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Report: Police shoot, kill man holding hairbrush
CNN - Mon Nov 12, 2007
NEW YORK - Police shot and killed an unarmed young man outside his Brooklyn apartment Monday night after his mother reported a "family dispute with a gun," police and witnesses said. More»

Intel official: Expect less privacy
Associated Press - Sat Nov 10, 2007
WASHINGTON - As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. More»

L.A. police plan to map Muslim areas criticized
Associated Press - Fri Nov 9, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Los Angeles Police Department to map the city's Muslim communities, calling it racial profiling. More»

Police Taser Handcuffed 14 year old girl
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Nov 2, 2007
SNELLVILLE, Georgia - A police officer was "forced" to use a Taser on a handcuffed 14-year-old girl who became unruly while trick-or-treating on Halloween night in Gwinnett County, police said Friday. More»

Taser victim likely confused, mother says
Globe and Mail, Canada - Wed Oct 17, 2007
VANCOUVER -- The mother of a Polish immigrant who died after being tasered during a confrontation with police at Vancouver's airport last weekend says her son was a "very good boy" who was probably confused and anxious over his first-ever flight on an airplane. More»

US lawmakers apologize in torture case
Associated Press - Wed Oct 17, 2007
Members of Congress apologized Thursday to a Canadian engineer seized by US officials and taken to Syria, where he says he was tortured. More»

Police allegedly hang quadriplegic man
Associated Press - Wed Oct 17, 2007
LOS ANGELES - Jurors ruled the city of Pasadena must pay $80,000 to a quadriplegic man who sued because police officers allegedly jerked him out of his wheelchair and hung him upside down to search him. More»

What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons?
Time - Wed Oct 17, 2007
An uneasy sense of deja vu swept over Florida last week after an all-white jury acquitted seven juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of a black teen last year. More»

Pa. woman faces jail, fine for shouting profanities in her own home
Associated Press - Mon Oct 15, 2007
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania - A Scranton woman who admitted shouted profanities at her overflowing toilet within earshot of a neighbor was cited for disorderly conduct, authorities said. More»

Shots fired outside bar; cop arrested
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sun Oct 14, 2007
MARIETTA, Georgia - An Atlanta police officer has been arrested and charged with shooting at a college student and his girlfriend after an argument in a Marietta bar. More»

Staff in boot camp case walk free
BBC - Sat Oct 13, 2007
Eight defendants have been acquitted of manslaughter in the case of a teenager who died after being punched and kicked at a Florida boot camp. More»

US accused of making insect spy robots
Telegraph UK - Tue Oct 9, 2007
The US government has been accused of secretly developing robotic insect spies amid reports of bizarre flying objects hovering in the air above anti-war protests. More»

Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners
CNN - Tue Oct 9, 2007
The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Carter said Wednesday. More»

Supreme Court Refuses To Hear CIA Kidnapping Allegation
CNN - Mon Oct 8, 2007
A German citizen who alleges the CIA mistakenly kidnapped, detained and interrogated him was denied a hearing before the US Supreme Court when the justices rejected his appeal for review Tuesday. More»

Examiner dfends "excited delirium" diagnosis in taser death
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sat Oct 6, 2007
Gwinnett's medical examiner said she stands by her diagnosis in the death of a Norcross man who was tasered, even though she cited a condition that's not universally accepted. More»

Video Shows Cop Punching Teen During Arrest
WSB-TV - Fri Oct 5, 2007
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida - A controversy is brewing in South Florida over a dash-camera video showing a Fort Pierce, Florida, police officer punching a 15-year-old girl while she is resisting arrest, reported WPBF-TV. More»

Family of woman who died at Airport hires high-power team
USA Today - Wed Oct 3, 2007
NEW YORK - When Carol Gotbaum landed in Phoenix - next-to-last stop on her quest for sobriety - she called her husband in New York, where they lived with their three young children. More»

Family mourns woman who died at airport
Associated Press - Sat Sep 29, 2007
A traveler who may have accidentally choked herself to death while handcuffed in an airport holding cell was a "wonderful" woman and mother, according to New York City's public advocate, who is her relative. More»

Elderly Woman Bruised, Arrested for Not Watering her Lawn
FOX News - Sat Sep 22, 2007
A 70-year-old Utah woman, who was arrested last week for refusing to accept a ticket for a dry lawn she couldn't afford to water, told FOX News Monday that the arrest was her "worst nightmare. More»

Officers, sheriff's deputies sued; brutality in county jail alleged
Joplin Globe - Sat Sep 22, 2007
CASSVILLE, Missouri - A Butterfield woman is suing three Barry County Sheriff's deputies and four Cassville police officers in federal court alleging they brutalized her July 23 in jail. More»

US govt collects data on Americans overseas
AFP - Fri Sep 21, 2007
WASHINGTON - The US government is compiling electronic files on the travel habits of millions of Americans who take trips overseas, The Washington Post reported Saturday. More»

MIT student arrested with fake "bomb"
Associated Press - Thu Sep 20, 2007
BOSTON - An MIT student wearing what turned out to be a fake bomb was arrested at gunpoint Friday at Logan International Airport and later claimed it was artwork, officials said. More»

Police Chief Arrested On Rape Charges
Associated Press - Tue Sep 18, 2007
LUTHERSVILLE, Georgia - The Luthersville police chief has been arrested on rape and other charges. More»

In Stun Gun Training, Officer's Spine Is Fractured
New York Times - Tue Sep 18, 2007
Advocates for the use of stun guns by police departments like to point to evidence that they are a generally safe way to subdue aggressive suspects. More»

Wheelchair-bound Woman Dies after 10 Taser Shocks
Associated Press - Tue Sep 18, 2007
CLAY COUNTY, Florida - A Clay County woman's family said it's seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police. More»

Bush calls for expansion of spy law
Associated Press - Tue Sep 18, 2007
FORT MEADE, Maryland - President Bush said Wednesday he wants Congress to expand and make permanent a law that temporarily gives the government more power to eavesdrop without warrants on suspected foreign terrorists. More»

Senate Fails on Habeas Corpus
The Nation - Tue Sep 18, 2007
Today the US Senate fell four votes short of restoring Habeas Corpus, the fundamental constitutional right of individuals to challenge government detention, which the Republican Congress revoked in last year's Military Commissions Act. More»

Student arrested, Tasered at Kerry event
Associated Press - Mon Sep 17, 2007
GAINESVILLE, Florida - Video of police Tasering a persistent questioner of Senator John Kerry became an Internet and TV sensation Tuesday, generating fierce debate about free speech and the motives of the college student involved - a known prankster who often posts practical jokes online. More»

Officer in a Snit - McDonald's Worker in Jail for Over-salting Burger
Associated Press - Sat Sep 8, 2007
UNION CITY, Gaeorgia - A 20-year-old McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges after a police officer complained that the burger she prepared with too much salt made him sick. More»

In Padilla interrogation, no checks or balances
Christian Science Monitor - Tue Sep 4, 2007
When admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed complained in a Guantánamo Bay hearing earlier this year that he'd been tortured by US interrogators, the presiding military officer assured him the charges would be investigated. More»

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