This article originally appeared in Filming Cops and has been re-posted with permission. [Update and Correction Below] A Brooklyn judge has set bail at $5,000 for one activist arrested protesting the sentence of former NYPD officer Peter Liang in front of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s house on Tuesday night. The activist, Jason …
Read More »Philadelphia Cop Previously Charged Twice For Assault Is Arrested Again
How much longer do we as a society continue to cling to the notion that corruption and brutality in law enforcement isn’t a national, widespread problem? Via Free Thought Project: Philadelphia Police Officer Deric Lewis was recently arrested for the third time, after being arrested on two other occasions and losing …
Read More »Cops Called To Evict Tenant, Kill Him Instead
Via Filming Cops: City police used unwarranted deadly force when they shot and killed the mentally ill man while attempting to evict him from his apartment, the man’s estate administrator claims in court. Lawrence Faine, a schizophrenic, was a resident in Calvary Towers, an affordable housing complex serving low …
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