Governments and right-wing propaganda intentionally confuse the categories of helping and trafficking migrants. This article is especially relevant right now in light of the Scot Warren and Pia Klemp cases making the news.

Throw all daleks in fountains!

The Danziger Bridge shootings were police shootings that took place on September 4, 2005, at the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans, Louisiana. Six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, members of the New Orleans Police Department who were allegedly responding to a call of an officer under fire shot and killed, two civilians: 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison. Four other civilians were wounded. All of the victims were African-American. None were armed or had committed any crime. Madison, a mentally disabled man, was shot in the back.

New Orleans police fabricated a cover-up story for their crime, falsely reporting that seven police officers responded to a police dispatch reporting an officer down, and that at least four suspects were firing weapons at the officers upon their arrival.

Good report on abusive Denver-area cops.

This is a good account of the 1981 Brixton riots (but leads to a page linking to a large 90MB PDF).

The time Maciej Cegłowski was assailed and almost robbed in Warsaw [2004].

An investigation into the practices of private security at Denver's Union Station and 16th Street Mall after four guards beat a homeless man in the bathroom and then tried to cover it up.

An audio version read by the journalist is available: https://soundcloud.com/user-11498782/on-guard

"The migrants the AP talked to described being rounded up hundreds at a time, crammed into open trucks headed southward for six to eight hours to what is known as Point Zero, then dropped in the desert and pointed in the direction of Niger. They are told to walk, sometimes at gunpoint."

The 2007 Boston Mooninite panic occurred on Wednesday, January 31, 2007, after the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards depicting the Mooninites, characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as improvised explosive devices.

"VICE News identified seven cross-border shootings since the agency was founded in 2003 — cases in which Mexican citizens who were in Mexico were killed by CBP officers who were in the U.S. Three of the victims were teenagers. (We identified at least two other cross-border shooting victims who survived. We found no similar incidents along the border with Canada.)"

She was held for two weeks in the Tacoma ICE detention center because she jogged a little bit too far a long a beach.

Indecline defaces a billboard.

Boulder police keep citing homeless people for charging their phones, but District Attorney Michael Dougherty refuses to prosecute the cases.

That time a girl in Quebec was arrested and convicted for posting a picture of someone else's graffiti to Instagram.

Churches, as already-existing social centers, represent one of the better chances of actually providing an alternative source of crisis counseling, protection, and aid which could displace the police in many of the roles they are the worst at.

Donovan Ayres doing some bang-up police work for the racist faction of the California Highway Patrol.

"Michael German, a former FBI agent, said the Sacramento case was part of a pattern of police in the US siding with far-right groups and targeting their critics. 'They have been trained to look into these counter-protesters as if they are the primary threat.'"

"Emory Ellis, who lived on the streets in Boston, ventured into a Burger King in November 2015 to buy breakfast.

"He left the restaurant under arrest, wrongfully accused of trying to pay for his meal with a fake $10 bill. He spent more than three months in jail."

"the border zone is home to 65.3 percent of the entire U.S. population, and around 75 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population"

Scott Warren was arrested after he helped migrants – but he’s a humanitarian aid worker trying to save lives in a place where so many find death.

Scott is the ninth No More Deaths volunteer to be arrested for giving water to thirsty migrants.