Cuffed man ‘unfortunate victim’

Cuffed man ‘unfortunate victim’ - BostonHerald.com: "The man arrested at a Needham pizzeria Friday leads a human rights watchdog group, has penned op-eds for international newspapers and delivered a scathing and widely publicized address on Israel before the United Nations earlier this year. Hillel C. Neuer, 37, who lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland, was cuffed after an hourlong standoff with police when jittery pizza shop workers thought they spotted him with a gun. No gun was found. Neuer was charged with disorderly conduct."

He was arrested for saying things the people in power didn't like. So they sent their hired killers, the cops, to intimidate him.

That's how they fight freedom of unpopular speech. They don't stop you from saying it, they just harass you constantly until you move or stop saying it.

Cops harrass woman because of link

The Sheboygan Press - City tries to block link to police Web site: "A Sheboygan woman who runs a Web site often critical of Mayor Juan Perez has been ordered by the city to remove a Sheboygan Police Department link on her unrelated business site, a demand a legal expert says the city has no right to make. In a move initiated by Perez, City Attorney Steve McLean sent a cease-and-desist letter earlier this month to Jeni Reisinger, who was among the leaders of a mayoral recall effort last year, officials acknowledged Friday. The letter, dated Oct. 19, states, 'maintenance of this link could be construed as having been authorized or endorsed by the city and/or its police department' and should be removed 'until such time as the city were to authorize such a link.' Madison attorney Bob Dreps said the law is clear that neither Reisinger nor anyone else needs permission to link to the police Web site. 'It's a public site. (A link) is like saying this is somebody's address and helping them get there,' Dreps said. 'It just doesn't raise anything that any court has found violates any law.'"

They take away free speech and you people sit there and do nothing. You deserve what you get.

Cop goes crazy, just arrests everyone for dui

.: Corvallis Gazette-Times: Community News

Cox has been on administrative leave since Sept.14 while the department investigates potential policy violations, according to Lt. Dave Henslee. The department has remained silent about the specific reasons for the investigation, but Henslee confirmed that one factor was Cox’s arrest of a man whose blood alcohol level proved to be 0.00 percent and who also tested negative for drugs.

An attorney representing the man arrested by Cox filed a tort claim notice — formally putting the city on notice of the possibility that it might be sued over the matter — two weeks before Cox was placed on leave.

“My client should never have had to go through this,” Dan Rayfield, the man’s attorney, said. “We filed a tort claim notice saying, ‘Hey, there’s going to be an issue here.’ ”

That notice was sent to the city of Corvallis on Aug. 30.

Cox has been widely recognized for the number of DUII arrests he has made. Of the 35 DUII arrests made by Corvallis police in the month of May this year, 27 were made by Cox.

However, six of the 27 people arrested by Cox that month had blood alcohol levels under the legal limit and were not found to have been using drugs. And about one-quarter of the people he arrested were either not prosecuted by the District Attorney’s Office, or had charges dismissed by the court.

But all of those people still have the DUII arrests on their records. State law says arrests for motor vehicle violations cannot be removed from a driver’s record — even if the individual was never actually charged or convicted.

“An arrest for traffic is not expungeable,” said Corvallis defense attorney Jennifer Nash. So when innocent people are arrested, she said, “There is actual damage.”

I've got a great idea. Just arrest everyone and put them in jail. Then you can let them out only if they're good! It would make things so much easier for the cops, and that's the real point, right? Making it easy for the knuckle dragging thugs, that's what America's all about, right? Right?

Jerks With Authority: TSA Breaks Your Laptop, Threatens You With Arrest

Jerks With Authority: TSA Breaks Your Laptop, Threatens You With Arrest: "Reader Jake says a TSA agent dropped his laptop, smashing it in several places, then threatened him with arrest when he asked about filing a damage claim. From Jake's blog: I wasn't happy about this... I was rather upset! I approached the TSA guard who dropped my laptop and I asked him what he was thinking. He didn't even apologize to me. Then I asked him how we could resolve this matter. And he told me that there were too many people waiting to get through the line, and I should move along as not to hold up the screening process. So I asked him again, where can I file a claim to resolve the damage done to my laptop. That's when the supervising TSA guard walked over and told me that I should gather my belongings and move on to the departure terminals and if I create a scene, he would arrest me."

Taser death in Canada

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"'Recently police at the Vancouver airport were attempting to question a recent immigrant that could not speak English. They tasered him after 24 seconds of speaking with him. The man had spent 10 hours stuck in the airport with no-one helping him.'"


It seems that the cops have gone crazy even in Canada.

The Worst Mayor in America

Reason Magazine - The Worst Mayor in America

• He regularly suits up and leads SWAT-style “raids” on homes, businesses, and even roadblocks in busy traffic—without cause or a warrant.

• He has tried to close down the city’s strip clubs for moral reasons, despite no authority to do so.

• He once bulldozed an elderly woman’s house, promising to build her a better one. He then forgot to build it.

• He recruited a team of kids to torch a row of dilapidated shotgun houses, without clearance or first turning off the utilities.

Student charged with harassing police dog

Student charged with harassing police dog - Northwest Florida Daily News: "A 15-year-old Okaloosa Academy Charter School student was arrested for offenses against a police dog after he “knowingly and maliciously” harassed a K-9 dog named Ruger. According to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office report, the boy struck the side of the classroom portable with his hand in an attempt to distract Ruger while his handler was making a special presentation at the school. The Crestview boy was arrested and released to his mother."

Now Barney Fife has a dog. The kid should be grateful he didn't get tased.