Cobb: Fear of Blacks Is Now Motive Enough for a Self-Defense Shooting
The index of cases like seems to point to racial presumptions implicit in how we interpret the concept of self-defense. It is reminiscent of the “gay panic” defense of old, in which violence...
Seattle Cop Facing Termination After Posting Video in Support of Constitutional Rights [VIDEO]
'We don't get to violate people's constitutional rights because somebody in our chain of command tells us otherwise. It's not now this country works.'
Port of Seattle police officer Greg Anderson posted the following video...
Plainclothes Louisville Police Raid Wrong Home, Shoot Homeowner Eight Times, Killing Her
A lawsuit filed in Louisville alleges that three plainclothes cops in unmarked cars raided the wrong address looking for a suspect who was already in custody. When the officers forced the door, allegedly without...
Personal Defense Tip: Don’t Point a Rifle at Police Officers
From the AP:
Florida deputies fatally shot an armed man Tuesday afternoon shortly after he fled a traffic stop, authorities said.
Four deputies opened fire on the 37-year-old man outside his Deltona home after he pointed...
Broward Sergeant Who Stayed in His Car During Parkland Shooting Gets His Job Back
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School exposed breathtaking levels of incompetence throughout the Broward County Sheriff's Department. It started at the top with the preening, clownish Sheriff Scott Israel and from there...
Video Shows Police Attempt to Use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery
https://youtu.be/1v7o_6uI9R0
By Russ Bynum, AP
A video released Monday shows police in Georgia attempting to search Ahmaud Arbery's parked car in 2017 and when he refuses to let them and begins to walk back to the...
Police Video Shows Las Vegas Cops Shoot Man Pointing BB Gun at Police Helicopter
https://youtu.be/BiiUf_yKFpg
Some people just can't handle Las Vegas. And when you add in booze and BB guns, bad things can happen.
Officer Hansen posted in a nearby building and was providing cover for the immediate action...
So You Think Tyranny Can’t Happen Here?
By Miguel A. Faria, M.D.
When discussing government overreach, which incidentally continues unimpeded, or the danger of the monopoly of force concentrated in the hands of government in the way of law enforcement, especially from...
Prosecutors Drop Attempted Murder Charges Against Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend
In March, three plainclothes officers of the Louisville Police Department, driving and unmarked car, reportedly burst into an apartment where Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker were sleeping. Believing it to be a...
Alaska Gun Owner With a Rifle Stops Man Shooting at Unarmed Cops
Today's defensive gun use of the day comes to us from The Last Frontier. Earlier this month, a 19-year-old man in fatigues broke into a municipal building in the town of Kwethluk in southwest...
Cop Accused in George Floyd’s Death Involved in Two Shootings, 17 Complaints During His...
By Todd Richmond, AP
A white Minneapolis police officer accused of killing a black suspect by kneeling on his neck opened fire on two people during his 19-year career and had nearly 20 complaints and...
Police Officers Speak Out Against the Death of George Floyd
By Stefanie Dazio, AP
Murder. Brutality. Reprehensible. Indefensible. Police nationwide, in unequivocal and unprecedented language, have condemned the actions of Minneapolis police in the custody death of a handcuffed black man who cried for help as an...