Tag: police accountability
Drugged by the police: the rise of ketamine in the law enforcement arsenal
Colorado Councilwoman Anita Springsteen speaks out against the use of Ketamine to subdue her partner during an arrest and leads a crusade to put a…
The arrest of a cop watcher shows injustice is the American way
Disabled free speech activist Blind Justice has been held in solitary confinement for a failure to appear charge, while George Floyd’s alleged murderer Derek Chauvin…
K-9 attacks: The new (old) face of police brutality
Indiana mother Jennifer Fleming speaks out about the brutal and excessive police dog attack on her 19-year-old daughter and calls for police to rethink how…
This is how far cops will go to stop you from recording them
The arrest of citizen journalist James Freeman shows the extreme measures police in Arizona are taking to block the public from documenting routine police work…
One frightening story reveals the true cost of rural overpolicing
A single dad goes camping with his kids and ends up in handcuffs; Then, PAR talks with Otto the Watchdog, a cop watcher who says…
Police HIJACK helicopter ambulance for aerial surveillance
Documents obtained by PAR reveal how an air ambulance (medevac) service has been used repeatedly to fly surveillance missions over the city of Baltimore, raising…
Filming the police is legal, but that doesn’t stop them from arresting people for it
Another Ohio resident has been arrested under the dubious charge of “misconduct during an emergency,” which has been used again by Ohio police to incarcerate…
Another police killing in rural America, another case without accountability
(Content warning: Some images and details in this episode are graphic and disturbing.) The horrifying body camera footage of Chico, California, police killing 31-year-old Tyler…
A man was tasered in his own driveway, but cops weren’t finished with him
Surveillance footage reveals police assaulting an unarmed man on his own property. While the use of force in the video is shocking on its own,…
Body camera shows cops in this town are out of control. How will the city respond?
A 73-year-old grandmother with dementia is thrown to the ground and arrested, and the arresting officers are caught laughing while reviewing their bodycam footage. In…
A cop kicked a compliant man in the head, then police tried to cover it up
The brutal assault on a suspect after a high-speed chase that was captured by a security camera reveals how police have many hidden mechanisms to…
Cops tried to tase him during a routine traffic stop, but a video turned the tables
As police reform efforts stall across the country, the case of an Arizona man who was dragged from his car by cops during a routine…
Cops pulled him over for a bogus ticket, then things got really ugly
A questionable traffic stop by an Arizona highway patrol officer reveals how the powers bestowed upon police are ripe for abuse. Video shows how the…
Cops ordered him to break the law, then arrested him when he wouldn’t
The arrest and incarceration of New Mexico resident Chris Dixon provide yet another stark example of the Kafkaesque nature of contemporary police power. Dixon was…
