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[Link] Cops Pulled Their Guns on Unarmed Teen Filming Them: ‘What Weapon?’
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, pointed guns at an unarmed teenager and screamed at him to get on the ground as he recorded them detaining another group of teens.
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[Link] AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
The identified groups make up less than 4 percent of Chicago's police force but account for a quarter of all complaints, settlements, and shootings.
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[Link] Cops Tried Playing Disney Music to Censor a Video
Read: 10/4/2022 www.vice.com
This time, it’s Disney. Around 11 p.m. on Monday in Santa Ana, a city just south of Los Angeles, a YouTuber with a channel called Santa Ana Audits started recording a group of police investigating a car theft in his neighborhood.
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[Link] 'Hooliganism': Russian court fines journalist after marathon grilling for three-second on-air protest
Read: 16/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
News editor Marina Ovsyannikova was ordered to pay 30,000 roubles ($390) for flouting protest legislation. It was not immediately clear if she could also face other, more serious charges. Her lawyer was not immediately reachable for comment.
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[Link] Reminder: Telling Cops to ‘Fuck Off’ Is Completely Legal
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
When cops confronted Michael Wood while wearing his “fuck the police” T-shirt at a local county fair in Dayton, Ohio, six years ago, he tried to explain he was well within his rights. He even removed the shirt. But the officers still asked him to leave.
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[Link] ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone
Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive.
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[Link] Police presence at music festivals can lead to ‘panic overdoses’ of drugs
Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police presence at music festivals leads some people to “panic overdose” in their attempt to avoid getting caught, an Australian study has found, with experts calling for a change in policing culture at festivals.
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[Link] School Removes Student Project About Fascism After Cops Complain
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Students at an Indiana high school are on their third day of virtual learning because they protested the school’s decision to remove a class project about ‘V for Vendetta’ which addressed police brutality.
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[Link] Adelaide emergency doctor withdraws legal challenge against mandatory vaccinations
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide emergency doctor who sought to challenge the state's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has withdrawn his legal challenge in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
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[Link] Optimum distance to use a taser 3-4 metres, police shooting murder trial told
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The murder trial of a police officer who shot and killed a woman armed with a knife has been told the best distance to deploy a taser is from 3 to 4 metres — around the same distance some witnesses put him at when he fired his gun.
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[Link] Police officer who fined Brisbane Greens councillor Jonathan Sri regularly criticised him on Facebook
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Queensland police service says it will conduct a “full review” into a fine issued to prominent Brisbane Greens councillor Jonathan Sri, after it emerged the police officer involved had regularly criticised Sri in social media posts.
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[Link] She Owes Over $12K for 911 Calls. Now She Could Lose Her Home.
Read: 27/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When Gloria Parker dipped into her retirement savings to purchase a home in a suburb of Cleveland nearly a decade ago, she thought it’d give her a bit of security as she aged.
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[Link] Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Is Officially Dead in Congress
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Cop Was Instructed to Use Music to Disrupt Filming
Read: 9/9/2021 www.vice.com
From Beverly Hills to Illinois, law enforcement officers are using “copyright hacking” in an attempt to prevent activists from posting videos of encounters to the internet. Over the past few months, some police have loudly broadcast copyrighted music when confronted by cameras.
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[Link] New law passes giving AFP more power to infiltrate online criminal networks
Read: 25/8/2021 www.news.com.au
Police will have greater powers to infiltrate the dark web to crack down on paedophiles and criminals after a new law passed giving them amped-up surveillance capabilities online.
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