Reason.TV is out with a new video today documenting the forgotten internment camps that existed during World War 2. From the video description: “After the war, there was a real silence and shame about this episode,” says Brian Niiya of Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project. “You still get a little reluctance in people to…
SAN ANTONIO, TX — A man was tasered by police for attempting to save his son’s life. A house fire had broken out and trapped his 8-month-old infant son inside. Police prevented his attempts at rescuing the baby by tasering the man. The baby died in the blaze.
Civil libertarian activist Carlos Miller is at it again with a new report detailing how a cop was recently fired after a dashcam video showed him running over a man for not wearing a seatbelt. From the blog: Knowing his dash cam was recording everything, a Florida cop did not hesitate to use his patrol…
JASPER, TX – A CCTV camera shows a 25-year-old woman being beaten and harassed at a police station over a $150 parking fine. The woman admitted she hadn’t paid the fine, and the officers were pleasant at first. When it turned out she was unable to pay the fine, the officers snapped and a confrontation…
From the Photography is Not a Crime Blog Carlos Miller is a civil libertarian activist who runs a blog that tracks police misconduct on citizen surveillance cases. Citizens have the constitutional right to record public servants in public doing their jobs and in fact, they should be encouraged to do so for their own safety….
“Son do you know why I’m stopping you for” Cause I’m young and I’m black and my hat’s real low? Do I look like a mind reader sir? I don’t know!” Jay-Z Tremaine McMillian learned a hard lesson about what it means to be young, black and armed with an intimidating stare. Turns out that…
No good deed goes unpunished A Fort Worth grandfather is dead when he was shot by police responding to a neighbors burglar alarm that was accidentally tripped. The 72-year-old man heard the alarm and went to check on it when cops gunned him down on his own property. The man never even made it to…
Did Hell just freeze over? In an about-face from their usual defense of the Obama administration, MSNBC took a hard right turn attacking the President’s wiretapping of journalists. Chuck Todd joined Joe Scarborough this morning to state that the White House wants to criminalize journalism in this 2:22 clip. Scandal after scandal are emerging from the White…
Police in Chicago are launching an investigation into an off-duty officer who shot and killed his neighbors dog. The 8 year veteran of the force claims he was with his young son when a four month old pit bull leaped at them. The owner is disputing the charge and counters saying that the dog was…