Busy week in the land of Morons

•New Jersey state troopers investigated over disrespectful photos of them celebrating drug bust while waving Puerto Rican flag [1] http://bit.ly/FPqKrE

  •Collinsville IL cop shown manufacturing cause to search motorist’s vehicle in home video made by that motorist. While the video is long and somewhat cheesy, it’s impressive on how much effort and thought went into proving his case. [3] http://bit.ly/FPOMVm

   •Chicago IL cops detained reporters standing on a public sidewalk outside of a hospital while they tried to cover a story. The police were caught on camera telling them that “1st Amendment rights can be terminated if you’re creating a scene or whatever” and this appeared to be a case of “whatever” as the police said they were causing a scene just by standing there. [3] http://bit.ly/znrhgp

 

 •Miami FL SWAT team performed a heavily armed raid on unarmed Occupy protesters that was partially caught on video. The police claim they received reports they were arming themselves for the next protest but the protesters were released after searches & interrogations. [3] http://bit.ly/zKzhQO

 

•New York NY police are accused of a variety of abuses in their latest crackdown on Occupy protests and there are videos claiming to back some of these claims, including: [4] http://bit.ly/wPLyQR

    •Orlando FL cop suspended w/o pay for unspecified period of time for throwing a woman to the ground on video, breaking her teeth in the process. [0] http://bit.ly/zeghxl