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Federal agents detained a Wall Street Journal reporter for more than an hour at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday, demanding she hand over her two cell phones to allow them to “collect information.”
When the reporter balked, citing her right to protect her sources, Homeland Security agents showed her a document stating they had the legal right to seize electronic devices without a warrant or probable cause within 100 miles of the border.

Oregon police are facing scrutiny on social and news media after a video posted to Facebook last week showed five Ashland police officers piling on top of a homeless autistic man because he had the nerve to inform them they were violating federal law by harassing and ticketing his friend for having a disability service dog in public.
Ashland police charged the man who goes by “Redwood” with disturbing the peace, interfering with an officer and resisting arrest, which are charges commonly used by police in contempt of cop cases across the country.

North Miami police shot Charles Kinsey, even though he had his hands up and was begging them not to shoot him.
But police were not taking any chances because Kinsey’s companion, a 24-year-old autistic man, was holding a toy truck, which they feared could be a gun.
It was a tense 15 minutes as Kinsey lay on his back, his hands in the air, yelling at the officers that the toy truck was not a gun. Telling them that the man holding the toy truck was developmentally disabled. And informing them that he was the man’s caretaker.

A self-described Facebook evangelist with a previous history encouraging violence is receiving backlash from thousands of commenters after he posted a video threatening gun violence against those who try to harm police, urging fellow Christians to also take up arms to protect these “super heroes.”

It took two months but authorities arrested two police officers Tuesday who were caught on video beating a suspect after he had surrendered.
The beating took place on May 11 after a high-speed car chase that spanned two states; an adventure that ended in New Hampshire when suspect Richard Simone stopped his truck on a dead-end street, stepped out and fell to his knees in attempt to lay down on the ground.

Fearing for his life, a South Carolina sheriff’s deputy pulled a gun on a man who walked up to him with a phone while recording, asking him for his name and badge number.
The man with the camera, who goes by Trey Citizen on YouTube, had both hands on his phone, which is evident in the reflection of the window.
He also had the sense to hold the phone horizontally, so he obviously put some thought into this.
But the deputy, no doubt on edge after recent police slayings, pulled out his gun and pointed it at him.

Arizona police officers were wearing body cameras when they shot and killed a man last week, claiming they were in fear for their lives.
However, they did not turn the cameras on until after they shot and killed Donald S. Myers.
Flagstaff police explained on its Facebook page that Corporal Michael Lavelle forgot to turn his camera on “due to the intensity of the moment.”
Nevertheless, the body camera he was wearing captures a 30-second buffer of footage before the camera was activated just in case the officers fails to turn it on.

Almost two weeks have passed since the shooting of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and police continue to stall the release of video from officer body cameras as well as the Triple S Food Mart surveillance cameras, the latter which they seized without a warrant.

A Texas woman who stepped out of her apartment to record police trying to enter her neighbor’s apartment ended up assaulted by an officer who claimed he was only doing it for her safety.
Rosenberg police officer Adam Vasquez told her since she was already a victim of assault, he had the right to assault her again.
But the woman, Sydney Tawater, insisted she was not a victim of assault. At least not until she was assaulted by the Texas cop.
She insists she was only trying to record the officers, which is her First Amendment right.

A Florida sheriff’s deputy seized a man’s phone without a warrant after arriving with Department of Children and Families workers to seize a woman’s children, who were also apparently seized without a warrant.
Shortly after they arrived at her Fort Myers home on July 11, the deputy allegedly punched Jasmine Aguilera’s friend, Waldemar Suarez, then spun her around so she wouldn’t witness her children being taken by the state.