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13 cops brutally arrest 15 year old girl because one officer thought he 'smelled weed'

Mike Sawyer
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:11 UTC
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Injuries Sustained by a 15-year-old girl inflicted by police.
Residents of the Countryside mobile home park in Fargo, ND have expressed concerns over racial profiling and police misconduct for some time. A recent cellphone video has captured a brutal example of this misconduct.

On July 25th, 2014 at 11:30 PM a 15 year old girl was sitting in a car in front of her sister's house, charging her phone when 2 Fargo police officers approached her and accused her of smoking marijuana.

After telling the officers that she was actually charging her phone and not smoking marijuana, the 15-year-old was then violently dragged from the car.

According to the People's Press Project, the girl explained that when officers removed her from the car they caused,
excruciating pain to her arms and wrists, which she said were pulled too forcefully and too far up, and to her wrists which she said were handcuffed too tightly causing her circulation to be cut off. The 15 year old girl also stated that during the violent and painful arrest, her head was repeatedly pounded into the hood of the parked car outside her sister's house, then they wrestled her to the ground with additional officers who arrived on the scene, (4 participating in the arrest and 13 officers in total), hog tied her and put her in the back seat of a squad car.
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Gaza: IDF has wiped whole villages off the map

Dr. Mona El-Farra
Intifada-Palestine.com
Sat, 16 Aug 2014 07:57 UTC
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I'm writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuza'a.

Yesterday I decided to use the opportunity of the ceasefire to visit my family in Khan Younis. I especially wanted to see my sister who had open heart surgery before Israel's assault. I hadn't seen her for 36 days. I'm lucky that I have enough fuel in my car to drive 24 kilometers (15 miles) so I struck out towards the south.

I drove down Salaheddin Road and passed rubble from mosques, houses, and factories. Some buildings were destroyed completely and some partially. Later on in my drive, I saw dozens of big trees uprooted and smashed, fruit trees destroyed and farms and gardens decimated and ruined. The Israeli bombs were aimed to destroy the infrastructure, to destroy Gaza's economy. Even the main cookie factory was targeted and destroyed.

I passed UN trucks distributing food to people in long lines. This siege and assault by the Israelis has made everyone in the Gaza Strip live as a refugee, missing basic needs and struggling to survive.
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New York gubernatorial candidate arrested for filming arrest, charged with menacing police

Andrew Meyer
Photography Is Not A Crime
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 06:46 UTC
Randy Credico
Randy Credico
Randy Credico, the challenger to Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York's upcoming primary election, was arrested, handcuffed and jailed Thursday for video recording two plainclothes police officers aggressively arresting a man - only days after the NYPD issued a memo to officers stating recording is allowed.

Credico began recording video on his cell phone after witnessing two men without badges aggressively stopping an older black man at the Van Cortland Park subway station in the Bronx. Credico, who has spoken out against New York City's "stop-and-frisk" policy, was on his way to a campaign interview when he saw the older gentleman being arrested.

"The guy got right into my face, and says, you've got to move back," Credico told radio host Fred Dicker, while in a holding cell in the Bronx. "The next thing you know I got arrested."
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Power plays: Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicted on two felony charges

Taylor Berman
Gawker
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:38 UTC
Rick Perry
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A state grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on two felony charges of abuse of power late Friday afternoon. The charges, one count each of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant, stem from allegations that Perry tried to force Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign in 2013.

From KXAN:
At the center of the issue is a complaint about intimidation stemming from Perry's threat to veto of $7.5 million in state funding to the Public Integrity Unit run by Lehmberg's office. The threat came after she pleaded guilty to drunk driving and served a 45-day sentence; Perry called on her to step down but she refused to resign her position. Perry then vetoed the funding for the PIU.
According to the New York Times, when Perry vetoed the unit in 2013, the PIU was investigating accusations of mismanagement and corruption related to one of Perry's landmark initiatives, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
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91 year-old Dutch man returns Israeli WWII medal after Gaza strike kills six of his relatives


RT
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:03 UTC
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© Reuters / Ibraheem Abu MustafaPalestinians attend Friday prayers next to a mosque destroyed by Israeli air strike
A 91-year-old Dutch man who was honored with Israel's Righteous Among the Nations medal for rescuing a Jewish boy during WWII, has returned the award, after he learnt his six relatives were killed in the Gaza strip by an Israeli missile.

The man, Henk Zanoli, sent the medal back to the place where he received it - the Israeli Embassy in The Hague, explaining in a letter attached that it wasn't an easy decision for him.

"It is with great sorrow that I am herewith returning the medal I received as an honor and a token of appreciation from the State of Israel," reads the letter, published by Haaretz on Friday.

Zanoli and his late mother, Johana Zanoli-Smit, were honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in 2011 for having saved a Jewish child, Elhanan Pinto, born in 1932, during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
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Ferguson cops once beat innocent man, then charged him with "destruction of property" for bleeding on their uniforms

Michael Daly
RT
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:45 UTC
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Police in Ferguson, Missouri, once charged a man with destruction of property for bleeding on their uniforms while four of them allegedly beat him.

"On and/or about the 20th day of Sept. 20, 2009 at or near 222 S. Florissant within the corporate limits of Ferguson, Missouri, the above named defendant did then and there unlawfully commit the offense of 'property damage' to wit did transfer blood to the uniform," reads the charge sheet.

The address is the headquarters of the Ferguson Police Department, where a 52-year-old welder named Henry Davis was taken in the predawn hours on that date. He had been arrested for an outstanding warrant that proved to actually be for another man of the same surname, but a different middle name and Social Security number.
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Polanski cancels appearance for 'lifetime achievement award' after the Swiss remind him that he's a paedophile

Ben Child
The Guardian
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:00 UTC
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The Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski has been forced to pull out of an appearance at the Locarno film festival, where he was due to pick up a lifetime achievement award, after Swiss politicians and newspapers accused him of being a paedophile.

The 80-year-old director of Chinatown and The Pianist, who is still wanted in the US on nearly 40-year-old sexual-assault charges, issued a statement apologising for his decision not to travel from his home in France. The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur, which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno's Piazza Grande on Thursday.

"Dear Friends, I am sorry to inform you that having considered the extent to which my planned appearance at the Locarno festival provokes tensions and controversies among those opposed to my visit, even as I respect their opinions, it is with a heavy heart that I must cancel my visit," he said. "I am deeply saddened to disappoint you."

Polanski fled the US for France in 1977 after he was accused of plying 13-year-old Samantha Geimer with champagne and Quaaludes during a modelling shoot at his friend Jack Nicholson's house in Los Angeles, then raping her. He skipped the country after it became clear he could face a 50-year sentence, despite having already served 42 days behind bars as part of a 90-day plea bargain in which he accepted a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor that he had assumed deferred the possibility of further punishment.
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Former Marine sniper involved in controversial 2010 video of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses found dead

Gina Harkins
Marine Corps Times
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:05 UTC
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Then Sgt. Robert Richards served as the scout sniper platoon team leader for 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, during its 2011 tour. His attorney said he'll be buried with full military honors.
A Marine Corps combat veteran who endured a long, public legal battle with the service's senior leadership was found dead Wednesday night.

Retired Cpl. Robert Richards, 28, died at his home in Jacksonville, North Carolina, according to Guy Womack, Richards' attorney and friend. An autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause of death, Womack said, adding that it does not appear to be self-inflicted. A medical examiner will look at the mix of medication Richards was taking, he said.

Richards was a scout sniper with multiple deployments to Afghanistan, including one in 2010 during which he sustained severe injuries. Peers and superiors alike praised him for his combat prowess and leadership skills, evidenced by his being hand-selected to serve as the scout sniper platoon team leader for 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, during its 2011 tour.

It was during that deployment when Richards and three other Marines made a video of themselves urinating on Taliban corpses. The video surfaced online in January 2012, causing an international uproar. But the Marine Corps' prosecution of Richards and others connected to the incident would become overshadowed by allegations that the service's commandant, Gen. Jim Amos, and his legal advisers manipulated the military justice process to ensure they were punished harshly. A Pentagon investigation did not substantiate those claims.
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Picture posted on social media of high school lunch outrages Kentucky parents

Kristen Martin
WBKO.com
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:45 UTC
More than 700 students eat lunch at Warren East High School each day.
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Someone posted a picture of Tuesday's lunch, and it spread on social media, causing concern among parents over the food's quality. "They said someone's mom posted it and said, 'This is what they're feeding my 6'3" boy,'" explained Khalil Brit, a junior at the high school. Several parents even contacted WBKO -- saying students leave hungry.

"In today's social media age nothing ceases to amaze me," said Rob Clayton, the superintendent of Warren County Public Schools. The next day (Wednesday) students said the picture on Facebook is not accurate. "Some people said it was stupid. Some said they saw it, but didn't really comment on it," said, Sabrina Bowman, another student at the high school. After seeing the photo, the superintendent stopped by for lunch.

"We want their feedback, and I've been pleasantly surprised when I spoke to dozens of students today. I can't find any individual who claims that yesterday's lunch was not good," Clayton said.Lunch plates were piled high, and when asked if they have enough to eat, students said yes.

Comment: It would be far healthier if the children ate like cavemen!

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Militarized Police: St. Louis County police were supplied with military-grade weapons by Pentagon during Ferguson protests


RT
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:53 UTC
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© Reuters / Getty Images / Scott Olson
Images coming from a tense Ferguson, Missouri this week show local police armed to the teeth and appearing as an occupying force in attempts to suppress citizen outrage over the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager by a police officer.

Through its 1033 program, the Pentagon offers hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus military equipment to police forces throughout the US. St. Louis County, which encompasses Ferguson, is part of the program, according to Michelle McCaskill, media relations chief at the Defense Logistics Agency.

"St. Louis County law enforcement agencies received twelve 5.56 millimeter rifles and six .45 caliber pistols from the Department of Defense between Aug. 2, 2010, and Feb. 13, 2013," a Missouri public safety official confirmed to USA Today.
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