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An infuriating video has been shared with the Free Thought Project displaying simply how sadistic and in poor health some of the police officers working the protests are. A non-violent, unarmed, and arguably harmless man was once working towards his proper to free speech when he was once pepper-sprayed in the face and then shot with a tear fuel grenade. The Grand Rapids police branch is now claiming to have opened an "Investigation" into the completely horrifying acts of their officers. As he tries to capture his breath from being sprayed, some other officer takes purpose with his tear fuel grenade launcher and shoots him in the face with it. "It's despicable, this younger man is without a doubt taking walks closer to the officers lets even supply them the advantage of the doubt," Ven Johnson, a police brutality attorney, said. Above is a video illustrating why there is so a lot of anger directed at police proper now? These humans are making an attempt

Drop the Complaint or Be Arrested, CTA Supervisor Arrested for Reporting Cop for Assault

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A question we ask often here at the Free Thought Project is this: when a cop commits a crime against you,  where do you report it?  The only place you can report a crime is to law enforcement, so you have no other choice but to walk inside the belly of the beast who hurt you and report their crime to his or her brothers in blue. As the following case illustrates, this is problematic for many reasons and can turn innocent victims into falsely accused criminals in an instant. Chicago Transit Authority supervisor, Martesa Lee was assaulted by a Chicago police officer while doing her job on the Red Line platform earlier this year. So, she took the only option available to her to report it and went to the officer’s supervisor to lodge a complaint. Instead of taking her complaint, however, the police told her to get lost or get arrested. Body camera video of the interaction was just released this week which captured the chilling interaction of intimidation and threats. The incid

‘All of Them Sat On This Man’: Cops Gave False Story About Floyd’s Death Despite Testimony from Their Own

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Following the death of George Floyd, officials with the Minneapolis Police Department were evasive about the actions taken by the officers involved with his arrest. In initial statements to the press, the police department only said that Floyd appeared to be suffering from “medical distress” during the arrest and that he was then taken to a nearby hospital where he passed away. Rachel Blevins @RachBlevins Never forget that these are the lies the Minneapolis PD told about George Floyd’s death, and without video evidence, we may have never known the truth... https:// twitter.com/adambelz/statu s/1270040388510846979  … Adam Belz ✔ @adambelz reminder that this is how the Minneapolis Police Department initially reported George Floyd's death 41 4:10 PM - Jun 9, 2020  ·  Washington, DC Twitter Ads info and privacy 20 people are talking about this However, there was no mention of the very likely po

Not Just Brutality—Cops Still Being Arrested for Trafficking, Raping, Exploiting Children

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Frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know those police officers throughout the United States are arrested regularly for sex crimes. According to multiple studies, the majority of these crimes are against children. Proving the above point is the fact that cops are still getting arrested frequently for alleged sex crimes against children — despite many of them being in the streets attacking protesters. Over the past few weeks, there has been no shortage of police officers getting caught on  camera savagely abusing peaceful protesters.  While a handful of the perpetrators were actually arrested, the overwhelming majority of offending officers were not. In the background, however, as protest headlines garner most of the attention, police officers are continuing to get arrested for sex abuse against children. In the last week alone, there have been nearly a half dozen cops arrested for sex crimes against children. One of those cops was Collier County deputy Rashaad A. Smi

Cops Thought They Got Away With Stealing $620K from Cannabis Farm, But Court Forced Them to Return It

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Medical marijuana has been legal in California for over two decades, since 1996. Recreationally, California voters approved the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Proposition 64), in November 2016, legalizing it for everyone else. Despite cannabis being legal in the state, police departments — addicted to kicking in doors and robbing peaceful pot growers and seizing their assets — continue to wage a war on this plant and many of the upstanding citizens who grow it. With all the grim news lately in regards to police overreach, it is refreshing to see some of these departments get put in their place. The following story is just that. In January, the Santa Barbara County sheriff’s office along with investigators from the California Department of Food and Agriculture Cal Cannabis and the Department of Fish and Wildlife served a search warrant at an entirely legal and licensed cannabis farm. After they raided entirely peaceful and legal cannabis growers, the sheriff’s office took to  the

NYPD Cops Caught Pointing Guns at and Arresting Black Children for ‘Playing, High-Fiving’

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 According to a report published on Monday by the New York Civilian Complaint Review Board, two black children were handcuffed by NYPD officers because they were running with sticks while on their way home from school. Police stopped the two boys, ages 8 and 14, frisked them, and then handcuffed them and took them to the police station even though they weren’t doing anything wrong. That was just one example — there are dozens more. The aforementioned incident occurred back in March of 2018 but was not made public until after the case was recognized by the review board. The children were traumatized by the experience, especially the 8-year-old, who always dreamed of being a police officer someday, according to his mother. This case is among more than 100 complaints that the review board has investigated that took place between January 2018 and June 2019, most of which involved male children or teens of color. The review board found that of the 112 complaints that they reviewe

Cops Attack, Kidnap Man at Protest as He’s Being Interviewed by Local News

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Police violence against peaceful protests is so rampant in the United States right now that much of it is being caught on mainstream media networks,  live and on air.  In one utterly ridiculous show of force, a protester, who is reportedly a pillar of the community, was assaulted by the police, tackled and kidnapped, as he was giving an  interview  to WIVB 4 News. You cannot make this stuff up. As the video below shows, the attack was captured from two angles. Miles Carter was giving an interview with a cameraman from WIVB when a swarm of riot cops started running toward the pair. His hands were in the air and he was doing nothing illegal. “My name is Miles Carter. I live in the Town of Tonawanda. I don’t live in the City of Buffalo,” he said. And as he continued with “My mosque is over on Genesee Street,” a dozen cops threw him to the ground so hard his helmet flew over ten feet. Then cops began setting off tear gas. Exactly why Carter was arrested remains a mystery as