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464 Americans Have Been Killed by Police in 2015 – Here are Their Stories

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A couple of months ago, I highlighted the horrifying fact that U.S. police killed more civilians in March than UK police killed in 100 years. With May 2015 in the history book, we now have some updated stats, and the results are not pretty. 464 Americans have been killed by police so far this year, which amounts to more than three deaths every single day. If you don’t think this is a problem, I don’t know how to help you.

The Guardian put together an incredible list of all 464 people killed by date, as well as a summary of the circumstances of their deaths.

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Know Your Rights – How to Respond When Police Tell You to Stop Filming

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Something I wish I had more time to devote to here at Liberty Blitzkrieg is the topic of “know your rights.” Despite the establishment’s relentless assault on the Bill of Rights, the American citizen still enjoys more liberties than a large percentage of the world’s population. Nevertheless, as important as it is to have these rights, it is equally important to flex them. If we don’t constantly exercise our rights, they’ll ultimately fall victim to atrophy like a vestigial organ.

While the smartphone has proven an excellent tool for the surveillance state, its video function has conversely served as a powerful civil rights tool. So much so that police will often lie to citizens about their right to film them in public, and one State Representative from Texas went so far to try to ban the filing of police (see: Meet Jason Villalba – The Texas State Representative Who Introduced a Bill that Criminalizes Citizens Filming Police).

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John Stewart on the Media-Political Complex’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, aka “Nerd Prom”

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

– Oscar Wilde

To the chagrin of the residents of Panem, pockets of plebs became unruly just 40 miles from the Capitol on the most important night of the year for Washington D.C., aka Hollywood for ugly people.

The timing of this gross display of elitist narcissism was once again less than ideal for these self-absorbed societal leeches. If you recall, Barack Obama was similarly engaged in a massive party last year just as Ferguson burst into flames. I noted this in the post: “A Good Time Was Had By All” – The Obamas Dance the Night Away as Ferguson, Missouri Burns.

Whether the above is the expression of a divine sense of humor, or merely a function of Obama’s penchant for frequent fiddling at extravagant galas remains unclear. What is clear; however, is Jon Stewart’s absolutely hilarious take on the event and his justifiably relentless assault on faux news channel CNN when he states:

To be clear, a guy on CNN just said: “If people are looking for news, I’m sure they can find it somewhere.”

This is a must watch:

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