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"Diop Kamau was a cop in California when his father was roughed up during a traffic stop by officers from another police department.

That incident prompted Kamau to quit his job as an officer and begin a new career documenting police abuses on videotape, especially those involving racial profiling, since he and his father are black.

This happened in the late 1980s, well before the internet began regularly broadcasting police abuse videos and even before the infamous Rodney King video.

Today, he runs a website titled Police Abuse where he frequently posts videos of these encounters."

Police expect citizens to comply with their demands, and contempt of cop is the most common cause for abuse. When police ask you to stop recording them or to give them your identification, what can you do?...

Needless to say, there were a lot of videos of police misconduct released this year and that appears to be a trend due to a combination of the diligence of a populous armed with now-commonplace hand-held video technology and the expansion of surveillance and on-board dashcams in police vehicles.

As police continue to blatantly steal and destroy cameras from citizens without any legal authority whatsoever, it is essential to store our video footage online so it can accessed regardless of what happens to our cameras.

Russia has taken an unfortunate step into its police-state past with a new law that grants the state's security service broad powers to jail people simply on suspicion that they may be about to engage in illegal activity.

The FSB has now regained a power that its feared predecessor agency, the KGB, had under the Soviet Union. This has been a consistent pattern under Vladimir Putin, who, first as president, then as prime minister, has steadily restored the power and prestige of the security agencies, at the expense, many say, of Russia's fragile democracy.

Enrty for InfoWars.com Naked Body Scanner Protest Contest. If you pay attention you'll notice that a city employee tells her "his boss is calling the cops" The Police claim it was an "Offended Citizen" so the no longer has the right to protest topless in a city where it is legal to be topless. Thanks APD, you just made the video that much better.

"Federal officials say the officers denied Latino residents and their advocates the right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures, the right to not be arrested and detained without probable cause and the right to not be arrested on false and misleading evidence."

Wow, it looks like they've finally identified the bad apples that were spoiling the whole bunch! Isn't it exciting? By this time next week, the police will be back to protecting and serving the public once more. Phew! I was worried that "we" were becomming a police state - but this article has set my mind at ease.

A man was arrested after police said they pieced together his identity from videos posted on YouTube.

The Renton City Prosecutor wants to send a cartoonist to jail for mocking the police department in a series of animated Internet videos. The "South-Park"-style animations parody everything from officers having sex on duty to certain personnel getting promoted without necessary qualifications. While the city wants to criminalize the cartoons, First Amendment rights advocates say the move is an "extreme abuse of power."