In the News (#1661)

This technology is not safe to be deployed in communities. – Max Isaacs Policing for Profit Cops usually make up some pretext, however flimsy, for their robbery schemes: The Massachusetts police oversight board suspended a state trooper’s…certification after he…[stole] a Bobcat bucket-loader…from a contractor he hired to remove fallen trees from his property…Joseph W. Franklin…[claimed] he was in the process of suing the contractor…for failing to complete the work and his attorney advised him to hold on to the Bobcat as “collateral”…[despite] not hav[ing] a lien or court order allowing him to keep [it, and]…court records do not list any civil actions involving Franklin or the contractor…[who] told police that…Franklin [had lied to]…him[, claiming another] contractor had [stolen] it…demand[ing] $5,000 [ransom]… The Prudish Giant (#946) It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us: YouTube [has] banned a[nother] wave of ASMR artists…for [supposedly] violating the…