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South Africa police charged with dragging murder

By   /  March 9, 2013  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

Protesters chant slogans as as they carry posters of Mido Macia in Johannesburg

Standard Digital Nine South African policemen have been charged with murder after a taxi driver was dragged behind a police van and later found dead. They were brought to the magistrate’s court in Benoni, near Johannesburg, amid tight security. They are accused of killing Mozambican taxi driver Mido Macia, 27, in nearby Daveyton on 26 [...]

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Cop found not guilty of assault despite video proof

By   /  February 28, 2013  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

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RT A former police officer fired for hitting a woman in the face says he wants his job back after a judge acquitted him this week of charges related to the beating. Municipal Judge Patrick Dugan ruled on Tuesday that Jonathan Josey, an ex-cop let go from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police department last year, is not [...]

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Cops handcuff and interrogate boy, 7, for hours over missing $5

By   /  February 3, 2013  /  Police State  /  No Comments

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By Popeye | Federal Jack This kid was no killer — but some callous Bronx cops sure treated him like one. Instead of earning himself a simple trip to the principal’s office, a terrified 7-year-old boy was hauled out of class, handcuffed like a hardened criminal and “interrogated” by police for a grueling 10 hours [...]

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Bahrain princess charged with torture of pro-democracy activists

By   /  January 24, 2013  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

Bahrain princess charged with torture of pro-democracy activists

ANI A princess in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain has been charged with the torture of pro-democratic activists while they were in detention during the 2011 uprising. Princess Noura Bint Ebrahim al-Khalifa, who works in Bahrain’s Drugs Control Unit, has been accused with another officer of torturing two doctors and brothers, Ghassan and Bassem Daif, [...]

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Bahraini Policemen Charged for Torturing Detainee to Death

By   /  December 31, 2012  /  News, Police State, World  /  No Comments

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Al Manar A Bahrain court on Sunday jailed two policemen for seven years each after convicting them of torturing to death a detainee in the wake of last year’s brutal crackdown on protests, a local daily said. The Gulf kingdom’s high criminal court found the two national security members guilty of torturing Abdul Karim Fakhrawi [...]

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82 people arrested in Spain as mass protests sweep across Europe

By   /  November 14, 2012  /  Economy, Europe, News  /  No Comments

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RT Eighty two people have been arrested and 38 injured, including 18 police officers, as Spanish police react swiftly to reports of property damage and disorderly behavior while mass protests that began in Spain continue to roll out across the EU. A wave of anti-austerity anger is sweeping across Europe. Spain and Portugal are undergoing [...]

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South Africa police fire tear gas to disperse striking miners

By   /  November 1, 2012  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

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PressTV South African police have fired tear gas to disperse a group of striking coal mine workers a day after two strikers were fatally shot by security guards. The violence broke out on Thursday after the police clashed with some 200 workers who were blocking the road from Dundee to Dannhauser mines in the southeastern [...]

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Democracy kidnapped!’ Police fire rubber bullets in Madrid as thousands surround Spanish Congress

By   /  September 25, 2012  /  Europe, Police State  /  No Comments

Protester is dragged away by police officer after police charged demonstrators outside Spanish parliament in Madrid

RT Skirmishes continue between Riot police and protesters in Madrid with cops firing rubber bullets and tear gas at the crowd. Nine people have been injured and 20 arrested, El Pais report. Riot Police belted protesters, dragging some them by the arms and legs, who had tried to get through police lines. An uneasy order [...]

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Trigger-happy police and racial profiling in the US

By   /  August 3, 2012  /  Police State  /  No Comments

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By John Robles | VOR There exists what many call “an epidemic of brutality” in the United States, an epidemic that seems to have diseased police departments nationwide. The case being investigated now is gross misconduct in Seattle, Washington. Although after every instance of police brutality or police murder they claim these are “isolated incidents”, that is [...]

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Britain wasted nearly half a million pounds on ‘unusable’ rubber bullets

By   /  July 16, 2012  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

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EuropeanPhoenix  Under a section titled “Fruitless payments” in its annual accounts, it shows that £427,000 was spent on baton rounds bought from abroad even though they did not pass UK safety standards. The decision meant they could “not be used in the UK”. The procurement, made to bolster police forces in light of last summer’s [...]

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Americans Are Being Prepared For Full Spectrum Tyranny

By   /  June 29, 2012  /  In Other News, Police State, World  /  No Comments

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Brandon Smith Alt-Market Totalitarian governments, like persistent forms of cancer, have latched onto the long history of man, falling and then reemerging from the deep recesses of our cultural biology to wreak havoc upon one unlucky generation to the next. The assumption by most is that these unfortunate empires are the product of bureaucracies gone [...]

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Racist NYPD cop sentenced to 57 months in prison

By   /  June 23, 2012  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

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ANI A racist NYPD cop has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for falsely arresting a black man and participating in an off-duty beating of another victim. Michael Daragjati, who was caught on a FBI wiretap spewing racial slurs and saiying he “fried another n—–”, called his fabrication of criminal charges against the victim [...]

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