The son of a US police chief, who is also an officer, is being investigated after he was filmed firing a Taser stun gun at a motorist before punching him and slamming his head into the ground.
Officer Blaine Barnett was being filmed by a local news crew when motorist Ronald Reed [...]
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We need to be able to legally torture our enemies. We don’t want their tormentor to feel guilty that he is braking the law.
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That is the logic of President Bush. After signing thousands of blantantly unconstitutional bills into law, Bush vetoed legislation that would have explictly prohibited water-boarding and other forms of torture. He ignored the advice [...]
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A Shreveport Police officer at the heard of a police brutality claim was fired for “violating department policy,” said the city’s police chief on Wednesday.
Shreveport Police Chief Henry Whitehorn would not elaborate on the specifics of the violation by Officer Wiley Wills, saying the investigation into the brutality claim remains open. Whitehorn spoke to reporters [...]
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