Op-Ed, Letters and Editorial

To all those who may not know the true price of Liberty and Freedom is, here is just a small example of the price paid by those brave enough to take a stand against Tyranny and Tyrants whilst others did little of nothing.
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

An ex-Baltimore cop revealed the perverse problem with police prosecuting the War on Drugs.
He was addicted to heroin, while implementing mass-incarceration, drug arrest laws.
He was a Drug Warrior.
Humans of New York is a Facebook page with 17 million likes, which started as Brandon the photographer’s project to photograph 10,000 people in New York and plot them on a map.
HONY quickly gained worldwide acclaim for the short stories accompanying the images.

The high-ranking FBI Agent who was convicted for assaulting a teenager last year, shoving the 15-year-old down and pulling a gun on him while intervening in a custodial dispute that had nothing to do with him, was sentenced to probation Wednesday, meaning he will be allowed to keep his job.

Is this finally it?
Is the video of Noel Aguilar’s last moments finally the shocking police brutality video that makes the police accountability activists and police supporters unite in seeking comprehensive reform for those who wear the bases of authority in America?
I hope so.

Over the past year, MuckRock has been filing nationwide requests for the hard materials that connect the powers-that-be to their parasites.
It’s as much about what we can know as what we can’t know. And it requires putting money behind requests and feet on the ground.

It took Chicago Police over a year to release the video of Laquan McDonald. If a video is recorded and nobody sees it, then does the recording matter?
What if there wasn’t a whistleblower, a reporter and a lawyer who combined to sue on behalf of the public interest and gain release of the video depicting an officer shooting the teenager McDonald as he walked away from cops.