Police brutality comes in many forms. In this case, it was brutal indifference by the Modesto Police Department (MPD) to a plea for help by a delusional woman who on Friday evening June 21, 2013 called 911 to report that a SWAT team was outside her house and she was sending her daughter outside. The […]
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Security Guard with an Illegal Gun Threatens Christmas Shopper
It is December 5, Saturday, noon. Valley Fair shopping mall in San Jose is bustling with holiday shoppers. A private security guard unlicensed to carry a gun is standing in front of the mall’s parking garage, directing traffic exiting the mall. The guard sees a car drive over an orange cone. He abandons his post, […]
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Nose, Jaw & Mouth Shot Off in California Highway Patrol Traffic Arrest
As a result of extraordinary police incompetence and his own tragic decision, Donald Coca, 45, an employee of the San Jose Mercury News, had his nose, jaw and mouth brutally destroyed by a shotgun, following an arrest for a traffic violation. Short of death, Don’s lifelong injuries represent the most brutal penalty imposed on a […]
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San Jose Police Tortured & Suffocated A Deranged Man
On March 16, 1981 the San Jose Police Department brutally tortured and killed 44 year-old Hugh Rushin. Hugh Rushin, a father of four was licensed as a nurse. He was struggling with alcoholism and ten days earlier his wife Margaret had left him with their three children because of his drinking. Facing the reality of […]
Stanford, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford Healthcare are Accused of Bilking Medicare with Falsely Inflated Charges
Have you notice an increase in advertising by Stanford recently? I have. There is a reason. In December 2017 a scathing complaint was filed under the federal False Claims Act against Stanford in federal court. It has now been unsealed and is a public document. The complaint alleges Stanford misused its “Epic” electronic records system which […]
