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2 Police Officers Turn In Badges In Support Of Standing Rock Water Protectors

Redhawk writes.

“You can see it in some of them, that they do not support the police actions,” water protector RedHawk writers. “We must keep reminding them they are welcome to put down their weapons and badge and take a stand against this pipeline as well. Some are waking up.”

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Police officers stand guard at the Dakota Access Pipeline construction site near Cannonball, North Dakota.

North Dakota water protector Redhawk reported today at Standing Rock that two police officers just turned in their badges to show their support for the water protectors. “There have been at least 2 reports of police officers turning in their badges acknowledging that this battle is not what they signed up for,” Redhawk writes. “You can see it

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Police StandBy While KKK Members Go On Stabbing Rampage Against Protesters In California

The Ku Klux Klan rally at Anaheim’s Pearson Park, in California, turned into total chaos, as Klan members went on a stabbing spree against protesters.

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Even though the police knew about the Klan rally in advance, and had been warned of the potential for violent altercations, there was no police presence at the scene, until after the stabbing spree was carried out against counter-protesters who came to call out the Klan hate rally. As klansmen exited a black SUV, trying to unload and unfurl a

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Navajo Water Supply Is More Poisoned Than Flint’s, And Has Been For Decades

The EPA is all over Flint, but ignoring so many other cities – especially Native American communities.

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People kayak in the Animas River near Durango, Colo., in water colored from a mine waste spill

We recently reported on six other cities in Michigan, which have more lead poisoning in their city water supplies, than Flint. The Detroit News reports that “Elevated blood-lead levels are seen in a higher percentage of children in parts of Grand Rapids, Jackson, Detroit, Saginaw, Muskegon, Holland and several other cities, proof that the

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Ohio Police Chief Sentenced To Life In Prison For Raping Children

In 2010, Casey had also been convicted of the sexual abuse of yet another different child and was given probation.

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Former Wilmington police chief Larry Casey.

The former Wilmington police chief was just sentenced to life in prison last Thursday for the rape of a child, according to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. Larry Casey, 48, was found guilty by a Clinton County jury for the rape of a child under 13, as well as two counts of sexual battery, and one county of unlawful sexual conduct with a

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Pharmaceutical Industry Synthesizing Marijuana To Patent It… And It’s Already Killing People

Why would we turn to Big Pharma to synthesize what Nature already got right? Millions of people are successfully using medical marijuana to treat an array of disorders and diseases. We do not need huge corporations to fix what is not in fact broken.

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A marijuana plant stands during a press presentation of a legal medicinal marijuana harvest in the La Florida municipality of Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Planting, selling and transporting marijuana is usually illegal in Chile and carries prison terms of up to 15 years. But the law allows medical use of marijuana with the authorization of several ministries.

Many have speculated whether or not the pharmaceutical industry has something to do with the continued prohibition on marijuana. It’s easy to see where these suspicions are coming from, considering the fact that marijuana has been proven as an effective treatment for so many maladies that “Big Pharma” treats with synthetic medicines. Matt

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In 1979 Feds Violently Removed Black Protesters From Wildlife Refuge

The Harris Neck protesters were mostly displaced descendants of West African slaves. The FBI described them as “squatters” – even though they stated from the outset that their intentions were very much political in nature.

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It took decades of protests and petitioning the government, but after being continuously ignored, African American activists took over a federal wildlife refuge. While sites are drawn up in the debate over who is right or wrong in the Bundy militia stand off in Oregon today, it is worth noting that this group of activists did the same thing,

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Police Unions Abandoning Plans To Boycott Tarantino Film

Tarantino: “A civil servant shouldn’t be issuing threats, even rhetorically, to private citizens”.

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Not backing down ... Quentin Tarantino speaks at a New York anti-police brutality protest on 24 October. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

The plans of police unions to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight in the wake of the director’s participation in an anti-police brutality rally have been called off by at least on police union. An official representative from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the New York police union that first conceived of the boycott, told

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