Earlier this week, the Free Thought Project reported on the story of Officer Akinyemi Borisade who was caught on surveillance footage beating Mayra Martinez — while she was in handcuffs. The surveillance footage of the incident was brutal, but on Sunday, the department released dashcam footage of the arrest which shows an even more violent scene.

Martinez, 31, had a bad first day on the job at the local Scores Bar in Jacksonville. That afternoon, she became intoxicated, quit, and refused to leave, so police were called. When police arrived at the bar around 5 p.m., they arrested Martinez and charged her with trespassing and resisting.

According to the police report, Martinez was drunk and belligerent when two officers showed up to remove her from the property. When police tried to place her in handcuffs, Martinez tried to kick and bite officers, according to the report.

To deal with the unruly woman who was half their size, two officers, one of them Borisade, threw the intoxicated Martinez to the ground. In the video, Borisade is seen dropping fist after fist into the back, head and face of Martinez. He also slams the woman's face into the concrete repeatedly.

Quaker Oats is facing a new lawsuit following private tests that found trace amounts of the herbicide glyphosate on the company's products. Thus, plaintiffs argue, the company employs false marketing tactics in claiming its products are "100% natural."

A lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed in Federal District Courts in New York and California claiming that statements made by Quakers Oats about its products are misleading.

"Defendant aggressively advertises and promotes its oatmeal products as '100% Natural,' and claims its oats are grown using 'eco-friendly' methods that pose 'less risk of pollutants and groundwater pollution,'" the lawsuit says. "These claims are false, deceptive, and misleading."

The suit says Quaker Oats also uses the herbicide glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup weed killer that was deemed a "probable" human carcinogen by the World Health Organization last year, to dry its oats prior to harvest.

"There is nothing unlawful about Quaker Oats' growing and processing methods," the suit reads. "What is unlawful is Quaker's claim that Quaker Oats is something that it is not in order to capitalize on growing consumer demand for healthful, natural products."

A Chicago woman is suing local police over a 2013 incident in which two officers threatened her with their guns and pepper-sprayed her while her children were in the car, WBBM-TV reported.

Rev. Catherine Brown said the two officers, Jose López and Michelle Morsi-Murphy, "beat me down to my underwear, pulled my skirt off me. They beat me with the sticks and hit me with their boots in my head."

According to Brown, the encounter on May 13, 2013 began when she honked her horn to avert a collision with the officers' squad car, which was speeding toward her in the alley leading to Brown's home.

Dashcam video shows Morsi-Murphy leaving her vehicle. Brown said Morsi told her, "B*tch, move that f*cking car back" while López pointed his gun at her head. Brown then called police dispatchers to ask for a supervisor. Audio of the call captures her childrens' screams.

A Pennsylvania cop who chose to shoot a man's beloved pet cat, rather than bring it to a veterinarian for a health check, will not be charged with animal cruelty — despite the rather murky circumstances of the animal's killing.

Tom Newhart and his wife rescued 'Sugar' at birth six years ago, but just over a week ago, the cat managed to slip out of their home.

"I found the cat sitting right here," said neighbor Mike Lienert, according to local 69 News, who also noted the cat appeared to be injured. Lienert then called North Catasauqua Police to help.

Greenpeace charged today that a massive US-EU trade deal would place corporate interests above the environment and consumer safety, as it released classified documents from the negotiations.

The campaign group published 248 pages online to "shine a light" on the closed-door talks to forge a so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which would be the world's largest bilateral trade and investment agreement.

"This treaty is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US," said Greenpeace as it presented the documents in Berlin.

Both Washington and Brussels want the mega-deal completed this year before US President Barack Obama leaves office, but the agreement in the making has faced mounting opposition on both sides of the Atlantic.

In Europe there is deep suspicion that TTIP will erode social, ecological and consumer protections to the advantage of big business, while the US has also seen rising protectionist sentiment.

Greenpeace said the papers show, for example, that the US wants to be able to scrap existing EU rules in areas such as food labelling or approval of dangerous chemicals if it they spell barriers to free trade.

"TTIP is about a huge transfer of power from people to big business," the group argued, having also projected an image of a classified text passage onto the facade of Berlin's parliament building.

'Public scrutiny'

Irish MEP Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, who has been vocal in criticising what he calls the lack of transparency around the proposed deal, wrote on his Facebook today that the leaked documents showed "exactly why the negotiations need to be out in the open".

The four Chinese lawmen handpicked for this assignment were trained by Italian instructors in Beijing and will be wearing their usual uniforms while patrolling the streets of the Italian cities they're assigned to.

Italian Minister of the Interior Angelino Alfano said that the experiment which was announced on Monday and will be conducted until May 13 is aimed at helping Chinese tourists feel safe and will hopefully strengthen the bond between China and Italy, La Repubblica reports.

"It is an experimental project, unprecedented for Italy and the first of its kind for Europe. Today we once again demonstrate that Italy can efficiently cooperate with agencies from other countries," Alfano said.

An off-duty Florida sheriff's deputy was caught on video by a tow truck driver she berated as he removed her illegally parked vehicle.

Tracy Weiss, an Orange County sheriff's deputy, became enraged after the driver towed her pickup truck, which was blocking a sidewalk, reported WFTV-TV.

A resident of the Starlight Ranch Retirement Community reported that the deputy's personal vehicle was partially blocking a sidewalk, which is used by senior citizens in wheelchairs.

Weiss ran outside to confront the driver — who recorded the incident on his cell phone. "I'm a cop — get my truck," she said. The driver asked her to put away her gun, which he spotted in the pocket of her shorts.

"You're going to f*cking jail for stealing my car," she said.

In an unprecedented move, Colorado may become the first state to replace Obama Care with a single-payer health insurance plan that would guarantee coverage for all of the state's residents.

This November, voters in Colorado will decide whether to keep the Affordable Health Care Act or give it the boot and usher in a single-payer, state-wide health coverage plan. The $38 billion-a-year measure proposed by the organization ColoradoCare would largely be funded by tax increases.

A 10 percent hike on payroll tax would break down into 6.7 percent for employers and 3.3 percent for workers. An additional 10 percent would be levied on self-employed workers. The 10 percent tax hike would also apply to investment income and small business income.

If passed, ColoradoCare would cover all state residents and allow them to choose doctors and specialists without distinguishing between "in network" and "out of network." The plan also would eliminate deductibles.

Insurance groups and the Colorado Chamber of Commerce along with members of the medical and business fields are rallying against the plan. Opponents argue the plan's details are too vague and its cost threatens to cripple the state economy.

A 28-story building in eastern China became a towering inferno after a fire broke out Tuesday.

Like a scene from a Hollywood movie, flames were captured engulfing the high-rise in downtown Nanjing, which is identified as the Longsheng Building by several media outlets.

Miraculously, there were no casualties.

Firefighters were eventually able to bring it under control, according to local news, but the cause is not yet known.

A lab technician for the New Jersey State Police's Office of Forensic Science has 'retired' early after being caughtfalsely identifying a substance as marijuana without conducting the proper tests. On Monday, Deputy Public Defender Judy Fallon issued a memo to Public Defender Joseph Krakora explaining Kamalkant Shah's falsified report:

"Laboratory Technician II Kamalkant Shah of the New Jersey State Police Laboratory (in Little Falls) has been found to have 'dry labbed' suspected CDS specimens. Basically, he was observed writing 'test results' for suspected marijuana that was never tested."

According to NJ Advance Media, "Ellie Honig, director of the Division of Criminal Justice of the Attorney general's office, said in [a] Feb. 22 letter to county prosecutor's offices that Shah 'failed to appropriately conduct laboratory analyses in a drug case.'"

The letter, released from the Attorney General to the news outlet on Wednesday, disclosed that "Mr. Shah was observed in one case spending insufficient time analyzing a substance to determine if it was marijuana and recording an anticipated result without properly conducting the analysis."

"The letter advised prosecutors to disclose this information to defense counsel," NJ Advance Media reported.

The former technician's indiscretion in that singular marijuana case has now called into question thousands of drug cases he conducted tests for, as the one in question was only the first observed instance of his dishonesty.

As Fallon noted, "Mr. Shah was employed with the lab from 2005 to 2015; obviously all his 'results' have been called into question."

"In Passaic County alone, the universe of cases possibly implicated in this conduct is 2,100. The Prosecutor's Office is still in the process of identifying them. Their plan is to submit for retesting specimens from open cases," she said.

Shah's fraudulent testing, overall, may have affected 7,827 drug cases on which he worked. Fallon also indicated the Little Falls crime lab provides testing for other law enforcement agencies across the state, not just the State Police.

Fallon wrote that the Prosecutor's Office for Passaic County has not yet formulated a strategy to deal with the fallout of the falsified reports. She indicated the difficulty of identifying all the potential cases whose outcomes were influenced by the inaccurate, or downright absence, of testing:

"The larger, and unanswered, question is how this impacts already resolved cases, especially those where the specimens may have been destroyed."