Anti-ICE protesters convicted on terrorism charges for wearing all black
Excerpt: In a statement posted online, a support group for the defendants said, “Everything about this trial from beginning to end has proven what we have said all along: this is a sham trial, built on political persecution and ideological attacks coming from the top.”
¶ Me again: This verdict is a huge kick in the First Amendment’s nuts.
Alabama: ICE abducts business owner, $21,000 cash vanishes with no body cam evidence
Excerpt: Pío Figueroa, who operates a Latin convenience store in downtown Russellville, Alabama, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on 30 January while transporting $21,000 (approximately £15,730) in cash to a local bank. The funds, collected through his shop’s money transfer service, have not been accounted for since his arrest.
Figueroa’s shop operates Telmax, a service enabling local residents to send remittances to families across Latin America. His family and legal representatives say they have no explanation for why he was stopped, and the community’s money remains unaccounted for nearly two months.
The cash Figueroa was carrying was not personal wealth but funds entrusted to his business by community members who rely on Telmax to send money to their families in Latin America. On 30 January, police stopped him while he was en route to deposit the cash at a local bank. His family and legal representatives have no explanation for why the stop was made.
Following his arrest, the entire $21,000 (approximately £15,730) went unaccounted for. No explanation has been provided to his family or attorneys as to what became of the funds.
Seems curious that the coverage doesn’t mention that he worked as a cop for two departments, and was a private investigator and private patrol operator at the time of his crimes.
L.A. County deputy collected paychecks after felony excessive force conviction
Excerpt: Trevor Kirk was relieved of duty in July 2023. In a recording that surfaced weeks earlier, Kirk was seen responding to a report of a robbery and being approached by a woman outside a WinCo Foods supermarket.
The woman was recording deputies with her cellphone as they handcuffed a man matching the description of a suspect. Kirk then approached the woman, tried to grab her cellphone and threw her to the ground, video showed. Kirk pinned her down with a knee to her back and used pepper-spray, twice, to her face.
Kirk was charged by federal prosecutors with a felony but offered a misdemeanor plea deal before the case went to trial. Kirk declined and was convicted by a jury in February 2025 of one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law.
After the election of President Trump, the new top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli, made the highly unusual and controversial decision to offer Kirk a post-conviction plea deal.
U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson rejected the move, writing that prosecutors presented no new evidence or circumstances to justify circumventing the jury’s verdict.
Kirk remained employed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department a year after his conviction while his attorneys appealed his case.
According to a Sheriff‘s Department spokesperson, Kirk was relieved of duty July 10, 2023. But he continued to be employed and collect a salary.
Police, school district write checks to settle teen’s suit alleging excessive force by police
Connecticut officer having a ‘mild anxiety attack’ took ambulance meant for man shot by police
Florida: Video shows Daytona Beach Police officer punching man on ground
Illinois: Officers attempted to cover up pursuit that killed mother of 6, lawyers for her family say
Family of Kentucky man killed by police in 2024 files excessive force lawsuit
Excerpt: Pratt, attorneys for the family say, encountered police inside the bathroom of a residence displaying clear signs of mental impairment. The officers ignored calls over their radios from another trooper familiar with him who wanted to be patched through to talk to Pratt and calm him down, the lawsuit alleges.
Kelley escalated the situation, the lawsuit claims, by entering the bathroom because he believed Pratt may have been trying to escape through a window, despite the fact the bathroom had no exterior window. Kelley and Bolen fired their stun guns at Pratt, who fell to the ground. Pratt then picked up a broken shower head from items laying on the floor, and the two officers shot more than a dozen times.
There was no indication Pratt was about to harm the officers, and the confrontation could have been resolved through deescalation, according to the lawsuit. Both officers had received crisis intervention training for individuals suffering mental health crises, but allegedly failed to follow those protocols with Pratt.
“They had him contained in the bathroom, and there was no reason they had to act quickly,” said David Barber, an attorney with Thomas Law Offices, which is representing Pratt’s family. “The safest thing you can do as an officer in that situation, when you’ve got time and containment on your side, is use it to your advantage.”
Excerpt: Then, late last month, Wu was with a group of friends in Maine and “called emergency services to assist a person attempting suicide.” That phone call landed Wu in immigration detention.
“Upon arrival, local police requested Mr. Wu’s identification,” the order goes on. “Despite the life-saving nature of the call, once Mr. Wu’s non-citizen status was disclosed, police chose to contact U.S. Border Patrol (USBP). USBP subsequently took Mr. Wu into custody, characterizing him as a ‘flight risk’ based on an alleged failure to update his address…Later that day, ICE issued a warrant of removal/deportation.”
Massachusetts: “Creepy Jeff” the cop resigns after being a sex pest with high school interns
Feds charge ex-NYPD officers accused of abusing naked woman at brothel
Excerpt: Federal prosecutors say two former NYPD officers broke into a Queens brothel while they were on the job and stole money from a naked woman before one of them sexually violated her — bringing fresh civil rights charges in a case that state prosecutors pursued until a judge dismissed it on technical grounds.
Justin McMillan, 26, of Atlantic Beach, and Justin Colon, 24, of Long Island City, were both charged with conspiracy against rights and deprivation of rights under color of law. McMillan faces an additional count for the alleged sexual assault. Both resigned from the NYPD in March 2025. John Marzulli, a spokesperson for the Eastern District of New York U.S. attorney’s office, said both pleaded not guilty and were released on their own recognizance.
Oklahoma: Records reveal a pattern of preventable deaths and ignored warnings in Tulsa’s city jail
Excerpt: The city, which outsources the jail’s operations to the multinational security firm Allied Universal, has not released any information about the six most recent deaths to the public.
The windowless, underground lockup has no on-site medical staff, yet regularly books in people who are seriously mentally ill. The jail has also accepted people who are dangerously intoxicated or in need of medical attention, in violation of Allied Universal’s contract with the city, an investigation by The Frontier has found. The deaths occurred after jail staff repeatedly warned that the facility’s intake practices, inadequate medical care, and overcrowding and understaffing were putting detainees in danger, according to a review of hundreds of pages of records and interviews with eight current and former employees.
Oregon: ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Excerpt: Details about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers’ surveillance tools and arrest goals in the state have come to light in a federal lawsuit that compelled officers to answer questions under oath, offering a rare window into opaque, internal strategies that are generally kept secret and have been driving mass detentions and chaotic raids.
The class-action suit, filed by Innovation Law Lab, an immigrants’ rights non-profit, challenged ICE’s practice of detaining people without warrants or probable cause. Advocates said the tactic resulted in widespread racial profiling and unconstitutional arrests, and a federal judge sided with the plaintiffs, issuing a ruling broadly halting warrantless arrests in Oregon.
Testimony in a December hearing in the case provided a remarkable acknowledgment by an ICE officer of how daily target arrest numbers played out at the local level, and appeared to contradict the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials’ repeated claims that officers didn’t have quotas. Trump adviser Stephen Miller has publicly said the administration’s target was 3,000 daily arrests. The hearing also appeared to be the first time that ICE disclosed in court its use of an app called Elite for operations.
In the hearing, an ICE agent identified as JB testified that his team was given a verbal order to target eight arrests a day.
Pennsylvania: McKeesport residents win settlement in ACLU-PA lawsuit over police misconduct
Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
Excerpt: Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to south-east North Dakota news outlet InForum. Lipps told the outlet she had never been to North Dakota and did not commit the crimes.
Lipps, a mother of three and grandmother of five, said she has lived most of her life in north-central Tennessee. She had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges.
No immunity for Utah cop that used leg sweep on man with intellectual disabilities
Excerpt: A federal judge in Utah sided with a man with intellectual disabilities who claims his rights were violated when he was stopped and thrown to the ground by a Clearfield Police Department officer while walking home from a bar late at night.
In a Wednesday ruling, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball, a Bill Clinton appointee, denied former Utah police officer Zachary Fratto’s motion to dismiss, concluding that the officer violated Shawn Nicholas’ Fourth Amendment rights when he arrested him without probable cause.
Excerpt: A man accused of murder and kidnapping a woman he chained up in his basement in Pend Oreille County had texted about trading prescription pills with a Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy who was his neighbor, according to a sheriff’s office investigation.
Deputy Daniel Middlebos, 61, resigned his position last summer after the texts were discovered.
The texts led to the sheriff’s office finding thousands of pornographic images on Middlebos’ sheriff’s office cellphone, including some taken of himself within the Public Safety Building, according to the internal investigation.
Middlebos was a decorated member of law enforcement with a Sheriff’s Star award and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.
The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That’s the solution.
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