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Police Departments Nationwide Forced To Give Back Grenade Launchers, Bayonets And Tanks

The ban effects weapons like grenade launchers and bayonets and a variety of armored vehicles.

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President Barack Obama recently moved to ban police departments from receiving a range of “military style” weapons and equipment. The ban effects weapons like grenade launchers and bayonets and a variety of armored vehicles. Apparently still kosher are the now commonplace assault rifles that nearly all police departments now equip their

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Police Publicly Bash Local News Station For ‘Unethically’ Airing Footage Of Shooting Of Unarmed Man

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Department says that the decision to air the footage of the unprovoked shooting was “unethical.”

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A screenshot from video of the Gilbert Flores shooting.

Texas cops were recently caught on video shooting an unarmed man who had his hands up in the air – surrendering. The whole thing was caught on video, and almost as soon as the incident happened, a local news station did their jobs and aired footage. Now, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Department is losing their collective mind over it, and claiming

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Police SWAT Raid On Organic Farm After Tomato Plants Mistaken For Marijuana

The commune in Arlington, Texas, was subject to a raid all because police had convinced themselves that the community “must” be growing marijuana.

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A SWAT team composed of between 15 to 20 officers raided an organic farm, named the “Garden of Eden” and it was all because they mistook tomato plants for marijuana! The commune in Arlington, Texas, was subject to a raid all because police had convinced themselves that the community “must” be growing marijuana. A federal lawsuit filed by

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Video Of Police Shooting Unarmed Man Seeking Help After Car Crash Released

The police tried to argue that Farrell was “depressed” from an argument with his fiancee, and he ultimately “wanted to die.”

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Jonathan Ferrell is seen in an undated photo provided by Florida A&M University. Ferrell, 24, was shot and killed Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, by North Carolina police officer Randall Kerrick after a wreck in Charlotte, N.C. Ferrell was unarmed. Police called the Ferrell and Kerrick's initial encounter " appropriate and lawful. But in their statement late Saturday, they said "the investigation showed that the subsequent shooting of Mr. Ferrell was excessive" and "Kerrick did not have a lawful right to discharge his weapon during this encounter." Police said Kerrick was charged with voluntary manslaughter. (AP Photo/Florida A&M University)

A disturbing video has emerged during the course of the trial for a Charlotte, North Carolina police officer. Officer Randall Kerrick has been charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed African American who was just looking for help after a car accident. The Daily Mail released the video of Jonathan Farrell being shot back in 2013, showing the

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Florida Cops Shoot And Kill Deaf Man For ‘Talking Too Loud’

The deaf man was sitting in his SUV with his windows rolled up when he was shot by police.

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A deaf man was just shot by Volusia County sheriff’s deputy Joel Hernandez and the excuse the killer cop gave boils down to the fact that he was talking too loud. Now Deputy Hernandez is under investigation for fatally shooting Edward P. Miller on Saturday afternoon, police sources say. The Sheriff’s department tells us that Hernandez was

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Police Told Native American Woman To ‘Quit Faking’ As She Died In Jail Cell

Witnesses say that deputies told her to “quit faking” and yelled at her to “knock it off” before finally dragging her to the cell where she spend the last moments of her life.

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On July 6, 24-year-old Sarah Lee Circle Bear of Clairmont, South Dakota, was found unconscious in a holding cell in Brown County Jail in Aberdeen. Circle Bear, a Lakota, was jailed on a bond violation. Photo courtesy Terrance Circle Bear Sr.

Earlier this month, a 24-year-old Native American, Lakota woman named Sarah Lee Circle Bear was found dead in a jail cell after a minor arrest. Sarah was from Clairmont, South Dakota, and was jailed on a bond violation at the Brown County Jail in Aberdeen. Back on Sunday, July 6th, Sarah was found unresponsive in a jail cell, following her

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Police Claim ANOTHER Teen ‘Hanged Herself’ After Arrest

Kindra Darnell Chapman was booked into the jail at 6:22 p.m., on a first-degree robbery charge, but only slightly over an hour later, she was found dead.

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In BREAKING NEWS, police claim yet another 18-year-old girl has hanged herself in the Homewood City Jail Tuesday night. This comes right after we reported on a civil rights activist being arrested at a traffic stop, and found dead in jail, with no apparent motive for a suicide. In both cases, police have claimed that these individuals have

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