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Key evidence in Maricopa County Jail death suit of Deborah Braillard ‘destroyed’

"Deborah Braillard was an insulin dependent diabetic who was arrested on a minor drug charge when her car broke down on New Year’s Day 2005. During three agonizing days in custody at the Estrella Jail, she was deprived of insulin and denied medical care despite pleas from fellow detainees. By the time she was rushed to the hospital, Deborah Braillard had slipped into a diabetic coma. The ABC15 Investigators have obtained court records, documents and a judge’s ruling that show key evidence in the case of Deborah Braillard was lost, deleted or 'destroyed' by MCSO in an attempt to cover up the death of a Valley mother." Continue reading →

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Government Bomb Plots

"If a private person undertook such a 'plot,' but called it off without carrying it out and then announced 'I meant it only as a joke,' wouldn't he face criminal prosecution nonetheless? Shouldn't the FBI agents involved in this make-believe 'plot' also be charged with a conspiracy to blow up a federal building? They were not only participants in the scheme, but its very instigators!" Continue reading →

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Police Go to Wrong House, Shoot Dog

"A local couple says a San Antonio police officer who shot their dog in the jaw early Sunday morning was at the wrong house. Albert Morales said his brother, Hector Serna, woke him up before dawn after hearing the gunshot and then pounding on his window. Serna and Morales said they went outside and the officer approached them saying there had been a 911 call about a deceased woman. Morales then said the officer told him he was responding to the call from another family blocks away on another street, who had once lived in their house." Continue reading →

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The John McKenna Case: Video Captures Baton Blows to University of Maryland Student

"The encounter between police officers and a University of Maryland student after a basketball game in 2010 lasted only 10 seconds, but how a jury interprets those moments, captured on video, will determine the fate of two veteran Prince George’s County police officers on trial this week. Ruddy, an assistant state’s attorney, urged jurors to hold the officers accountable in what he called an unprovoked beating of a skipping, singing student during a postgame celebration on the streets of College Park." Continue reading →

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Beating of diabetic driver raises questions about N.J. State Police training

"He may have looked drunk or like he was on drugs, but doctors say these are classic symptoms of diabetic shock. Paramedics found Fried’s blood sugar was so low he could have suffered a coma, seized or died, according to State Police records. But two troopers took his erratic behavior for belligerence. They wrestled him down, hit him with a baton and arrested him, their reports said. The struggle was captured by a microphone on one of the troopers. On the tape, Fried can be heard screaming and telling troopers they are hurting his arm, while they yell at him to stop resisting." Continue reading →

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New York police brutally beat man for sleeping at synagogue

"A confrontation with New York police that was caught on video last week has Jewish community leaders in New York City outraged. When the officers attempted to force his exit from the building, ignoring his claims that he was allowed to be there, Halevy resisted. That’s when one of the officers flew into a rage, putting his fists up like a boxer and launching a flurry of punches. As the video rolled, Halevy sustained repeated blows from the male officer while a female officer stood by hitting him with a club, then pepper-spraying him. Finally, an upwards of 10 officers ran into the building to ensure the man could not resist any further, and he was taken away." Continue reading →

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Former NJ police officer sentenced to 20 months

"A former Camden police officer has been sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for stealing money, illegally searching homes, planting evidence and lying in court. Thirty-two-year-old Kevin Parry was one of four officers arrested on corruption-related charges in 2010. In 2009 and 2010, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office dropped charges in 210 cases in which some or all of the officers were involved." Continue reading →

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Good Morning, Sweetheart: Now You’re On Fire, Courtesy of the Local Police

"The child was asleep in her upstairs bedroom when a stranger lobbed an incendiary grenade into her home at about 6:00 a.m. October 9. Within seconds the 12-year-old girl had suffered first- and second-degree burns. Her father, who had been awakened by an insistent pounding on the front door, arrived in the living room just in time to see a wolf pack of armed intruders break it down. He dodged another grenade that “blew the nails out of the drywall” and left a “large bowl-shaped dent in the wall,” the father later recalled. This act of state terrorism was carried out by a SWAT team attached to the City-County Special Investigations Unit (CCIU) in Billings, Montana." Continue reading →

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Disabled Vet Labeled “Terrorist” For Investigating Cost Of Surveillance Cameras

"A 55-year-old disabled veteran was labeled a 'terrorist' by three county commissioners after he photographed security cameras at the Elbert County administration building in Colorado as part of an investigation, a designation the man claimed was retribution for him filing multiple open-records requests. Elbert County resident Don Pippin took pictures of the security cameras back in April as part of an open-records request that sought to discover the cost of the surveillance system." Continue reading →

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