Taser, pepper spray used as Texas pastor arrested
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 01. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
ARELIS HERNANDEZ
Associated Press
July 2, 2009
Police used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray to disperse his congregants Wednesday after the pastor allegedly interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot.
Congregants say they were in the Iglesia Profetica Peniel church for an early morning prayer when pastor Jose Elias Moran went to assist [...]
Off-Duty Officer Is Fatally Shot by Police in Harlem
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 29. May, 2009 | No Comments
RUSS BUETTNER and AL BAKER
Ny Times
May 29, 2009
A New York City police officer who had just gotten off duty was fatally shot late Thursday night in East Harlem by a fellow officer who mistook him for an armed criminal, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
The slain officer, Omar J. Edwards, 25, who was assigned [...]
License Plate Surveillance Grid Used to Track Anti-war Protesters
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 23. May, 2009 | No Comments
Infowars
May 23, 2009
Earlier this month, a study in the UK concluded that CCTV surveillaance does not have a significant impact on crime. “The review of research into the effectiveness of cameras found they have only a ‘modest’ impact on crime levels,” reported the Birmingham Post. In 2008, a report by UK Police Chiefs concluded that [...]
Cop “Takedown” Leaves Innocent Man in Coma
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 23. May, 2009 | No Comments
KOMO 4 News
May 23, 2009
Video released 05/21/09 shows a burly King County sheriff’s deputy slamming a man into a tiled wall earlier this month in what a sheriff’s spokesman said was “a tragic accident.” A lawyer for the family of 29-year-old Christopher Harris said the video and witness accounts show the Edmonds restaurant worker was [...]
Birmingham police beating video: Five officers fired
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 20. May, 2009 | No Comments
Carol Robinson
The Birmingham News
May 20, 2009
Five Birmingham police officers have been fired for a January 2008 beating of an already-unconscious suspect with fists, feet and a billy club, a battering caught on videotape until a police officer turned off the patrol car camera, city and police officials said today.
Birmingham police [...]
G20 police in London used provocateurs to incite the crowds
Posted by Xander in Headlines on 10. May, 2009 | No Comments
Jamie Doward and Mark Townsend
The Observer, Sunday 10 May 2009
Photograph: Chris Ison/PA
An MP who was involved in last month’s G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds.
Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police [...]