Police Couple Wakes Up and “Accidentally” Fires 27 Rounds at Own Mom – Who Lives with Them

Las Vegas, NV — The mother of a police officer is recovering from her injuries after being shot by her own child and in-law with whom she lives.
North Las Vegas police announced last week that no charges will be filed against the officer and her husband who fired more than two dozen rounds at their mother as she returned home around 11:30 pm.
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Video shows police tasing a bloody, restrained Matthew Ajibade in the testicles before his death

by Shaun King

 

It is now abundantly clear that Matthew Ajibade was murdered by police in Savannah, Georgia. For over 10 months, police and prosecutors have concealed the video evidence of his murder not only from the public, but from Ajibade’s closest friends and family members. His death in police custody was ruled a homicide by coroners, but the whole of Savannah’s government has colluded in covering up the sadistic and brutal murder of a beloved artist and photographer who was a student at Savannah College of Art and Design.
The video below is awful and is confirmation that the United States tortures and kills its prisoners on American soil. Torture is not something that happens far away in Abu Ghraib: It’s happening here.

 

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US government deporting Central American migrants to their deaths

Guardian investigation into consequences of Obama’s migration crackdown reveals US deportees have been murdered shortly after return to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, with study saying as many as 83 killed since 2014

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The Rhetoric of Open Carry – Texas Edition

BY ANDREW JOSEPH PEGODA

 

Much to the chagrin to the majority of Texans, including law enforcement agencies and those for canceled carry, open carry begins in Texas in just a few hours. This law will allow the approximately 100,000 people with concealed permits to openly carry guns.

 

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There Have Been 30,000 Reported Shootings in 2015. How Many Happened In Your Neighborhood?

A map of shootings in America.

Update, Dec. 31, 2015: The map has been updated to show all recorded shootings in 2015

 

In relentless succession, a parade of towns and cities has this year joined the ranks of American mass shooting locations.

 

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Officer who killed unarmed #NaeschylusVinzant not indicted

GOLDEN, Colo. — A grand jury decided Wednesday not to indict an Aurora, Colo., police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man wanted for violating parole.

 

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A grand jury is useless