Thanks to Reason’s Jesse Walker for his coverage of the recent drama with Occupy NH that brought many occupiers closer to their brothers and sisters in the Free State Project, much to the chagrin of those who split off into a smaller group.
Thanks to Kari DePhillips, the PR wizard behind The Content Factory for making this national release via PRWEB happen:
Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host Indicted on Three Felony Charges
Free Talk Live Co-Host in Trouble – Viral Video of Police-on-Student Brutality in School Cafeteria Allegedly Includes “Illegally Recorded” Interviews with On-Duty Public Officials
According to court documents, Adam “Ademo” Mueller, journalist and co-host of nationally syndicated radio talk show Free Talk Live, has been indicted on three counts of felony wiretapping. The charges are a result of a vlog Mueller posted on CopBlock.org about an incident involving alleged police misconduct, which featured recorded interviews of on-duty public officials. Mueller’s report focused on video recorded by a student’s cell phone at Manchester’s West High School, which depicted Officer Darren Murphy slamming a 17-year-old boy into a cafeteria table in October of 2011. (more…)
The last two weeks have resulted in unexpected press coverage for Occupy New Hampshire as a splinter group made lots of noise recently about why they have left. Too bad for them, most of Occupy did not go with them, as most of Occupy are open-minded folks who value the participation of “Free Staters”. Here’s the Concord Monitor’s Annmarie Timmins’ rundown of the situation, (published in Sunday 7/22’s paper) which is a well-researched story:
Occupy New Hampshire, the self-dubbed voice of the “99 percent,” became a bit more exclusive this week.
On Monday, a small number of Occupy New Hampshire members incorporated the movement as a nonprofit in order to boot their former bedfellows: the Free Staters. Also prohibited from future Occupy events are gun owners who openly carry.
It’s been a controversial move for a group so opposed to authoritative rule, and several Occupy members have joined with the Free Staters to fight back. (more…)
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
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