Penny Dean and Your Rights

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The video, dated Sept. 27, was recently posted to YouTube by one of the frisked pedestrians. After an officer calls out “Yo, my man,” from inside the cruiser, things quickly go downhill. The two officers allege that the two pedestrians said hi to a stranger, and in that particular neighborhood of Philadelphia, “you don’t just say ‘hi’ to strangers.”

<img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/dr/hln/www/release/sites/default/files/imagecac... align="right">UKIAH, Calif. (AP) - A 72-year-old hunter who got hurt in a Northern California forest and was lost for 19 days survived the ordeal by eating squirrels and lizards and covering himself with leaves to stay warm, authorities said.

<img src="http://www.opposingviews.com/sites/opposingviews.com/files/imagecache/30... align="right">Sen. Dianne Feinstein reportedly got her hands on “assault weapons,” which are illegal to possess in Washington, D.C., with the help of Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request unveiled that Chief Lanier had partisan and ideological reasons for going along with breaking the rules.

NEWBURYPORT — Pat Vaillancourt went on a trip last week that was intended to showcase some of America’s greatest treasures.

Instead, the Salisbury resident said she and others on her tour bus witnessed an ugly spectacle that made her embarrassed, angry and heartbroken for her country.

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AUSTIN, Texas — A five-year veteran of the Austin Police Department was wrong to shoot at a man who got out of his car during a traffic stop earlier this year, Chief Art Acevedo said Friday while explaining his decision to fire Officer Justin Boehm.

Boehm was driving behind James Barton when the Austin resident ran a red light at the intersection of East 12th Street and Airport Boulevard around 7:50 a.m. on May 8.

A cop who ran over and killed a Florida man <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/20/justice/florida-police-run-over-man/index.... be facing criminal charges</a>, a grand jury has determined. Marlon Brown was being chased by police in DeLand, north of Orlando, for an alleged seatbelt violation when he started running and was ultimately run over and killed by a police car.

Last week, a grand jury decided not to indict Officer James Harris on a criminal charge of vehicular manslaughter.

<img src="http://www.opposingviews.com/sites/opposingviews.com/files/imagecache/30... align="right">As we look at this picture, we can't help be reminded of one of Jeff Cooper's rules of gun safety: Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.

While these people are handcuffed on the ground, the muzzle is clearly pointed at one of them. Is this sworn police officer willing to destroy the man who is laying there handcuffed, and apparently not a threat to him or anyone else?

The standoff ended with brothers Lucas and Jesus Ortiz in handcuffs. Police said just hours earlier, the pair tried to burglarize a home nearby. Action 4 spoke to the burglary victim, who we’ll call “Alex.” She told us she heard a man banging loudly on her front door while another walked around to the back. “I’m a young woman, I’m pregnant, I’m home alone. I’m not going to answer the door – I mean, I know better,” said Alex. Alex said her husband had just left 20 minutes before. Immediately, she knew something wasn’t right and made the split decision to grab her husband’s handgun.

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