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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…]

Trayvon verdict highlights racial divides within the US

Trayvon verdict highlights racial divides within the US

In the last week, we’ve seen protests erupt after George Zimmerman was cleared of the murder of Trayvon Martin. Essentially, the law has upheld the view that ‘walking while black’ is a crime, if somebody interprets that as “cruising for burglaries”. The case has helped to highlight the deep racial divides that exist not only in the US but across[Read More…]

Father of three successfully sues police for false imprisonment

Father of three successfully sues police for false imprisonment

A man has successfully managed to sue the police for wrongful arrest after they broke his fingers, and dragged him out of his car for driving too slowly past an airport. Father-of-three Andrew Sinclair, 47, was apprehended by officers and detained in cells for the crime of driving away from an airport terminal at a speed that was deemed too[Read More…]

Police ignore nearly half of all crimes

Police ignore nearly half of all crimes

Around 45 per cent of reported crimes are not investigated by the police, according to the Metropolitan’s own figures. New data released by the police highlighted the fact that many cases are simply tagged unsolvable, or “screened out”, just hours after an allegation is made. Their data for 2012-2013 shows that 40 percent of residential burglaries, 76 percent of all[Read More…]