ABC 15

On July 27, 2017, Johnny Wheatcroft was a passenger in a silver Ford Taurus when a pair of Glendale police officers pulled in front them in a Motel 6 parking lot.

The stop was for an alleged turn signal violation.

Minutes later, Wheatcroft was handcuffed lying face down on the hot asphalt on a 108-degree day. He’d already been tased 10 times, with one officer kneeling on his back as another, Officer Matt Schneider, kicked him in the groin and pulled down his athletic shorts to tase him a final time in his testicles, according to a federal lawsuit and body camera footage obtained by ABC15.   Continue reading “Abuse of Force: Body camera video shows man tased 11 times by Glendale officers”

RT

Two youths, aged 14 and 18, have been killed by IDF fire during the latest March of Return protests along the Gaza border with Israel, the 46th week of Palestinian civil disobedience there.

The IDF fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas to chase protesters away from the border fence separating Israel from the Palestinian enclave. The two young persons were killed during this latest rally, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, noting that at least 18 others were injured in the clashes. Continue reading “2 Palestinian teens killed in Gaza clashes as IDF praises brave soldiers & border fence”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has sued Lockheed Martin Corp, Lockheed Martin Services Inc, and Mission Support Alliance LLC, as well as a Lockheed executive for alleged false claims and kickbacks on a multibillion-dollar contract to clean up a nuclear site, the Justice Department said on Friday.

The complaint alleges Lockheed paid more than $1 million to Mission Support Alliance executives in order to win a $232 million subcontract for providing management and technology support at the Hanford, Washington site from 2010 through the middle of 2016 at inflated rates.   Continue reading “U.S. sues Lockheed, others for alleged kickbacks on nuclear site cleanup”

VPR

A shortage of mental health treatment beds in Vermont has forced hospital emergency rooms to provide unprecedented levels of psychiatric care in recent years. Many of those ERs have used sheriff’s deputies to supervise violent or disruptive patients, but officials now say that practice runs afoul of federal regulations.

For patients in the throes of an acute psychiatric episode, ER stays can last for days, while doctors wait for an in-patient mental health bed to open up.   Continue reading “Vermont Wants To Stop Paying Sheriffs To Watch Mental Health Patients In ERs”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Houston, TX — A botched drug raid last month shook the nation as a couple was killed by police in their own home and four officers shot. Now, after controversy and rumors have swarmed the case, more details are coming out that may paint an entirely different picture than what police have been telling the public. Adding to this suspicion is the news that this week, an officer involved in the raid has been relieved of duty amid questions about the warrant used to justify this raid containing false information.   Continue reading “Cop in Raid that Left Couple Dead, Suspended Amid Questions Over False Information on Warrant”

The Mind Unleashed – by John Vibes

Secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party in Michigan, Dan Adamini, made a series of social media posts implying that protesters, like the ones at a university in California last week, should be shot as they were during the Kent State Massacre. In 1970, the Ohio National Guard killed four students and injured nine others after they were ordered to use live ammunition during protests against the Vietnam War at Ohio’s Kent State University.   Continue reading “GOP Leader Forced to Resign After Tweeting “It’s Time for Another Kent State””

Waking Times – by Elva Thompson

We live in a world where everything is crooked – lies masquerade as truth and it’s hard to find a straight path…. There seems to be no limit to the madness going on around us – ethics, morals, common sense and compassion have been thrown under the bus of profit. In this 21st century, hate and division are rampant in every level of society. Millions of people have flipped their humanity switch to off, and unplugged from the heart – we are a divided and manic species.   Continue reading “Is Your Thinking Your Own – Or Someone Else’s?”

The winners of this month’s auction are:

  • Pair of Beofang Ham Radios: $100 toymaker
  • Tomahawk: $30 Norm
  • The Political Art of David Dees – Volume 1: $10 Christine
  • Flash Drive full of Important Information: $10 DL
  • Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit: $13 Galen
  • Bill of Rights Pendant: $10 Norm
  • Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America: $10 Christine
  • The Federal Siege at Ruby Ridge: In Our Own Words: $25 Christine
  • Incident at Oglala DVD: $10 Mary

Thank you to all who participated.   Continue reading “February Auction for From the Trenches”

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Fox News

Two men — one of whom had a gun — were shot and killed by a Florida homeowner in an apparent act of self-defense after the resident caught the duo trying to break into his Titusville home Thursday, officials said.

The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said the incident happened around noon, with one of the men dying at the scene and the other pronounced dead later at a hospital.  Continue reading “Florida resident kills two men who were attempting home invasion”

Daily Mail

A shocking new report has found hundreds of bounty hunters had access to highly sensitive user data – and it was sold to them by almost every major U.S. wireless carrier.

The practice was first revealed last month and, at the time, telecom firms claimed they were isolated incidents.    Continue reading “Nearly every major US cellphone carrier sold precise location data to BOUNTY HUNTERS via a ‘secret phone tracking service’ for years, bombshell report finds”

The News & Observer – by Anna Johnson

RALEIGH – A Raleigh woman says police officers investigating a robbery pointed guns at her 6-year-old son and the boy’s grandparents while searching her parents’ home.

LaDonna Clark was one of a handful of speakers at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting who renewed their call for changes in the Raleigh Police Department. Among other things, they want a police oversight committee with subpoena power — something the city would need the General Assembly’s permission to have. Continue reading “Raleigh mom says police pointed gun at 6-year-old; chief says investigation underway”