Thread: The US Has Become A Worse Police State Than Orwell Could Imagine

How Police Killings You Don’t Hear About Go Down and Why It’s Easier to Throw Darren Wilson Under the Bus than Reform Police Rules

Ed Krayewski|Aug. 21, 2014 10:52 am



family photoWith the national attention protests over police brutality in Ferguson have received over the last week and a half, one could imagine police departments around the country being, at the very least, more self-aware of the way their actions could be misinterpreted. Perhaps they could renew their interest in transparency and communication. No such thing. Police killings continue to happen regularly, largely outside the public eye—victims are painted as security threats and without a lot of independently-verifiable evidence in such cases they tend to disappear.
Armand Bennett of New Orleans, with warrants on multiple charges of marijuana possession, weapon possession, resisting an officer, and property damage, was shot in the head last Monday during a traffic stop. He suffered critical but not life-threatening wounds. Police claim Bennett tried to fought them while Bennett's brother, also in the car, says the shots were unprovoked—familiar competing narratives in cases like this. But does the police department have a responsibility to act in a way that won't damage its believability? Doesn't seem so. The police department didn't acknowledge its role in the shooting of Bennett until the Times-Picayune reported it. The New Orleans paper explains:

NOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas apologized to the public, calling the failure to disclose the shooting "a complete snafu."
Serpas said at a news conference that he "personally authorized" a news release at noon Monday, about eight hours after the officer-involved shooting injured a man wanted on non-violent felony warrants. But the release was never sent, and the chief didn't mention the incident to reporters at two news conferences since the shooting, on Monday and Tuesday. "Clearly, it fell through the cracks," he said.

Unbelievably, when stuff falls through these cracks it almost always benefits the police department. In Ferguson, Officer Darren Wilson is facing a grand jury investigation over his shooting of Michael Brown last Saturday. His department has no dash cams—it had body cameras but hadn't deployed them yet. Missouri's governor, Democrat Jay Nixon, has called for a "vigorous prosecution," skipping the fact-finding phase along with the mob.
There are a lot of unanswered questions about the Brown shooting, and the Bennett shooting. There are few checks and balances in places to limit police powers—cops are rarely disciplined or terminated. Their public employee privileges, coupled with their authority to use violence and the tendency by the ruling class to give them the benefit of the doubt, has left Darren Wilson fearing he's going to be made an example out of.
Rather than tackle the kind of union and other police reforms necessary to bring transparency and accountability to police departments around the country, it seems making an example out of Wilson is exactly what establishment activists and politicians want to do. It may please Brown's mother and many Ferguson residents, but it won't change the rules police operate under. It may even serve to have a temporary chilling effect on cops. But the solution to police violence isn't to rush cops who kill through the justice system, denying them theirs because of a misunderstanding of what justice for the victim means, it's to give police departments and local governments the ability to fire problem cops—cops who behave inappropriately as well as cops who damage the force's reputation. Repealing laws that criminalize consensual non-violent behavior is paramount too. Every cop, even murderous ones, deserve due process in the criminal justice system. They just don't deserve it for their jobs. Cops concerned about what's happening to Darren Wilson and worried it might happen today ought to be the first advocates for rolling back protections that prevent the worst of them from being terminated.

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Why would they want to change anything, they are always ruled "Justifiable"

Veteran police chief calls bull***t on Ferguson’s Capt. Ron Johnson

Written by Allen West on August 21, 2014


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Here is a letter from veteran Law Enforcement Officer of Gulf Shores (Alabama) Police Chief, Ed Delmore. Chief Delmore is a 32-year law enforcement veteran who spent most of his career leading St. Louis area departments until becoming the Alabama beach city’s top cop in 2010.

In his letter posted at Law Officer.com this past Sunday, he takes Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson to task over his handling of the security situation in Ferguson. I’m hoping someone will take Missouri Governor Nixon to task as well over his recent videotape statement.
The point that Chief Delmore makes so clearly is that no one knows the mindset of Michael Brown on that fateful day — and no one has truly brought that up as an issue. But Chief Delmore does.

From a wholly investigative perspective, Chief Delmore is spot on in his assessment on “mindset.”

In his “Open Letter to Captain Ronald S. Johnson,” Delmore writes “I have to call you out. I don’t care what the media says. I expect them to get it wrong and they often do. But I expect you as a veteran law enforcement commander—talking about law enforcement—to get it right.”

Delmore was perturbed by Captain Johnson’s comments after the security video of Michael Brown’s apparent robbery was released:

Your words contributed to what happened Friday night and on into the wee hours of Saturday. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, you said the following regarding the release of the video: “There was no need to release it,” Johnson said calling the reported theft and the killing entirely different events.

Well Captain, this veteran police officer feels the need to respond. What you said is, in common police vernacular—bull***t. The fact that Brown knew he had just committed a robbery before he was stopped by Officer Wilson speaks to Brown’s mindset. And Captain, the mindset of a person being stopped by a police officer means everything, and you know it.

Delmore continues to provide a few examples, including the apprehension of serial killer,Ted Bundy and bomber Timothy McVeigh. In both cases, the officer did not know the men he stopped had committed crimes, but the suspects certainly did.

Read the full letter here.

An Open Letter to Captain Ronald S. Johnson

From a former St. Louis Metro Area police chief


Chief Ed Delmore | Sunday, August 17, 2014



I have to call you out.
I don’t care what the media says. I expect them to get it wrong and they often do. But I expect you as a veteran law enforcement commander—talking about law enforcement—to get it right.
Unfortunately, you blew it. After days of rioting and looting, last Thursday you were given command of all law enforcement operations in Ferguson by Governor Jay Nixon. St. Louis County PD was out, you were in. You played to the cameras, walked with the protestors and promised a kinder, gentler response. You were a media darling. And Thursday night things were better, much better.
But Friday, under significant pressure to do so, the Ferguson Police released the name of the officer involved in the shooting of Michael Brown. At the same time the Ferguson Police Chief released a video showing Brown committing a strong-arm robbery just 10 minutes before he was confronted by Officer Darren Wilson.
Many don’t like the timing of the release of the video. I don’t like that timing either. It should have been released sooner. It should have been released the moment FPD realized that Brown was the suspect.
Captain Johnson, your words during the day on Friday helped to fuel the anger that was still churning just below the surface. St. Louis County Police were told to remain uninvolved and that night the rioting and looting began again. For much too long it went on mostly unchecked. Retired St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch tweeted that your “hug-a-looter” policy had failed.
Boy did it.
And your words contributed to what happened Friday night and on into the wee hours of Saturday. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, you said the following regarding the release of the video: “There was no need to release it,” Johnson said calling the reported theft and the killing entirely different events.
Well Captain, this veteran police officer feels the need to respond. What you said is, in common police vernacular—bullshit. The fact that Brown knew he had just committed a robbery before he was stopped by Officer Wilson speaks to Brown’s mindset. And Captain, the mindset of a person being stopped by a police officer means everything, and you know it.
Let’s consider a few examples:
On February 15, 1978 Pensacola Police Officer David Lee conducted a vehicle check. He didn’t know what the sole occupant of the vehicle had recently done, but the occupant did. Who was he? Serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy attempted to disarm Lee. Lee was able to retain his firearm and eventually took Bundy into custody.
On April 19, 1995 Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hangar stopped a vehicle for minor traffic violations. He didn’t know that 90 minutes earlier the traffic violator, Timothy McVeigh, killed 168 people with a truck bomb at the Murrah Federal Building. But McVeigh sure knew it, didn’t he? Fortunately, given his training and experience Hangar was able to take McVeigh into custody for carrying a concealed firearm. It was days later before it was determined that McVeigh was responsible for the bombing.
On May 31, 2003 then-rookie North Carolina police officer, Jeff Postell, arrested a man digging in a trash bin on a grocery store parking lot—an infraction that would rise to about the level of jaywalking. Postell didn’t know that he had just captured Eric Rudolph, the man whom years earlier had killed and injured numerous people with bombs and was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.
So now, let’s consider Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson’s stop of Michael Brown. Apparently Wilson didn’t know that Brown had just committed a strong-arm robbery. But Brown did! And that Captain, is huge.
Allegedly, Brown pushed Wilson and attempted to take Wilson’s gun. We’re also being told that Officer Wilson has facial injuries suffered during the attempt by Brown to disarm him. Let’s assume for a moment those alleged acts by Brown actually occurred. Would Brown have responded violently to an officer confronting him about jaywalking? Maybe, but probably not.
Is it more likely that he would attack an officer believing that he was about to be taken into custody for a felony strong-arm robbery? Absolutely.
Officer Wilson survived the encounter with Brown as did Lee, Hangar, and Postell. Michael Brown didn’t survive and it’s too soon to say if Officer Wilson’s use of deadly force was justified and legal. You and I both know that not all officers survive such confrontations. Officers die in incidents like this Captain Johnson, including a couple that I remember from your own organization:
On April 15, 1985 Missouri Trooper Jimmie Linegar was shot and killed by a white supremacist he and his partner stopped at a checkpoint; neither Trooper Linegar nor his partner were aware that the man they had stopped had just been indicted by a federal grand jury for involvement in a neo-Nazi group accused of murder. The suspect immediately exited the vehicle and opened fire on him with an automatic weapon.
Just a month before, Missouri Trooper James M. Froemsdorf was shot and killed—with his own gun—after making a traffic stop. When the Trooper made that stop he didn’t know that the driver was wanted on four warrants out of Texas—But again the suspect knew it.
So Captain Johnson, I guess the mindset and recently committed crimes of the suspects that murdered those Missouri Troopers didn’t mean anything. The stops by the Troopers, as you have said, are entirely different events right?
Bullshit.
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Could Darren Wilson be a Hero?


By David Whitley / 21 August 2014

(Editor's Note: the Opinion in this piece is the author's. In the Eagle Rising family we have a variety of opinions on any given subject - however, after recently publishing a piece on the rush to judgement in Ferguson, I felt the need to add this disclaimer here.)

As morality wanes in modern America, so too does clear thinking on the sensational issues of the day that distract us from what is truly important in the lives of a free people.

I'm seriously concerned for my country when my fellow conservatives begin to jump the tracks, go off the rails, whenever the police clash with evil individuals or the rampaging hordes that often follow.

We should all be concerned about the loss of our freedoms, our liberties, the disregard for our Constitution by the elected, the rise of the police state, the lack of due process of citizens and the favoritism of the criminal illegal, and the lack of common sense we so often hear and see, but none of that is even in the same zip code with this Ferguson, Missouri shooting of gang banger Michael Brown.

Anyone who rushes a police officer -- who is in the process of barking instruction, like "freeze" -- needs to realize not doing so can, and will, and most often should result in a bullet turning your coconut into a canoe. There is no reason what-so-ever for the public to be second-guessing what happened in Ferguson, Missouri. None!
When conservatives and libertarians start sounding like the race hustlers and Occupy Wall Street crowd when commenting on the blogs and on the opinion pages -- America is in trouble. Some conservatives are starting to sound like the radical progressive college students of the 1960's. Are we now looking up to Bill Ayers? Will we resist with bombs of our own? Will we get the attention of the Leviathan with a little property damage? This thinking is not only dangerous, it is as immoral as how the state deals with a free people with abuses of its own.

We need to rise above this. We take our country back or lose it -- by our ability and determination to change hearts and minds -- through ideological change and at the ballot box, period.

Ferguson's discontent reminds me of Rodney King, OJ Simpson, Duke Lacrosse, Tawana Brawley and Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown is no different and the situation is being exploited by black racists and liberal race hustlers -- and conservatives should be nowhere near this. We support the military, why not the local sheriff?

No one seems to be talking about the daily threat to life and limb that police officers endure. There is almost no reporter attempting to discuss what is really going on. This huge man, a thug, having robbed a store and beat up the clerk, was resisting a police officer’s repeated verbal commands. A thug who obviously thought the police were on to him and his criminality. It ended the way Michael Brown wrote the script of his life. There lies the blame for it all -- in a pool of his own blood. Thank goodness it wasn't the other way around -- with another officer gone, trying to do his job in service to the community.

The police may need to turn these neighborhoods into militarized zones with curfews and crack downs. And more than that, an obligation to bring order to these inner-city cesspool plantations created by Democrat policies. Entitlement programs give rise to feral living and immorality -- especially after the people turn against law and order, equity and justice, civility and right and stampede the businesses of others and take that which is not theirs. What do you do when a community is flooded with thieves?

Live like rattlesnakes, scorpions and wolves endangering the community around you, and you'll be treated like vermin and locked up like animals or killed like pests. That is the natural order of a world that still has some who understand law and respect liberty.

Conservatives should be rallying to the side of the police in Ferguson, Missouri, not nitpicking and making this into anything other than what it is -- a criminal and a thug who met his match. Do we so quickly forget that police officers have families too? They have spouses and children who expect them to come home every night as well. This wasn't some MMA fight where one guy pulled a gun. This was good versus evil. It isn't the man who puts his life on the line to uphold the law and civility that should be under the microscope -- it's the man who caused it all to happen. And that responsibility cascades down to his next of kin -- his family and the neighborhood from which he came.

Black on black crime is rampant in the inner city and no one seems to care. An officer (who happens to be white) does his job and takes down a dangerous criminal who would have likely taken the officer’s life as quick as swatting a fly -- and some still hesitate at the clarity of the truth of the events that day.

Is the life of a man who goes into law enforcement sworn to protecting the community or the feral underclass "children of the state" -- living off the backs of the taxpayers -- more precious and valuable?
Since when does signing up for the academy and becoming a sworn police officer say you are obligated to give up your life in exchange for someone else? We rail at the police state and then seem to over-look the criminal state that was given rise by the very same political class that created an entitlement plantation from which these thugs are born and bred and churned out in greater and greater numbers. The anger here should be at the system --- not for protecting itself or the people around them -- but for the rise of the sub-classes of uncivilized people who while looting and burning and killing will shout "No justice - no peace." The hypocrisy is neon. Perhaps as Christ said; they know not what they do. But in the mean time a bullet or two or three and they had better figure it out before the whole place become a war zone, and that definitely won't be good for those on the inside, in the bowl, on the plantation.

The law man behind the gun has a great responsibility for sure, but the criminal -- no matter his circumstances does as well. The streets are becoming more and more like the OK Corral and what is important in this equation, is that in life and death we should always be on the side of life -- but given who should live and who should die -- let the man who is doing the evil be hurled into eternity and let the law man doing right live out his life knowing that it was not his actions but those of the criminal that caused the pain and the sorrow, the loss and the discontent.

There are hundreds of Michael Brown's in neighborhoods in every large metropolitan inner city across America. The tragedy is that we allow the contamination to continue (as if it was a right) and expect more and more of the men and women who attempt to turn these mini war zones -- places filled with fear, ignorance, gangs, drugs, crime, single motherhood, AWOL fathers and lack of education -- into places safe to travel through, visit and live in.

The media and others keep saying it was only a box of cigars -- is that really worth a life? A great question, but it must be asked of the man who stole them, Michael Brown, not the police officer or the public he was protecting.

God bless those who protect and serve! God bless Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Mo. police officer who so courageously protected his own life as well as the lives of so many in his community. He should be thanked and treated as a hero!

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God Bless the Police Officer who thinks before shooting an unarmed person dead!!!!

Don’t Let Hollywood Teach You About Your Rights, It Makes You Look Silly.

By The Free Thought Project on August 21, 2014


The cops didn’t read me my rights… So obviously my case will get dismissed. Think again.

Brandan Davies Esq.
This question comes in my office at least once a week. A person accused of a crime will come in on an initial consult with a smile on their face. They can’t wait to tell me that there case is going to get dismissed and they don’t need my help because, “The cops never read me my rights when they arrested me.” Only to be seriously let down when I explain to them, that the cops don’t have to and most likely won’t read them their rights.
Crickets….Crickets… It’s true.


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Breaking News: Officer Darren Wilson’s Eye Socket is not Fractured?

By Onan Coca / 22 August 2014

CNN is running a report that disputes an earlier report from Fox News. The earlier story from Fox reported that Officer Wilson’s eye socket had been fractured in his confrontation with Michael Brown. CNN is disputing that story but saying that Officer Wilson’s face was treated for “bruising.”

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While we can’t be 100% sure yet what is going on with this injury… both the CNN report and the Fox News report seem to jibe with the police departments earliest statement on the subject.
From a Reuters story back on August 13^th:
The police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager last weekend in Ferguson, Missouri, was injured in the incident that has sparked racially charged protests, the city's police chief said on Wednesday.
Police Chief Thomas Jackson told a news conference the unidentified officer was treated at a hospital for swelling on the side of his face, one of the few details released about events surrounding the Saturday night shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
So… will this new CNN report change anything?
Does it matter if Officer Wilson suffered a fracture or just some swelling?

If he was only hurt a little does that make it harder to justify that he may have feared for his life – which led him to shoot Michael Brown?
If he did suffer a fracture, will that mean that he did have sufficient reason to fear for his life when – and if – Michael Brown “charged” him?
I’m not sure how much this latest twist changes things… but it does beg the question – has our media become too involved with this story? The facts seem to be changing day to day and the media seems to be getting tripped up in the back and forth.


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Barack Obama’s Coming Martial Law

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FERGUSON: A PREVIEW OF AMERICA'S BURGEONING POLICE STATE

By Chuck Baldwin
August 21, 2014
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Even America’s smallest towns can be instantly turned into occupied territories as local police agencies quickly transform themselves from peacekeepers into occupying military forces. The small town of Ferguson, Missouri, is living proof of that.

The London Guardian covers the story:

“Michael Brown was shot dead by an officer from a police force of 53, serving a population of just 21,000. But the police response to a series of protests over his death has been something more akin to the deployment of an army in a miniature warzone.

“Ferguson police have deployed stun grenades, rubber bullets and what appear to be 40mm wooden baton rounds to quell the protests in a show of force that is a stark illustration of the militarization of police forces in the US.

“‘I’m a soldier, I’m a military officer and I know when there’s a need for such thing, but I don’t think in a small town of 22,000 people you need up-armor vehicles,’ Cristian Balan, a communications officer in the US army, who was not speaking on behalf of the US military, told the Guardian. ‘Even if there’s an active shooter--are you really going to use an up-armor vehicle? Do you really need it?’

“In the eyes of the government, the answer increasingly seems to be a resounding yes.

“Since 2006, state and local law enforcement have acquired at least 435 armored vehicles, 533 military aircraft and 93,763 machine guns, according to an investigation by the New York Times published in June. This was made possible under a department of defense program that allows the agency to transfer excess military property to US law enforcement agencies. More than $4.3bn worth of gear has been transferred since the program was created in 1997, according to the Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO).

“The ACLU said there are no ‘meaningful constraints’ to what a local police force could acquire, meaning that even a 10,000 person town with no history of major violence could request and receive a mine-resistant vehicle, like those that are currently available on the LESO site.”

The report continued saying, “The increasing militarization of US police is also attributed to the skyrocketing proliferation of Swat teams across the US. There has been a more than 1400% increase in the amount of Swat deployments between 1980 and 2000, according to estimates by Eastern Kentucky University professor Peter Kraska.”

The report also said, “‘As we’ve seen in Ferguson, the militarization of policing tends to escalate the risk of violence to the communities,’ said Kara Dansky, senior counsel with the ACLU’s Center for Justice and the prime author of its June 2014 report on the militarization of US police. ‘We think that historically, the police and the military have had different roles and that American neighborhoods aren’t war zones and police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies.’”

See the report: Ferguson Police: A Stark Illustration Of Newly Militarised US Law Enforcement

Indeed, the militarization of U.S. police agencies has been escalating for decades. Can anyone remember when federal police and U.S. military personnel collaborated to slaughter scores of American citizens outside Waco, Texas, in 1993, and when federal police agents assassinated American citizens at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992? These two episodes are a blight on American justice, an affront on the constitutional rule of law, and the worst kind of insult to the American conscience. And, notice, it did not matter one bit whether a Democrat or Republican was in the White House. A Republican (George H.W. Bush) was President when government agents murdered the Weavers at Ruby Ridge; and a Democrat (Bill Clinton) was President when federal agents and military troops murdered the Branch Davidians.

Those two events seemed to be the catalyst for the emerging American Police State. But it was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the implementation of the PATRIOT Act under G.W. Bush that has propelled the police-state mentality throughout America’s heartland.

As noted in the Guardian report above, the Pentagon has been turning local police agencies into quasi-military units for decades. And the DHS is routinely supplying police-state style training for practically every local police agency in the United States--and has been for years.

And when it comes to the two major parties in Washington, D.C., the Republican Party has been the most aggressive in the creation of the American Police State. In the name of “law and order” and “national security,” conservative Republican legislators and Presidents have enacted a multitude of laws abridging the protections of liberty contained in the Bill of Rights. For all intents and purposes, the two administrations of G.W. Bush, coupled with six long years of the Republican Party controlling the entire federal government (2001-2006), virtually expunged most of the Bill of Rights. In fact, everything that President Barack Obama is now utilizing to abridge constitutional liberties was handed to him on a silver platter by G.W. Bush and his fellow neocon Republicans in Washington, D.C. And if Montanans send the quintessential neocon, Ryan Zinke, to Congress this fall (and other states do likewise), America’s collapse into a Police State will accelerate even faster.

There are two things that neocon Republicans love: foreign wars abroad and a Police State at home. And, sadly, it seems that a majority of America’s conservative Christians are right there with them.

If America’s pastors would start taking a stand against this burgeoning Police State, it would die almost instantly. But when is the last time you heard your pastor say one word of protest against the way our policemen are being turned into soldiers? When has he said a peep about the abridgment of our Bill of Rights by these power-hungry, would-be tyrants from both parties in Washington, D.C.? Under Presidents Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama, the right of Habeas Corpus, the 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, 6th Amendment, 7th Amendment, and 8th Amendment are, for all intents and purposes, eviscerated. Kaput! Gone! Wiped out! And the vast majority of our good pastors have not said one word--not one word!

You see this silent, passive pastor as a good man; you believe him to be kind and compassionate; you think he is godly and sincere. But, by his silence, he is helping to put the chains of tyranny around the necks of your children and grandchildren. By his silence, he is facilitating the collapse of America into a Police State as surely as the sun sets in the west. This is not godliness; it is cowardice!

The founder of Lutheranism, Martin Luther, is credited with saying, “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battlefields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”

Ladies and gentlemen, where the battle rages--and the point at which the world and the devil are at this moment attacking--is the creation of an American Police State (as well as the invasion of criminals and potential terrorists across our southern border, of course). Therefore, if your pastor is not on the battlefield at this point, he is not “confessing Christ” and has fled his post and disgraced his calling.

The Boston Marathon bombing brought out Gestapo-like tactics of the Boston police. Now, the little town of Ferguson, Missouri, has been subjected to the same thing. And now that the U.S. Justice Department has sent hundreds of federal agents to Ferguson, one can only imagine the kind of martial law and abridgments to personal liberties that will be enacted. One Democrat U.S. Congressman is already calling for martial law. Yes, the Feinstein/Schumer wing of the Democrat Party loves the Police State, as well.

Realize this, my friends, what we saw take place at Waco, Ruby Ridge, Boston (and in hundreds of obscure places all over the country), and now Ferguson is a preview of America’s burgeoning Police State.

Are people with pure political agendas such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al. taking advantage of the situation in Ferguson? You bet! Are race-baiters taking advantage of Ferguson? Without a doubt. And I strongly suspect that the federal government is using paid provocateurs to further inflame the situation and give the federal government an opportunity to impose federal intervention in the area. Regardless, the escalation of an American Police State is undeniable; and the American people had better start paying attention.

This is not a Republican or Democrat issue; it is not a liberal or conservative issue; it is not a black or white issue; it is not a Christian or secular issue. It is a liberty or slavery issue! A freedom mindset and a police-state mindset cannot coexist. They cannot! We will either have one of the other. The American people better make up their minds quickly which one it will be, because, if we do nothing, our very own and very real Police State is just around the corner.

P.S. I am now engaged in scheduling meetings, through which we will help establish non-501c3 churches and Christian fellowships. The fall calendar is starting to fill up. I encourage those folks who are tired of the silence and cowardice of these establishment, government-intimidated churches and who sincerely desire to help start or support a true liberty church and patriot pulpit that is unencumbered by the 501c3 non-profit government corporation status to go to my Liberty Church Project website and fill out the online application. Our goal is to help people all over the country start scores and hundreds of liberty-oriented, non-501c3 churches and fellowships. We are accepting applications NOW. Go to Liberty Church Project here

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Man Awarded $125k After Being Arrested and Strip Searched for Filming an NYPD Stop & Frisk

By Matt Agorist on August 21, 2014
“Now we’re going to give you what you deserve for meddling in our business and when we finish with you, you can sue the city for $5 million and get rich, we don’t care”

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The New York Police Department reached a $125,000 settlement with a man who says he was arrested and strip-searched for photographing officers performing a stop-and-frisk operation in 2012.

Dick George was sitting in his car in Flatbush on June 14, 2012, when he spotted three African-American youths getting searched by police employing the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy. The 45 year old pulled out his cell phone and began taking pictures, the New York Daily News reported.
After the youths were let go, George advised them to note the cops’ badge numbers next time. The cops overheard his remark and violently pulled George out of his car, court papers stated.

“Now we’re going to give you what you deserve for meddling in our business and when we finish with you, you can sue the city for $5 million and get rich, we don’t care,” Lt. Dennis Ferber told him, according to the suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
The officers arrested George and charged him with disorderly conduct. He was in police custody for a total of 45 minutes, but he said he suffered a torn meniscus of his knee while being handcuffed.

They then deleted the pictures George had taken, he claimed.

After the incident, George sued Ferber and co-defendants Sgt. Patrick Golden and Officer Stacey Robinson. The three NYPD members have been sued in six other federal cases, according to the Daily News.

“After a thorough review of the case facts, it was in the best interest of all to resolve this matter without costly litigation and trial,” city lawyer Brian Francolla said in a statement.

Police in general, but especially in New York City, have been notoriously camera-shy while performing their jobs. But the tide is turning on their ability to prevent people from filming or photographing them in the line of duty, thanks to a recent court case and reminders of current policies.
In May, a federal appeals court ruled that Americans have the right to videotape police officers in public, thereby allowing a court case brought against New Hampshire police to progress. In that case, Carla Gericke was arrested in 2010 for videotaping members of the Weare Police Department who pulled over her friend during a traffic stop. Her video camera malfunctioned, however, and she failed to record evidence of the incident. A week later, the police departmentagreed to settle with a woman who was arrested on wiretapping charges. She received $57,000.

In the time since George’s arrest and the appeals court ruling, the NYPD’s department chief issued a memo to its officers reaffirming the public’s right to photograph and video police encounters, the Daily News reported last Sunday.

“Members of the public are legally allowed to record police interactions,” the memo stated. “Intentional interference such as blocking or obstructing cameras or ordering the person to cease constitutes censorship and also violates the First Amendment.”

Cops can, however, take action if the photographers “interfere with police operations,” the memorandum noted.

The memo was in response to the July death of 43-year-old Eric Garner, when police triggered a heart attack when they placed the man in an illegal chokehold and hit his head on a sidewalk. Video played a significant role in shaping reaction to the incident. Garner’s death has been ruled a homicide.

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