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Glenn
Greenwald | The Horrors of Ferguson
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "The intensive militarization of America's police forces is a serious menace about which a small number of people have been loudly warning for years, with little attention or traction."
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Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "The intensive militarization of America's police forces is a serious menace about which a small number of people have been loudly warning for years, with little attention or traction."
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Missouri
Police Fire Teargas at Ferguson Protesters Defying Curfew
Jon Swaine and Rory Carroll, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Protesters chanted 'no justice, no curfew' and 'we are Mike Brown' as they gathered at midnight at one end of the street where unrest has centred. Dozens of officers, some carrying assault rifles, were still poised at the other end more than half an hour after the curfew began."
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Jon Swaine and Rory Carroll, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Protesters chanted 'no justice, no curfew' and 'we are Mike Brown' as they gathered at midnight at one end of the street where unrest has centred. Dozens of officers, some carrying assault rifles, were still poised at the other end more than half an hour after the curfew began."
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FBI Arrests NM
Sheriff, Son in Armed Assault of Motorist
Joseph Kolb, Reuters
Kolb writes: "FBI agents arrested a New Mexico sheriff and his son on Friday after the lawman allegedly pistol-whipped a motorist following a high-speed car chase."
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Joseph Kolb, Reuters
Kolb writes: "FBI agents arrested a New Mexico sheriff and his son on Friday after the lawman allegedly pistol-whipped a motorist following a high-speed car chase."
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The Peace
Corps' Sexual Assault Secret
Tim Mak, The Daily Beast
Mak writes: "The Peace Corps’ internal watchdog is publicly criticizing the agency for not releasing sexual assault records, which they say is disrupting oversight of an agency that has struggled in the past to protect its volunteers."
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Tim Mak, The Daily Beast
Mak writes: "The Peace Corps’ internal watchdog is publicly criticizing the agency for not releasing sexual assault records, which they say is disrupting oversight of an agency that has struggled in the past to protect its volunteers."
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Conviction in
a Post Katrina Murder by Police
Kevin McGill, Associated Press
McGill writes: "For a second time, a former New Orleans police officer has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for burning the body of a man shot to death by another New Orleans police officer in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina."
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Kevin McGill, Associated Press
McGill writes: "For a second time, a former New Orleans police officer has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for burning the body of a man shot to death by another New Orleans police officer in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina."
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Idaho Suspends
Wilderness Wolf-Killing Plan in Face of Court Challenge
Defenders of Wildlife
Excerpt: "Faced with a legal challenge by conservationists and an imminent hearing before a federal appeals court, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game ('IDFG') has abandoned its plan to resume a professional wolf-killing program in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness during the coming winter."
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Defenders of Wildlife
Excerpt: "Faced with a legal challenge by conservationists and an imminent hearing before a federal appeals court, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game ('IDFG') has abandoned its plan to resume a professional wolf-killing program in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness during the coming winter."
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After Bundy,
Ranchers Continue to Bully Federal Government Without
Consequence
Travis Bruner, The Wildlife News
Bruner writes: "While the Bureau of Land Management is required by federal law to protect wildlife habitat on our public lands, the agency has been woefully lax in addressing the combined impacts of livestock grazing and drought on habitat essential to sage-grouse, antelope, mule deer and countless other species."
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Travis Bruner, The Wildlife News
Bruner writes: "While the Bureau of Land Management is required by federal law to protect wildlife habitat on our public lands, the agency has been woefully lax in addressing the combined impacts of livestock grazing and drought on habitat essential to sage-grouse, antelope, mule deer and countless other species."
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