Freelance photojournalist Mannie Garcia — an Oval Office regular for 19 years who shot the Obama portrait appropriated in Shepard Fairey’s Hope posters — is considering filing a civil rights lawsuit against the police in Maryland. When documenting a suspicious arrest, he was brutally assaulted by armed bullies in uniform, but that was just the beginning of his Kafkaesque nightmare. Read more »
A month after the NYPD sort-of apologized for pushing and hassling a photographer, here comes a new video shot at an Occupy Oakland protest. Watch a photographer get arrested for complying with police orders. Read more »
The girls from the Ukrainian topless protest crew FEMEN speak out after allegedly being kidnapped, humiliated, threatened, forced to undress and beaten in a Minsk forest, abuse which they say was perpetrated and filmed by the Belorussian KGB. Yes, they still call it “KGB.” Read more »
We weren’t quite sure what to make of it yesterday when FEMEN activists and professional havoc-makers went “missing” after a topless, theatrical stunt aimed at Belorussia’s dictator-ish leader. Now, FEMEN’s Inna Shevchenko claims they were kidnapped, humiliated, threatened and assaulted by the Minsk Police. Read more »
Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly went on Bill O’Reilly’s show recently to comment on the “Pepper Spraying Cop” scandal at UC Davis and to inform us that “It’s a food product, essentially.” Oh! Right! On that note, ANIMAL made this reminder for you guys. Read more »
Although the notoriously misleading Post claims it was NYPD officers who were brutalized after a rap concert earlier this week, the videos offer a much different perspective, as do the hip hop impresarios who held the concert.
By now you’ve probably heard about Emily Good, a 28-year-old Rochester woman who was arrested earlier this year for videotaping a routine police traffic stop in front of her house on her OWN property. The police said she presented a threat, which of course was bullshit and prosecutors dropped the charge against her. Read more »
Last night, legendary hip hop group Smif-N-Wessun (and Pete Rock) held an album release party at Tammany Hall in the LES. When the show ended and crowds poured out onto Orchard Street, the NYPD struck and they struck hard. Read more »
Since the arrest of Voina artist Kozlenok at a monthly “illegal,” but Constitutional human rights march on March 31st, videos of a swarm of special forces cops shoving and scuffling with Leonid, Oleg, baby Kasper and other anarchists emerged (see below). Since then, Kozlenok and other activists broke out of a police van and are now on the run. Read more »
Yesterday’s Strategy-31 protest march, Russia’s monthly “unsanctioned” public assembly in support of Russians’ Constitutional right to public assembly ended in arrests – a record 150 in Moscow! – and police beatings. Read more »
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