Oklahoma Deputies Steal $141,500 From Men Trying To Buy Land, Manage To Make $10,000 Of It Disappear | Techdirt

The deputies seized the cash and took Nang and his partner back to the Office for questioning. Several hours later they were released. But not their money. The $141,500 was confiscated by the Sheriff’s Office, which obviously plans to forfeit it as illegally-obtained.On the way to the forfeiture proceedings, the Sheriff’s Office made nearly $10,000 of it disappear.

Source: Oklahoma Deputies Steal $141,500 From Men Trying To Buy Land, Manage To Make $10,000 Of It Disappear | Techdirt

Toyota Is The Top Donor To Stolen Election Conspiracy Officials


The total amount donated by Toyota’s corporate PAC comes to $55,000, split between 37 individual election-objecting congressfolk, which is a hell of a lot more than the next-highest donor to members of what’s known as the “Sedition Caucus,” , Koch Industries, at $17,500, followed by insurance company Cigna at $12,500.

Source: Toyota Is The Top Donor To Stolen Election Conspiracy Officials

FBI Ignored Its Own Warrant And Search Policies To Seize Millions From People’s Safety Deposit Boxes | Techdirt


So, permission was given to look in the boxes for anything that might identify the owners so they could come get their stuff from the FBI. But instead of doing that, agents took everything from the boxes and started forfeiture proceedings — all without determining who owned what or providing any evidence at all that the items found in the nearly 1,000 boxes were obtained illicitly. Indeed, no customers of US Private Vaults have been accused of any criminal activity.

Source: FBI Ignored Its Own Warrant And Search Policies To Seize Millions From People’s Safety Deposit Boxes | Techdirt

Biggest health insurer plans to deny ER bills if it doubts you had an emergency | Ars Technica


Doctors and hospitals are condemning plans by UnitedHealthcare—the country’s largest health insurance company—to retroactively deny emergency medical care coverage to members if UHC decides the reason for the emergency medical care wasn’t actually an emergency.

Source: Biggest health insurer plans to deny ER bills if it doubts you had an emergency | Ars Technica

Cop Flips Pregnant Woman’s Car While She Tries To Pull Over Safely


A woman in Arkansas is suing a State Police trooper who flipped her vehicle while she was trying to find a safe place to pull over.

Source: Cop Flips Pregnant Woman’s Car While She Tries To Pull Over Safely

Israel Rounds Up Palestinian Protesters as World Looks Away

PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS URGED the world not to look away from their struggle for freedom and equality following the ceasefire in Gaza, as Israeli police began rounding up Palestinian citizens of Israel who took part in demonstrations described as riots by the authorities.At least 74 Palestinians were detained by Monday afternoon, in the first hours of what Israel’s police force is calling “Operation Law and Order.” Palestinian rights groups called the planned arrest of up to 500 protesters — on charges ranging from attacks on the police to vandalism to online incitement — a blatant crackdown on dissent, timed to coincide with the dimming of the global spotlight on the conflict.

Source: Israel Rounds Up Palestinian Protesters as World Looks Away

North Carolina Judge Summoned To Court After Allegedly Ramming SUV Into BLM Protest

A summons was issued last week for a judge in Fayetteville, North Carolina, requesting he appear in court in his own county on an assault with a deadly weapon charge after he was allegedly caught on camera almost striking Black Lives Matters protesters with his SUV earlier this month.

Judge John M. Tyson will be served with summons to appear in Cumberland County court after one of the protesters, Myah Warren, said she was nearly run over by the judge in his state-owned SUV while protesting.

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a 12-minute video of the incident posted by the Post and provided by the city does not show Tyson’s vehicle surrounded by angry protesters. What it does show is Tyson’s vehicle actually looping back around to the protests after an initial pass and driving in a lane closed to traffic and allegedly attempting to plow into protesters

Source: North Carolina Judge Summoned To Court After Allegedly Ramming SUV Into BLM Protest

East Jerusalem Settlement Push Shows Israel “Apartheid”

UNDER ISRAELI LAW, Palestinian Jerusalemites whose houses were taken in 1948 are deemed “absentees” and have no legal claim to their property, but Jewish citizens of Israel who can prove that a house was owned by a Jewish person do have recourse. It needn’t even be the Jewish family that owned the home, meaning that powerful, well-funded settler organizations with ties abroad can also claim the properties. This legal disparity is the auspices under which the impending evictions are being carried out.

Source: East Jerusalem Settlement Push Shows Israel “Apartheid”

Supreme Court Sides With Google In Decade-Long Fight Over API Copyright; Google’s Copying Of Java API Is Fair Use | Techdirt

Finally!

Source: Supreme Court Sides With Google In Decade-Long Fight Over API Copyright; Google’s Copying Of Java API Is Fair Use | Techdirt