New Yorkers Chew Out Cops Over New Gun Control Law
"Non-Compliance Resistance Evident at Buffalo vs New York State Q & A Forum on the Arms Bill." Continue reading →
Report details ‘callous’ lack of sexual assault investigation by D.C. police
"Victims of sexual assault in Washington DC too often endure 'callous and traumatising' treatment from the police while attacks are dismissed on the spot and never investigated, according to a bombshell report. More than 40% of reviewed cases of sexual assault reported to the police by the city’s central hospital, after victims received forensic examinations, 'appear never to have been investigated' or even documented by the MPD, today’s report says." Continue reading →
Pentagon Needs Battle Plan for Troop-Suicide Threat
"The Pentagon said this week there were 349 suicides by active-duty members of the armed services in 2012, as opposed to 311 combat deaths. Before you jump to conclusions about the plight of battle- traumatized veterans failing to readjust to life stateside, consider this astounding fact: More than half of troops who killed themselves had never deployed from the U.S., and 85 percent never saw combat." Continue reading →
Four arrested during protest of nudity ban in San Francisco
"Four people were arrest during a protest of San Francisco’s nudity ban, which was passed late last year and went into effect on Feb. 1, reported the Associated Press. Two days ago, a court upheld the ban, explaining that it did not violate the First Amendment: 'In spite of what plaintiffs argue, nudity in and of itself is not inherently expressive.' 'We’re not here to arrest and cite people if we don’t have to,' police officer Albie Esparza told the AP, 'but if we have to, we will.'" Continue reading →
Argentine ‘superhero’ facing weapons charges
"A self-styled Buenos Aires superhero who fought crime armed only with a costume, mask and pepper spray, is now himself up on weapons charges. Thanks to an alleged shootout with muggers the superhero has been charged with carrying an unlicensed gun, police said Wednesday. The man who called himself Menganno — Spanish for Joe Blow — and became famous in Argentine media is actually one Oscar Lefosse, 43, a former cop who served from 1986 to 1996. It turns out his gun license expired a year ago." Continue reading →
Egypt protests galvanized by video of police beating naked man
"Hamada Saber, a middle-aged man, remained in a police hospital on Saturday, the morning after he was shown on television, dragged over naked tarmac and beaten by half a dozen policemen who had pulled him to an armoured vehicle near the presidential palace. Another protester was shot dead on Friday and more than 100 were injured, many seriously, after running battles between police and demonstrators who attacked the palace with petrol bombs." Continue reading →
Colonial flags fly in Hong Kong as anger grows over Chinese rule
"Sixteen years after Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, public discontent with Beijing is swelling and protesters have been rallying around an unexpected symbol — the British colonial flag. Tens of thousands have taken to the streets in recent months in marches against Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who took over from Donald Tsang last July after being elected by a 1,200-strong pro-Beijing committee. On several occasions the old blue flag, which incorporates the Union Flag, has been flown by protesters on the streets of what is becoming an increasingly divided Hong Kong, both embarrassing and infuriating Beijing." Continue reading →
Grandmother sues city, police department over flash grenade incident
"A 68-year-old Evansville woman, who was at home with her granddaughter last June when police in SWAT gear tossed in flash grenades into her home and forced their way inside to serve a warrant, has filed a lawsuit against the city and the Evansville Police Department. After damaging the house, handcuffing the woman and her granddaughter and seizing their computers and a cellphone in a search for evidence about threatening Internet posts, it was later determined that someone remotely accessed the home’s wireless Internet connection and the Milans were not involved." Continue reading →
Mister Taxman: Why Some Americans Working Abroad are Ditching Their Citizenships
"The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America. And while high-profile cases like that of Tina Turner or that of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin catch public attention, the vast majority of expatriates affected by double taxation and increasingly draconian filing rules are middle-class or retired, or those who have never lived or worked in the United States at all, but were born to American parents overseas." Continue reading →
Severe Disaffection: Seventy-five Percent of US Citizens Don’t Trust Government
"It is a manifestation of a larger disaffection that has been exacerbated by what we call the Internet Reformation. The Internet allows people to understand their world in ways they didn't before and tends to put discontent into a larger perspective. Whereas before, people might have been more apt to blame themselves or their circumstances for their troubles, now they may see their dilemmas as part of a larger systemic issue. But the nation's media gatekeepers like PBS continue to focus on such issues as they have in the past, mainly through the lens of the two-party political system. This in a sense trivializes the growing discontent and misinterprets it, as well." Continue reading →
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