LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Curtis Reeves, the retired police captain who shot and killed a man for texting in a movie theater back in 2014, will stand trial for second degree murder, according to a recent Florida judge ruling. The anticipation was that the “Stand Your Ground” law, which was at…
by Micah J. Fleck The fact that this man was not punished for his earlier deadly offenses is still quite a disgrace, but at the very least there is now a chance that some sort of justice may still be served. 41-year-old Chicago officer Marco Proano was caught on video back in 2013 for opening…
by Wayne Pac Canadian songwriter Alan Ranta was traveling to Washington when he was questioned by police officers if he smoked marijuana. When the police asked if he had ever smoked, he told the truth — that he had smoked it regularly. The police then handcuffed Ranta and took him to the PD, then proceeded…
A Florida sheriff’s office announced one of their officers has been fired and charged with battery after a video showed the officer allegedly punching a female detainee. Jacksonville Undersheriff Pat Ivey said officer Akinyemi Borisade inappropriately hit a strip club employee who had been arrested Wednesday, WJXT reports. A video of the incident released by the sheriff’s…
Blake Neff The father of a British schoolchild is complaining after his son’s school called the police when he visited the website of an anti-immigration political party. The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is the U.K.’s main anti-immigration party, and collected just under 13 percent of the vote in the country’s 2015 election. It also…