Tucson.com – by Caitlin Schmidt

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury’s decision to award a Tucson couple more than $1 million in damages after they were wrongfully detained by sheriff’s deputies during a raid executed after a fake 911 call.

In April 2016, a U.S. District Court jury ordered the Pima County Sheriff’s Department to pay Rob and Jill Larson $1.25 million in damages and more than $200,000 in attorney’s fees after deciding deputies violated the couple’s constitutional rights, according to Arizona Daily Star archives.

Continue reading “$1.25M judgment against Pima Sheriff’s Department upheld in mistaken raid”

Chicago Tribune

Environmental activists who raised a banner at Trump Tower in protest of President Donald Trump’s agenda caused thousands of dollars in damage to the River North skyscraper, according to prosecutors.

Four people appeared Sunday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on felony charges after they were accused of hanging a Greenpeace banner with the words “resist” and “defend” from Trump Tower’s 16th-terrace.   Continue reading “Protesters caused thousands in damage at Trump Tower: prosecutors”

St. Louis Today – by Kurt Erikson

JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri soon will have a system to notify the general public when a law enforcement officer is killed or injured.

Patterned after the Amber Alert system for missing children, the so-called “Blue Alert” law was signed Thursday by Gov. Eric Greitens, who had championed the idea.   Continue reading “Missouri joins 27 other states with ‘Blue Alert’ system for violence against police”

Courthouse News – by Victoria Prieskop

ALBUQUERQUE (CN) — The ACLU sued Albuquerque for information on how its police use Stingray cellphone spying technology, and whether they use it for immigration enforcement, but Albuquerque claims all such records are confidential — including whether they use Stingrays at all.

International Mobile Subscriber Identity catchers — also known as cell-site catchers or Stingrays — simulate cell phone towers, pulling in all cellphone use within a certain distance. They can scan an area near targets of investigations for location and usage information, and in some cases can listen to conversations and track texts on phones in range, including those which have nothing to do with the investigation.   Continue reading “Albuquerque Police Call Spying Tech So Secret They Can’t Even Say They Have It”

Epoch Times – by  Charlotte Cuthbertson

EDINBURG, Texas—”It’s not just a horse, it’s a mustang.”

Ruben Garcia, horse patrol coordinator for the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector, is unbridled in his praise of the horses employed on the Texas border.

It’s fast and volatile work, and the mustangs Border Patrol adopts are perfect for the job.

The horses are wild for the first two to three years of their lives.   Continue reading “Using Horsepower on the Southern Border”

New York Post – by Tina Moore

It takes strength and cunning to fight the violent MS-13 gang, Suffolk County’s top cop says.

But when that’s not enough, a chain saw can sure come in handy.

“It’s Environmental Design 101, you know?” Police Commissioner Timothy Sini told The Post, describing how authorities used some creative landscaping to make a wooded plot in Huntington, LI, less appealing to gang recruiters.   Continue reading “The one way to fight the violent MS-13 gang”

Reason – by C.J. Ciaramella

Two Detroit residents filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Detroit Police Department Wednesday, alleging that several police officers needlessly and maliciously shot their three dogs during a marijuana raid.

Kenneth Savage and Ashley Franklin say that on July 22, 2016, Detroit police raided their house and found the dogs in a back yard bounded by an eight-foot-tall fence. The officers refused to let Savage and Franklin retrieve the dogs and, instead, shot them.   Continue reading “Detroit Police Sued Again For Shooting Dogs During a Marijuana Raid”

“We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system!”

A quote from?

Adolf Hitler in his May Day Speech, Berlin, 1 May 1927

New York Times – by Kenneth P Vogel

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence has been courting scores of the country’s most influential donors, corporate executives and conservative political leaders over the past several months in a series of private gatherings and one-on-one conversations.

The centerpiece of the effort is a string of dinners held every few weeks at the vice president’s official residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in Washington. Mr. Pence and his wife, Karen, have presided over at least four such soirées, and more are in the works. Each has drawn roughly 30 to 40 guests, including a mix of wealthy donors such as the Chicago hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin and the brokerage firm founder Charles Schwab, as well as Republican fund-raisers and executives from companies like Dow Chemical and the military contractor United Technologies.

Continue reading “At Private Dinners, Pence Quietly Courts Big Donors and Corporate Executives”

CBC News

Security at the Calgary Stampede will be a bit tighter this year with the introduction of bag searches at the entry gates, officials say.

Calgary Stampede officials teamed up with police, fire, medical and other emergency agencies Tuesday to lay out the measures they’re taking to make sure visitors and workers at the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth have a safe and fun time on the grounds.   Continue reading “Expect bag checks at Calgary Stampede gates, warn officials as safety steps laid out”

Health Impact News – by John P Thomas

When the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) approved the use of 5-G microwave communication technology in 2016 and approved the use of microwave frequencies in the 30 Ghz range, [1], they opened the door to even higher levels of human illness and severe disability for American children and adults.

Microwave radiation such as that currently being used in cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, and smart meters has already been linked to numerous health effects.   Continue reading “New 5G Cell Towers and Smart Meters to Increase Microwave Radiation – Invade Privacy”

The Daily Caller – by Anders Hagstrom

The Oregon legislature passed two bills Thursday decriminalizing small amounts of six hard drugs, including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ecstasy.

The first of the two bills now headed to the governor’s desk, HB 2355, decriminalizes possession of the drugs so long as the offender has neither a felony nor more than two prior drug convictions on record, according to the Lund Report. The second, HB 3078, reduces drug-related property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.   Continue reading “Oregon Poised To Decriminalize Meth, Cocaine And Heroin”