Gangsters in Blue

• Weird case in Denver, where a woman ran over a process server with her car, and the server was charged with a felony misdemeanor.
• Dan Savage introduces the “It Gets Better” Project. It’s a touching, empowering idea. (Note: Changed this to a better link about the project.)
• Idiot Pennsylvania legislator is attempting to ban the use of synthetic marijuana in cancer research. Really sets a new bar in the “Better Dead Than High” meme.
• In which Charles Bronson sells cologne to the Japanese.
• Textbook protectionism: “Inside D.C.’s Food-Truck Wars.”
• The myth of income inequality.

By C. Rutledge Wilson, contributor Seven days from now is an important moment for an Arkansas man named Damien Echols, the only member of the infamous “West Memphis Three” to be given the death penalty by an Arkansas jury. Echols’ legal team will be presenting oral arguments before the Arkansas State Supreme Court in Little Rock [...]

In 2005, Randle Miles was stabbed in Chicago. He went to the local hospital for treatment and, when he felt that the staff wasn’t helping him quickly enough, he began to mouth off. The hospital staff called the police who sent officer Bill Cozzi to deal with the dispute. Cozzi decided that the best way [...]

Over at Hit & Run…..

Over at Hit & Run…..

In Pittsburgh, a drunk cop committed a hit-and-run against a 22-year-old man who was forced to undergo brain surgery as a result of his injuries. The DA decided not to charge the officer for fleeing the scene because he eventually came back. If that story didn’t get your blood pumping, check this one out. A few [...]

This infographic was put together by Term Life Insurance. It’s based on Injustice Everywhere’s National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project. Click to enlarge.

• Office of Inspector General says FBI lied to Congress about spying on anti-war groups. As Dan Gillmour said in his Twitter feed, if the FBI were Major League Baseball, and the lying was about steroids, there would be a huge investigation, much grandstanding, and high-profile perjury indictments. But we’re talking about other government officials lying to Congress, and they lied about violations of civil liberties of mere citizens. So Congress will do nothing.
• Hotel tosses couple after a bad review on TripAdvisor. The resulting publicity isn’t going to help the hotel’s rating.
• Jack Shafer looks at a fascinating new bio of investigative journalist Jack Anderson.
• Drunk cop strikes pedestrian, causing injuries requiring brain surgery. Cop then flees the scene, returns later. He’s not arrested, but put on paid leave during the ensuing investigation. DA then announced the cop won’t face charges for fleeing the scene, because he later came back. They are at least charging him with DUI.
• One of the Mobile Home Diaries guys, now doing a project called Liberty on Tour, gets arrested in Las Vegas.
• Indianapolis city council considering some reasonable-sounding transparency and accountability measures for the city’s police department. Of course, the same article says the city also banned synthetic marijuana.

Good piece by Radley Balko in Reason on how to legally, economically, and effectively utilize technology to record the police.

In case you missed all the updates on Liberty On Tour and our Facebook page, Adam was arrested in Las Vegas yesterday. He was released earlier this evening. Over at Reason Magazine, Radley Balko offers some good advice to people on filming the police. You’ve probably heard criticisms of the US government trying to act as “world [...]