Published September 15, 2008 09:08 pm - A Tifton woman who organized a voter registration drive held Saturday during the Omega Pepper Festival said she felt less than welcomed by some of the festival’s staff and local law enforcement.

Voter registration drive gets chilly reception

By Angie Thompson/senior reporter

TIFTON -

A Tifton woman who organized ( Read more... )

KOB.com
Posted at: 09/13/2008 08:33:08 PM
Updated at: 09/13/2008 08:39:33 PM
By: Eyewitness News 4

APD officer who scuffled with photographer fired

Officer Daniel Guzman was fired by APD Thursday

The APD officers caught on tape scuffling with a KOB photographer has been fired.

Police confirm Officer Daniel Guzman was given his termination papers on ( Read more... )

POSTED: 2:11 pm CDT September 11, 2008
UPDATED: 2:49 pm CDT September 11, 2008

Police illegally videotaped a Wisconsin man having sex with his wife while she was in a coma in her nursing home room, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

The District 4 Court of Appeals ruled that David W. Johnson, 59, had an expectation to privacy when he visited his wife at ( Read more... )

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Matthew Norman: Why are the police allowed to be a law unto themselves?

The problem is that we have no clue what the force is up to, and no mechanism to find out

Thursday, 11 September 2008

At this stage of his political career, the only advice worth offering the ( Read more... )

NSW Police Minister quits over sex antics
By ALEX TIBBITTS, ALEXANDRA SMITH - SMH | Thursday, 11 September 2008

The new NSW Police Minister, Matt Brown, has quit the state cabinet just three days after being promoted, as it emerged that he danced semi-naked and simulated a sex act with Wollongong MP Noreen Hay during a late-night party three months ( Read more... )

California Community Outraged by Police Shootings of Unarmed Homeless Man

Wednesday, September 10, 2008


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KTLA News

September 5, 2008

INGLEWOOD -- Inglewood police say eight officers involved in the death of a homeless man were not involved in the department's three previous fatal shootings that date back to May.

The department released the officers' names on Friday, one day after the City Council announced the officers had been suspended pending ( Read more... )

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Of all of the things I’ve learned about Sarah Palin in the last week and a half, this has got to be the most disturbing. While Sarah Palin was serving as the Mayor of Wasilla ( Read more... )

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Use of Force Against RNC Protesters “Disproportionate,” Charges Amnesty International

[London]--Amnesty International is concerned by allegations of excessive use of force and mass arrests by police at demonstrations in St. Paul, Minnesota ( Read more... )

Independent.co.uk

By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Monday, 8 September 2008

The Israeli Attorney General has been urged to launch a criminal investigation into whether Shaul Mofaz, a leading prime ministerial candidate, ordered "war crimes" to be committed when he was the military's chief of staff.

A leading Israeli law professor has written to justice ( Read more... )