Wednesday, January 27, 2010

NYC Police Accused of 'Anal Assault' Over Marijuana Use

New York City police have arrested over 300,000 people for low-level marijuana possession since 1997, sometimes employing outrageous methods to humiliate citizens.

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Yesterday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, Michael Mineo took the stand to describe in detail his harrowing experience on a Brooklyn subway station in 2008: being held down by three New York City police officers and sodomized with a foreign object.”

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Another Societal Transformation: Will the Nation Survive this One?

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