Georgia

Georgia Cops Kill Innocent Man After Responding to Wrong Address

Georgia cops responding to a call of a woman in distress ended up responding to the wrong home, shooting and killing a 63-year-old man who had stepped into his garage with a gun to investigate what he thought were intruders.
Henry County police claim Sergeant Patrick Snook killed William David Powell because he ignored commands to drop his gun.

The Case of Tbilisi’s Kiwi Café and a Media Free-for-all

When something is reported too quickly and then widely distributed, with all reliable news outlets carrying the same story and quoting the same original source, beware. Take the recent case of the flying sausages. This now-infamous incident in Tbilisi’s Kiwi Cafe sounded to me like a prank. But then it got wide coverage in the US and UK, as if throwing sausages at vegans is some sort of geopolitical statement.

NDI Polling & Current Political Processes in Georgia Portend Trouble

Opinion polling is not an exact science, a more than a few embarrassed survey research polling companies in various countries have found out the hard way. But there is a difference between honest mistakes, based on sampling errors, and willful manipulation, based on completely ignoring the sample and research ethics.

Azerbaijan to perform military drills with Turkey, Georgia

Press TV – May 15, 2016 The Republic of Azerbaijan has declared joint military drills with Turkey and Georgia, a move which is likely to increase tensions with neighboring Armenia prior to talks with Yerevan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. “To increase the combat capabilities and combat readiness of the Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia, […]

Georgia Cop Admits to Being “Hit Man” for Criminal Gang in Federal Indictment

A Georgia cop admitted to being a hit man for a violent criminal gang called the Gangster Disciples, using his position as a law enforcement officer to tip off fellow ganger members about a planned police raid on a bar frequented by the gang.
Vancito Gumbs, who was forced to resign from the DeKalb County Police Department in October because he was involved in illegal drugs, was one of 32 people listed in an indictment unsealed in a federal court in Atlanta Wednesday.

Atlanta Cop Beats Man Over Purchased Tomato he Suspected was Stolen

 
An Atlanta man was severely beaten and hospitalized after a cop working as a security guard beat him with a baton over a tomato he had purchased.
After Tyrone Carnegay was hospitalized and cuffed to a hospital bed with a broken leg and a severed artery, Atlanta police took him to jail, where he spent three days before the charges were dropped.