cops with machine guns: the killing of michael nida
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in october 2011 the police-related shooting death of unarmed man michael nida 31 raised serious questions about the state of policing in the city of downey california a suburb of los angeleswhy did it raise questions the father of four who worked in construction wasn039t shot with a handgun by one of the downey police department039s officers he was shot with an mp5 submachine gun the same gun used by the navy sealsquotwhy would he have a machine gunquot asks jean thaxton one of nida039s guardians since birth quotwe039re not in a war zone i didn039t think i didn039t think this was a war zonequotquotan ordinary patrolman isn039t going to be carrying something like a submachine gunquot says timothy lynch the director of the project on criminal justice at the cato institute lynch says that even if they have those types of weapons they should only be using them in rare circumstances such as when they are confronting a heavily armed suspectbut for decades police have been arming themselves with military equipment like m16s grenade launchers and armored personnel carriersquotat first when they got it the idea was yeah this is extraordinary weaponry we039ll have it just in case we039ll ever need itquot but as decades went by police started to use them to enforce drug warrants and then started carrying them on routine callsapproximately 7:30written and produced by paul detrick camera by jim epstein joshua swain and tracy oppenheimer

watch ows protestriot live on cnn now
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gold bullion returns to venezuela
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from: http:wwwyoutubecomusereuronewsnovember 26 2011 - a first shipment of gold bars has arrived in venezuela after president hugo chavez recalled almost all of the country039s foreign bullion reserves from western banksmore than 160 tonnes of gold worth more than 11 billion dollars will eventually be sent back to venezuela most of the reserves are held in londonhttp:wwweuronewsnetfair use notice: this video may contain copyrighted material such material is made available for educational purposes only this constitutes a 039fair use039 of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 usc section 106a-117 of the us copyright law

pres obama quoti understand the frustration being expressed by the protestersquot
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october 18 2011 abc news http:moxnewscom

protesting mom called quotmore disgusting than any of these filths down on wall streetquot
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october 22 2011 news corp http:moxnewscom

quoteverybody knows the problem is our government is bought democrats amp republicans are bought
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october 22 2011 msnbc http:moxnewscom

the class war has begun
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october 26 2011 msnbc news http:moxnewscom

occupy cal video: police brutally beat arrest berkeley students
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video courtesy: http:wwwyoutubecomusermilesmathews caltv - http:wwwcaltvorg and http:wwwyoutubecomusercaltvinfous police in riot gear have clashed with student protesters at the university of california berkeley after they refused to dismantle their camp tents were erected following a march against tuition fee increases for students - which was part of the broader occupy wall street movement several activists were arrested some were beaten by police with batonsrt on twitter http:twittercomrt_com rt on facebook http:wwwfacebookcomrtnews

occupy wall street 9 20 2011 the quotoccupationquot is legal
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the protests are starting in the usa and big brother is not happy please support our protesters and end this elite run system once and for allhttp:wwwoccupywallstorghttp:wwwoccupytogetherorghttp:givenogroundorgoccupy-the-world

michelle obama booed at nascar
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from: http:wwwyoutubecomuserabcnewsnovember 21 2011 - rush limbaugh defends fans who verbally attacked the quotuppityquot first lady for more click here: http:abcnewsgocomblogspolitics201111rush-limbaugh-says-first-lady-was-booed-partly-because-nascar-fans-hate-her-uppityismfair use notice: this video may contain copyrighted material such material is made available for educational purposes only this constitutes a 039fair use039 of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 usc section 106a-117 of the us copyright law

egypt fridays demonstrations 04022011
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the most powerful images from the protests against president hosni mubarak in egypt on feb 4 2011the same organizers of the quotday of angerquot and quotfriday of angerquot have called for a protest in front of the presidential heliopolis palace on 4 february which has been dubbed the quotfriday of departurequot arabic: gumat ar-ral they demanded mubarak step down immediately and set 4 february as the deadline for him to surrender his powers this day is also called by some people the friday of truth gumat al-aqqah because it shows what way will choose egyptduring the night of 3--4 february there were tanks on the street in cairo as anti-government protesters stayed in tahrir square and pro-government protesters were also active many of the protesters spent the night again in tahrir square small scale clashes happened in the early hours hundreds of thousands gathered to participate in friday day prayer in tahrir square the day039s planned events were due to start after friday prayers al jazeera estimates the crowd size to be over a million so far in tahrir square while about half a million are protesting in alexandria many protests took place in other cities in egypt the alexandria protesters have warned the government that if they used violence against protesters in cairo they will march to cairo to join the protesters there after his previous decision of preventing former ministers and government officials from traveling and freezing bank accounts the prosecutor general decided to prevent former minister of trade and industry rashid mohamed rashid from traveling outside the country and the freezing of accounts in banks rashid on a phone call with alarabiya stated that quoti returned from davos to egypt because of the current situation in egypt the new prime minister had contacted me for the same position in the new cabinet i refused because i want fresh bloodquot regarding the prevention decision he commented quoti had no idea about the accusations i served for six and half years and i am completely ready to face any accusation no one had informed me of this decision and i heard it from the newsquot it worth mentioning that rashid enjoys a good reputation among egyptian people rashid was a possible candidate for prime minister position before the eventssource: http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=lbagf7d53lghttp:wwwyoutubecomuseraljazeeraenglishegypt egyptian protests street demonstrations tunisian uprising revolution mobilize police brutality unemployment raise minimum wage housing food inflation corruption freedom of speech living conditions hosni mubarak day anger civil unrest petrol bombs molotov cocktail government khaled mohamed saeed sedi gabr alexandria death elbaradei self-immolation tahrir square aswan ismailiya mahallah human rights tear gas activists 25012011

michael moore quotdon039t fall for the media039s trap about who is the spokesman here we all arequot
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teenage girl arrested for cursing a 911 operator who keep hanging up on her - sgt robert mcfarland
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welcome to the new world order where you are a slave and cops only help you if they feel like itupdate:charges dismissed against teen in 911 caselincoln park - all charges were dismissed yesterday against a teen-ager arrested for making a scene at the police department after she said an officer repeatedly hung up on her as she called 911 for an ambulance for her fatheradrainne ledesma 17 smiled in court yesterday as she learned city prosecutor norman kohlstrand had dismissed the case against her that could have sent her to jail for up to 90 daysquoti039m happyquot she said after the two-minute hearing in front of 25th district judge david bajorek quoti think it039s ridiculous what happenedquotledesma had called 911 aug 19 after finding her father adrain who had recently undergone brain surgery lying on the kitchen floor having a seizureupset about what she was seeing she said she started to swear as she dialed 911 for an ambulance she was in the midst of swearing she said when police sgt robert mcfarland answered the phonequothe started to lecture me about not cussing because i think he thought i was cussing at him but i wasn039tquot she said quotthen he hung up on mequotshe said she called back and again explained that she needed an ambulance but was hung up on againthat was repeated once more she said until she finally got in touch with a relative and had him call for an ambulancea transcript of the 911 calls made available by police show mcfarland calling the teen a quotstupid quot on her second callwhen the teen asked during the same call if an ambulance could be sent to her home in the 2100 block of hartwick mcfarland told her quotno you039re not going to get onequotwhen she called back a minute later and asked for the officer039s name he refused to identify himself instead calling the teen quota buffoonquotwhen ledesma walked into the police station a short while later to find out the officer039s name so she could file a complaint against him she was arrested for misusing the 911 system and locked up pending a court hearingshe had been charged with phone harassment and disturbing the peace both misdemeanorsaccording to police she repeatedly swore in the lobby of the police station and yelled at mcfarland an officer for 20 years once she was arrested the report says the teen refused to comply and had to be restrained to a benchpolice lt brian hawk who previously had said he supported mcfarland039s decision to arrest ledesma is overseeing an internal investigation into how the 911 calls were handledthe city prosecutor said he reviewed the evidence in the case and wasn039t satisfied he had enough to prove ledesma guilty beyond a reasonable doubtquotat this point in time the city chooses to not prosecute the matter furtherquot kohlstrand said adding that charges could be reinstated at any time over the next two yearspolice chief thomas karnes said he isn039t going to argue with kohlstrand039s decisionquotthere were some questions as to what was going on with this casequot he said quotthe best thing with emotions running high is to put it away for a while it was a tragic time in a person039s life and emotions can run highquotthe teen039s attorney douglas hamel said he is considering suing the department for wrongful arrest he said ledesma has two years to decide if she wants to pursue that anglewhile charges were dropped against the teen she said she learned a lesson should she ever have to call 911 againquoti039ll be a little more calmquot ledesma said

25 pound emerald found in brazil
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from: http:wwwcnncomvideostandardindexhtml pigmine is on facebook please like here: http:wwwfacebookcompigminenews january 18 2011 - a twenty-five pound emerald is found in brazil cbc has morefair use notice: this video may contain copyrighted material such material is made available for educational purposes only this constitutes a 039fair use039 of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 usc section 106a-117 of the us copyright law

cop assaults cameraman for filming him - mitchell crooks officer derek colling - april 2011
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las vegas nevada -- the clark county district attorney039s office has dropped all charges against mitchell crooks the professional videographer who was attacked on his own front lawn by officer derek colling on march 20 2011 the metropolitan police department has opened an internal investigation into the incident which will most likely be deemed unfounded as nearly all valid complaints about police corruption are in 2009 colling fatally shot a 15-year-old bipolar boy in the head under questionable circumstances colling also shot and killed a man at a gas station another controversial incident involving deadly force in addition collings has been the recipient of dozens of other brutality complaints crooks is disliked by cops because he videotaped two white cops beating a 16-year-old black boy in 2002 which led to the cops being criminally charged police officers are allegedly trained to avoid escalating situations but colling clearly provoked crooks in this encounter as this video graphically evidences police officers are brainwashed into dehumanizing civilians and viewing them as the enemy as there is little if any accountability in any police department even with videos like this one proving their felonious assaults there is no incentive for cops to follow any laws except their own power with no accountability breeds crime and arrogance this incident screams volumes about the contempt which cops have for the taxpaying citizens who pay their salaries police officers routinely torture and even murder their enemies many of whom are not even criminals in ways which cannot be proven cops are sanctimonious frauds who hide behind a facade of law and order they are lying cowards who never admit to their crimes yet self-righteously criticize assault and otherwise torment anyone who will not confess to crimes which they did not commit for every police crime recorded on video there are thousands of others which have not been so memorialized millions of innocent taxpaying citizens have been robbed framed beaten tortured and otherwise victimized by arrogant racist inept political-hack cops most policemen do not give a rat039s ass about upholding the law their sole concern is to massage their unjustifiably inflated egos blue-collar hero vanities and unwarranted god complexes cops are not better than anyone else is if police officers would just perform their duties in accordance with the law there would not be such hostility towards them if all cops were honest even the lowest sociopathic thugs would respect them