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Body Of Iraq WMD Whistleblower Exhumed, Cremated After Calls To Investigate His Death

The body of a chemical weapons expert who was critical of the UK’s use of “weapons of mass destruction” as a pretense for war, was unearthed and cremated.

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By Jack Burns
Dr. David Kelly. (Photo: EPA)

This past week, the Kelly family decided to unearth the corpse of their beloved family member and cremate his remains. In 2003, Dr. David Kelly, formerly a United Nations (UN) weapons inspector and member of the Ministry of Defence (UK), walked into the woods near his home, ate a couple dozen opiates, slit his left wrist, and died. That was the

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Philly Cop Suspended After Shooting Unarmed Black Man In The Back

A Philly cop has finally been suspended following the release of a video showing him shoot and kill an unarmed man in the back as he ran away.

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By Jack Burns
Protesters march and demonstrate to decry recent shootings of black men by police and urge reforms in front of City Hall in Philadelphia, July 11, 2016. (AP/Matt Rourke)

One man is dead following an officer-involved shooting which took place on June 8th in Philadelphia. Now the officer who killed 30-year-old David Jones as he ran away has been suspended and potentially fired following the release of a very disturbing video and a three-month long investigation. But that disciplinary action does not go far enough for

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WATCH: Man Confronts Police Officer For Planting Drugs, All Charges Later Dropped

A Columbia, MO man angrily confronted one of two police officers he said planted drugs on him. He recorded the confrontation and the charges were later dropped.

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By Jack Burns
WATCH: Man Confronts Police Officer For Planting Drugs, All Charges Later Dropped

Columbia, MO — Lawrence Lawhorn believes Columbia police officers Chris Papineau and Ryan Terranova planted methamphetamines in their patrol car during a recent arrest. They accused him of putting it there and charged him with possession of narcotics. Lawhorn was under arrest for an unrelated incident but was not going to take the possession

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War On Drugs Killed More People In 2016 Than US Troops Killed In Vietnam War

For the first time in US history, more Americans have died of drug overdoses in a single year than all those killed in the Vietnam War. The drug war has been exposed as a deadly and violent failure and the federal government shows no signs of backing down.

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By Jack Burns
Los Angeles Police officers assist Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA agents serving a federal warrant to shut down a Marijuana dispensary operating in the Chinatown area of Los Angeles.

For the first time in U.S. History, more Americans died in 2016 of drug overdoses than were killed in the Vietnam War. Let that sink in. Last year’s death toll in the War on Drugs was 59,000 killed, while during the entire Vietnam War, 1955 to 1975, 58,220 American service members’ lives were lost. And, thanks to the immoral and futile police

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Police Deaths Up In 2017, But Not From ‘The War The On Cops’

While firearms-related officer deaths are down across the nation, traffic-related and other causes for death, like heart attacks, appear to have skyrocketed.

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By Jack Burns
Heavily armed police officers stand guard in the rain outside Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Law Enforcement Officer deaths by firearm are down slightly through May 20th, as compared to this time last year. In 2016, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF), 18 officers were killed by firearms. So far this year, only 17 officers have been killed by firearms. With nearly one million sworn officers in

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Disturbing Video Shows Officer’s Violent Apprehension Of Compliant Minor

The officer has been temporarily reassigned pending an internal investigation, the FBI is also conducting its own investigation into the incident.

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By Jack Burns
Que’Chawn Wade

Churchill, PA — There’s probably no better example of why the government needs to get out of the business of education than the following ongoing story taking place at Pittsburgh’s Woodland Hills High School. The school’s resource officer, from the Churchill Police Department, was caught on film assaulting a student in a physical altercation which

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Georgia Copyrights State Laws, Pursues Those Who Publish Them In Court

“Access to the law is a fundamental aspect of our system of democracy, an essential element of due process, equal protection, and access to justice.”

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By Jack Burns
Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org. (Photo: Kirk Walter/Public Domain)

Carl Malamud is a law advocate, but not the kind who represents plaintiffs or defendants in a court of law. No, Malamud is a proponent for the free access to one’s ability to read the law. Sounds simple right? Unless you live in Georgia, that is. Georgia has copyrighted its state law also known as the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA).

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