
New Jersey Police Officer, Eudy Ramos Charged with Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights
A federal grand jury indicted a City of Paterson, New Jersey, police officer for conspiring to violate individuals’ civil rights by stopping and searching people in their vehicles and on the street and stealing More...

Vice Detective, Andrew Mitchell Charged with Depriving Victims Civil Rights
A Columbus Vice Detective has been arrested and charged with crimes related to kidnapping victims under the guise of an arrest and forcing those victims to engage in sex for their freedom. Andrew K. Mitchell, 55, More...

Florida police still searching for Brandon Goggins after escaping high speed car chase
Florida police have reopened a major road in Pasco County, State Road 52, as police continue to search for a man considered armed and dangerous. Brandon Goggins has been described as a “dangerous suspect,” More...

Chris Christie attacks Rand Paul on NSA, says Edward Snowden is a ‘criminal’
New Jersey Governor and likely 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Chris Christie took aim at Republican Senators over the National Security Agency’s data collection program, the Patriot Act and Edward Snowden. Christie More...

Massachusetts court: NSA metadata collection not legal through Patriot Act
photo Donkeyhotey [email protected] The Patriot Act does not approve and authorize the collection of metadata by the government, according a court ruling in the Northeast. Massachusett’s Second Circuit More...

Bulgaria: Woman ‘vindicated’ in religious freedom case after arrest for home worship
The Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Bulgarian authorities violated a Christian woman’s freedom of thought, conscience, and religion when they unjustly arrested her for private More...

California public defender Jami Tillotson arrested for protecting client’s rights
San Francisco deputy public defender Jami Tillotson was arrested outside a courtroom in the city’s Hall of Justice after officers say she resisted arrest and interfered with a police investigation. Tillotson More...

Supreme Court ruling allows ‘ignorant’ police to violate laws, 4th amendment
The Supreme Court has handed down Heien v. North Carolina, the Fourth Amendment case centering on the violation when a police officer pulls over a car based on a reasonable but mistaken belief that the traffic More...

Police defend arresting jogger Amanda Jo Stephen for lack of ID after jaywalking
APD police chief Art Acevedo addressed the recent arrest of Amanda Jo Stephen, who was taken into custody Thursday after crossing an intersection at a red light, at a Friday afternoon press conference. Amanda Jo More...

Video reveals Police searches in Boston manhunt were mandatory, at gunpoint and very intense
Circulating on the Internet and Facebook Monday, the Boston manhunt video raised several civil rights advocates’ ire. Warrantless, involuntary house-to-house searches were performed and this video captured More...

California ignores habeas corpus or warrants to search for Chris Dorner, even shoot civilians
This photo illustrates the scene in California, which has spiralled into a frenzied manhunt for Christopher Dorner. photo Chris Carlson “Members on the California Highway Patrol search a truck for Christopher More...

Majority of Americans think government is a threat to rights
CNN released the results of a poll in which 56 percent of Americans believe that the ever expanding federal government is an immediate threat to the rights of ordinary citizens. Well what I say to that is those More...