Police raid tavern, lock doors, forcibly search dozens of patrons
A scene from the raid on Louisville’s Cahoots bar. (Source: YouTube) LOUISVILLE, KY — Beverage control enforcers performed a surprise raid on a popular dive bar, detained dozens of people and forced...
View ArticleSecret Service may soon be searching bags at checkpoints blocks away from...
Secret Service outside the White House. (Source: Jewel Samad, AFP) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Secret Service is considering implementing pedestrian checkpoints and bag searches on sidewalks of the...
View ArticleTSA desecrates woman’s ashen remains during warrantless urn search
(Source: AP / Getty Images) CLEVELAND, OH — A man is suing the Transportation Security Administration because he says that TSA agents opened up a sealed urn and spilled his mother’s ashen remains into...
View ArticleDenver ‘Attack Team’ targets wrong family, slams teen’s head through window
The Martinez family of Denver were brutalized during a police raid on their home. DENVER, CO — A so-called ‘Attack Team’ negligently raided the wrong family and used violent tactics against a father...
View ArticleCounty justifies warrantless raids because cannabis plants are an ‘immediate...
The Scales of Justice LAKE COUNTY, CA — Hundreds of individuals in the county have come forward in a joint lawsuit alleging that police conducted warrantless searches and seizures of their property...
View ArticlePolice impose checkpoints, deploy drones at high school football game
At the entrance to a Summerville High School football game, police officers scan fans with metal detectors and examine personal belongings in a bin. (Photo: WCIV SUMMERVILLE, SC — Fans were startled...
View ArticleFBI agents cut internet access, pose as repairmen to perform warrantless search
LAS VEGAS, NV — To investigate a purported case of untaxed sports betting, federal agents turned off internet access to three luxury hotel suites then impersonated repair technicians to covertly get...
View ArticleArmed guards enforce city-wide quarantine of Muncie, Indiana (1893)
One of the confidence-inspiring smallpox hospitals in Muncie, Indiana, where the afflicted were quarantined for weeks. Source: Twelfth Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Health (Indianapolis,...
View ArticleU.S. Postal Service ‘mail imaging’ program used for law enforcement,...
(Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) The U.S. Postal Service runs a massive dragnet surveillance program of all the mail in the United States; enabling law enforcement to generate profiles of...
View ArticleCBP agents prone out disabled teacher for carrying legal items through...
A federal agent sniffs passing vehicles at a border checkpoint. MARFA, TX — A Texas teacher has filed a complaint against Customs and Border Patrol, citing multiple instances of being searched and...
View ArticlePolice invade Texas woman’s home for warrantless 3AM ‘welfare check’
Travis County (Texas) deputies interrogate Tori Thayer during a 3:00 a.m. welfare check. PFLUGERVILLE, TX — A woman has filed a formal complaint after police entered and searched her home — without...
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