On September 9th, 2022, at approximately 1:40 a.m. Prescott Police Officers responded to residential apartments located in the 1100 block of East Gurley Street regarding a trespassing in progress. Upon arrival, officers learned that the male subject had knocked on the door of the apartment and was greeted by the tenant. The suspect, not known
Kansas lawmakers were thinking of homeowners facing down burglars and people attacked on the street when they wrote a “stand your ground” law more than a decade ago allowing use of deadly force in self defense. They didn’t envision it applying to police officers, jail guards or government employees. Now even some Republicans in the
Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. Convicted of assaulting a police officer while being arrested, she was placed on probation yet never received notice that she’d finished the term
From the arrest of Rodney King to the George Floyd incident, videos of police arrests have incited a public uproar. Beside the fact that the media keeps pouring gas on the fire by re-showing these videos, ad nauseum, they always make law enforcement officers look like brutal Neanderthals. That is because taking someone into custody,
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