Discovery Bay government will no longer accept cash in payment of all services including water bills and park reservations. Its for the concern of public employees who are at threat from thieves. Of course there never has been an incident of such a threat. Of course it is also mentioned that some people have been using cash to remain anonymous when requesting public records. The local government wants to know who is requesting public documents. This is most likely the real reason. It received four public information requests anonymously last fall.

One of the men, who was driving, said members of the Red Dog unit pulled over his vehicle and forced him to pull down his pants on the side of the road in broad daylight, as officers conducted a search for drugs. No drugs were ever found, driver Brian Kidd said.

Kidd told Philips that his roommate, Shawn Venegas, was also subjected to a body cavity search that left him feeling uncomfortable.

"I feel molested, and I feel like I was raped," Venegas told Philips over the phone.

Cops continue collecting full pay and overtime pay while on suspension for wrongfully beating a 17 y/o because they saw him walking down the street with a Mountain Dew bottle, and "thought" it was a gun. Feds dragging the case out as long as they can to make it pass the statute of limitations so the kid can't collect.

Police Chief-turned-District Attorney George Gascón is drafting a plan to remake San Francisco's swamped criminal justice system by moving thousands of petty offenders into a network of volunteer-run community courts. "In many cases, we are criminalizing people we don't need to," Gascón said, adding that the current system is financially "unsustainable."

Draconian big brother crap, and fascist government policies are making Nazi Germany references all-too-easy. Does the political class really need to start employing airships, too?

However, she also spends a great deal of time in the letter blaming the FBI for what happened, saying that the lives of "two families were changed forever, because of the unnecessary tactics of the FBI."

"I have never denied that I was the one who fired that fateful shot that morning and am taking on that responsibility. I still have not heard the FBI taking any responsibility in all of this because they refuse to accept that their unnecessary actions played an integral part," she wrote.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) has promised to introduce new gun-control legislation in response to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ).

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US ~ GREENFIELD, Calif. — Police in California say a man was killed after officers threw a flash grenade into a house during a raid while looking for another man who was suspected in a shooting.

The Monterey County coroner tells the Salinas Californian that 31-year-old Rogelio Serrato was the victim of a fire started Wednesday by a diversionary flash grenade used by police.

Monterey police raided the Greenfield house in their search for 23-year-old Alejandro Jose Gonzalez, whom they were seeking in connection with a New Year's Day shooting...

Citizens planning class-action suit over municipal grow-op inspections.

Diabetic man mistaken for drunk driver gets his ass kicked by cops.