How the FBI greenlighted the crackdown on Black Lives Matter
By Mara Verheyden-HilliardExecutive Director of the PCJF Originally published on Alternet The events of the past week have placed the country at a decisive moment.…
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Telling the truth after the Orlando massacre: Counter-terrorism funding and authority is systematically abused
No words can express the horror of the massacre in an Orlando gay bar that took the lives of 49 innocent people. We in the…
Washington Times: Donald Trump protesters, supporters to face off at Cleveland convention
Excerpt from Washington Times Cleveland’s security plans for the Republican National Convention include the deployment of more than 3,000 police officers, but security experts and…
KPFA covers “Activism is Not Terrorism” campaign
PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Chip Gibbons, Defending Dissent Legal Fellow, are interviewed on KPFA about the government’s spying on peaceful protest.
Exposed: ATF Spying on Occupy and ‘Known Anarchists and Protestors’ List
Newly released documents show that the ATF, an agency that is supposed to investigate crimes related to alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives — including a…
Exposed: FBI Surveillance of School of the Americas Watch
FBI used counter-terrorism authority to track pacifist human rights group for 10 years By Mara Verheyden-HilliardExecutive Director of thePartnership for Civil Justice Fund For a…
Huffington Post: With Police Body Cameras, D.C. Mayor Promises Transparency With Caveats
Reprint from the Huffington Post WASHINGTON — After months of policy debate, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled her proposed regulations for how the public…
New NPS Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained by the PCJF
Revelations Show Brookfield’s Security National Coordination Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield…
Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Laurel Police
The Laurel Police Department is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit charging an officer with publicly strip searching a man during a traffic stop based on racial profiling.
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Reposted from WBAL-TV (NBC) Baltimore LAUREL, Md. — A Prince George’s County man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Laurel, the Laurel Police Department,…
Fox 5 DC: Man files lawsuit claiming Laurel police officer strip searched him in parking lot
Reprint from Fox 5 DC It is a bizarre and troubling claim. Allan Sergeant said he was strip searched by a Laurel police officer in…
Suit Alleges Laurel Police Officer Illegally Strip-Searched Man
A Prince George's County man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Laurel, the Laurel Police Department, its chief and two of its officers after the man says he was subjected to an illegal search, seizure and visual strip search in public following a traffic stop.
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