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Man Told He Must Pay For ‘Permission’ To Sue Cop Who Killed His Dog

Utah law requires anyone who wishes to sue a police officer to pay their court expenses up front.

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A Utah resident has just been told that he must pay up if he wants to sue the police officer who gunned down his down. Sean Kendall’s dog, Geist, was shot and killed by a Salt Lake City cop who was searching for a missing child last year. Neither Kendall, nor Geist had anything to do with that missing child. But that didn’t protect the dog

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Surveillance Camera Catches Undercover Police Informant Planting Crack Cocaine

The police informant “seriously put into jeopardy the integrity of the criminal justice system and the grand jury procedures.”

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“Who knows how many potential customers I lost” all because of a police information planting “evidence” – all because “the Schenectady County Sheriff’s Office — tried to ruin my life” a New York business owner asked. Assistant District Attorney William Sanderson told Visiting Judge Polly Hoye that the police informant “seriously put into

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Video: Police Lieutenant Caught Bragging That His Supervisors Support Racist Hate Groups

The Southern Poverty Law Center recently sent a video of this meeting to the city manager, Brian Johnson. Johnson said that even if officers were proven to belong to Neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, this is no reason for them to be fired.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is widely known for their work tracking hate crimes and hate groups, particularly those related to Neo-Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC reports that one police department in Alabama has knowingly hired neo-Confederate sympathizers and klansmen, in spite of the fact that this would obviously bias them against

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LAPD Officers Cleared In Shooting Of Unarmed Mentally Challenged Man

Ford’s death was overshadowed in the media, as it came only two days after the fatal police shooting of unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

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A street side memorial in with a painted portrait of Ezell Ford

The Los Angeles Police Department has just cleared two police officers in the shooting death of an unarmed African American man, described by his family as “mentally challenged.” The slaying of Ezell Ford, 25, sparked protests over police brutality and murder, according to the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck along

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Florida Police Dumped Rape Kits In Storage For Almost a Decade Without Testing Them

These kits are absolutely essential to matching DNA to suspects. Without them, convictions are often impossible, but more fundamentally, finding the culprit is impossible.

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In what might be one of the most disturbing stories about police indifference, as well as dereliction of duty, reports continue to leak about untested rape kits. It might just be every rape-victim’s worst fear: police receive the rape kit evidence from medical professionals, but instead of doing anything with them, they file them away in

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Texas SWAT Attacks 81-Year-Old Man, Breaks His Hip, Denies Him Medical Assistance

“Things like this don’t happen in a vacuum. There’s nothing that we’ve been able to get that identifies the officers, that identifies the action that occurred…”

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An 82-year-old man was shocked to find a Texas SWAT team storming his home. Before Herman Crisp could even ask any questions the uniformed officers, clad in military gear, knocked him down, broke his hip and denied him medical assistance. Herman Crisp explained in an interview with local KTBC news that the Georgetown SWAT deputies threw

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Soldier Jailed Over Court Fines Begs For His Life, Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ 20 Times Before Dying

The video shows Brown begging for water and air as they covered his head in bag.

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Sgt. James Brown

Sgt. James Brown checked into jail for a two-day sentence over a court fine. But even though he was supposed to have been let out once his mother paid the fine, that never happened until jail deputies had killed him. The active-duty soldier served two tours of duty in Iraq and informed the jail that he suffered from PTSD. The video shows

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