California police officer savagely beats great-grandmother A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer savagely beat an unarmed woman on a freeway onramp July 1 in Los Angeles, California. The assault was captured on video by an onlooker and shared widely on…
Day: July 9, 2014
ACLU exposes government’s role in creating “paramilitary police”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released an extensive report Monday on the militarization of the police in the US, showing that the “federal government has justified and encouraged the militarization of local law enforcement.” The report, entitled War Comes…