Citizens vs. Government

To those of us that use critical thinking skills, it’s no secret that the corporate media lies. Mainstream media has, for years, been using their influence to sway elections, push products, and even help get murderers off. Well as long as those murderers are wearing badges, that is.
This “brainwash the masses” mindset  has created a rift in society that has spawned a new type of media. These citizen journalists have emerged as an “alternate” media that has gained tons of credibility by reporting the real stories with videos to back up claims of abuses.

A California man who video recorded a TSA screener running her hands up and down his 10-year-old daughter’s body, placing special attention to the girl’s buttocks, breasts and inner thighs, and running her hands inside the girl’s dress, is accusing the TSA of going overboard during the intensive pat-down at a North Carolina airport last month.
But the Transportation Security Administration said they were only trying to keep everybody safe. 

Back in September, an Alaska state trooper pulled over a newspaper reporter for the sole purpose of seizing his memory card from his camera.
The photographer, after all, had just taken photos of other troopers arresting a suspect in a shooting.
And that, apparently, was enough for Sergeant Michael Ingram to claim he needed the photos as “evidence.”

Standing on a public sidewalk on the side of the road, holding a sign warning drivers about an upcoming DUI police checkpoint, a Connecticut man was threatened with arrest Sunday, accused of “distracting the traffic.”
However, it was Hartford Police Sergeant Reggie Early who was blocking traffic with his patrol car as he threatened Michael Picard with arrest on a non-existent charge.
All because the 27-year-old man held a sign that said, “Cops ahead. Keep calm and remain silent.”
But at least he didn’t follow through on his threat.

A Hawaii man who was beaten by a cop on a beach for chanting next to a seal he believed to be injured filed a lawsuit last week.
The incident, which took place in 2014, was captured on video by witnesses who called the cops on the man, thinking he was harassing the seal.
But the man, Jamie Kalani Rice, said he was only trying to help the seal by sharing his mana or energy.
The video shows a Honolulu police officer named Ming Wang approaching Rice, exchanging some words and pulling out a baton to begin swinging it.

Responding to a domestic violence call about about a teenage man threatening to hurt his father with a baseball bat, Chicago police arrived and shot a middle-aged woman dead after she opened the door to let them inside.
Then they shot the teenager dead.
Neither one of them was armed with a gun.
Chicago police offered scarce details other than telling the media they arrived at the building and “were confronted by a combative individual, resulting in an officer firing shots, fatally wounding two individiuals.”

We live in a world where we are forced to pay for services that are unreliable, corrupt and brutal. We are taught from a young age that you pick up the phone and dial 911 at the first sign of trouble.
But sadly, we increasingly see the responders to our pleas for help showing up and making matters worse.
I’ve been there a number of times myself. I see something bad that is  too much for me to handle. I pull out my phone to dial 911 and then stop, thinking police will just make matters worse, something we all should think about before he make that call.

Chicago prosecutors are taking the mother of Ronald Johnson to court, accusing her of communicating threats against the officer that killed her son.
Chicago police officer George Hernandez killed Johnson during a foot pursuit in October 2014 by shooting him in the back.

A New York City police officer who walked up to a woman and began pawing her in a suggestive manner, only to arrest her male friend who pulled out a phone to record, was indicted today on several charges, including two felony counts.

All charges have been dropped for two men charged with jury tampering after they handed out pamphlets in front of the Lindsey-Flanigan Court in Denver.
Mark Iannicelli and Eric Brandt were arrested and charged with seven counts of jury tampering in July 2015.
Upon their arrest, the two took matters into their own hands and launched a federal lawsuit against the city of Denver for violating their First Amendment right to freedom of speech.