New York City Police Sgt. Lesly Charles may have a long penis but he’s short on brains, never realizing a suspect was video recording as he threatened to ram his lengthy penis in the suspect’s mouth. Charles also threatened to ram his pistol inside the man’s anus before telling him he had a pretty face. Charles also told the man, who was getting harassed for parking illegally, [...]
Chicago police are being accused of entrapping a trio of South Florida activists into agreeing to commit violent terrorist acts against the city during the NATO Summit protests, leading to their arrest and some very serious charges. One of the men arrested is an Occupy Miami activist who spent the night in jail with me after my last arrest. As a result, I spent the weekend fielding calls from [...]
Fellow officers thought it would be funny to photograph David Davis, a Connecticut railroad police officer, sleeping at his desk while on shift. They probably didn’t expect Davis to wake up, pull out his gun and point at the officer who had just taken his picture. “No one’s taking pictures today,” Davis told John Freeman. According to the Connecticut Post: Freeman [...]
Photojournalist J.C. Playford has long been a thorn in the side of San Diego law enforcement officers over his right to take pictures in public. But he’s always been the first photographer to offer condolences to cops when fellow officers die in the line of duty. So it’s hard to picture him in a bomb scheme. Espeically a urine bomb. But cops tell the most elaborate stories. According [...]
Alexander Arbuckle, a 21-year-old New York University journalism student, believed police were being portrayed unfairly in media stories about the Occupy Wall Street protests last year. So he began a photojournalism project in an attempt to show officers in a more positive light. He ended up getting arrested. New York City police claimed he had been standing in the middle of the street [...]
John Nix pulled out his cell phone after spotting what he thought was a gang of thugs mugging a man in the parking lot of a North Carolina shopping mall last week. The former city council candidate ended up in jail after the men who were in street clothes turned out to be cops arresting a suspected shoplifter. They thought he was taking their picture. According to the Kinston Free Press: Nix said [...]
Here is something you don’t see often; a law enforcement officer arrested for deleting video footage. His own, in fact, when he realized it would be used against him by investigators. That decision ended up costing Broward Sheriff’s Detective Anthony Costanzo an additional charge of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison (he's facing [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice is coming down hard on the Baltimore Police Department as it prepares to issue a settlement to a man whose footage they deleted after he recorded them making an arrest. The settlement stems from a 2010 incident at the Preakness Stakes, which prompted the Department of Justice in January to send a statement of interest to the judge presiding over the resulting civil [...]
You know the tide has turned in the media landscape when bloggers begin demanding payment from newspapers for copyright infringement. After all, it was not too long ago when a Las Vegas company was shaking down bloggers for copyright infringement on behalf of newspapers. Righthaven burst on the scene in 2010 under the guise that they were saving journalism. Or as Las Vegas Review-Journal publisher [...]
On November 30, during the height of the Occupy movement, more than 100 activists marched down the street in Santa Cruz, one of hundreds of demonstrations taking place throughout the country at the time. At one point, the activists entered an abandoned Wells Fargo – directly across the street from an active Wells Fargo branch - and began a three-day occupation, hoping to turn it into [...]
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