Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Greenwood Village, CO – A Federal Appeals court has granted police new powers for which they will not be held accountable. They can now completely destroy your home and they will not have to pay for it. That’s what happened to Leo Lech’s home in 2015 after a shoplifter — accused of stealing a shirt — illegally entered his home, forcing Greenwood Village SWAT to go room by room ransacking the place with explosives.  Continue reading “SWAT Team Blows Up Innocent Man’s Home in Search of Clothing Shoplifter—Deal With It, Says Court”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Austin, TX — In three weeks, Rodney Reed, who has been rotting in a cage for a crime all the evidence says he did not commit, will be executed by the state of Texas. Despite overwhelming evidence that the murder was carried out by a former police officer, the state of Texas is refusing to issue a stay of execution.  Continue reading “Texas Man About to Be Executed for a Rape and Murder a Cop Allegedly Admitted To”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

A concealed carry permit holder shot and killed an alleged armed robber in a Highland Park, Michigan, restaurant.

WXYZ reports the suspect allegedly “came inside the restaurant with the intent to rob the place.” Continue reading “Concealed Permit Holder Kills Alleged Armed Robber in Restaurant”

The Guardian – by Julian Borger

The US military has said it expects a retribution attack in the wake of the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as it released the first footage of the raid by commandos on the Isis leader’s hideout.

The Pentagon showed brief black-and-white aerial footage on Wednesday night of the raid and the subsequent bombing of Baghdadi’s compound in northern Syria.  Continue reading “Baghdadi raid video released as US general warns of Isis reprisal attacks”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

This morning on Fox and Friends, Dr. Michael Baden, a famous forensic expert and former New York City medical examiner said that at the end of the investigation he did on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, its findings are more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging.  Continue reading ““Jeffrey Epstein Was Strangulated”, Famous Forensic Expert Says”

Times of Israel

A military court on Monday made its first conviction in connection with a series of weekly riots and protests held along the Gaza border beginning last year, finding a soldier guilty of disobeying an order leading to the death of a Palestinian teenager.

The conviction was handed down as part of a plea deal in which the combat soldier pleaded guilty to “disobeying an order leading to a threat to life or health,” the military said on Tuesday.  Continue reading “In first, soldier convicted over killing of Gaza rioter, gets 1-month sentence”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Wilmington, NC — Earlier this month, as an employee walked outside of the Ogden Tap Room in Wilmington, North Carolina, they heard a child begging for help inside a locked car. That child was naked and alone, and was the daughter of Lt. Matthew Malone with the Wilmington Police Department.

The Wilmington Police Department now claims to have launched an investigation into the officer’s actions after it was announced that he will not be charged.  Continue reading “Cop Not Charged After 8yo Daughter Found Naked Begging For Help in Car As He Partied in a Bar”

Common Dreams – by Jake Johnson

President Donald Trump on Monday said the Justice Department is preparing to launch a sweeping crackdown on crime that he named “the surge,” a term commonly associated with the George W. Bush administration’s decision to send tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq in 2007.

“In coming weeks, Attorney General Barr will announce a new crackdown on violent crime—which I think is so important—targeting gangs and drug traffickers in high crime cities and dangerous rural areas,” Trump said during the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago. “Let’s call it the surge.”  Continue reading “‘Call It the Surge’: Vowing Nationwide Crackdown, Trump Touts Tougher and More Militarized US Police”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Stunning video recorded by a local CBS affiliate captures the aftermath of a bus that was swallowed by a giant sink hole that opened up in downtown Pittsburgh during the Monday morning rush hour.

Emergency crews rushed to the scene after the entire back half of a Port Authority bus went into the ground at Penn Avenue and 10th Street just before 8am as the gaping hole opened up. A statement by the city’s Port Authority indicated the bus “was stopped at a red light when the hole opened underneath it.”   Continue reading “Public Bus Swallowed By Massive Sink Hold In Downtown Pittsburgh Rush Hour”