100,000 bond, whereas a completely nonviolent detainee might be in jail for months pending trial simply because she’s too poor to pay that bond amount.”   Continue reading “Poor People Fight Money Bail in San Francisco”

Bloomberg – by Jeff Green

The weeks before Halloween are a busy season for Wal-Mart’s little-known trust and safety compliance team. Their job is to come between the 40,000 costumes sold on the retail giant’s sprawling website and the 140 million shoppers who might be offended by those costumes.

In a win for the team, Wal-Mart customers haven’t been able to purchase the white hotpants and wig marketed as a Caitlyn Jenner transgender parody costume. A decapitated Cecil the Lion head sold with a dentist’s smock? Banned on Walmart.com. Don’t expect to see the gratuitously distasteful costume meant to invoke the dispute between Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump. Nor a sex-themed vampire suit sold under the name Down for the Count. Those were low-hanging fruit.   Continue reading “How Wal-Mart’s Halloween Swat Team Stops Offensive Costumes”

ARS Technica – by David Kravets

You gotta love this twisted logic.

In May, a federal appeals court declared the National Security Agency’s bulk telephone metadata collection program illegal because it wasn’t authorized under the Patriot Act, as the Obama administration and its predecessor administration had maintained.   Continue reading “Court says it’s legal for NSA to spy on you because Congress says it’s OK”

The Free Thought Project – by William N. Grigg

The FBI is helping police nation-wide get into the Halloween spirit by concocting a scary story that is every bit as implausible as the seasonal fare offered on television and movie screens.  The Bureau claims that an obscure, previously unknown “anarchist” group supposedly called the National Liberation Militia is planning to use Halloween festivities to ambush police officers.   Continue reading “FBI Continues False “War on Cops” – Halloween Style – If You Wear a Mask, You are a Suspect”

KATU – by Bob Heye

PORTLAND, Ore. — Harriette Charney, 90, was wrapping up a 2-week visit with her son and getting ready to fly back to the East Coast, when she and her son got to Portland International Airport Saturday morning.

Alan Charney watched as his mom was pulled aside after going through a full-body scanner.

“It was obvious,” says Charney, “they were going into a search, but I presumed they were just going to sort of pat her down.”   Continue reading “Son says 90-year-old mom told to remove blouse during TSA search”

Courthouse News – by Kevin Lessmiller

(CN) – A TV news cameraman was assaulted by police officers while covering a story about how the Long Island Rail Road was running late because of snow, he claims in court.

Marvin Hoffman, a cameraman for Channel 7 News in New York City, says he was working with a reporter on the morning of January 13, 2015. They were covering a story about the railroad’s snow-related delay when Hoffman was “forcibly grabbed” by Metropolitan Transit Authority police officers, including a Sgt. Moe, according to the cameraman.   Continue reading “Cameraman Says He Was Arrested for No Reason”

Fox 40 – by Rina Nakono

OLIVEHURST– A 12-year-old honor student at Yuba Gardens Intermediate school received a dress code violation, but many are wondering if the school overreacted.

This back-to-school season, Lori Carpenter bought a simple, patriotic T-shirt from Kohl’s for her son, Dustin Cole. She said she bought it because she liked the American flag design and the blue color.   Continue reading “American Flag Shirt ‘Gang Related,’ School District Says”