A SWAT team investigating a young man allegedly in possession of a small quantity of drugs tossed a flash grenade into a baby’s crib, leaving a hole in his chest with critical burns in a pool of blood in a singed crib. The police denied the mother access to her burned child while they ravaged the house looking for...
Continue ReadingFollowing a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU of Florida, it has come to light that Florida police have been concealing the use of “stingrays,” which are essentially dummy cell towers that trick individuals’ cellphones into pinging through these fake towers, in order to collect personal information without the consent or knowledge of those being tracked. From...
Continue ReadingWe all know that Driving Under the Influence or Driving While Intoxicated is a serious kind of charge, with substantial consequences for those accused. But how does this kind of infraction make its way through the North Carolina legal process? Local affiliate WRAL maintains some basic resources on Raleigh DUI/DWI law on its web site. These practical summaries of...
Continue ReadingAlong with an emergence of new Raleigh, North Carolina nightlife, local law enforcement is getting serious about enforcing DWIs through an enhanced system of sobriety checkpoints. Local reporting online from February shows a consistent framework of sobriety checkpoints that apparently have been initiated, in part, by previous DWI court cases. In addition to the traditional sobriety checkpoint, reporters are...
Continue ReadingA disturbing event at a local Raleigh area department store shows the kinds of abuses of power that sometimes happened when private sector security staff become involved in altercations with public citizens. News from the NewsObserver online in February shows a chilling incident at a local Belk store, where a security staff person allegedly tried to extort sex by...
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