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A small California city came into national view this week after a late-night host publicized its police department’s widespread surveillance network and questioned why its cameras had recorded a hotel property and its pool “for hundreds of hours.” In response, the spokesperson for the police department in Rialto, an Inland Empire city east of Los Angeles, downplayed concerns, saying the footage was only “passive monitoring.” John Oliver, host of “Last Week Tonight” on HBO, delivered a segment on police surveillance technology on Sunday. The comedian took jabs at several systems that have proliferated across the Bay Area, including Flock, the...

RICHFIELD, Wis. — A 69-year-old man flew a helicopter from the Rosendale area to a Cabela’s store in Richfield on Saturday evening because “the drive was too long,” the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said. A sheriff’s deputy responded about 6 p.m. to a report that a helicopter had landed in the Cabela’s parking lot in the Village of Richfield. The deputy contacted the pilot, a 69-year-old Rosendale man, who said he had flown to the sporting goods store. The drive from Rosendale to Richfield takes about 50 minutes. The sheriff’s office said the pilot was properly licensed, landed safely and...

A Tucson man is seeking $176 million in monetary damages from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department after deputies entered his home and shot him, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. Attorneys representing 24-year-old Axeel Melendez and his mother, Carmen Melendez, filed a notice of claim against Sheriff Chris Nanos and his department last week, informing the county they intend to sue. ... “Our justice system recognizes the dignity of a human life and the importance of the completeness of your body. Axeel’s health, his independence, his ability to earn a living, his sense of security, that’s all been stolen...

MADISON, Wis. -- Madison police arrested a man Wednesday evening who they said punched and pushed protesters at the intersection where Corey Ruiz was shot and killed. Police said the 31-year-old man entered the intersection of Williamson and Baldwin streets at around 5:15 p.m. and began cursing at the crowd and kicking signs. He pushed one person and punched another. Officers were reportedly able to view the incident as it was happening using a police drone. Protest organizers were able to detain the man and called police for assistance. The man was arrested and faces charges of substantial battery, battery...

An Arizona man burst into flames when a cop tasered him next to a gas pump that caught fire, horrifying footage shows. Clarence Coyl suffered burns across his hands after igniting when the federal wildlife officer deployed the stun gun at Thalypo gas station on July 16. The lawman had followed him to the store after catching him allegedly driving with a friend through an open gate at Havasu National Wildlife Refuge 20 minutes earlier. Coyl told Fox 10 Phoenix: “He goes, ‘You guys came through the gate, didn’t you? Leave now. Get out of here.’ “I’m like, ‘OK’ and...

Sacramento County paid a $1.62 million settlement to the family of a man who died after a police chase, after law enforcement officials allegedly blocked paramedics from rendering aid for two and a half hours. The October agreement settles part of a federal lawsuit regarding the 2021 death of Amelian Houff, 20, of Hayward. The case against the Sacramento Police Department, which is also named as a defendant in the suit, is still ongoing.

A major American gun manufacturer is turning restrictive gun laws back on the law-enforcement agencies that benefit from special exemptions. CMMG says police departments in gun-ban states should not receive firearms, magazines, suppressors, or configurations that ordinary citizens are prohibited from owning—unless agency leadership is willing to take a public stand.In this video, we break down CMMG’s law-enforcement sales policy, what it actually means for AR-15 ban states, why police exemptions create a major Second Amendment contradiction, and whether other firearm manufacturers could follow. We also examine how law enforcement may respond, the Founders’ concerns about government monopolizing effective arms,...

Police in Florida arrested a man and held him in jail for nearly three months based on a bad facial recognition result. It's far from the first time such a thing has happened—in fact, it's at least the second time that the same sheriff's office was involved, according to Action News Jax. In April 2025, a man in Jacksonville, Florida, purchased a car from someone he met in a grocery store parking lot. When he learned the car was stolen, he reported the crime to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Using surveillance footage from the parking lot, investigators ran the suspect...

Atlanta News First Investigates obtained surveillance video and police records that tell a different story than the one the public heard.

A Fort Worth police officer telling retired police officer and Christian street preacher that he could receive a citation if someone was “offended” by his speech during a Pride event (Screenshot: Sarah Fields/X) The radical left’s war on Christianity and the First Amendment has officially reached a terrifying new flashpoint in the Lone Star State. The encounter, which was first reported by investigative reporter Sarah Fields, has sparked renewed debate over the First Amendment and whether law enforcement can lawfully punish constitutionally protected speech simply because another person finds it offensive According to a video from the June 27 Trinity...

K9 Police Service Dog (K9 PSD) Vethos of the Junction City Police Department (JCPD), who passed away while on duty on Monday, July 6, 2026, was found unresponsive in a K9-equipped patrol vehicle. Preliminary findings indicate the cause of death was heat exposure. The JCPD requested on Tuesday, July 7 that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) conduct an independent third-party investigation to determine all facts surrounding this incident. The JCPD has said they will cooperate fully with the investigation. K9 PSD Vethos’ handler has been put on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation per JCPD standard operating...

Citizen Vigilante star Armie Hammer is out spreading the word in Woke Hollywood that he considers his own movie to be “hateful” and “disgusting.” “The first time he saw it, he was in tears,” someone described as a “source in Hammer’s camp” told the far-left Puck. “He called me and said, ‘F*ck. This is hateful, disgusting.’” “I think he knew it certainly leaned toward the right, but Uwe works in a very frantic way,” the source added. “It’s not like he sent him a hundred-page script. When he saw the final product, he was, ‘That was not the movie I...

VIDEOS AT LINK.......... Conservative activist and livestreamer “Tommy TV” has reported that Antifa members violently attacked his home in Oregon at 3:30 in the morning on Monday. According to his account posted on X, the attackers threw a brick through the bedroom window and sprayed bear mace directly into the room, hitting him, his wife, and their dog. He also said all the tires on the family’s vehicle were slashed, something he says has happened before. Tommy described the incident as terrorism and blamed it on his work documenting Antifa violence and their calls for attacks on ICE agents and...

🇺🇸 𝗧 𝗢 𝗠 𝗠 𝗬 ✦ 𝗧 𝗔 𝗧 𝗨 𝗠 ✦ 𝗡 𝗘 𝗪 𝗦@BenKaxton·21hhttps://x.com/BenKaxton/status/1898841128478408915/video/1 The FBI had Google send me an email to me saying they scanned my drive folder and determined a very rare J6 video I had was “mis info” after I posted a portion of it and it went viral. (It has DHS assets in it) They are trying to save their assets on the way out the door. Here is that viral video. If you know what you are seeing it vindicates ANY level of violence witnessed in or around the tunnel that...

Check out the utter state of policing in the UK. The guys surrounded. The mob circling him are clearly the aggressors. Right. So, he's being closelined to the floor, punched in the face. Guess who the female cop decides to tackle? Oh, you just knew it was coming, didn't you? The people who attacked him get away. Then this happens. I mean, fair enough. That was pretty dumb. Some people in the comments claimed he was just reacting and didn't even know it was a copper. I don't know about that, but if she hadn't charged into the wrong guy,...

Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's efforts to enact a sweeping gun-control agenda have been placed on hold by courts in June, while the state Legislature pushed back the effective date of another law. Since Thursday, judges in Lancaster County and Washington County issued preliminary injunctions preventing enforcement of a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms, while Spanberger had to request that the state Legislature delay the effective date of a ban on carrying such firearms. The National Rifle Association trumpeted their legal success in a Monday evening post on X. "The NRA's world-class legal team delivered a clear, powerful argument demonstrating...

Street preachers Richard Penkoski and David Grisham allege Fort Worth police officers violated their First Amendment rights during Trinity Pride Fest on June 27 by preventing them from preaching on public streets and sidewalks surrounding the event and later issuing one of them a citation for disorderly conduct related to noise. ... Video of the encounter spread quickly on X after Carlos Turcios of The Dallas Express posted footage from the event. By Monday morning, the post appeared as the No. 2 item in X’s News category, according to a screenshot reviewed by The Dallas Express. Elon Musk replied to...

BUCKEYE, AZ — A former Buckeye police officer is headed to trial on 2 counts of aggravated assault after internal investigations documented what supervisors described as excessive and unnecessary force against people who were handcuffed and in custody. Carri Carrico, who resigned from the Buckeye Police Department earlier this month, was indicted by a grand jury on May 27, 2026 on 2 counts of aggravated assault — one count connected to each of two separate incidents. She entered a not guilty plea at her arraignment earlier this week. Her trial is scheduled for November. Her attorney declined to comment. ABC15...

Louisiana pastor beats up a man who allegedly threatened to r*pe and kill his wife and grandchildren. VIDEO AT LINK.............. GIVE ME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION!...............

Elect this man to lead something. LISTEN: Jacob Rockwell was fined for running a red light in Pensacola, Florida. Only thing is Jacob wasn’t in Florida, he was in Alabama. He sounded off at a local city meeting recently and his concerns go beyond just one citation. pic.twitter.com/kXSlzaLCLI— The Facts Dude 🤙🏽 (@Thefactsdude) June 22, 2026That's Pensacola resident Jacob Rockwell. He was out of town in March and someone else was borrowing his vehicle. Rockwell doesn't dispute that this other individual ran the red light. His problem is the seemingly-insane bureaucratic process to try and prove that he wasn't the...