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Police use of “non-lethal weapon” kills teenaged artist

Knile — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:34:04 +0000

Various outlets ranging from the Miami Herald to the BBC are reporting on how police in Miami Beach chased, surrounded, tased, and ultimately killed an 18-year-old graffiti artist, Israel Hernández-Llach, known as “Reefa”. Some of his work can be seen on Flickr, including in the South Florida graffiti pool.

Remember when No One was Above the Law?

DCDan — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:51:08 +0000

It’s a way for a police officer to vouch for another person, that type of recommendation shouldn’t be available to the highest bidder.

-New York City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr.
From a recent story on the sale of so called “get out of jail free cards.”

I instead agree with Councilman Garodnick who said that no one should be able to use a friend of the police card to get out of trouble with the law, including other police officers. With the stories and videos of the NYPD during the occupy protests and the insanity of stop and frisk, this is just another example of the lack of concern for police corruption in NYC and countrywide.

Mars News

DCDan — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:00:18 +0000

Two breaking news items about the latest NASA mission from the Mars Curiosity Rover. The first is that the initial pictures taken upon its landing, like the human moon landing, were doctored. Unfortunately this picture was taken seriously by the Boston police (2007 ATHF bomb scare) and they’ve sent a unit to NASA and are using DHS funding to send a SWAT team to Mars.

Is there alien life on the mars?

The second piece of news is that NASA has also managed to start its mission to pollute Mars. Luckily for NASA the EPA doesn’t yet have jurisdiction on Mars.

Trash everywhere. Click to enlarge.