From the Trenches World Report

RT

Thousands of people in New York rallied in solidarity with residents of Ferguson on Thursday, showing support to people across the US who have been victims of police brutality. The NYPD threatened mass arrests if people did not stop blocking traffic.

The New York City Police Department has arrested at least four people during a peaceful rally intended to pay tribute to Michael Brown and others who have suffered from police brutality.   Continue reading “NYPD threatens mass arrests at Ferguson solidarity rally”

Breitbart – by JON FLEISCHMAN

If you like Obamacare, you’re going to love Proposition 45, the ballot initiative that would give one politician– liberal Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones–complete authority over health care costs and benefits for individuals and small businesses in California.

Worse, the trial lawyers who fund Jones’s campaigns wrote Prop 45 to help them make more money from frivolous lawsuits. When liberal politicians and trial lawyers conspire to change laws to benefit themselves, you can bet that taxpayers will get the short end of the stick.   Continue reading “Prop 45: CA Doubles Down On Obamacare With New ‘Health Care Czar’”

AOL

When Dan Marino was 14, his family drove through Jackson, Wyoming on a summer road trip. “We came in through Togwotee Pass in the north,” he remembers. “I saw the Snow King ski resort, and I tapped my mom on the shoulder and said, ‘I’m moving here.’ ”

He never said another word about that daydream until he graduated from high school. That’s when he loaded up his 1966 Mustang with everything he owned. “My mom said, ‘Where on earth are you going?’ I said, ‘Jackson Hole,’ and I never looked back,” says Marino, now 53.   Continue reading “Jackson Hole Buffalo Meat Co.: From Daydream to Dream Job”

Huffington Post – by Paige Lavender

Tiffany Mitchell, a woman who says she witnessed a police officer shoot and killMichael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, shared her story during an appearance on CNN with her attorney Wednesday night.

Mitchell said she was driving when she saw Brown trying to pull away from an officer as the two were “tussling through a window.” She said she had hoped to get a video because the incident “just didn’t look right,” but failed to get her camera out in time.   Continue reading “Tiffany Mitchell On Witnessing Michael Brown Shooting: Police ‘Showed No Kind Of Remorse’”

Huffington Post – by Simon McCormack

A father of five died after he was involved in an altercation with deputies who suspected him of burglary.

The Victorville Daily Press reports that Dante Parker, 36, was suspected of attempting to burglarize a Victorville home on Tuesday afternoon.

The person who reported the burglary said the suspect fled on a bicycle and, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s office, Parker was seen riding his bike near the scene.   Continue reading “Dad Dies After Deputies Hit Him With Taser”

So all this hype about Ferguson Missouri lately got me thinking, Why “Ferguson”? What does that name mean to anyone WAY TOO bored in life to hurt people vicariously. Why not St. Louis? What makes “Ferguson” a headline buzzword?

So I looked it up. It turns out it is a Scottish name derived from Gaelic.

Wikipedia says:   Continue reading “Why Ferguson?”

Yahoo News – by Liz Goodwin

Police officers responding to protests in a St. Louis suburb Wednesday night were outfitted in fatigues, wore gas masks and body armor, carried military-style rifles, and were backed by tanklike armored vehicles as they sought to clear the streets.

Tear gas, smoke bomb explosions and the pop-pop-pop of nonlethal projectiles added to the picture, as photographs and video from Ferguson, Missouri, depicted a scene more reminiscent of a war zone than a civil rights protest against the police shooting Saturday of an unarmed teen in the largely low-income Midwestern town of about 20,000 people.    Continue reading “Why do Ferguson’s police officers look like soldiers?”

Yahoo News – by T.C. Sottek, The Verge

A suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, has been under a dramatic siege since Saturday, when a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. In the wake of the killing, protests have engulfed the community — drawing a heavy-handed police crackdown with St. Louis County police officers armed with assault weapons andoutfitted with military equipment. Many of the striking images have come from reporters on the front lines, but also from citizens and their smartphones.

Continue reading “Reminder: You Have a Right to Record the Police”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

We’ve been debating internally whether or not to cover the mess that is currently going on in Ferguson, Missouri. There has been plenty of attention paid to the protests and the failures by police there — and we frequently cover problems with police, as well as the militarization of police, which was absolutely on display in Ferguson (if you’ve been under a rock, police killed an unarmed teenager there last week, leading to protests over the past few days — and the police have been handling the situation… poorly, to say the least). Continue reading “SWAT Team Shows Up In Ferguson, Detains Reporters Live Tweeting Their Actions”

You know it just leaves me with a deer in the headlights look on my face when I see ignorance of this magnitude. All I could think of to say was uh really.

Fox News

Probably the first rule of committing armed robbery, don’t post yourself with the cash you stole on your social media account.

But that’s exactly what Marcus Kalani Watson and Rogussia Eddie Allen Danielson did, according to an Aug. 11 FBI affidavit made public Aug. 12.   Continue reading “Alleged Hawaii bank robbers post pictures of themselves with cash on Facebook”