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Hack Attack on U.S. Government Contractor Exposes Undercover Agents
Multiple undercover investigators had their personal data exposed to hackers after a cyber attack struck a key contractor of the Department of Homeland Security in early August. In fact, the data breach in question has affected the data of at least 25,000 workers, a number that could go up even further in the coming days.…
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Cop Suspended For Posting ‘Ferguson Protesters Should Be Killed Like Rabid Dogs’ on Facebook
A police officer in a St. Louis suburb has been suspended over a series of Facebook posts, insulting Ferguson protesters, who have been rallying in condemnation of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. Crowdfunding campaign for officer who shot unarmed teenager spurs controversy The police department in Glendale, Missouri,…
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REPORT: NYC ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy proves ineffective at preventing murders, recovering illegal guns
Data on New York City’s stop-and-frisk policing program during the reign of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg show the policy, which disproportionately targeted minorities, was not effective in reducing shootings and murders, according to a new report. Officials in the Big Apple have long justified the punitive law enforcement tactic as a needed tool for reducing…
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Police Lobbies Pressuring Congress to Keep Military Equipment
As lawmakers in Washington, DC, consider ways to stem the flow of military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, police lobbies and organizations are firing back at the possibility. In fact, the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) – which lobbies for 1,600 different SWAT teams in the United States – has already sent emails to…
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry: ‘ISIS May Have Already Crossed Border Into America’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry sounded the alarm on Thursday over the “very real possibility” that terrorists associated with the Islamic State and other extremist groups have already snuck into the United States via its border with Mexico. In a speech to the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, the former presidential candidate – and potential 2016…
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National Guard Withdraws From #Ferguson
Ferguson, Missouri remained relatively calm for the second night in a row. With only isolated arrests Wednesday and Thursday nights, a drawdown of the National Guard troops assigned with keeping the peace began Friday. “[A] sense of normalcy” returned to the area along West Florissant Avenue ‒ the epicenter of continued protests against the police ‒ on Thursday. “People…
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Chinese Fighter Jet Comes Dangerously Close To U.S. Aircraft with Barrel Roll
What happens when you have an incompetent fool in the Oval Office with the title of President of The United States? You become a mockery of every nation around the globe and not even enemies who pose a threat to our national security take you seriously. The Pentagon said Friday that a Chinese fighter jet…
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PENTAGON: ‘ISIS threat beyond anything we’ve seen’
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday that Islamic State militants could possibly pose an even bigger threat to the United States than Al-Qaeda, and pledged efforts to weaken the group would continue. “[Islamic State militants] are an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it’s in Iraq or anywhere else,” he said, as…
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BREAKING: Pentagon Broke Law With Bergdahl Swap
A nonpartisan government watchdog agency said Thursday that the Pentagon broke the law when it swapped five Taliban leaders for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl earlier this year. The Government Accountability Office, in a legal opinion issued at the request of congressional lawmakers, said the Defense Department violated the law by failing to notify key Capitol…
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Media in #Ferguson Dissipates Amid Evidence of #MikeBrown Being Aggressor
Many news media services already had begun packing tents and television transmission vehicles as word circulated through the Ferguson community of further evidence that the black teen shot and killed by a police officer was the aggressor, resisting arrest after his suspected role in a convenience store robbery. During daylight hours Wednesday and Thursday, the…
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#MikeBrown Shooting Witness, Dorian Johnson, Accused of Theft and Filing False Police Report
Dorian Johnson, the primary witness to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, has an outstanding warrant for a 2011 theft in Jefferson City and pleaded guilty for filing a false police report related to that theft. St. Louis ABC affiliate ABC 17 cross referenced Johnson’s name against several records and discovered the warrant. Johnson will be the star…
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Officer Who Threatened to Kill #Ferguson Protesters and Journalists, Now Suspended
A suburban St. Louis police officer has been suspended indefinitely for threatening to kill protesters and journalists in Ferguson, Missouri while he pointed a rifle in the crowd’s direction during a demonstration this week. Lt. Ray Albers, 46, a 20-year police veteran, was caught on film by livestreamers yelling at protesters and journalists, “I will fucking…
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[GRAPHIC] Questions Being Raised After Video Surfaces of Powell Shooting
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has released mobile phone footage that seems to be at odds with parts of its story surrounding the officer-involved shooting of Kajieme Powell in the weeks after Michael Brown’s death. According to St. Louis Public Radio, the police released the video Wednesday evening as part of an effort to be more…
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Compton, CA, to allow school police to carry AR-15s
I would bet dollars to donuts that none of the AR-15s have the bullet button that they’re required to have for civilian ownership. Semi-automatic AR-15s are the latest weapon at the disposal of campus police officers in Compton, Calif., where school officials say the need to protect lives trumps critics’ claims of “deeply disturbing” militarization.…
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High school student arrested for telling story of killing dinosaur with gun
A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun. Alex Stone said he and his classmates were told in class to write a few sentences about themselves, and a “status” as if it was a Facebook page. Stone said in his…
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DOJ: More than 40 FBI on #Ferguson Investigation
The Justice Department under Eric Holder has issued a press release detailing its “civil rights investigation” in Ferguson. Among the revelations is that over 40 FBI agents are conducting an independent investigation of the scene of Michael Brown’s death: Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Monday following his briefing of President Obama on…
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How the Obama administration made the #Ferguson situation worse
Last week, prompted by complaints about his statement of sympathy on the death of Robin Williams while remaining silent on the killing of an unarmed black man by police, President Barack Obama issued a statement about the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In his statement, Obama called the shooting “heartbreaking” and added…
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REPORT: #Ferguson Officer Who Fatally Shot #MikeBrown was ‘Beaten Very Severely’
“The Assistant (Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side,” said the insider. “He was beaten very severely.” Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries including a bone fracture near…
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Missouri Gov. Nixon: “A vigorous prosecution must now be pursued”
So much for ‘innocent until proven guilty’. The pathetic Missouri governor is throwing gasoline on the fire before the investigation is complete, further stoking tensions in the community of #Ferguson. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon drew criticism from his own Lt. Governor Tuesday when he said “a vigorous prosecution must now be pursued” in the shooting…
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47 arrested in #Ferguson on eve on Eric Holder’s visit
A relatively calm evening gave way to the arrest of 47 protesters early Wednesday morning in Ferguson, Missouri, marking the eleventh night of demonstrations touched off by the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a local police officer. Attorney General Eric Holder is due to visit the majority-black St. Louis suburb at 11 a.m. local time…
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Ammunition Manufacturers Cashing In On Unrest
So-called less-than-lethal munitions used on protesters in Ferguson have become not only a symbol of a militarized mindset among law enforcement in the US, but have galvanized bonds between struggles against state aggression, from Missouri to Palestine. Protests over the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on August 9 by a police officer continued into…
