Below is Christopher Dorner’s manifesto, published by KTLA (they redacted the names of individuals mentioned to protect their privacy). Dorner is a former LAPD officer who was fired in 2009 for making false statements about his training officer. He says he wasn’t lying and has gone on a shooting rampage, targeting those he says wronged him […]
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UPDATE: Homicidal ex-cop was fired from LAPD for making false statements despite evidence to back his claims
Just as I published a blog post about LAPD brutality, I find out this insanity is happening right now.
Last month I wrote about two Los Angeles police officers who are under investigation for using the threat of jail to force women to have sex with them. Despite several accusations of sexual assault by at least four different women over the course of two years, the LAPD chose to ignore it. And what happens […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dsTHuY2b0bg A man of Native American descent unleashed some much-needed truth on a group of anti-immigrant protesters in Tuscon, Arizona. And lucky for us, it was caught on video and uploaded to Youtube. My favorite part is when he says to a protester holding an anti-immigrant sign, “Yeah, we should’ve put that sign up when […]
An analysis conducted at MIT found that black and Hispanic voters waited almost twice as long to vote in the 2012 election as their white counterparts. The following graph, created by the New York Times, shows that they waited for an average of 20.2 minutes whereas white voters waited an estimated 12.7 minutes. But that’s only […]
Michael Isikoff of NBC News got his hands on a Justice Department white paper that contains the Obama administration’s legal framework for extrajudicial killings of US citizens abroad. The 16-page white paper expands on the rationale put forward by Attorney General Eric Holder last year in a speech at Northwestern University. If you thought that argument […]
There are some excellent articles I’ve come across this weekend about police misconduct. I haven’t had time to post about each individually so I’ve highlighted what I believe are must-read stories.
While the militarization of domestic law enforcement is nothing new, there’s always surprises to be found in the increasingly combat-ready arsenals of local police departments.
In July of last year, Oakland police officers pointed their guns at a sleeping 3-year-old while delivering a search warrant for a misdemeanor probe. The incident was brought to light in a quarterly report by Robert Warshaw, Independent Monitor for the Oakland Police Department.
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