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Video: Boston Cop Brags About Driving Into Protesters

NowThis News shares this report of vehicles being used to attack protesters across the country. In the first clip, a Boston police officer boasts about driving his car through a crowd of protesters. At the 30 second mark, the officer he’s bragging to turns away once he realizes his buddy has just confessed on an active body cam. ‘I’m f*cking hittin’ people with the car,’ says the police officer. The short video goes on to note other violent attacks on protesters with vehicles. Note – I’m definitely not anti-cop. I am anti-bad cop. These jokers make life much harder for the good guys.

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Stephen Colbert Tracks Down Trump’s “Top Cop”

Donald Trump recently told Bill O’Reilly on Fox News that he had spoken to a “top cop” in Chicago who said he could solve all crime if the police were allowed to get “tougher” with suspects.

The problem is no one knows who this “top cop” might be.

So, host Stephen Colbert went looking for this “top cop.”
Late Show

You see where this is going, right?

RawStory has the recap:

“All I know is this,” Trump claimed. “I went to a top police officer in Chicago, who is not the police chief, and I could see by the way he was dealing with his people, he was a rough, tough guy, they respected him greatly.”

“We here at the Late Show, we’ve done a little digging, and that cop is here tonight,” Colbert began before introducing “Officer Rod Johnson.”

Colbert asked ‘Officer Johnson” what specifically he told Trump.

“I told him there are some naughty people out there who need to be in cuffs,’ Johnson replied, before identifying himself as a “rough tough cop.”

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Texas Police Officers Support The Freedom To Marry

New PSA from Fort Worth, Texas police officers (my hometown!) in support of marriage equality.

From the clip description: Three police officers from Fort Worth, Texas talk about why they support the freedom to marry in Texas – and speak out on their support for their colleague Chris Gorrie, a detective who wants to someday marry his partner Justin.

“Texans believe in freedom and liberty, and part of that is being able to marry who you love. Chris should be able to marry whoever person he loves.”

The ad is airing across Texas this week in advance of a key federal appeals court hearing Friday.

From The Houston Chronicle:

The $100,000 TV buy will air Sunday and Monday, just days before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is slated to hear arguments in a case challenging Texas’ constitutional ban on gay marriage.

“The aim is to show gay Americans are really completely integrated into the fabric of our society,” said Mark McKinnon, a former advisor to President George W. Bush and Texas chair of Southerners for the Freedom to Marry. He called the ads an “electronic blanket” to reinforce a recent wave court cases validating LGBT Americans right to marry in other states.

Learn more at www.texasformarriage.org and www.freedomtomarry.org.