Border Insecurity Follow TLR on Google+ The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol is already known for using questionable tactics to carry out its duties. Yet a new report has shown a disturbing trend. Agents have been purposefully stepping in front of vehicles, or claiming that moving vehicles were an imminent threat, in order to come…
Teachers would not allow student to wait in a car or nearby building Follow TLR on Google+ ST. PAUL, Minn. – 14-year old Kayona Hagen-Tietz was swimming in her school’s pool during health class last week when the fire alarm went off. The temperature outside was 5 degree below zero with a windchill of -25…
Flying taser will ask “if you want to authorize the subject or detain them.” Follow TLR on Google+ AUSTIN, TX – Chaotic Moon Studios demonstrated a hexacopter drone this week modified to fire an 80,000 volt taser while in flight. The makers of the Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone, or CUPID for short, say that they…
SWAT team chases pug in circles Follow TLR on Google+ An armored Phoenix SWAT team found itself running in circles trying to catch a barking pug. As police were in the midst of a tense four-hour standoff with an armed robbery suspect, the pug dashed through a police barricade and began harassing a K-9 dog….
DOJ was trying to protect itself from lawsuits Follow TLR on Google+ The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) rejected a request by the Justice Department to retain phone records longer than five years, the current maximum under federal law. The administration requested the exception in order to defend itself from a variety of lawsuits, including…
Possessing a stun gun is an offense in Britain Follow TLR on Google+ MANCHESTER, UK – A Manchester police officer discovered the hard way that the iPhone he was examining was, in fact, a disguised stun gun after it discharged in his hands. Officers confiscated the stun gun in the process of responding to a…
“They Shoot More People Every Year Than We Think.” Last year in Massachusetts, 12 people were shot and killed by police, making it one of the deadliest years on record. Between 2002 and 2013, 73 people were killed by police gunfire. Prosecutors never filed criminal charges against any police officers who shot people to death…
Words have meanings… Keith Farrell America’s foreign policy critics often call her an empire. They point to two ongoing military operations, America’s prolonged military presence in Europe and Asia, and our territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands as proof of this claim. It is true, America has a worldwide political and…
Roommate, colleague says Autumn Radtke was troubled. Follow TLR on Google+ Autumn Radtke, the American CEO of Bitcoin exchange firm First Meta, has been found dead in her Singapore apartment. While several media outlets have reported that Radtke’s death was a suicide, Singapore officials say they have yet to determine a cause of death. Radtke’s…
Watch The Watchers KING CITY, CA–A mind-blowing case of police misconduct led to the arrest of seven officers last week, two of whom were police chiefs. It’s been brought to light by the District Attorney in Monterey County that Nick Baldivez, King City’s former police chief, was working with the current police chief Bruce Miller…