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• 2026-02-07 20:09 UTC [L..T] (social post) «The police shut down First Friday here in Phoenix at 9pm yesterday. They ended up using chemical weapons on people (ie: assaulting hundreds or a few thousand ppl with gas). Vendors were upset because they paid for stalls and their very LEGAL and COMMERCIAL gathering was shut down, harming them as well as the innocent people brutally attacked by police. They justified their actions because there was a shooting NEAR First Friday last month.» (short thread)
• 2025-10-15 [L..T] ‘Fake Apology!’: Chick-fil-A Sparks Outrage After Black Officer Was Forced to Pay While White Partners Ate Free — Then Came the Excuse No One’s Buying «A Black police officer said his visit to his local Chick-fil-A left him feeling embarrassed and humiliated after his three white colleagues were all given free breakfast while he was left to pay for his meal. [..] Tracey Reid, a police officer in Clover, South Carolina, said he and his partners were all in uniform when they went to get breakfast at a Chick-fil-A in Augusta, Georgia, a few weeks ago during a work trip. [..] Reid said it’s normal for restaurant chains to offer police officers and other first responders complimentary meals as a gesture of appreciation for their service. [..] However, while they were in line, the staff members only offered free meals to Reid’s three white partners, but Reid had to pay for his food at the register. [..] “We came in together, same uniform, stood in line, there was never a time we were not together while standing in line,” Reid’s colleague, Clover Police Sgt. J. Gordon, told WSOC-TV.»
• 2022-12-04 [L..T] Armed Fascist Group Terrorizes Church, Shuts Down Youth Story Hour «Armed fascists successfully intimidated a church in Ohio into cancelling a Drag Queen Story Hour event yesterday. A group of masked fascists paraded in paramilitary style chanting “Life, Liberty, Victory” while others wore camouflage and military gear. Many openly carried long guns, and protest signs accused organizers and participants of this costume, dance, and story-reading event of child abuse. Terrorized participants were forced to make the call to cancel in light of lackluster police involvement in security and fears from performers that they would not be safe.»
• 2022-12-03 14:43 UTC [L..T] Drag storytime organizers, police offer different explanations amid Proud Boys protest «The Red Oak Community School canceled its Holi-drag storytime Saturday morning following promises of protest from the Proud Boys and what school officials described as only a "casual, distant acknowledgement" of the event from police. / The Columbus Division of Police and city officials, however, said they'd been in communication with organizers since they'd learned about the event weeks ago.» These two accounts do not actually contradict each other, though the wording implies that they do. Later in the article, though, police statements directly contradict what the school said about who first contacted whom.
• 2018-08-09 [L..T] Protester Maimed by Portland Police: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’ «Anthony, who asked to be identified only by his first name, was injured last weekend when cops in riot gear unleashed flashbangs, pepper spray, rubber bullets and other less-lethal weapons as local protesters demonstrated against far-right groups massed downtown.»
• 2018-06-27 [L..T] Portland Police Saw Right-Wing Protesters as "Much More Mainstream" Than Leftist Ones «Newly released draft reports from a city review of how Portland police handled dueling demonstrations last summer reveal cops admitting what activists have long suspected: They saw right-wing protesters as less of a threat than leftist ones.»
• 2014-07-16 [L..T] Portland police Capt. Mark Kruger's past discipline to be erased -- including for tribute to Nazi-era soldiers -- under city settlement «To settle a legal claim, the city of Portland has agreed to pay $5,000 to Portland police Capt. Mark Kruger and erase two disciplinary actions from his personnel record: a suspension for his public tribute to five Nazi-era German soldiers at a city park and a reprimand for retaliating against a female lieutenant.»
• 2014-05-05 [L..T] Occupy Wall Street activist found guilty of assaulting police officer «Cecily McMillan was on Monday afternoon found guilty of deliberately elbowing Officer Grantley Bovell in the face in March 2012. After a trial lasting more than four weeks, the jury of eight women and four men reached their verdict in about three hours.»
• 2014-04-21 [L..T] Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City «In a secret test of mass surveillance technology, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department sent a civilian aircraft over Compton, California, capturing high-resolution video of everything that happened inside that 10-square-mile municipality.»
• 2014-02-24 [L..T] Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine? John McCain and other State Department members have troubling ties to the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party.
• 2012-07-12 14:07 UTC [L..T] Iceland Has Hired An Ex-Cop To Hunt Down The Bankers That Wrecked Its Economy «LeMonde reporter Charlotte Chabas has a profile of Ólafur Þór Hauksson, a former local police lieutenant whom the Iceland government appointed to track down individuals likely to have helped sink the country's banking sector during the credit crunch.»
• 2011-05-13 [L..T] Court denies right to resist illegal cop entry into home
• 2009-11-07 [L..T] Wal-Mart bans gay couple for NOT shoplifting A Walmart in Michigan bans a gay couple for life, after falsely accusing them of petty theft and having them arrested.
• 2009-03-30 [L..T] When Biking Is A Crime «"They told me that since I didn't have a license for the bike, they had to take it," Davidson said. "I haven't had a bike since."»
• 2008-09-03 [L..T] Terrorism charges lodged against protesters at GOP convention «The RNC Welcoming Committee is a self-described anarchist group that has worked for months planning disruptions at the convention. Police blamed the group for sparking violence during Monday's antiwar protest in St. Paul. Although most of the estimated 10,000 people at the march were peaceful, police say a splinter group of about 200 people harassed delegates, smashed windows and started at least one fire.»
• 2008-03-11 [L..T] GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com «A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious[ly] pulled the plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.»
• 2008-02-21 [L..T] Police concerned about order to stop weapons screening at Obama rally «The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security. ... Several Dallas police officers said it worried them that the arena was packed with people who got in without even a cursory inspection. .. They spoke on condition of anonymity because, they said, the order was made by federal officials who were in charge of security at the event. .. "How can you not be concerned in this day and age," said one policeman.» The "interview" link at the top of the page is wrong; see 2008-02-23 Star-Telegram Q&A with Barack Obama.
• 2008-02-16 [L..T] Danish lawmakers refuse to apologize, cancel trip to Iran «A group of Danish lawmakers has canceled a trip to Iran because Tehran demanded they condemn the reprinting of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in newspapers, a spokeswoman said Saturday.»