“Derrick J’s Victimless Crime Spree” premieres on Free Keene’s youtube channel on July 31st at midnight Eastern!
“Derrick J’s Victimless Crime Spree” is a feature-length documentary chronicling Derrick J’s exciting first year of activism here in Keene.
See the trailers: Trailer 1, Trailer 2
Here’s a facebook event for the online premiere.
Activists have purchased 100 video cameras for people in Austin, TX and gathered to discuss methods for holding police accountable and understanding, protecting, and standing up for our rights. Keene’s Pete Eyre of Copblock.org was given the opportunity to speak to the gathering:
Manchester activists converged on police DUI checkpoints last night with signs and a laser projection warning motorists of the upcoming shakedown. Hundreds of cars were saved from passing through the aggressors hands and there was much positive response from community members. The only people who didn’t like it were Manchester police and the tow truck drivers who were waiting like vultures, expecting to be thrown free business from the checkpoint. Here’s the awesome laser in action:
Radley Balko, HuffPo journalist and chief of The Agitator blog reports on the increasing corporate media focus around a “war on cops”. 2012 is shaping up to be one of the safest years for law enforcement since 1944; a much different time for policing in the US.
A few other media outlets are now picking up on the massive drop in police fatality statistics this year (Welcome to the story!) But so far, none of them have questioned what happened to all of those alleged trends (gun ownership, increasing contempt for cops, videotaping of police misconduct, anti-government sentiment, decreases in funding for police departments) that they all reported were behind the non-existent “war on cops” they were all reporting last year. Or in the case of the New York Times, as recently as April.
If we use the numbers from the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, there are 800,000 cops on the streets. There have been 53 on-the -job fatalities so far this year. But 21 of those were car accidents. There have been 19 firearms homicides against police. I looked through the descriptions of this year’s officer deaths at the NLEMF page. Two of the fatalities were from firearms injuries sustained in previous years (in one case, 30 years ago). That puts us at 17 for this year. I then looked through the 13 deaths classified as “other.” Four of those appear to have been homicides—three stabbings, and one officer who died from a blot clot resulting from an altercation with an inmate. So let’s add those to our 17. That gives us 21 homicides in the first half of 2012 (I’ll go ahead and count the two officers killed during SWAT-like drug raids, even though it’s possible the tactics themselves may have contributed to the officers’ deaths).
By my math, that gives us a homicide rate of 5.25 (more…)
A few weeks ago, Asbury Park, NJ made national news as a former city councilor called for the enforcement of an ordinance banning wearing swimsuits on the boardwalk. Liberty activists from the area organized a swimsuit-wearing civil disobedience event in response. The event transpired despite town officials promising the ordinance will not be enforced, as it had not been.
However, during the event, Steven Ettinger was arrested for allegedly exposing his genitals as he bent over in a Borat-style swimsuit. Chris Cantwell of Marlborough was there with his camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgp8Y5Ob6w
This post was originally posted to CopBlock.org on July 12th.
On Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 CopBlock.org founder and my good friend Ademo Freeman was put in handcuffs and taken to a cage. In this video I give an overview of the situation.
It’s said that when legislation conflicts with law a good man will side with the latter. That’s what Ademo did. He acted to point-out double-standards.
Some say if you don’t agree with legislation to change it through the courts. Ademo tried. But he wasn’t even given his day in court to argue to merits. Instead, a bureaucratic error conveniently meant that he wasn’t informed of his appeal date.
Below are related posts, a video playlist that begins with the video Ademo made live two days ago, on Monday, July 7th, 2012, about his situation, and WePay donation buttons (25% of which will go to Ademo’s commissary and will be used by him after he’s free(r) and 75% of which will go to advance CopBlock.org’s mission). (more…)
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