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Postby fruhmenschen » Wed Jan 13, 2016 6:40 pm

http://www.channel3000.com/news/mpd-off ... s/37412592


MADISON, Wis. -

A Madison police officer charged with a federal public corruption crime for stealing nearly $4,000 cash that was planted in a vehicle has resigned.
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Madison police said Andrew Pullum, 31, of Verona, submitted his resignation Tuesday night. Police Chief Mike Koval accepted the resignation.

Pullum was arrested in December on suspicion of theft of government property and being a drug user in possession of a firearm. He pleaded not guilty in federal court this week.

Pullum was on administrative leave before he resigned.

Officials said police set up a sting after a citizen tip in August that Pullum, who joined MPD in 2013, might be planning a robbery with other people. Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said Pullum was also "associated with a convicted criminal."

According to the criminal complaint, Pullum was told to make contact with a citizen who was providing information to the police. Officials said the citizen was an undercover FBI officer. The undercover officer told Pullum that she was angry at her drug-dealing boyfriend and that there might be cocaine and money in a parked car. The complaint said Pullum opened the trunk of the car, removed a bag containing $3,950 in pre-counted FBI-owned money and put it in his vehicle.

Pullum called for a drug detection K-9 to assist in a possible searc
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Re: COPWATCH

Postby fruhmenschen » Mon Feb 01, 2016 8:33 pm

http://rabble.ca/babble/national-news/c ... e-huxtable


Canada's "drug problem" was quite profitable for Stephen Harper, Jeb Bush, Mike Huxtable & Terry Nelson


February 1, 2016 - 10:57am

It may still be the case. But for almost 20 years, Stephen Harper and perhaps a few before him, as well as his personal friend Mike Huxtable, made it easy and profitable for loads of cocaine to be flown into Weyburn (SKN) and Chapeau (MTL) by the Uncle Sam cowboys Terry Nelson, Steve Finta and their pilots Curt Emmer and others. The below chart surfaced at worldlawdirect.com where a user "Nico" posted part of book manuscripts seized from a former U.S. agent that sought sanctuary in Canada as a refugee in 2000. The guy's name was Bruce Gorcyca and within days of visiting Amnesty International he was detained illegaly by Immigration Canada in maximum security confinement for 10 months "at the request of the U.S. Justice Department".

Maybe just a coincidence that his book exposed former U.S. Justice Department officials Edward Chism (http://americanfinancialgroup.worpress.com) and corupt FBI agent Terry Nelson, both friends of the BUsh family and both comitting crimes in Canada for the Bush family. Chism worked in Panama for 20 years for Uncle Sam where he married Teresita Tapia the personal banker, translator, sexretary of General Manuel Noriega, who according to Noriega's former pilot, was business partners with George H. Bush and a CIA asset according to former DEA Director John Lawn. Terry Nelson who lived less than 7 miles from Chism in Miami had Atty. Steve Finta deliver $16 million in cash to AFG offices at the request of Nelson who was met at the Bush Florida home by former CIA pilot Chip Tatum (Google him).

According to Gorcyca and other witnesses (George Morales, Johnny Molina, Alberto Duque, Erling Ingvaldsen, and others including a handful of honest DEA and RCMP officials) after Oliver North's operation was busted in 1986, all those planes full of cocaine started flying in to Canada, where Nelson and Huxtable were actually caught red-handed in 1997 - and allowed to jump bail http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/topi ... l-terry-...

But with Gorcyca and Ingvaldsen in Canada there was a good chance they could blow the lid off all of the above and both were arrested on fabricated charges to discredit them in case they talked on their own, or subpoenaed by others in an RCMP corruption probe involving another Nelson bud RCMP Pierre Jeanette. Since Huxtable was a friend of PM Stephen Harper, Bush and Nelson used Mike to give Harper a $3 million gift to keep matters well concealed. http://www.worldlawdirect.com/forum/law ... zed-book...

But now that Harper is playing golf and with his cats, he is no longer in a position to cover up the massive drug smuggling allowed on his watch. Both Ingvaldsen and Gorcyca brought the matter to his attention in writing, and he simply ignored the correspondence, and did his best to get both Ingvaldsen and Gorcyca booted out of Canada before they could become witnesses against him and his generous friends from America. http://www.opnlttr.com/letter/open-lett ... -exiled-...

So odd that all the whistle blowers and witnessed involved either get slain (murdered) or become victims of fake criminal charges eh? For a real hoot read the 11 page sworn report of Canadian private investigator Ed Reiken in the exhibit section of this Law Society complaint: http://bruceslawsocietycomplaint.wordpress.com

Ooops! Gave you guys a bad link... here is the one that has not been deleted yet http://americanfinancialgroupfraud.wordpress.com and this one from the Toronto Star which never went beyond the tip of the iceberg: http://www.investorvoice.ca/PI/229.html
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Re: COPWATCH

Postby fruhmenschen » Sat Feb 20, 2016 9:18 pm

http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/ ... with-fraud


Indictment: Sheriff’s captain funded his affair with fraud

Charges against Deschutes County sheriff’s captain include theft, money laundering and passport fraud


Published Feb 19, 2016 at 04:05PM / Updated Feb 20, 2016 at 06:32AM

Deschutes County Sheriff’s Capt. Scott Beard was fired Friday, the same day his indictment for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from county coffers was made public.

Beard was indicted Wednesday by a U.S. District Court grand jury on charges of theft concerning a program receiving federal funds, and on money laundering and passport fraud charges.

He allegedly stole more than $200,000 from the county through various means between January 2014 and September 2015, when he was placed on paid administrative leave.

Beard was arrested Friday in Bend, according to Gerri Badden, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Oregon. He was lodged at the Lane County jail at about 3 p.m. Friday, according to the jail’s website.

The court filing, made public Friday, also names Krista Mudrick, 35, of Bend, who was a sheriff’s office employee between February 2011 and March 2013. Federal authorities allege Mudrick was in a romantic relationship with Beard and accepted thousands of dollars from him.

The indictment alleges Beard, 45, “devised a scheme to embezzle, steal and obtain by fraud” money from the county to pay for personal items like trips and cosmetic surgeries for Mudrick.

Beard sent exaggerated or fake funding requests to the county’s Finance Department on behalf of the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) Team, a regional drug investigation unit made up of detectives from area law enforcement agencies, according to the indictment.

He served as the administrative head of CODE, and as a sheriff’s captain — one rank below sheriff — Beard led the office’s detectives division. The county’s Finance Department issued checks payable to Beard, which the federal government alleges he cashed and kept for himself.

Thefts involving Beard’s fraudulent funding requests between January 2014 and September 2015 came to about $136,000, according to the indictment. Beard also allegedly stole currency and precious metals that had been seized during drug investigations, a value that between September 2014 and September 2015 totaled about $69,747.

The charging document alleges Beard stole about $78,900 from the county in 2014 and $126,847 in 2015.

Mudrick has been charged with giving a false statement to federal authorities. The indictment alleges that on or about Oct. 6, she denied in interviews with FBI and IRS agents that she had a romantic relationship with Beard or that he had paid for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle for her and a trip abroad. Beard paid $6,700 in cash for the motorcycle, and in total gave her at least $100,000 in cash and money orders, according to the indictment.

Federal authorities have been investigating Beard since September, when the sheriff’s office found after an audit that money was missing from investigative accounts. Beard allegedly forged documents to attempt to show that the money he took from the county was used for law enforcement purposes.
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Re: COPWATCH

Postby fruhmenschen » Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:04 am

https://news.vice.com/article/cocaine-c ... -locked-up


Crime & Drugs
Cocaine, Corrupt Cops, and the Supreme Court: Why Detroit’s 'White Boy Rick' Is Still Locked Up

February 23, 2016 |

As a teenager in Detroit in the 1980s, Richard Wershe Jr. ran with some of the city's biggest crack kingpins. Before he was even old enough to vote, Wershe was having cocaine shipments flown in from Miami, taking weekend trips to Vegas, and cruising the streets in a white Jeep with "The Snowman" inscribed on the back. He was young and white, an anomaly in the city's drug trade, which earned him an infamous nickname: White Boy Rick.

Wershe was busted in 1987 — at age 17 — for possession of eight kilos of cocaine with intent to distribute. Twenty-eight years later, he's still locked up. He was sentenced under the state's draconian "650 Lifer" law, which mandated life in prison for anyone caught with more than 650 grams of cocaine. He has now spent more time behind bars than any non-violent juvenile offender in Michigan history.

On January 25, the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles serving life in prison should be allowed to have
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Re: COPWATCH

Postby fruhmenschen » Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:28 pm

Link du jour


http://www.trinfinity8.com/the-incredib ... f-om-sety/


http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/02/130 ... nn-coulter


BONUS read


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pu ... story.html

Judge orders US taxpayers to pay $13.2 million in wrongful FBI hair
conviction case


Santae A. Tribble, right, seen with his son Santae Tribble Jr. in
2011, served 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit due to a
flawed hair analysis by the FBI. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post)
By Spencer S. Hsu February 28 at 5:56 PM

A D.C. Superior Court judge has ordered the District government to pay
$13.2 million to Santae A. Tribble, who was jailed for 28 years after
being wrongfully convicted of killing a Southeast Washington taxi
driver in 1978.

The award Friday brings to $39 million the damages amount the city has
been ordered or agreed to pay over the past year to three District men
wrongly imprisoned for decades.

They were convicted at trial through exaggerated claims about the
reliability of FBI forensic hair matches, a pattern uncovered by the
D.C. Public Defender Service and featured in a series of articles in
The Washington Post.




Policing by Consent

The title policing by consent was adapted
from the ancient hindu sanskript
चोन्सेन्त

loosely translated the title means

" what do you expect when you hire

mercenaries to protect you?"

FBI Secrets: - Page 11 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0896085015
M. Wesley Swearingen - 1995 - ‎Biography & Autobiography
After finishing the quiz in silence, students would grade each other's
papers. ... no one would believe me if I said that FBI agents cheat on
written examinations.






3 stories on cheats



1.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... s-are-out/

A cheating scandal has hit the Pennsylvania State Police Academy. Now
29 cadets are out.


February 27 2016

Pennsylvania State Police Troopers walk along Route 191 after
searching the woods in Henryville, Pa., during the 2014 manhunt for
suspected cop killer Eric Frein
Twenty-nine cadets have left the Pennsylvania State Police Academy,
amid an investigation into allegations of cheating among the
prospective troopers.

Penn Live reports that the 29 cadets, who were part of a class
expected to graduate next month, have either been dismissed or have
resigned from the academy so far.

Citing unnamed police sources, Penn Live reported that a “cheat sheet”
had been discovered, and noted that at the academy, “some of the test
materials haven’t changed between classes.”

Recruits have written tests and other exams, and if the materials
weren’t switched up, that allows for a “possible vulnerability in the
process,” the newspaper reported. Details of the exact nature of the
allegations still seemed a bit unclear, however, with the Associated
Press reporting that State Police Commissioner Tyree Blocker “gave
only a few details about the probe into the academy’s 144th graduating
class, saying the investigation is ongoing.”

Blocker, the AP reported, would not describe the manner of alleged
cheating.

“We won’t tolerate anyone who lies, cheats or steals,” he said,
according to Penn Live. “The public has, and rightfully so, an
expectation that members of the State Police have the highest
integrity and I am insistent on that.”

The allegations are still under investigation.

“We’re working very diligently


2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 06371.html

22 FBI agents cheated on exam on counterterrorism


Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Justice Department said Monday that it found almost two dozen FBI
agents, including supervisors, had cheated on an exam to test their
knowledge of new counterterrorism procedures. It suggested that the
scandal might eventually spread far beyond the few offices it
investigated.
ad_icon

"We believe the extent of the cheating related to this test was
greater than the cases we detailed in this report," Justice Department
Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported.

The open-book test was administered to about 20,000 employees to make
sure they understood the 2008 Domestic Investigations and Operations
Guide, promulgated as a result of new rules implemented after the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Twenty-two agents "cheated or acted improperly in some manner related
to the exam," Fine's office said after an investigation of four field
offices, one resident agency and two headquarters components.

He added that "the amount of cheating that we identified in our
limited interviews cannot be extrapolated to the entire population of
FBI test-takers," but he urged the FBI to investigate further.



3.

Head Of Washington D.C. FBI Resigns In Shame

December 9. 2009
http://www.judiciaryreport.com/head_of_ ... _shame.htm


4.


Showdown over Gascón’s secret evidence in SF corruption case


February 27, 2016




http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/mati ... 858771.php


San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón (left) and FBI agent
David J. Johnson discuss the corruption case this month.

The bell rings Monday for round two of the San Francisco public
corruption saga in Superior Court.

In one corner: District Attorney George Gascón, who is trying to keep
a public lid on details of his case against two former city officials
and an ex-city staffer accused of bribery. In the other corner:
defense attorneys who say the district attorney is trying to hide
“nefarious” conduct by an undercover FBI agent at the center of the
case.

The agent “retired under a cloud of financial irregularity after an
investigation which resulted in him being taken off this case,” said
John Keker, the attorney representing former Human Right Commission
compliance officer Zula Jones.

Jones, along with former commission member Nazly Mohajer and ex-school
board President Keith Jackson, have been charged with bribery in
connection with an alleged “pay to play” scheme, in which the
undercover FBI agent funneled thousands of dollars in illegal
political donations to one or more unnamed local officials.

The case is a spin-off of a federal investigation into Chinatown gang
leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow that resulted in the convictions of
Jackson and former state Sen. Leland Yee on bribery and racketeering
charges.

Keker said he plans to tell Superior Court Judge Edward Torpoco at
Monday’s arraignment that the undercover agent who passed himself off
as an Atlanta developer ended up under investigation himself for
financial irregularities and retired. He’ll cite documents filed in
Chow’s trial.

“He comes into town and acts like a brother, and then throws around
lots of cash and acts like a big shot and gets people to do and say
stupid things,” Keker said. “He’s a menace. ... He is a danger to the
community.”

FBI spokesman Prentice Danner said the case is “ongoing with the
district attorney, and we don’t comment on ongoing litigation.”

Monday’s hearing comes a month after Gascón asked the judge to keep in
place a federal court’s gag order that has cloaked the case in
secrecy. That order kept some evidence from public view, on the
grounds that releasing it could endanger other undercover FBI agents,
compromise investigations or tarnish the names of people who were
targeted in the federal probe but were never charged.

FBI wiretaps that defense attorneys quoted in the Chow case allegedly
recorded Mohajer and Jones discussing $20,000 in contributions from
the undercover agent that would be broken into $500 checks to help pay
off Mayor Ed Lee’s 2011 campaign debt. Breaking up the $20,000 would
enable the money to go to Lee without appearing to violate individual
donation limits.

Posing as a developer looking for business in the city, the undercover
agent later got a meeting with Lee.

“You pay to play here,” Jones told the agent in a 2012 conversation,
according to court documents filed in the Chow case.

Lee has denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of the scheme.

“This stuff about protecting the mayor (as a reason for gag order) is
a bunch of bull, because there is nothing to protect,” Keker said.

The district attorney has agreed to make all the information available
to the defense attorneys, but only after they sign an agreement
barring them from making it public.

Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office, which is representing Jackson,
will also argue for the gag order to be lifted.

“This whole idea that they can have this secretive process and put
everything under a protective order concerns me — and it should
concern everyone,” said assistant Public Defender Niki Solis.

“There were good reasons to have our affidavit sealed, and the judge
who reviewed the warrant agreed,” said district attorney spokesman
Alex Bastian.

“As the case proceeds in court, the evidence that supports the charges
will be presented in a public courtroom,” Bastian said.

In the neighborhood: That $2,700-a-head fundraiser the other day for
Hillary Clinton at the Piedmont home of East Bay developer Mike
Ghielmetti and his wife, Rebecca, was a packed affair. But not
everyone in town welcomed the Democratic presidential hopeful.

“It takes a lot of chutzpah for her to come to Chris Stevens’ hometown
to ask for money,” said Piedmont resident Larry Singer, a registered
Republican. He was referring to the Piedmont-reared ambassador to
Libya who was slain in the 2012 attack by militants on the U.S.
compound in Benghazi — an episode that critics have pinned


Judge orders US taxpayers to pay $13.2 million in wrongful FBI hair
conviction case


Santae A. Tribble, right, seen with his son Santae Tribble Jr. in
2011, served 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit due to a
flawed hair analysis by the FBI. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post)
By Spencer S. Hsu February 28 at 5:56 PM

A D.C. Superior Court judge has ordered the District government to pay
$13.2 million to Santae A. Tribble, who was jailed for 28 years after
being wrongfully convicted of killing a Southeast Washington taxi
driver in 1978.

The award Friday brings to $39 million the damages amount the city has
been ordered or agreed to pay over the past year to three District men
wrongly imprisoned for decades.

They were convicted at trial through exaggerated claims about the
reliability of FBI forensic hair matches, a pattern uncovered by the
D.C. Public Defender Service and featured in a series of articles in
The Washington Post.




Policing by Consent

The title policing by consent was adapted
from the ancient hindu sanskript
चोन्सेन्त

loosely translated the title means

" what do you expect when you hire

mercenaries to protect you?"

FBI Secrets: - Page 11 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0896085015
M. Wesley Swearingen - 1995 - ‎Biography & Autobiography
After finishing the quiz in silence, students would grade each other's
papers. ... no one would believe me if I said that FBI agents cheat on
written examinations.






3 stories on cheats



1.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... s-are-out/

A cheating scandal has hit the Pennsylvania State Police Academy. Now
29 cadets are out.


February 27 2016

Pennsylvania State Police Troopers walk along Route 191 after
searching the woods in Henryville, Pa., during the 2014 manhunt for
suspected cop killer Eric Frein
Twenty-nine cadets have left the Pennsylvania State Police Academy,
amid an investigation into allegations of cheating among the
prospective troopers.

Penn Live reports that the 29 cadets, who were part of a class
expected to graduate next month, have either been dismissed or have
resigned from the academy so far.

Citing unnamed police sources, Penn Live reported that a “cheat sheet”
had been discovered, and noted that at the academy, “some of the test
materials haven’t changed between classes.”

Recruits have written tests and other exams, and if the materials
weren’t switched up, that allows for a “possible vulnerability in the
process,” the newspaper reported. Details of the exact nature of the
allegations still seemed a bit unclear, however, with the Associated
Press reporting that State Police Commissioner Tyree Blocker “gave
only a few details about the probe into the academy’s 144th graduating
class, saying the investigation is ongoing.”

Blocker, the AP reported, would not describe the manner of alleged
cheating.

“We won’t tolerate anyone who lies, cheats or steals,” he said,
according to Penn Live. “The public has, and rightfully so, an
expectation that members of the State Police have the highest
integrity and I am insistent on that.”

The allegations are still under investigation.

“We’re working very diligently


2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 06371.html

22 FBI agents cheated on exam on counterterrorism


Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Justice Department said Monday that it found almost two dozen FBI
agents, including supervisors, had cheated on an exam to test their
knowledge of new counterterrorism procedures. It suggested that the
scandal might eventually spread far beyond the few offices it
investigated.
ad_icon

"We believe the extent of the cheating related to this test was
greater than the cases we detailed in this report," Justice Department
Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported.

The open-book test was administered to about 20,000 employees to make
sure they understood the 2008 Domestic Investigations and Operations
Guide, promulgated as a result of new rules implemented after the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Twenty-two agents "cheated or acted improperly in some manner related
to the exam," Fine's office said after an investigation of four field
offices, one resident agency and two headquarters components.

He added that "the amount of cheating that we identified in our
limited interviews cannot be extrapolated to the entire population of
FBI test-takers," but he urged the FBI to investigate further.



3.

Head Of Washington D.C. FBI Resigns In Shame

December 9. 2009
http://www.judiciaryreport.com/head_of_ ... _shame.htm


4.


Showdown over Gascón’s secret evidence in SF corruption case


February 27, 2016




http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/mati ... 858771.php


San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón (left) and FBI agent
David J. Johnson discuss the corruption case this month.

The bell rings Monday for round two of the San Francisco public
corruption saga in Superior Court.

In one corner: District Attorney George Gascón, who is trying to keep
a public lid on details of his case against two former city officials
and an ex-city staffer accused of bribery. In the other corner:
defense attorneys who say the district attorney is trying to hide
“nefarious” conduct by an undercover FBI agent at the center of the
case.

The agent “retired under a cloud of financial irregularity after an
investigation which resulted in him being taken off this case,” said
John Keker, the attorney representing former Human Right Commission
compliance officer Zula Jones.

Jones, along with former commission member Nazly Mohajer and ex-school
board President Keith Jackson, have been charged with bribery in
connection with an alleged “pay to play” scheme, in which the
undercover FBI agent funneled thousands of dollars in illegal
political donations to one or more unnamed local officials.

The case is a spin-off of a federal investigation into Chinatown gang
leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow that resulted in the convictions of
Jackson and former state Sen. Leland Yee on bribery and racketeering
charges.

Keker said he plans to tell Superior Court Judge Edward Torpoco at
Monday’s arraignment that the undercover agent who passed himself off
as an Atlanta developer ended up under investigation himself for
financial irregularities and retired. He’ll cite documents filed in
Chow’s trial.

“He comes into town and acts like a brother, and then throws around
lots of cash and acts like a big shot and gets people to do and say
stupid things,” Keker said. “He’s a menace. ... He is a danger to the
community.”

FBI spokesman Prentice Danner said the case is “ongoing with the
district attorney, and we don’t comment on ongoing litigation.”

Monday’s hearing comes a month after Gascón asked the judge to keep in
place a federal court’s gag order that has cloaked the case in
secrecy. That order kept some evidence from public view, on the
grounds that releasing it could endanger other undercover FBI agents,
compromise investigations or tarnish the names of people who were
targeted in the federal probe but were never charged.

FBI wiretaps that defense attorneys quoted in the Chow case allegedly
recorded Mohajer and Jones discussing $20,000 in contributions from
the undercover agent that would be broken into $500 checks to help pay
off Mayor Ed Lee’s 2011 campaign debt. Breaking up the $20,000 would
enable the money to go to Lee without appearing to violate individual
donation limits.

Posing as a developer looking for business in the city, the undercover
agent later got a meeting with Lee.

“You pay to play here,” Jones told the agent in a 2012 conversation,
according to court documents filed in the Chow case.

Lee has denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of the scheme.

“This stuff about protecting the mayor (as a reason for gag order) is
a bunch of bull, because there is nothing to protect,” Keker said.

The district attorney has agreed to make all the information available
to the defense attorneys, but only after they sign an agreement
barring them from making it public.

Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office, which is representing Jackson,
will also argue for the gag order to be lifted.

“This whole idea that they can have this secretive process and put
everything under a protective order concerns me — and it should
concern everyone,” said assistant Public Defender Niki Solis.

“There were good reasons to have our affidavit sealed, and the judge
who reviewed the warrant agreed,” said district attorney spokesman
Alex Bastian.

“As the case proceeds in court, the evidence that supports the charges
will be presented in a public courtroom,” Bastian said.

In the neighborhood: That $2,700-a-head fundraiser the other day for
Hillary Clinton at the Piedmont home of East Bay developer Mike
Ghielmetti and his wife, Rebecca, was a packed affair. But not
everyone in town welcomed the Democratic presidential hopeful.

“It takes a lot of chutzpah for her to come to Chris Stevens’ hometown
to ask for money,” said Piedmont resident Larry Singer, a registered
Republican. He was referring to the Piedmont-reared ambassador to
Libya who was slain in the 2012 attack by militants on the U.S.
compound in Benghazi — an episode that critics have pinned
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Re: COPWATCH

Postby fruhmenschen » Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:17 pm

Lawyer: Kendrick Johnson Wrongful Death Lawsuit Dismissed

http://www.wtxl.com/news/lawyer-kendric ... 06682.html



VALDOSTA, GA


- A $100 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Kendrick Johnson has been voluntarily dismissed without prejudice, according to the family lawyer.

Johnson family attorney Chevene King said the family filed Tuesday for "Voluntary Dismissal Without Prejudice", which means that the case is temporarily being dismissed, but can be filed again at a later date.

The family plans to re-file in the future, following an open investigation by the US Attorney's Office, King said. He said waiting for the results of that investigation would be beneficial to the case, the main reason behind the dismissal.

The lawsuit accused the sheriff, school superintendent, and an FBI agent of placing the 17-year-old's body inside a rolled-up gym mat at Lowndes High School more than three years ago.
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Re: COPWATCH

Postby fruhmenschen » Thu Mar 17, 2016 11:53 am

Link du jour

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity ... bi-hearing


http://www.camdenarknews.com/news/2016/ ... tary-club/


J Edgar Hoover Alert
FBI CIP
(coverup in progress)

2 stories

1.

http://www.fbicover-up.com/hillary-clinton.html


Hillary Clinton "was in complete shock and

disbelief at the thought of Foster committing suicide"
Ken Starr appeared to be enemy of HIllary Clinton

According to an FBI interview of James Rutherford, Hillary Clinton
"was in complete shock and disbelief at the thought of Foster
committing suicide."


"Of a thousand people who might commit suicide, I would never pick
Vince." Hillary Clinton, quoted in The New Yorker, The Suicide, by
Sidney Blumenthal, August 9, 1993.

"Also under suspicion for espionage was the president's wife, Hillary
Rodham Clinton, who may have been providing Foster with the sensitive
binders from the super-secret National Security Agency that Foster's
executive assistant testified he had." -James Norman, former Senior
Editor at Forbes


Webster Hubbell a close friend of Hillary and Foster said, "Don't
believe a word you hear. It was not suicide. It couldn't have been."
Esquire, November 1993


"...Hillary Rodham Clinton, provided sworn testimony ...to the special
prosecutor about the death of a White House lawyer..." New York Times,
June 14, 1994


The report of the FBI interview of Tom Castleton contradicted
Hillary's testimony of when she last saw Vincent Foster.


Hillary's initial doubts were abandoned as she agreed with Kenneth
Starr, "...Starr had finally conceded that Vince Foster really had
committed suicide." Living History by Hillary Clinton

Chris Ruddy cast suspicion by falsely accusing the Clintons of keeping
the FBI out of the Foster death investigation.


"[I]ntelligence guys in the CIA...found names there that they
identified as being Foster and Hillary. They put them under
surveillance actually before they went to the White House. They had
been surveilling these [Swiss] accounts for a while, and when Foster
on July 1, 1993, bought a ticket to Geneva" -James Norman, former
senior editor of Forbes Magazine, Dec. 7, 1995


An FBI document and a handwritten note from the Office of Independent
Counsel refer to Foster and the Swiss bank account as mentioned above
by James Norman.


Foster cancelled a flight to Switzerland, with seats for two other
people, just before his death according to an Office of Independent
Counsel document.


An Office of Independent Counsel note lists the name of Robert Maxwell
along with the initials WLH, VF, HRC, (Webster Lee Hubbell, Vince
Foster, Hillary Clinton) and the word "Systematics."


Deborah L. Gorham testified to the Senate Special Committee that Vince
Foster had National Security Agency documents.


NewsMax, the conservative news media organization founded by Chris
Ruddy, donated $1 million to the Clinton Foundation. Ruddy rose to
fame writng about "Clinton scandals" and casting suspicion on Foster's
"suicide."


The morning after Vince Foster died President Clinton spoke to the
White House staff, "In the first place no one can know why this
happened. Even if you had a whole set of objective reasons, that
wouldn't be why it happened bcause you could get a different, bigger
more burdensome set of reasons that are on someone else in this room.
So what happened was a mystery about something inside of him...and I
hope when we remember him and this we'll be a little more anxious to
talk to each other and a little less anxious to talk outside our
family."


Christopher Ruddy wrote, "Still other concerns might have influenced
the Foster family. For one thing, published reports claim or intimate
that Vince Foster and Hillary Clinton had a romantic affair." The
Strange Death of Vincent Foster, 1997

Others are asking, "Is Hillary Clinton a lesbian?"

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Prosecutor in Pollard Spy Case Predicts Espionage Act Charges in
Clinton Email Probe
DiGenova expects FBI to recommend 'series of criminal charges'



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assault, pointing out that only 33 percent of rape victims report
their attacks according to the FBI.
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The Guardian-

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... g-cover-up

Jeanette Finicum, widow of rancher LaVoy Finicum who was killed by FBI
agents on 26 January, says she rejects that the shooting was
justified. “There's been a ...

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An official investigation into the fatal shooting of Oregon militia
leader LaVoy Finicum has raised questions about whether federal agents
lied about their actions and removed bullet casings from the scene,
adding to accusations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
engaged in a cover-up.

Evidence that FBI agents failed to disclose that they had fired shots
at Finicum and queries about whether critical evidence was removed
comes from the local Deschutes county sheriff’s office investigation,
lending credence to claims previous dismissed as conspiracy theories.
'We want Cliven free!': protesters make noise at scene of Bundy court
hearing


Finicum, a 54-year-old Arizona rancher and one of the leaders of the
rightwing militia that occupied an Oregon wildlife refuge, was shot
and killed by state troopers on a remote highway on 26 January. The
confrontation also resulted in the arrests of key protesters and
marked the beginning of the end of the 41-day standoff.

Further bolstering theories of evidence removal, law enforcement
sources told the Oregonian this week that they had seen an FBI video
that showed an agent appear to bend over twice and pick up something
near where the two shots likely occurred.

The sheriff’s office, responsible for investigating the shooting,
recently determined the shooting was justified and released close-up
footage of the final moments before Finicum exited his vehicle and was
killed.

From the start of the investigation, Finicum’s supporters across the
west have hailed him as a martyr for the conservative land-use rights
movement, arguing that the FBI planned and executed

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March 16 2016


Wednesday, Mar 16th 2016 8PM 42°F 11PM 40°F 5-Day Forecast


Pentagon will pay $130,000 for homemade weapons: 'Improv' project
plans to reveal how terrorists could turn household items into threats

US nationals can submit their idea to Darpa on March 30
Darpa is hoping to test prototypes and create countermeasures
Follows a rise in the use of off-the-shelf equipment to create
weapons



Published: 15:13 EST, 16 March 2016 | Updated: 16:47 EST, 16 March
2016



If you think you can turn a toaster into a weapon, then the US
military wants to hear from you.

Darpa has announced



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John Kiriakou Says the FBI Tried to Entrap Him and Charge Him With
Espionage
Posted on Mar 16, 2016

John Kiriakou was one of the good guys when he worked as an
intelligence operative for the CIA from 1990 to 2004. But after he
blew the whistle on torture in 2007, the FBI started investigating him
and, he says, even attempted to entrap him in a scheme involving a
fake diplomat.

Kiriakou says he avoided the FBI’s trap, but he later got in trouble
for revealing the name of a former non-covert CIA agent to a New York
Times reporter. The disclosure led to his prosecution in 2012 for
violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act—a 1982 amendment
to the National Security Act of 1947—and Kiriakou served more than two
years in prison as a result. He was released in 2015 and now is
working to reform security abuses in America.
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March 24 2016


EXCLUSIVE: NYPD cop shoots, kills Bronx family’s beloved dog in incident captured on video (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 9:08 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bro ... -1.2576863


One minute Yvonne Rosado was dancing with her pet pit bull inside their Bronx apartment — and the next, her dog was dead in the hallway, a city cop’s bullet in its head.

A gruesome video captured the officer, responding to a domestic violence call at a neighboring apartment, pumping a fatal gunshot into beloved 4-year-old Spike.

The pet’s devastated owner says the cop needlessly lost his cool when the typically pleasant pooch, its tail wagging happily, wandered outside before the Feb. 13 tragedy.

“The officer just reacted badly,” a teary Rosado told the Daily News on Thursday. “I was screaming, ‘He’s friendly! He’s friendly!’ But he still did that to my dog.”

DOG SURVIVES NYPD SHOOTING, COP IN HOSPITAL FOR RINGING EARS

Rosado, 42, said Spike posed a threat to no one, comparing her slain dog to a fluffy Sesame Street favorite.

“He was like a big Snuffleupagus — a gentle giant,” she told The News. “He w
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EXCLUSIVE — Palm Beach Sheriff's Office Critic Mark Dougan: I’m Seeking Political Asylum In Russia!

April 7, 2016 by Jose Lambiet 9 Comments

Mark Dougan: PBSO can't harass me on Red Square! (Mark Dougan photo)


WEST PALM BEACH — Mark Dougan, the founder of the anti-Sheriff Ric Bradshaw website pbsotalk.com, flew to Russia this week and says he is preparing his application for political asylum in the land of Vladimir Putin.

Dougan says he doesn’t trust Palm Beach County authorities, especially the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, to protect him if he were jailed in the wake of an FBI raid on his Palm Beach Gardens house last month.

Federal and local a
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https://robertscribbler.com/2016/05/27/ ... r-meeting/



Multi-Day ‘Siege of Storms’ Follows Exxon Shareholder Meeting
A multi-day siege of severe thunderstorms morphed into a major flash flood event in parts of Texas, Kansas, and other states late Thursday into Friday, and more severe weather is expected into Friday night. — Weather Underground.

*****

It was a stifling hot and humid day that set the scene for the Exxon shareholder meeting this week. There, in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, oil company CEO Rex Tillerson found himself besieged by environmentalists enraged over his company’s decades-long campaign to misinform the public on climate change and by shareholders concerned about the company’s future prospects. But what the climate change denying oil company CEO, and even NOAA weather forecasters, didn’t know was that an extreme rainfall event worsened by the very smoke and fumes emitted by Exxon was starting to gather over Southeast Texas — not far from where the shareholder proceedings were taking place.



(Protesters urge stockholders to dump Exxon in a push for accountability over Exxon’s deceptive language and media campaigns related to emissions-based climate change. Image source: Exxon Facing Heat Over Climate Change.)

At the meeting, Rex Tillerson, set to retire in 2017, spewed out his usual pro-fossil-fuel rhetoric — defending the myth that oil represents the inevitable mainstay of global energy and concocting various straw-man arguments imagining oil protesters filling up cars with gasoline or flying jet airplanes to join in an array of embittered protests surrounding this week’s shareholder meeting. Rallying the board of directors, Tillerson managed to deflect numerous shareholder attempts to positively modify Exxon’s behavior with regards to fossil fuel emissions and responses to climate change. Outside the meeting, protestors called for keeping oil reserves in the ground, urged Exxon to transition to a non-fossil fuel based energy company and acknowledge and prepare for climate change, or urged Exxon investors to dump stock holdings in response to the company’s decades-long-effort to stifle effective climate action.

Outside the meeting, a 13 foot long ice statue spelling out the words — #ExxonKnew — rapidly melted in the sweltering heat of an atmosphere roiled by the powerful climate-altering forces fossil fuel entities like Exxon had already unleashed upon the airs :( of our world.

‘Siege of Storms’ Batters Texas

By Thursday, the day after Exxon’s shareholder meeting, an expansive trough had extended down from Canada and over Texas. Exploiting this hole in an increasingly weakened Jet Stream cool, Arctic airs plunged south. Crossing the Great Plains into Texas, this unstable atmospheric mass came directly into confrontation with a super-heated, moist flow rising off the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean.



(Very heavy storms firing off over Southeastern Texas have dumped record amounts of rainfall over portions of the state and set off a flash flood emergency. Image source: NOAA.)

Both the big Jet Stream dip and the extreme moisture content in the airs over Texas were not normal. Both were new features enabled by a human-forced (Exxon-forced) warming of the world. For with global temperatures early this year spiking to 1.4 C above 1880s values, the planetary atmosphere is now enabled to contain about a ten percent higher moisture load than during the late 19th Century. It’s a weird new atmosphere that is now capable of producing storms with previously unimaginable heights of 70,000 feet over temperate Latitudes. And as the current





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Copwatch


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pim ... -1.2654142

Madam'

, May 29, 2016, 7:39 PM


Kristin Davis, a former hooker, says ex-cop Michael Rizzi came to her for business advice.
(JOE KOHEN/WIREIMAGE)
The disgraced ex-cop who got caught running his own prostitution ring sought business advice from the “Manhattan Madam,” according to former hooker Kristin Davis.

The one-time madam who claims the “Luv Guv” Eliot Spitzer was among her clients said she met retired cop Michael Rizzi a few years ago — and he plied her with inappropriate questions.

“He sort of mentioned that he was trying to open some sort of business,’’ Davis said Sunday during an interview with told AM radio host Frank Morano on his “Morano in the Morning” show.


“Didn’t know him before that,” she said.

Ex-NYPD cop with mob ties busted for running prostitution ring
“So he alluded basically to maybe getting your help in running some sort of prostitution ring?” Morano prodded.

“Yes,” Davis answered.

“I said repeatedly, ‘I don’t want to talk about these things because that’s in my past and I don’t want to talk with some stranger about entering into an illegal venture that he kept trying to discuss,’ ” said Davis.

The publicity-loving ex-madam also whined that Rizzi got a far low

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Organized "Cop Watch" Groups Across the US
Thursday, 02 October 2014 10:13





When communities attempt to police the police, they often get, well... policed.

In several states, organized groups that use police scanners and knowledge of checkpoints to collectively monitor police activities by legally and peacefully filming cops on duty have said they've experienced retaliation, including unjustified detainment and arrests as well as police intimidation.

The groups operate under many decentralized organizations, most notably CopWatch and Cop Block, and have proliferated across the United States in the last decade - and especially in the aftermath of the events that continue to unfold in Ferguson, Missouri, after officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed, black teenager Michael Brown.

Many such groups have begun proactively patrolling their communities with cameras at various times during the week, rather than reactively turning on their cameras when police enter into their neighborhoods or when they happen to be around police activity.

Across the nation, local police departments are responding to organized cop watching patrols by targeting perceived leaders, making arrests, threatening arrests, yanking cameras out of hands and even labeling particular groups "domestic extremist" organizations and part of the sovereign citizens movement - the activities of which the FBI classifies as domestic terrorism.

Courts across the nation at all levels have upheld the right to film police activity. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and photographer's assocications have taken many similar incidents to court, consistently winning cases over the years. The Supreme Court has ruled police can't search an individual's cellphone data without a warrant. Police also can't legally delete an individual's photos or video images under any circumstances.

"Yet, a continuing stream of these incidents (often driven by police who have been fed 'nonsense' about links between photography and terrorism) makes it clear that the problem is not going away," writes Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.

Sources who have participated in various organized cop watching groups in cities such as New York; Chicago; Cleveland; Las Vegas; Oakland; Arlington, Texas; Austin and lastly Ferguson, Missouri, told Truthout they have experienced a range of police intimidation tactics, some of which have been caught on film. Cop watchers told Truthout they have been arrested in several states, including Texas, New York, Ohio and California in retaliation for their filming activity.

More recently, in September, three cop watchers were arrested while monitoring police activity during a traffic stop in Arlington, Texas. A group of about 20 people, a few of them associated with the Tarrant County Peaceful Streets Project, gathered at the intersection of South Cooper Street and Lynda Lane during a Saturday night on September 6 to film police as they conducted a traffic stop. A video of what happened next was posted at YouTube.

Arlington police charged Janie Lucero, her husband, Kory Watkins, and Joseph Tye with interference of public duties. Lucero and Watkins were charged with obstructing a highway while Tye was arrested on charges of refusing to identify himself.

Arlington police have defended the arrests of the three cop watchers, but the watchers say they weren't interfering with police work, and were told to move 150 feet away from the officers - around the corner of a building where they couldn't film the officers.

"When we first started [cop watching, the police] seemed kind of bothered a little bit," Watkins told Truthout. "There was a change somewhere where [the police] started becoming a little bit more offended, and we started having more cop watchers so I guess they felt like they needed to start bringing more officers to traffic stops."

On the night of Watkin's arrest, his group had previously monitored two other traffic stops without any confrontation with Arlington police officers before the incident that led to the arrests.

Sometimes, though, retaliation against cop watching groups goes far beyond arresting cop watchers on patrol.

Cops Label Cop Watch Groups Domestic Terrorists

On New Year's Day in 2012, Antonio Buehler, a West Point graduate and former military officer, witnessed two Austin police officers assaulting a woman. He pulled out his phone.

As he began photographing the officers and asking questions about their activities, the cops assaulted and arrested him. He was charged with spitting in a cop's face - a felony crime.

However, two witness videos of the incident surfaced and neither of them showed that Buehler spit in Officer Patrick Oborski's face. A grand jury was finally convened in March 2013 and concluded there was not enough evidence to indict Buehler on any of the crimes he was charged with.

A few months after the New Year's Day incident, Buehler and other Austin-based activists started the Peaceful Streets Project (PSP), an all-volunteer organization dedicated to stopping police abuse. The group has held "Know Your Rights" trainings and a Police Accountability Summit. The group also regularly organizes cop watch patrols in Austin.

Since the PSP was launched, the movement has grown, with local chapters popping up in other cities and states across the United States, including Texas' Tarrant County chapter, which the three cop watchers arrested in Arlington were affiliated with.

But as the Peaceful Streets movement spread, police retaliation against the groups, and particularly Buehler himself, also escalated.

"[The Austin Police Department (APD)] sees us as a threat primarily because we shine a spotlight on their crimes," Buehler said.

The group recently obtained documents from the APD through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that reveal Austin police colluded to arrest Buehler and other cop watchers affiliated with the Peaceful Streets Project. Since the New Year's Day incident, Buehler has been arrested three more times by APD officers. At least four other members of PSP have been arrested on charges of interference or failing to identify themselves during their cop watching activities.

The emails indicate APD officers monitored Buehler's social media posts and attempted to justify arresting him for another felony crime of online impersonation over an obviously satirical post he made on Facebook, as well as reveal that some APD officers coordinated efforts to stop PSP members' legal and peaceful activities, even suggesting reaching out to the District Attorney's office to see if anything could be done to incarcerate members of the group.

Another internal email from APD senior officer Justin Berry identifies PSP as a "domestic extremist" organization. Berry writes that he believes police accountability groups including PSP, CopWatch and Cop Block are part of a "national domestic extremism trend." He believes he found "mirror warning signs" in "FBI intel." Berry makes a strange attempt to lump police accountability activists and the hacker-collective Anonymous in with sovereign citizens groups as a collective revolutionary movement.

"Sovereign citizens" groups generally believe federal, state and local governments are illegitimate and operate illegally. Some self-described sovereign citizens create fake license plates, identification and forms of currency to circumvent official government institutions. The FBI classifies the activities of sovereign citizens groups as domestic terrorism, considering the groups a growing "domestic threat" to law enforcement.

Buehler told Truthout the APD is working with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fusion center to attempt to identify PSP as a sovereign citizens group to associate its members with domestic terrorism with state and federal authorities. DHS fusion centers are designed to gather, analyze and promote the sharing of intelligence information between federal and state agencies.

"They have spent a fair amount of resources tracking us, spying on us and infiltrating our group, and we are just peaceful activists who are demanding accountability for the police," Buehler told Truthout. "They have absolutely no evidence that we've engaged in any criminal activity or that we've tried to engage in criminal activity."

APD officials did not respond to a request for comment.

"They've pushed us; they've assaulted us for filming them; they've used their horses against us and tried to run us into walls; they've driven their cars up on us; they illegally detained us and searched us; they get in our face and they yell at us; they threaten to use violent force against us," Buehler said. "But we didn't realize until these emails just how deep this intimidation, how deep these efforts were to harm us for trying to hold them accountable."

Buehler also said the group has additional internal emails which have not been released yet that reveal the APD attempted to take another charge to the District Attorney against him for felony child endangerment over the activities of a teenaged member of PSP.

He said he and other members of PSP were interested in pursuing a joint civil action against the APD over their attempts to frame and arrest them for their First Amendment activities.

This is not the first time a municipal police department has labeled a local cop watching group as an extremist organization.

In 2002, internal files from the Denver Police Department's (DPD) Intelligence Unit were leaked to the ACLU, revealing the unit had been spying on several activist groups in the city, and keeping extensive records about members of the activist groups. Many of these groups were branded as "criminal extremist" organizations in what later became a full-scale controversy widely known as the Denver police's "spy files." Some of the groups falsely branded as "criminal extremist" groups included three police accountability organizations: Denver CopWatch, End the Politics of Cruelty and Justice for Mena.

Again, from October 2003 through the Republican National Convention (RNC) in August 2004, intelligence digests produced by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) on dozens of activist groups, including several police accountability organizations, were made public under a federal court order. The NYPD labeled participants of the "Operation CopWatch" effort as criminal extremists.

Those who participated in "Operation CopWatch" during the RNC hoped to identify undercover cops who might attempt to provoke violence during demonstrations and document police violence or misconduct against protesters.

Communities Benefiting From Cop Watch Patrols Resist Police Retaliation Against Watchers

In some major urban areas, rates of police harassment of individuals drop considerably after cop watchers take to the streets - and communities band together to defend cop watch patrols that experience police retaliation, say veteran cop watchers.

Veteran police accountability activist José Martín has trained and organized with several organizations that participate in cop watch activities. Martín has been detained and arrested several times while cop watching with organized patrols in New York and Chicago.

His arrests in New York are part of a widely documented problem in the city. In fact, retaliation in New York against cop watchers has been so widespread that the NYPD had to send out an official memo to remind officers that it is perfectly legal for civilians to film cops on duty.

Martín described an experience in Chicago in which he felt police unjustly retaliated against him after a local CopWatch group formed and began regularly patrolling Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. After the group became well-known by the Pilsen community, residents gathered around an officer who had detained Martín after a patrol one night in 2009, calling for his release. The officer let him go shortly after.

"When cop watchers are retaliated against, if the community is organized, if there is a strong relationship between cop watch patrols and the community, but most importantly, if the cop watchers are people of the community, that community has the power to push back against retaliation and prevent its escalation," Martín said. "Retaliation doesn't work if you stand together."

Another veteran cop watcher, Jacob Crawford, co-founder of Oakland's We Copwatch, is helping the community of Ferguson, Missouri, organize cop watch patrols and prepare the community for the potential of police retaliation. His group raised $6,000 to pass out 110 cameras to organizers and residents in Ferguson, and train them to monitor police activity in the aftermath of the upheavals that rocked the city after Wilson killed Brown.

"I do expect retaliation, I do expect that these things won't be easy, but these folks are in it," Crawford told Truthout. "This is something that makes more sense to them than not standing up for themswlves




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Judge settles some of the claims over 2005 fatal beating by New Orleans police


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Jun. 5, 2016, 7:27pm

NEW ORLEANS — After refusing to dismiss a lawsuit against the city of New Orleans and several police officers for the fatal beating of a man in 2005, a federal judge has decided a number of claims in the suit in favor of the deceased man’s relatives.

Raymond Robair, a 48-year-old African-American, was waiting outside a home where he had been hired to do some repairs when two New Orleans Police officers approached him. While former officer Matthew Moore restrained him, former officer Melvin Williams allegedly kicked and beat Robair with a baton. They brought Robair to the hospital, saying they’d simply found him on the street. Hospital staff assumed





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Opinions
Meet the red-state conservatives fighting to abolish the death penalty

Nebraska state Sen. Colby Coash pushed his fellow conservatives in the state legislature to repeal the death penalty there. (Andrew Dickinson/(for The Washington Post))

By Marin Cogan June 3
Marin Cogan is a contributing editor for New York magazine, based in Washington, D.C.
Colby Coash can point to the moment his evolution in thinking about the death penalty began.

It was Sept. 3, 1994, and Coash — now a conservative senator in the Nebraska legislature but then a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln — decided to go with some friends to the state penitentiary. Willie Otey, convicted of first-degree murder, was set to be executed at midnight, and people were gathering in the parking lot outside. Coash can still remember the scene: the live band, the grilling meat, the revelers popping cans of beer and chanting, “Fry him!”

“You wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference between the parking lot of the penitentiary and a tailgate. It was pretty ugly,” Coash says now. Even though he went to the event as a supporter of capital punishment, he says, “it kind of changed my heart. I thought, ‘I don’t want to be a part of state-sponsored killing.’ ”



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NYPD sergeant aims gun at man recording her, busts into his home
Sunday, June 5, 2016, 4:00 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bro ... -1.2661248


Pichardo, a 13-year-veteran who is known on the gritty streets of Coney Island by the nickname "Pocahontas," has been named as a defendant in 20 federal lawsuits. The city has paid out settlements of nearly $400,000 to the plaintiffs, according to court records.

An NYPD spokeswoman said a disciplinary case against Pichardo stemming from the phone incident is "ongoing" and that her lawsuit history ha


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Cuomo pens executive order to block anti-Israel group funding
Sunday, June 5, 2016, 3:07 Pfunding


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Drug Trafficking, and Filing a False Tax Return

http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index ... eturn.html
Published: 04 June 2016
Fresno, California - Damacio Diaz, 44, of McFarland, formerly a detective with the Bakersfield Police Department, pled guilty Tuesday to bribery, possession and attempted possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and making and subscribing a false income tax return, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

According to court documents, between April 2012 and February 2015, while employed as a police officer with the Bakersfield Police Department (BPD), Diaz handled a criminal informant who was involved in the large-scale sale and distribution of methamphetamine. Diaz continued to operate the informant even though he was fully aware of the informant’s



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MAY 05, 2016
For the second time in recent years, prosecutors across Massachusetts are confronting the possibility that thousands of drug investigations may have been built on flawed scientific ground — raising the specter of convictions being thrown out.

That potential emerged amid disclosures that a former chemist at a Department of Public Health lab in Amherst was regularly high on the job and dipped into the lab’s stash of drugs for her



NYPD cop collects $100,000.00 disability
pension while working as a safety official


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ex- ... -1.2662394
Monday, June 6, 2016, 4:00 AM


James Pisaniello (right) is NYU's assistant vice president of campus safety. He's a former NYPD cop who receives a disability pension.
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He's in charge of NYU’s campus safety — and receives an NYPD disability pension that pays over $100,000 a year.

Former NYPD Capt. James Pisaniello is paid $8,526 per month by taxpayers thanks to a disability he sustained prior to retiring from the force in 2004, according to the Police Pension Fund.

Meanwhile, he works as NYU’s assistant vice president of campus safety, giving him responsibility








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FBI agent joins cybersecurity firm
Posted June 6, 2016 by AZ Business Leaders
A Scottsdale-based cybersecurity firm added a former FBI special agent to lead the firm’s forensic and investigative cybersecurity efforts.

WGM added Robert Meshinsky who will serve as the Practice Leader of Forensic Services and Cyber Security Investigations.  Meshinsky and his team will provide technical help and advice to clients – whether they’re handling a cyber
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POLITICS
Families Of Charleston Shooting Victims Sue FBI For Letting Roof Buy A Gun
A mistake in Roof’s background check made the purchase possible.
07/03/2016 07:57 am ET
Family members of the people killed in an attack on a South Carolina church last





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http://www.trunews.com/fbi-names-question-orlando/

  FBI: Give Us the Names of Those Who Question Orlando
FBI: Give Us the Names of Those Who Question Orlando

In a letter dated June 20, 2016, the FBI ‘asked’ local law enforcement and government leaders to report the identities of anyone requesting  information on events during the infamous Orlando Massacre of June 12th.

In an expansion to a previous story by TRUNEWS, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office released a letter received from the FBI instructing them to deny all requests for information and refer news outlets seeking information to the feds.  The letter was authored by Tampa, Florida’s Special Agent in Charge Paul Wysopal.



The letter reads, in part:

As you know, this is an active, on-going investigation being conducted by the FBI. The FBI considers information obtained from state and local law enforcement agencies in furtherance of its investigation to be evidence, or potential evidence. Accordingly, the FBI is concerned that public disclosure of such records or information at this time will adversely affect our ability to effectively investigate the shooting and bring the matter to resolution; could endanger the safety of witnesses, law enforcement officers, and other individuals who have participated in or are otherwise connected with the investigation; and risks unduly prejudicing any prosecutions that may result from the investigation.

However, further in the letter, a darker tone emerges, as not only is the FBI asking for a suppression of the release of the information, but to direct all inquiries for such information to the Bureau.

Then, stunningly, the FBI asks local officials to actually turn over the names of anyone even REQUESTING information regarding the investigation into the Orlando Massacre.  In the following paragraph, the highlighted portion shows Agent Wysopal ‘asking’ local authorities to notify the FBI of any such request:

The FBI, therefore, requests that you direct requesters seeking records or information pertaining to the investigation to the FBI to request such information. We further ask that you immediately notify the FBI of any request your agency receives pursuant to Florida’s Sunshine Law or any equivalent law, or other judicial, legislative or administrative process, for records or information pertaining to the FBI’s active, on-going investigation so that the FBI can seek to prevent disclosure through appropriate channels, as necessary. Finally, to the extent your agency is obligated to respond to a request under Florida’s Sunshine Law for records and information pertaining to the FBI’s pending investigation, including information that your agency has provided to the FBI in furtherance of our investigation, we request you withhold the records pursuant to FLA. STAT. 119.71 and any other applicable exemption to help ensure that the FBI’s investigation can proceed unimpeded.

(TRUNEWS has copies of this letter from Wysopal and local officials in hand)

What that means is that any private citizen, any reporter, or any media outlet that even requests for information related to the Orlando Massacre can have their identities turned over to the FBI.  The implications of having local officials serve as the stifling arm of oppression by an investigative arm of the federal government is chilling.

Are these the earmarks of a new ‘American Gestapo’?

We see this reflected in some of the history of the Nazi regime.  In this article from The History Learning Site,

Hitler’s police state worked on the rule that if you said nothing, no harm, could come to you. If you had doubts about the way the country was going, you kept them to yourself – or paid the price. As nearly 17 million people had not voted for either the Nazis or the Nationalist in March 1933, a large and visible police force was required to keep this sizeable group under observation and control.

In Nazi Germany the police were allowed to arrest people on suspicion that they were about to do wrong. This gave the police huge powers. All local police units had to draw up a list of people in their locality who might be suspected of being “Enemies of the State”. This list was given to the Gestapo – the Secret Police. The Gestapo had the power to do as it liked. Its leader – Reinhard Heydrich – was one of the most feared man in Nazi Germany. His immediate chief was Heinrich Himmler. Both men ran their respective branches with ruthless efficiency.

This ‘request’ by the FBI to law enforcement and other local officials to ‘rat out’ those who are merely seeking truth are draconian and oppressive strategies to stifle freedom of speech and freedom of the press.




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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2699869
Crime U.S. World Politics
Family of slain North Dakota informant files wrongful death suit
BY LAURA BULT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 5:12 PM


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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/d ... -1.2700486
U.S. World Politics
Third dead dog found in home of former Georgia officer
BY ALFRED NG
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 9:47 PM



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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2700578

KING: Don't try to make sense of police killing of Alton Sterling

SHAUN KING
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 1:18 AM


As I glanced down at my phone and began quickly thumbing through the messages, it became evident that a grave injustice had taken place. Dozens of people had already seen what I had not — the brutal and callous slaying of 37-year-old Alton Sterling by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I gathered from the messages that a bystander had filmed it from their car.



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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyp ... -1.2700445

NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries
NYPD cop gets light penalty for 2012 attack on mentally ill man


Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 9:39 P

Mohamed Bah charged at cops with a knife and was shot dead. He was mentally ill.
The lieutenant who ordered police to burst into a mentally ill man's apartment received a slap on the wrist from the NYPD for improperly escalating the fatal confrontation, new documents show.

Lt. Michael Licitra brok


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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bra ... -1.2700391

NYC Crime Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Education Obituaries
Bratton ripped over pensions for NYPD scandal cops
BY THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 9:26 PM
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Minority cops call out Police Commissioner Bill Bratton for not receiving the same pension plan courtesy as NYPD chiefs involved in probe. (BARRY WILLIAMS/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Advocates for



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NYC
Man who filmed Eric Garner chokehold to take plea deal




Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 5:46 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/man ... -1.2701695

Eric Garner video - Unedited version
NY Daily News


00:00 / 11:08
The man who filmed the chokehold death of Eric Garner is likely heading to prison for four years, the Daily News has learned.

Ramsey Orta, 24, who was in Manhat


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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2701115
The Baton Rouge Police Department internally investigated 35 use of force complaints in its most recent year of available data — and not one case led to charges against its cops.

The department has now drawn national scrutiny and outrage after the death of Alton Sterling — a man who was fatally shot by two police officers who pinned him to the ground



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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2701178

Chelsea Manning reportedly attempted suicide in prison
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 4:03

Chelsea Manning reportedly rushed to hospital following suicide attempt at Kansas prison
NY Daily News


00:00 / 01:24
Chelsea Manning was rushed to the hospital after CNN sources say she attempted suicide while behind bars.

The former U.S. soldier, 28, who is currently imprisoned at the U.S. Discplinary Bar


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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2701170
The police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge was not the first time body cameras worn by cops in the Louisiana capital came loose.

State Rep. Denise Marcelle, who has been at the forefront of growing protests over the shooting of the man pinned down by two cops, said the Baton Rouge police chief told her the body cameras of both officers fell off during the



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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.2701557

NYPD has 'widespread practice and custom' of harassing recorders
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 5:11 PM


Ruben An (l.) was arrested for filming police while they made an arrest. He's seeking an injunction barring cops from interfering with people recording police interactions. (JEFFERSON SIEGEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
The NYPD has a "widespread practice and custom" of interfering with people who record police officers, a new lawsuit charges.

In papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court, lawyers from the Legal Aid Society and the white shoe law firm of Proskauer Rose say cops are routinely violating the First Amendment right
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Blink Tank







https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=you ... YP5w0DZ5aQ
TIME-CROSS: The Orlando Massacre





Published on Jul 9, 2016Remote viewer Dick Allgire's session- produced and documented more than a month before the event- describes the Orlando Pulse Nightclub Massacre. This work was produced for the Farsight Institute, as part of a scientific study into remote viewing future events.






FBI Octopus


Take Control at CLOUDSEC Hong Kong 2016
Satellite PR News (press release)-
At CLOUDSEC Hong Kong 2016, attendees will join Timothy Mallach, Supervisory Special Agent of FBI in the discussion around today's security landscape ...




Link du jour



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http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/07/1 ... battle.htm

http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/07/1 ... ecords.htm

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new ... -1.2716181
New Jersey SWAT team fatally shoots retired NYPD cop
BY RYAN SIT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, July 18, 2016, 6:30 PM



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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/f ... -1.2716298
Crime U.S. World Politics
Florida deputy charged in off-duty fatal shooting of black man
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, July 18, 2016, 8:55 PM


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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2716212

Footage shows man killed by OKC police on bus (WARNING: GRAPHIC) Monday, July 18, 2016, 7:19 PM




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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/b ... -1.2715913

Crime U.S. World Politics
BLM Vancouver demands removal of police float from Pride Parade
BY TOBIAS SALINGER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, July 18, 2016, 3:41 PM


An August 2014 file photo shows a huge rainbow flag at that year's Vancouver Pride Parade. Vancouver's Black Lives Matter demanded a police float be removed from the event later this month. (JEFF VINNICK/GETTY IMAGES)
A Canadian Black Lives Matter chapter demanded a police floatolice float from Pride Parade




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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2716374
e U.S. World Politics
Wisconsin sheriff tells RNC crowd Black Lives Matter is 'anarchy'

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke salutes the crowd prior to delivering a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention. (JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES)
An outspoken sheriff from Wisconsin drew raucous applause at the Republican National Convention when he






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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cop ... -1.2717677
Two cops have been stripped of their guns and shields following the death of a college student, killed when a drunken off-duty rookie cop drove onto a Brooklyn sidewalk, the Daily News has learned.

Officers Jeremy Rodrigu



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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/c ... g-congress

One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, as reported by Judicial Watch on June 28, 2016, came from a gun store in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. This is an area where senior law enforcement leaders of the Obama administration permitted and facilitated known criminals to buy thousands of weapons in an illegal “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.” That operation, in part, resulted in the murder of former Marine and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry as well as hundreds of others.

An excerpt from the June 28 Judicial Watch article suggests a continued opaqueness surrounding both Operation Fast and Furious and any ongoing investigation:



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Shurtleff prosecutor keeping the heat on the feds
By TOM HARVEY | The Salt Lake Tribune




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http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/feds-co ... or-attack/

Feds Continue to Withhold Recordings of 911 Calls From Orlando ...
LawNewz-
The City of Orlando has reportedly refused to release the audio, citing an FBI directive to not release it and a provision in the state law that might exempt portions ...




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http://www.natlawreview.com/article/did ... ss-hacking


Meena T. Sinfelt
Barnes & Thornburg LLPDid the Supreme Court Pave the Way for Court-Sanctioned Mass Hacking?
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
In late April of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted an amendment to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(b) that would allow judges
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Link du jour


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http://www.boston.com/news/crime/2016/0 ... lger-trial

Former FBI agent sentenced to probation for lying on stand during 2013 Bulger trial
Robert Fitzpatrick. –
Retired FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick was sentenced to two years of probation in federal court Friday for lying on the stand at Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s 2013 trial, according to The Boston Globe.

Fitzpatrick, 76, who was second-in-command of the FBI’s Boston office from 1981 to 1986, pled guilty in May to six counts of obstruction of justice and six counts of perjury for testimony that exaggerated his accomplishments and assisted








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... rita-texas

Mexico
Mexico police official resigns after Texas properties worth millions discovered
Arturo Bermúdez Zurita, public security secretary of Veracruz, and his wife purchased five properties with a combined value of $2.4m despite $3,200 salary



police officer arrested on suspicion of possessing child porn |

Little is accused of exchanging sexually explicit messages with a 13-year-old girl, asking and receiving pornographic images and video of her and sending her an image of his genitals. The interaction occurred over the KIK messenger app on a smartph
http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/389320541.html

by JESSIE STENSLAND,  Whidbey News-Times Co-Editor 





http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2739780

SEE IT: Texas woman arrested after reporting cop’s harassment
BY MEG WAGNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, August 5, 2016, 12:11 PM






http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2739871




Video shows Chicago cops' shooting of teen (WARNING:GRAPHIC)
BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Friday, August 5, 2016, 3:47

Body cam shows Chicago police shooting
NY Daily News

Body cam shows Chicago police shooting
NY Daily News


00:00 / 02:25
Chicago authorities have released video of an unarmed teen being shot and killed by police, including one who laments that he will receive “desk duty” for his actions.

Officers opened fire on 18-year-old Paul O'Neal, striking him in the back as he fled in a Jaguar



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc ... -1.2740278

Feds: NYPD cop who torched SUV and abuse dates shouldn’t get bail
BY JOHN MARZULLI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, August 5, 2016, 7:
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