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95 year old pensioner dies after being tasered by police

95 year old pensioner dies after being tasered by police

A 95 year old man has died after US police officers tasered him to death following a confrontation. John Warna, who was living in a retirement home in Park Forest, Illinois died  after police shot him with a stun gun after being called out to intervene in a dispute between the man and staff at the facility. The police alleged[Read More…]

Florida police terrorise family with roadside strip searches and racial slurs

Florida police terrorise family with roadside strip searches and racial slurs

A family in Palm Beach, Florida was planning for a relaxing weekend while visiting relatives, but say they ended up being targeted by deputies in upstate Florida who mistook them for wanted drug dealers. What followed next was the stuff of nightmares. The family claim they were so terrorized by deputies in rural northern Florida they filed a federal lawsuit[Read More…]

Police informant caught on camera planting drugs on business owner

Police informant caught on camera planting drugs on business owner

A shocking video has recently emerged of how a police informant tried to plant drugs in an African-American business store, apparently unaware that his actions were being filmed. Police planting drugs and framing citizens should never occur in a free and democratic society but, unfortunately it does. Rarely is the criminal act and abuse of authority ever caught on camera.[Read More…]

Daniel Somers

US soldier commits suicide after being forced to commit war crimes

A US soldier has committed suicide after leaving a note describing how he was left to commit ‘crimes against humanity.’   Daniel Somers, 30, was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served with Task Force Lightning, an intelligence unit.   He ran more than 400 combat missions as a machine gunner in the turret of a Humvee and interviewed[Read More…]

Kenyan woman challenges tradition to transform lives in her country

Kenyan woman challenges tradition to transform lives in her country

Education is often taken for granted in the Western world, especially in an age where teachers are restricted by the national curriculum which allows very little room for independent thought or alternative ways of thinking. Indeed one of the main criticisms of education in much of the Western world is that it is designed to produce obedient workers who will[Read More…]