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  • Officer Tasers woman, 72, during traffic stop

    06/10/2009 11:35:11 AM PDT · by rarestia · 75 replies · 2,099+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Jun 10 2009 | AP
    She dared a deputy constable to shock her with a Taser. So, he did. Watch Video of Incident HereVideo released by a Travis County Constable's Office shows Deputy Chris Bieze confronting 72-year-old Kathryn Winkfein after stopping her for speeding on May 11 just outside Austin. Video from a camera mounted in the deputy's car shows Winkfein cursing and challenging the deputy and even daring him to use the Taser on her. "You're going to shove me? You're going to shove a 72-year-old woman?" she yelled. Winkfein told KTBC-TV in Austin that she did nothing to provoke the use of the...
  • Rodney King Forgives Officers Who Beat Him

    03/02/2009 10:44:23 PM PST · by Chet 99 · 36 replies · 1,503+ views
    At first glance, VH1'a Sober House, like its predecessor, Celebrity Rehab, appears to be exploitative reality TV at it's worst -- stars hitting their bottoms and relapsing, going on drama-fueled drug binges. But there are moments on Sober House that are not only real and touching, they are even cathartic. In the most recent episode with Rodney King, the moment is downright historic. In this clip King revisits the site of his infamous beating. He forgives the officers who beat him and prays for the people who died during the riots. More than a decade later, Los Angeles is still...
  • LIVE THREAD: Berkeley Support Marines/Military Rally---Anti American Mob Assaulting Patriots

    02/12/2008 7:15:05 AM PST · by Syncro · 2,320 replies · 1,883+ views
    The Institute of Phenomonology ^ | Feb 12, 2008 | Dr. Zoo
  • MELANIE MORGAN: ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE? (Berkeley Mayor - Free Speech Thief)

    02/04/2008 9:29:59 AM PST · by Syncro · 35 replies · 14,131+ views
    MelanieMorgan.Com ^ | Feb 2, 2008 | Melanie Morgan
    ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE? Written by Melanie Morgan    Saturday, 02 February 2008 Berkeley Mayor - Free Speech Thief BERKELEY – Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, convicted of stealing 1,000 free newspapers from the Daily Californian newsstands in 2002, is at it again.The Mayor is attempting to steal the free speech rights of the United States Marine Corps by harassing the recruiting center into abandoning its lease.   Move America Forward has launched a petition drive denouncing the Mayor and the Council, while demanding an apology to the USMC at its website www.moveamericaforward.comThe response was so overwhelming it crashed the site...
  • Shots fired as sealers, protesters clash

    04/01/2005 11:36:25 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 17 replies · 731+ views
    CBC News ^ | April 1, 2005
    FREDERICTON - Rifle shots were fired into the air Friday during a confrontation between sealers and protesters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the north coast of Prince Edward Island. The shots were fired by someone aboard the vessel after abuse shouted by about a half-dozen sealers escalated into a shoving match with protesters. The activists then retreated to their helicopters.