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“One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Officer Fires at Vehicle in Mississippi,” said the New York Times headline (6/16/26). So, a “one-year-old boy”—what most people would call a baby—was “killed after” a police officer fired at a vehicle, but there’s no verb you could use to connect those two things?

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I know this dumb fuck anywhere, it’s Brenden Cuni

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The X post showed police detaining a teen at a Walmart after managers asked for her vest back. The video captured officers repeatedly urging the teen to hand over the vest and leave peacefully.

There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

A federal jury has awarded an Iowa man more than $100,000 after police detained him for driving under the influence when he was completely sober.

The ruling is part of a pattern of police in Iowa stopping and even arresting drivers for OWI when they were completely sober. The ruling shows it is the taxpayers who may ultimately pay the price.

The vulgar messages — sent by fired State Police Trooper Michael Proctor and former Canton Police Sgt. Sean Goode — show the two men praising Hitler and using slurs to describe women, Black people and Jews

Sgt. Darryl Brown is accused of stealing a bag with $10,000 worth of equipment that Angelina Katsanis, a photographer on assignment for the Associated Press, dropped at the scene near the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark on Saturday night. Brown was charged with third-degree theft on Wednesday, the state attorney general’s office said.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47434364

A few dozen people were stuck inside their formation, known as a kettle. Some were protesters defying a curfew order, which was intended to quell demonstrations at a nearby ICE detention facility. But most appeared to be journalists who were just there to do their job.

A helmet peeked over the shields, which parted to let him through.

“Listen up,” he barked. “If you are press, you got the opportunity right now – and that’s it – to leave. If you don’t leave out here in an orderly fashion, you are coming with us.”

He pointed to someone in the group and snapped: “You are not press.”

Under the city of Newark’s curfew, journalists were exempt if they displayed “verified credentials”. But what counted as verified? And who got to decide?

Media workers had descended on Delaney Hall to document an ongoing hunger strike by ICE detainees over dangerous conditions inside. As protests swelled in surrounding streets, law enforcement’s response contributed to dangerous conditions outside.

In one week, the US Press Freedom Tracker documented 30 assaults by officers on journalists near the facility. ICE doused several photographers with pepper spray and beat them with batons.

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An officer grabbed his radio to report that press wouldn’t go any further.

A voice crackled back over his speaker: “If they refuse to move, push them back yourselves.”

Back in the kettle, at least three journalists were stranded. Each would spend a full day in custody while lawyers were denied access to see them.

One of the arrested journalists was injured and taken to a hospital. There, he saw two arrested protesters being treated. Without press cameras rolling, it wasn’t immediately clear how or if they were hurt while being detained.

Before being handcuffed, the other remaining journalist had worn a blue vest emblazoned with the word “press”. An ID from his company dangled around his neck. Like the injured journalist, he was a member of the National Press Photographers Association. Officers on the scene told him that his credentials were not verified.

Hours earlier, I’d asked the New Jersey governor’s office what “verified” meant. A day later, I asked the Newark mayor’s office. Neither answered.

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Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops.

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