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Fearing the worse from a pair of Middle Eastern men speaking Arabic boarding the same plane as him, a man shared his concerns with a flight attendant who quickly had the men removed from the flight.
However, the two men, Maher Khalil and Anas Ayyad, accused Southwest airlines of discrimination and called police.
When police arrived,  they interrogated the men and eventually determined that they did not have any malicious intent, allowing them to board the plane and fly from Chicago to Philadelphia where they run a pizza parlor.

On October 27, YouTube terminated the main channel of Photography is Not a Crime, claiming the channel posts too many videos that are “violent or graphic content that appears to be posted in a shocking, sensational, or disrespectful manner.”
Because of that, PINAC lost hundreds of videos it had posted on the channel.
The videos found on the PINAC YouTube channel are typically also aired by national and local television news stations now that police violence has become national news.

After more than a decade of accusations of abusing citizens, falsifying reports and planting drugs and weapons, the Michigan police officer known as Robocop was convicted today, putting an end to his less than stellar law enforcement career.
And it was only because the incident was captured on dash cam video.
William Melendez, who was fired from the Inkster Police Department in April after a dash cam video surfaced showing him pull over and beat a man named Floyd Dent, was found guilty of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and of misconduct in office.

In a controversial ruling this morning, Judge Melissa Phinn rendered a not guilty verdict to a Baltimore police officer accused of killing a dog by slitting its throat last year.
Jeffrey Bolger, who has since retired from the department, was found not guilty on all charges, including animal cruelty, mutilating an animal and misconduct in office in connection with the June 2014 killing of a Shar-Pei dog named Nala.

For 16 grueling hours, Riverside Sheriff’s Deputies kept their guns trained at a home in Southern California, ready to battle it out with a gunman inside.
It was a dangerous scene, they told neighbors, forcing residents to evacuate their homes and forcing them off the block for their safety.
With a helicopter hovering above and an armored car parked outside, deputies used their megaphone to communicate with the armed suspects inside.

We knew it wouldn’t be long before Minneapolis police forced the Black Lives Matter protesters off their property, where they had set up an encampment Sunday after officers shot a 24-year-old unarmed man who witnesses say was handcuffed.

Canadian police claim they were responding to a call about a burglar with a knife when they encountered  a random man in a parking lot and ordered him down at gunpoint, proceeding to kick, punch and knee him repeatedly in a disturbing incident caught on video.
“I didn’t do anything,” yelled Santokh Bola. “Officer please. Let me go please.”
“I beg you!”
Turns out, Bola had no knife nor was he burglarizing any homes.
And Toronto police had no excuse other than to say he matched a description.

A Los Angeles police officer named Mejia struck a pedestrian crossing the street Tuesday, leaving him injured in the street for 30 minutes before paramedics arrived.
The officer was on his way to another emergency call pertaining to an officer in need of assistance
The black male pedestrian was struck at the intersection of 6th and Springs Street.
(Credit: jasmyneacannick.com)

A California state attorney was arguing with another attorney in court when a bailiff walked up to her, ordered her out, then grabbed her by the wrists and swung her to the floor.
Her crime: “speaking loudly” and “acting in an unprofessional manner” towards the opposing attorney.
Apparently, this bailiff hasn’t learned that is routine behavior for attorneys.
The incident took place October 20, but video of the incident was released this week.

Fearing transparency would place officers’ lives at risk, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday that would make it illegal to release the names of officers under investigation for shooting or abusing citizens in the line of duty.
The only exception would be if the officer ends up charged with a crime.
But considering how rare that happens, even when the names of officers are released, we should expect a decrease in police accountability in the Keystone State.