Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Criticizing the Albuquerque Police Department for a well-documented history of police brutality and unjustified deadly force, the U.S. Justice Department painted a disturbing picture of the department. CNN reports that the report details police officers killing an unarmed drug store robber, a 19-year-old who was “motionless on his back” and a 25-year-old…
By The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board Crossing into the U.S. illegally is not a capital crime. Yet since 2010, some 20 people have been fatally shot by Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border. The head of the Border Patrol has taken the correct and necessary step of making clear to his agents that using…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI agent John Wilson didn’t have to see much. “That would not be good proper police procedure,” Wilson testified after watching a surveillance tape of the deadly police encounter, the Los Angeles Times reports. Wilson provided expert testimony in the trial of two Fullerton police officers who are charged in the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two border patrol agents who opened fire inside a Maine home while responding to a domestic disturbance in June were justified in using deadly force, the state Attorney General’s office said Tuesday, the Bangor Daily News reports. Investigators said the agents, James Tierney and Chris Demanski, returned fire after the home’s 75-year-old…
