I LOVE the Witness organization. Founded by Peter Gabriel, their mission is to help people create valid and admissible videotapes of wrongdoing by authorities. How can that not be great? It is totally turning everything on its head. Watching the people watching us. In...
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Police Brutality
Cops Get Away With Murder… Or Not (the Fleeing Felon Rule)
Finally. A cop is being treated like any normal citizen. Well, almost. It took a real live caught-in-the-act video to make this happen. The common thread in the so-called “expert” analysis is that if Officer Slager had not been caught on tape he never would have been...
iPhones Cause Police Brutality
It’s official. Cell phones cause police brutality. Incredible how that works. Just start shooting video and there they are, beating people to death, sitting on their chests until they suffocate, even gunning them down. It’s like bad magic. Just kidding. Except I’m...
WHEN CAN POLICE SEARCH MY CAR WITHOUT A WARRANT IN SEATTLE, OAK HARBOR, OR ON WHIDBEY ISLAND?
Oak Harbor, Seattle, and Whidbey Island Attorney Discusses the Validity of Car Searches. In America, it is acceptable for police officers to conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle when the officers have probable cause to believe that contraband, fruits of a crime,...
Washington Criminal Defense Attorneys focus on Police Brutality in Seattle
Members of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys (WACDL) are all buzzing over an article in the Seattle Times today that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Seattle Police Department regarding their “use of force” policies and...