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500th Person Killed By Police In 2015 Was A 69-Year-Old Suicidal Man

Police have killed thousands of people over the past decade with no official database having tracked them. Meanwhile, only 54 officers had been charged relating to fatal shootings while on duty as of April, the Washington Post reported.

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As of Sunday afternoon, there have been at least 515 people killed by police in 2015. The 500th person to be killed by law enforcement officers took place Monday in Arizona after the wife of 69-year-old Richard Warolf called the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to report that her husband was armed, drinking, depressed and wanted to die by

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VIDEO: Michigan Cops Raid Medical Marijuana Patient, Legally Rob Entire Family Belongings In Front Of Children

“They have had my stuff for 10 months, my ladder, my iPad, my children’s iPads, my children’s phones, my medicine for my patients,” Hency noted. “Why a ladder? Why my vibrator, I don’t know either. Why TVs?”

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Raw Story reports -- Medical marijuana user Ginnifer Hency told a group of Michigan lawmakers last week that a drug task force raided her home and kept ‘every belonging’ she owned — including her vibrator — even after a judge dismissed the charges against her. Forbes contributor Jacob Sullum reported last week that Hency testified before the

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Leaked Video: Turkish Daily Accuses Government Of Sending Arms To Jihadist Syrian Rebels

The daily claimed the trucks in the leaked video were carrying a total of 1,000 mortar shells, 80,000 rounds of ammunition for light and heavy weapons as well as hundreds of grenade launchers being sent to Syrian rebels associated with al-Nusra.

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Istanbul (AFP) - Images and video footage allegedly showing trucks belonging to Turkey's state intelligence service carrying weapons to rebels in Syria were published Friday in a Turkish daily. The Turkish government has vehemently denied claims that it is arming rebels fighting in Syria and accused dozens of prosecutors, soldiers and security

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Anti-Islam Rally In Phoenix Inspires Good

Come Friday night, there was Ritzheimer with approximately 200 supporters, many armed, screaming vile and vicious comments about Muslims. The protesters included skinheads and a man wearing a white-power T-shirt bearing Nazi imagery. It was an alarmingly ugly display of hate. But then the «good people» stepped forward.

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CNN commentary by Dean Obeidallah:  "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." I first became aware of these powerful words by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., about 20 years ago. They had a profound

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Idaho Ag-gag Bill Bans Filming Inside Farms After Abuse Video Surfaces

The bill’s sponsor, Idaho state Sen. Jim Patrick, a Republican from Twin Falls, claimed the bill was crafted in response to a video showing animal rights abuses at a Bettencourt, Idaho, farm that supplies Burger King meat.

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BOISE, Idaho --- According to emails obtained through an open records request, a dairy industry lobbyist was allowed to directly craft what would ultimately become Idaho’s “ag-gag” bill -- the latest in a series of state laws that seek to prevent animal rights activists from exposing the abuses of industrial agriculture. The bill’s sponsor,

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Shocker: Palestinians Withdraw Call To Suspend Israel From FIFA

Sepp Blatter overrules attempt to refer status of Israeli clubs to UN, prompting Palestinian Football Association to drop suspension motion.

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The Palestinian Football Association has withdrawn its call to have Israel suspended from Fifa in a chaotic last minute climbdown at the congress of football’s governing body in Zurich. Following days of negotiations, and the mediation of Fifa president Sepp Blatter, the Palestinian moves at the scandal-ridden congress appeared comprehensively

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Rand Paul Wants To Start Demilitarizing Police Forces Around The Country

“As we rebuild the trust between communities and the police, we have to address the role that the federal government has played in supplying law enforcement with battlefield equipment. Our bill would ban the transfer of certain equipment and put safeguards in place to ensure that federal funds are used appropriately.”

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Police Militarization Congress

  CARIMAH TOWNES & IAN MILLHISER for Think Progress report:  Days after President Obama announced the federal government will no longer offer local law enforcement certain military-grade equipment, Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced a bill that would force state and local law agencies to return

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