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Despicable, yet unsurprising: Georgia cops who tasered handcuffed man to death won't be charged

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
chase Sherman
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American police have once against demonstrated that their agenda is not to protect and serve, but to dominate and control by any means necessary and remove themselves from any reasonable means of accountability. On November 20th, sheriff deputies in Coweta County, Georgia were summoned to help subdue a man having a psychotic breakdown tasered him to death. This week, the Coweta district attorney's office announced their decision to not press charges against the officers responsible.

According to the Newnan Times, Monday, Coweta Circuit District Attorney Pete Skandalakis announced that he would not be seeking charges against Deputies Josh Sepanski and Sam Smith and Elliot.

One of the family's attorneys, Chris Stewart, called it "one of the most horrible decisions" he had ever seen a district attorney make.

The Justice Department has yet to make their decision, but it is unlikely that they will pursue charges as they have been waiting to see how the DA responded.

"We've all been fooled. Both locally and nationwide," he said.

What really matters. as the Times reports, is the last few minutes of the encounter "where he was murdered and tortured," Stewart said.

After months of keeping the video from the body cameras on the police officers under wraps, it was finally released in May to the NY Times.

Comment: See also:

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Sheriff

Police State: Massachusetts police use military helicopter, several vehicles, and a handful of troopers to seize one cannabis plant from 81yo arthritis patient


RT
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:54 UTC
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Massachusetts State Police and the National Guard sent a helicopter, several vehicles and a handful of troopers to an elderly woman's house to chop down one cannabis plant and haul it away in a pickup truck.

Margaret Holcomb, 81, grew a single marijuana plant in her garden, which she used to ease her glaucoma and arthritis ailments, The Washington Post reported.

She hadn't attempted to obtain a medical marijuana card due to the difficulty of getting a doctor to sign off on it, she told The Daily Hampshire Gazette. She said traveling to the dispensary in the next town and paying for marijuana grown by someone else would be too costly.

The behavior of the police was questionable in other ways, Holcomb's son, Tim, told the Gazette. He said he was told that as long as he did not demand that a warrant be provided to enter the property or otherwise escalate the situation, authorities would file no criminal charges.


Comment: He was told not to demand a warrant, because the officers likely didn't have one and they were trying to avoid the legal ramifications of their unlawful behavior.


He believes their actions constituted an "unlawful surveillance and illegal search and seizure."
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Cop knocked unconscious by suspect and did not use deadly force for fear of media backlash


RT
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:20 UTC
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A female police officer in Chicago, Illinois ended up in the hospital after a man reportedly high on drugs smashed her face into the pavement. She chose not to shoot her attacker, however, because she didn't want that to become the story.

The 43-year-old officer, who has 17 years of experience on the force, responded to a call about a car crash on Chicago's West Side on Wednesday morning. She encountered a 28-year-old man walking away from the scene of the crash. He attacked, slamming the female officer's head against the pavement until she lost consciousness, the Chicago Tribune reported.

"She thought she was going to die, and she knew that she should shoot this guy, but she chose not to," Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Thursday at an event honoring police and firefighters. "She didn't want her family or the department to go through the scrutiny the next day on national news."

The suspect injured two other officers before he was subdued through the use of a Taser and pepper spray, the Tribune said. Johnson cited the story as an example how dangerous police work is.

"Because of the scrutiny going on nationwide, there [are] officers second-guessing themselves. That's what we don't want," he said. "We have to change the narrative of the law enforcement across this country."
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Propaganda

5 vital stories the media is covering up with irrational fear of 'evil clowns'

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project.co,
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
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Just when it seemed 2016 couldn't get any weirder, mainstream media now thrusts the narrative of an evil clown apocalypse down our throats. And while there have, indeed, been a handful of incidents involving clown-costumed individuals — and it would be wise, as always, to advise your kids not to follow a clown into the woods — leave it to the fear-dependent agendas of corporate media and politicians to truly blow the situation out of proportion.

Way out of proportion — even for Halloween approaching.

Over the past few weeks, colleges, universities, and schools have issued warnings, whole public school districts even shut down over purported clown sightings, and a district attorney declared any clown attacks on schools would be considered 'terroristic threats' — before reversing course and deeming that threat a hoax.

Creepy though clowns may be to many of us, these costumed folks with painted perma-grins are just not as horrific as a litany of other issues deserving real concern this Halloween season.
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People

Bots vs trolls, bots vs bots? People engage in long arguments with Twitter bot


RT
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 05:15 UTC
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The internet can be a warzone of trolling, insults, arguments and just about anything you can imagine. Now a bot has been created to engage "internet bigots" to fight by tweeting controversial statements on everything from white privilege to Donald Trump.

The bot, created by Twitter user Sarah Nyberg, goes by the name of Liz. Her job is to tweet inflammatory statements from her handle @arguetron, in order to "bait internet bigots into fighting with it for hours."

Comment: This is what internet arguments look like in 2016. Soon it will be nothing but an endless storm of bots vs bots. Of course, they will only argue about the officially approved topics as above (race, gender, abortion, guns, red vs blue). It really makes you pine for a nice cabin in the woods away from all the insanity.

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Attention

Texas police find dozens of people held captive in fake rehab centers, arrest 10


RT
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 21:27 UTC
Police
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Police in Texas have arrested nine people after discovering dozens of people being held captive, beaten and tied to chairs in fake drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

"The conditions inside of the facilities and the treatment of the 'patients' can only be described as medieval and barbaric," Fort Worth police said, according to the AP.

Police said the 37 victims told them they were often beaten, tied to chairs and fed one package of ramen noodles a day. Beds were made of wooden two-by-fours, according to the police statement.

"All of the victims are Hispanic, and most spoke little to no English," said Fort Worth Sergeant Marc Povero.

"After interviewing the victims, it was discovered that some of them had been taken to the facility by family members. They were taken for alcohol and/or drug rehabilitation."

Comment: See also: German govt warns against crypto-Scientologist "say no to drugs" ads

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Pistol

Retired police officer's viewpoint on police shootings in America: Law, policy, & accountability

William John Cox
Global Research
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:39 UTC
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Viewpoint of a retired police officer, prosecutor, and public interest lawyer

From amongst themselves, the People of the United States have empowered some of their members to enforce their laws and to police their society, but things have gone terribly awry. The police are killing those they are sworn to protect and they themselves are becoming the target of public anger over racial inequality and discrimination. Video images of recent police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota were followed by the mass murder of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, apparently in response to these shootings

The killing of an unarmed mentally-disturbed man last week by El Cajon, California police officers—and resulting civil disturbances—once again raises the question of the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers. The question involves complicated issues of law and policy, but the decision to shoot must often be made in a nanosecond. With the widespread availability of video cameras, instant playback, and social media, however, the justification for the use of deadly force is being increasingly scrutinized, and the quality of law enforcement policy, training, and discretion is frequently found wanting.
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Psy-op? People everywhere are needlessly shaking in their boots over the creepy clown phenomenon

Daisy Luther
daisyluther.com
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:40 UTC
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Just in time for Halloween, creepy clowns have been spotted all over the nation. My main question is this: why is everyone too terrified to fight back? They're clowns, for heaven's sake.It wouldn't be very difficult to end this ridiculous trend if everyone would stop getting sucked into the hysteria.

However, of late, "clown sightings" are occurring across the US. There has even been clown violence (a 16-year-old was stabbed by a creepy clown in Reading, Pennsylvania.) Social media is all abuzz with the latest clown fear frenzy. A humor book was published last fall, just ahead of the trend, called, "When Clowns Attack."

Why?

Okay, does anyone else find this kind of weird? Kind of contrived? I'm positive it isn't just me, because my friend, Melissa Melton, at Truthstream Media, clearly thought the same thing.

Is this just a weird social experiment? Is the media just spreading fear, and if so, to what avail? Are they trying to distract us from the approach of World War III? Truthstream Media investigated it.

Comment: More on the creepy clown madness:

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Heart - Black

Demented judge in UK rules pedophile can walk free 'so he can have children of his own'


RT
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:25 UTC
Children abuse
© Mohammed Salem / Reuters
A pedophile who was caught red-handed with around 137,000 pictures and 4,336 videos of children has been spared prison time for the most surprising and controversial of reasons - because he wants to become a father.

Richard Arrowsmith from Church Gresley, Derbyshire, was arrested in February after police received a tip-off that an IP address linked to the 41-year-old's Sky account had been used to download illegal photos and videos of children.

Authorities seized Arrowsmith's computer, external hard drive, laptop, mobile phone, and USB sticks in April.

Police found 400 videos in Category A, the most extreme category. In total, 1,692 movies and photos were found ranging from Category A to C. An additional 4,336 videos and 137,000 pictures remain uncategorized.

Arrowsmith pleaded guilty to possessing the indecent images and videos when he appeared at Derby Crown Court, stating that he had viewed and downloaded the media for "four or so years." However, he stressed that he had never distributed or made any images or videos, the Derby Telegraph reported.
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Police Sergeant stomps on the head of handcuffed man; investigation underway

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:44 UTC
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Concerns over excessive force only intensified after Hartford, Connecticut, police released dash camera footage of a controversial arrest — showing an officer in street clothes walk up to a handcuffed suspect sitting on the curb, and kick his head into the ground — for no apparent reason.

"That there is obviously of serious concern to the police department and now to the state's attorney's office," Hartford Deputy Police Chief Brian Foley asserted, according to WFSB.

Ricardo Perez' mugshot — eyes bruised and one swollen shut, a large bandage on his forehead, and his right jaw alarmingly distended — was sufficiently disturbing to spark an immediate internal investigation, even before the department viewed the video.

"The following morning, based on the appearance solely on the mugshot because we weren't aware of the video at that point, we started an immediate internal investigation," Foley stated.
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