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Police chief found guilty in massive heroin trafficking

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As the Free Thought Project points out โ€” on a daily basis โ€” often times, the most trusted members of society are the most criminal individuals out there. This point is made recently in Fresno, California as the former Deputy Police Chief, one of the most trusted men in town, was found guilty on federal drug trafficking charges.

To be clear, the Free Thought Project has reported on the atrocities and unintended consequences of the prohibition of arbitrary substances by the state. So, someone providing a willing adult with a product that they want for themselves is not morally wrong, as there is no victim.

That being said, however, when a person who claims the legal authority to kidnap, cage, and kill you over those substances โ€” uses their authority to deal in those very substances โ€” this is not only hypocritical, it is tyrannical.

Rose

Arrest made in discovery of opium poppy plants in Catawba County, NC

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A man was arrested after deputies found nearly an acre of opium poppy in a Catawba County field Tuesday morning.

The Catawba County Sheriff's Office says the plants were discovered off Poultry Lane near Claremont. Deputies got a tip last week and were able to obtain a search warrant.

Tuesday, Cody Xiong was arrested and charged with manufacture and trafficking by possession.

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Attention

Philippines army loses 7 as it rescues 78 hostages, kills 13 ISIS-linked terrorists

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At least seven soldiers and police officers were killed in the Philippines city of Marawi where government forces carried out an operation to rescue dozens of hostages held by Islamic State-linked terrorists, according to the army.

Five soldiers and two policemen have been killed in sporadic clashes with militants since Tuesday, Col. Edgard Arevalo of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public Affairs Office announced late Wednesday.

The army managed to kill at least 13 gunmen of the IS-affiliated (Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL) Maute group who had overrun the local clinic, taking hostages, and occupying Marawi's City Hall.

Newspaper

Europeans still believe US would intervene in case of conflict with Russia - survey

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Most Europeans believe the US would protect its European NATO allies in case of war with Russia despite US President Donald Trump's criticism of the military alliance, a new poll shows at a time when it is NATO which are amassing its forces on Russia's borders.

On average, 66 percent of citizens of seven major NATO member states believe that Washington "would use military force" against Russia to defend a NATO ally in the event of a "serious military conflict," findings from a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center between February and early April 2017 shows.

This sentiment is shared by about 70 percent in Spain and the Netherlands as well as in Canada while, in France, the UK and Germany, between 60 and 66 percent of people believe the US is ready to intervene militarily should there be conflict with Russia.

This belief remained unchanged throughout the first quarter of 2017 despite Trump's sharp criticism of NATO during his election campaign, the Pew Research Center says.

Bad Guys

Brooklyn prosecutor busted for sexually assaulting woman in car

Brooklyn lawyer Chrismy Sagaille
© MURRAY,KEN NY DAILY NEWS /NEW YORK DAILY NEWSBrooklyn lawyer Chrismy Sagaille, 31, surrendered to cops on Wednesday after the alleged sexual assault of a woman in her car.
A Brooklyn sex crimes prosecutor, already suspended for a DWI bust, was arrested Wednesday for sexually assaulting a woman as she drove him home from a party.

Chrismy Sagaille, 32, surrendered at the NYPD's Special Victims Unit in Harlem over the Sunday night attack in which he allegedly groped the victim's breast and forced his tongue into her mouth.

The assistant district attorney, his hands cuffed behind his back, remained silent as he was walked out of the building between two detectives.

He wore a blue hoodie, a puffy gray vest and jeans as cops led him away.

Attention

8 guards, 7 inmates hospitalized after CA super-max prison riot

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© WikipediaPelican Bay State Prison

Officers opened fire on a group of inmates after a major riot broke out at a maximum security prison in California. Eight staff members and seven inmates were sent to the hospital with significant injuries

Officials are investigating the incident which resulted in 15 people being sent to hospital after violence broke out at the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California Wednesday, according to a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) obtained by RT.

The incident began at 10:25am when guards tried to break up a fight between two inmates. The officers used "chemical agents and batons" to subdue the fighting inmates, Vicky Waters, press secretary for the CDCR said.

War Whore

Cop rips out window, beats driver, arrests family, for asking reason for traffic stop

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Calvin Jones was apparently kidnapped, choked unconscious, and caged in his underwear, all for wanting to know why he was pulled over in a traffic stop by Taylor police.

It all started when Jones and his wife were pulled over by a Taylor Police Department officer in April 2016. At the same time the officers' dashcam was recording, Jones' wife was also recording the incident on her cell phone.

Michigan law states a citizen is required to present identification upon request. The video shows Jones refused at first, only wanting to know what crime he was suspected of committing.

That's when the conflict escalated. The unnamed officer told Jones he was going to be arrested if he didn't present his ID.

Again, Jones asked to know what crime he was suspected of committing. Instead of explaining the reason for the stop and the subsequent reason for being arrested, the officer chose to grab the car window, break it, and drag Jones out through his window.

Jones told the ACLU he was then choked unconscious. His wife was also arrested when she refused to hand over her cell phone, choosing instead to toss the phone.

Presumably, she didn't want the police to erase her cell phone footage of the incident as TFTP has reported often occurs.

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Rocket science fail: Former SpaceX technician sues company for cutting corners

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© Joe Skipper / ReutersJustin Blasdell, a SpaceX technician from November 2010 until April 2014, is suing the company for wrongful dismissal
A former SpaceX technician alleges in a lawsuit that the company's corporate culture forces technicians to cut corners, break federal law and places both human lives and millions of dollars at risk.

Justin Blasdell, a SpaceX technician from November 2010 until April 2014, participated on marquee projects including the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft.

"What we've got here is a classic whistleblower case where an honest, hard-working test technician has been spurned for doing his job diligently and making ethical recommendations that were not popular with management and followed by the unceremonious, retaliatory, wrongful termination of our client," Blasdell's legal counsel Carney Shegerian said in opening statements at the trial on Tuesday, according a press release from Shegerian.

Blasdell's legal team claims the SpaceX failed to mark and serialize parts, making it impossible for him to guarantee quality and safety of key components of the company's rockets. When he raised such concerns, he claims he was told to sign off on the documentation regardless of whether he could verify their quality.

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Honor roll student banned from graduation because of shirt

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© NBC CharlotteThe shirt Summer was wearing the day she was suspended.
The Harrisburg, N.C. high schooler was told she was in violation of the school's dress code

A senior at Hickory Ridge High School in Harrisburg, North Carolina was recently suspended for wearing a shirt that showed her collarbones.

Summer, an honor roll student with a 4.4 GPA, told NBC Charlotte that she was sitting in the cafeteria last week when the school's principal asked her to put on a jacket because her shirt went against the school's dress code. According to NBC Charlotte, Summer's shirt partially showed her shoulders and exposed her back.

Although Summer reportedly told her principal she thought her shirt was "fine" to wear at school, she complied with the principal's request and put on a jacket. Unfortunately, the principal was still not satisfied and asked Summer to change her outfit all together.

"I completely understand why a dress code is put into place but I feel like after I put on that jacket it should have been subdued," Summer told NBC Charlotte.

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Social media reveals chaos in Philippines Marawi as ISIS battle government forces

A government troop gestures to people evacuating Marawi city, southern Philippines
© Romeo Ranoco / ReutersA government troop gestures to people evacuating Marawi city, southern Philippines May 24, 2017.
Photographs and videos shared across social media platforms are revealing utter chaos in the Philippines city of Marawi as government forces and militants linked to Islamic State battle for control.

Marawi, which is colloquially known as the 'Islamic city' is the focal point of a dramatic outbreak of violence on the archipelago's southern island of Mindanao.

Heavily armed insurgents laid siege to a prison, seized hostages in a church and paraded through the streets in Marawi in a show of force.

The crisis spurred Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to invoke martial law on the entire island of Mindanao and the city was subject to a blackout Tuesday as government forces engaged with militants and snipers patrolled the streets.

Comment: After a year or two of the Philippines President dissing the West and turning towards Russia and China, "ISIS" militants launch a large scale attack on government forces....how very coincidental.