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San Antonio cops investigating PINAC correspondent Phillip Turner during one of his routine First Amendment audits in Texas got the silent treatment last week for the second time as he recorded outside the Randolph Air Force Base.
“I’ve actually filmed the base twice,” Turner explained.
“I think it’s important for cop watchers to utilize their Fifth Amendment right. A lot of times we (cop watchers) jump to our First Amendment or the Fourth Amendment, but we really don’t exercise that Fifth Amendment,” he said.

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office wants to make one thing clear; the black man they shot and killed Friday night as he was eating chicken wings was not just shot by white deputies.

Ohio cops are expected to pay $780,000 in a settlement deal pending Columbus City Council’s approval after an officer shot a 4-year-old in the leg while trying to shoot her dog that her family says was retreating from the porch when the officer unnecessarily fired his gun.
He then fled the scene.
Instead of rendering aid and making sure the child was OK, officer Jonathan Thomas then walked down the driveway, got in his patrol car and left the scene without administering aid or making sure an ambulance was on the way.

A West Virginia cop was fired after failing to kill a man who wanted to be killed.
Stephen Mader said he was only trying to deescalate the situation, but Weirton Police Chief Rob Alexander accused him of placing the lives of other officers in danger.
One of those other officers had to kill the man himself by firing a bullet into the back of his head.

Texas cops called a helicopter on PINAC correspondent Phillip Turner for recording the Texas Department of Public Safety building from a public sidewalk, later accusing him of having scouts spying on them in the bushes and possibly planting explosives.
“It’s not cheap to fly these helicopters. It’s amazing they responded this way,” said Turner.
Video footage from the air, obtained by Turner through a public records request, shows a helicopter circling him as he recorded footage of the building from a public sidewalk.

In a systematic breakdown, 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen was left in a cold detention cell to die. All while the guards that were suppose to be checking on her instead ate her breakfast.
McMillen was in custody regarding a domestic altercation with family. She died after just 17 hours in custody.
Now, the family is filing a lawsuit in excess of $75,000 against the Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center and all employees involved in the supervision of McMillen.
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A South Florida woman is regretting calling police on her brother for a family dispute after they showed up and killed him Saturday night.
“I never would have called the cops if I’d known this was going to happen,” Deborah Frazier told the Broward-Palm Beach Times.
“They just came in and started shooting right away.”
Broward County sheriff’s deputies say they were in fear for their lives when they shot Gregory Frazier because he was holding a knife.

PINAC reporter Jeff Gray was enjoying some traveling with his family in central Georgia when he decided to slip away to conduct a seatbelt audit on the Warner Robins Police Department, which is where he stands on public property outside the department to record officers as they drive away to see if they are wearing seat belts.
After all, not only does state law require all drivers to wear seat belts, most law enforcement agencies, including this one, have departmental policies also requiring the use of seat belts.

A California security guard who pulled a gun on an Apple engineer for running over a traffic cone as he was trying to exit a shopping mall parking lot is facing a civil lawsuit seeking damages in part because the mall guard wasn’t even licensed to be carrying a gun.
Nicholas Buchanan, 27, an Apple engineer who resides in San Jose, is seeking damages for inflicting emotional distress, assault, false imprisonment negligence and violation of the “Bane Act,”which alleges a cop violated someone’s constitutional rights by threats or intimidation.

Less than four months after Louisiana gave cops hate crime victim status with the nation’s first Blue Live Matters bill, New Orleans police made what appears to be the state’s first arrest under that law Monday.
A drunk man who yelled racist and sexist slurs at officers after they arrested him for disorderly conduct and damaging property in the French Quarter