Multiple Eyewitnesses Claim Unarmed Wichita Man had Hands Up Prior to Being Killed by Cops

By Jay Syrmopoulos

Wichita, Kansas ? Witnesses in the shooting death of unarmed 23-year-old John Paul Quintero have come forward to refute police statements regarding the shooting death of Quintero.

The incident, which took place on Saturday night, began when Quintero's family called 911, saying Quintero was under the influence of alcohol and had threatened them with a knife at a party.

According to police, Quintero was "belligerent" and wouldn't comply with the two officers who arrived at the scene eight minutes later, while seated in an SUV with his father, parked in front of the house.

Ted McAdams and his wife live in the unit behind where the party was going on. They ran outside after they heard screaming. McAdams claims to have witnessed the tragic events leading up to the death of Quintero.

According to McAdams, Quintero was "trying to talk to the male officer with compliance" and "had his arms up until he got tasered, [when] his arms went down to his side."

Multiple witnesses have stated that Quintero had his hands up and seemed to be compliant, until another officer employed a taser on him, subsequently causing Quintero to lower his hands, which then lead to Martin shooting him in the chest with an AR-15, according to KAKE.com.

Police claim Quintero reached toward an officer?s waistband, but McAdams refutes that statement, claiming that he saw the incident and never saw Quintero make such a move.

It must be noted, that claiming a person reached for an officer?s waistband/weapon, is one of the standard police refrains when attempting to justify use of deadly force in the killing unarmed citizens.

A former state school board member from Wichita and vice chairman of the city's Racial Profiling Advisory Board, Walt Chappell, told the Wichita Eagle he had a feeling the officers "made a conscious decision to escalate rather than de-escalate."

The mere fact that the female officer walked up with a rifle "would indicate to me they were already loaded for bear," Chappell said.

McAdams says he?s not alone in thinking this situation was taken too far.

?After that all the neighbors and I threw a little fit at the cops because I?ve got a wife and a newborn and the safety issue and not just that, the way the cops handled themselves.?

He added, ?If he was told to do something, yeah he should?ve done it, but that officer had, to my advice and my suggestion, she shouldn?t have ever shot him.?

Another witness, Dustin Deckard, was driving home on Saturday afternoon when he witnessed a cop aiming her rifle at an unarmed man with his hands up.

"It was clearly a younger man in his early 20s of Hispanic descent, and he was wearing a blue jersey and he had his hands up," said Deckard, referring to the Wichita Police.

"He was behind the SUV, and the female officer was mostly directly in front of him, a little bit to his left. Both the officers were on either side of him, but he was facing the female officer who had her rifle up, and she was looking down the sight."

Deckard added, "It was very eerie, because the shooting must have occurred seconds after. When I passed, I slowed down, so I only got a couple seconds of a view."

Chappell made a very clear point when he stated,

"You don't go in ready to shoot first and ask questions later. There's a lot of things you can do before you ever pull out a weapon.?

The militarized, us vs. them, mindset of US cops, which escalate already tense situations into outright violent altercations, is a plague upon law enforcement and the public that they claim to serve.

Here is audio of the initial 9-1-1 call by the family. All they wanted was help in stopping a fight, instead, a young man was gunned down.

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Here Are All The Children Murdered By Drone Strikes At The Hands Of Obama

Visualizing the illegal drone bombardment
Steve Watson

The president likes children right? He surrounds himself with them constantly to help bolster his political agenda.

When it comes to children who get in the way of his political agenda, however, it?s a different story.

Here is a visual of the hundreds of children that have been murdered in US drone strikes on Pakistan and Yemen, ordered by the president during his first term.

Their ages range from just 1 year old to 19 years of age:

The information was complied by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which estimates that there have been approximately 399 to 500 strikes to-date. The research group has found that around three thousand individuals have been killed by these drones, many of them innocent civilians. In Pakistan alone, 891 civilians have been killed by U.S. drones since 2004.

When a college student recently attempted to write a tweet for every drone strike the US has carried out in the last decade, he gave up after 12 hours of constant tweeting, reaching only the year 2010, when the attacks expanded exponentially.

Pakistan?s President Asif Ali Zardari told US ambassador Richard Olson today that drone attacks are not only violation of Pakistan's sovereignty but are counter productive and their legality is questionable.

Yesterday, another seven people were killed in Yemen in a drone strike. It was the fourth strike in five days, marking what senior officials have called a significant escalation in the U.S.-Yemeni campaign against ?Al Qaeda affiliated militants?.

A further strike later the same day, which went relatively unreported by the mainstream Western media, killed a further nine people. Two of those killed were children, according to?witnesses.

The CIA and Obama administration officials have declined to comment on the strikes.

Yemeni Human Rights Minister Hooria Mashhour this week lambasted the strategy, criticized the lack of concern over civilian deaths, and said all Yemeni citizens deserve the right to a fair trial, rather than blanket assassination.

Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, however, praised the operations when he visited Washington in September.

"They pinpoint the target and have zero margin of error, if you know what target you're aiming at," Hadi said at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Again, those dead children are:

Name | Age | Gender

PAKISTAN

Noor Aziz | 8 | male

Abdul Wasit | 17 | male

Noor Syed | 8 | male

Wajid Noor | 9 | male

Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male

Ayeesha | 3 | female

Qari Alamzeb | 14| male

Shoaib | 8 | male

Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male

Tariq Aziz | 16 | male

Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male

Maezol Khan | 8 | female

Nasir Khan | male

Naeem Khan | male

Naeemullah | male

Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male

Azizul Wahab | 15 | male

Fazal Wahab | 16 | male

Ziauddin | 16 | male

Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male

Fazal Hakim | 19 | male

Ilyas | 13 | male

Sohail | 7 | male

Asadullah | 9 | male

khalilullah | 9 | male

Noor Mohammad | 8 | male

Khalid | 12 | male

Saifullah | 9 | male

Mashooq Jan | 15 | male

Nawab | 17 | male

Sultanat Khan | 16 | male

Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male

Noor Mohammad | 15 | male

Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male

Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male

Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male

Abdullah | 18 | male

Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male

Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male

Shahbuddin | 15 | male

Yahya Khan | 16 |male

Rahatullah |17 | male

Mohammad Salim | 11 | male

Shahjehan | 15 | male

Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male

Bakht Muneer | 14 | male

Numair | 14 | male

Mashooq Khan | 16 | male

Ihsanullah | 16 | male

Luqman | 12 | male

Jannatullah | 13 | male

Ismail | 12 | male

Taseel Khan | 18 | male

Zaheeruddin | 16 | male

Qari Ishaq | 19 | male

Jamshed Khan | 14 | male

Alam Nabi | 11 | male

Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male

Rahmatullah | 14 | male

Abdus Samad | 17 | male

Siraj | 16 | male

Saeedullah | 17 | male

Abdul Waris | 16 | male

Darvesh | 13 | male

Ameer Said | 15 | male

Shaukat | 14 | male

Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male

Salman | 12 | male

Fazal Wahab | 18 | male

Baacha Rahman | 13 | male

Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male

Iftikhar | 17 | male

Inayatullah | 15 | male

Mashooq Khan | 16 | male

Ihsanullah | 16 | male

Luqman | 12 | male

Jannatullah | 13 | male

Ismail | 12 | male

Abdul Waris | 16 | male

Darvesh | 13 | male

Ameer Said | 15 | male

Shaukat | 14 | male

Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male

Adnan | 16 | male

Najibullah | 13 | male

Naeemullah | 17 | male

Hizbullah | 10 | male

Kitab Gul | 12 | male

Wilayat Khan | 11 | male

Zabihullah | 16 | male

Shehzad Gul | 11 | male

Shabir | 15 | male

Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male

Shafiullah | 16 | male

Nimatullah | 14 | male

Shakirullah | 16 | male

Talha | 8 | male

YEMEN

Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female

Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female

Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female

Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female

Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male

Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male

Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female

Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female

Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female

Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female

Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male

Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female

Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female

Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female

Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female

Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male

Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female

Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female

Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male

Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male

Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female

AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male

Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male

Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male

Nasser Salim | 19

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Video: Cop Sticks Hands Down Womens' Pants As Part Of "Search" During Traffic Stop For Littering

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Two Texas women stopped for allegedly throwing a cigarette butt out of their window were subject to a TSA-style act of sexual molestation by a female police officer who conducted a "roadside body cavity search" on them, The Dallas Morning News reports.

Two Irving women are suing two state troopers and the head of their department in federal court, alleging they were subjected to an illegal and humiliating ?roadside body cavity search? during a traffic stop.

Angel Dobbs, 38, and her niece, Ashley Dobbs, 24, said the search occurred on State Highway 161 in or near Irving on the night of July 13.

They claim that a female trooper, Kelley Helleson, used her fingers to search their anuses and vaginas ? using the same latex glove ? while on the side of the road in full view of passing vehicles.

They said David Farrell, a state trooper, had called Helleson to the scene after stopping the women?s vehicle and questioning them about marijuana. Farrell told them he stopped them after seeing them throw cigarette butts out of the window, according to the lawsuit.

He asked for the search because he said the women were ?acting weird,? the suit said.

Farrell searched their vehicle for marijuana but didn?t find any, they said. He then tried to ?morph this situation into a DWI investigation,? the lawsuit said. Angel Dobbs passed a roadside sobriety test and the women were given warnings for littering, the suit said.

[...]Palmer said the Texas Rangers investigated his clients? complaints but no action was taken against the troopers.

Palmer said the searches were basically a ?sexual assault? on the side of the road.

?No one?s ever seen the likes of this,? he said. ?We can?t let them get away with it.?

Had enough yet, America?
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"acting weird" is SO subjective that it never should be used as basis for "probable cause".
People need to learn their rights under a stop. And just what did the cops think they were going to find up their asses that pertained to littering? The cop went ass to puss, that's like going ass to mouth! EEEWWW!!
Then she grabbed the woman's arm after having it in the chicks ass, how unsanitary for both of them! If that was my wife or my daughter, that filthy, perverted piece of trash would be worm food! Absolutely outrageous! These dirtbag pigs need to pay dearly for this serious abuse of power! Unbelievable how far we have fallen! You Will never be more free than you are right at this very moment in time.
Make the most of it. Can you imagine...

"Hands up, this is a Liberty Search!" :P

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Drop the Freon and Come out With Your Hands Up

Jeffrey Tucker

"All the profits of drug trafficking and none of the risk."

That's how the prosecutor in a federal criminal case described Carlos Garcia's smuggling operation that has landed him in the federal pen for 13 months.

Before wearing leg irons and striped pajamas, Garcia was a top executive in Marcone Inc., a leading supplier of home appliances. Today he is just a statistic, the newest addition to the world's largest prison population.

His crime: He was the mastermind behind Freaky Freon Friday. On this day, the company would distribute to wholesalers and repairmen, at low prices, the thing that millions desperately want but cannot otherwise get, thanks to federal regulations. They want HCFC-22 to fill air-conditioning units? so that their offices and homes can stay cool.

It has been illegal for two years to sell units that use it. But nearly all existing units use the old coolant. Importing HCFC-22 is severely restricted. The government's idea was to drive up the price, making it too expensive to maintain existing units, and thereby somehow inspire manufacturers to invent things to make us all more virtuous. But replacing units with unproven technology is expensive and risky.

When there is money to be made, through perfectly legitimate desire to keep people cool indoors, some people will "break bad" and go outside the law. Three years ago, the stuff sold for $55 per canister; now it sells for $140. It is produced in China, the label on the canister is changed, and then it is hidden among vast other cargo, imported to the U.S., repackaged, sent to Mexico, and sent back again. Apparently, this circuitous route is the safest and least detected.

Mr. Garcia was caught simple because the only office of the Justice Department that specializes in ?"environmental crimes" is in Florida near the office where he ran the operation. Garcia was the victim of a wiretap and a sting operation, as The New York Times reports. He was probably aware that what he was doing was technically sketchy, but he was unable to expunge from his mind the consumer-service ethic. His job was to make people cool.

Meanwhile, illegal HCFC-22 operations carry on all over the country, a fact we know because the street price of the coolant is falling even as demand is increasing. It's profitable contraband.

There are no restrictions on coolant in Mexico and most other countries in the world. It is still legal to actually make it in the U.S. and export it. It just can't be legally sold here. Nevertheless, people will stop at nothing to get it, especially given that more than half the country would be uninhabitable without air conditioning and that 90% of the existing units need coolant, and will for a long time in the future.

The hot war on cooling has only just begun. But roots of it all date back to the 1970s with the regulatory attack on aerosol, later becoming an attack on CFC, and then ramped up to abolish the CFC replacement HCFC, and we'll see how long its replacement is for the this world. The goal, as you surely recall, was to stop the hole in the ozone layer ? a thing that's been out of the news since the real goal of passing the regs was achieved.

Now it turns out that the ambition is broader. Environmentalists are insisting that we turn up the temperature in our house to 85 degrees and just learn to live with it. The regulatory press (i.e., The New York Times) is running articles about how incredibly scary it is that many countries in the world are demanding ever more air conditioning.

No kidding. Air conditioning is an essential part of the civilized life. And that is precisely what government hates about it. That's because ever more in our times, government is devoted to taking away everything we love.

Of course, the regulators have "science" to cite to justify the attack on our happiness. The scientific evidence of some relationship between our cool living rooms and the melting Earth runs all directions. Not knowing enough about the technical aspects, count me as a skeptic. There is just something mystical and wacky about this whole notion.

Modern-day primitives are just too quick to imagine that a boiling planet is Mother Nature's way of forcing propitiation on us for our sins of man-made prosperity and comfort. Government loves these people because they provide a cloak for control and regimentation. There is always a scientist happy to cash a check from the government to confirm the pagan faith. Their data always evade that critical question of causation.

H.L. Mencken defined a puritan as someone who has a haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. It is true with regulators too. They have a haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be using technology in a way that brings comfort and convenience to life. They are seeking to crush this at every turn, and air conditioning is high on the list.

Meanwhile, the list of banned and soon-to-be banned products is growing. We are being hectored for our burgers, hounded for our sodas, denounced for smoking, jailed for growing pot, told to use less water, to use less energy in everything, to drive bikes, not cars, fussed at for having lawns, told to stop indulging ourselves with ice makers and large houses ? even indoor plumbing is under fire.

They want to take it all away from us and manufacture some alternative universe in which we are happy as can be growing our own food, turning our toilets into compost pits, and cooking over an open fire, provided we don't cut down trees. Government has settled on these poverty-creating policies because it apparently realized at some point that it could not contribute anything toward make us better off, so it does more of what it is good at: spreading human misery and calling it good.

But it is not working, because these policies are contrary to human nature. Mankind wants a better life. That's most of what we do here on Earth. We struggle our way through the vale of tears called scarcity to make and get more and better. That's the very meaning of the process of living. We don?t respond well when a bully says you cannot have access to a good or service that would improve your life. You must learn to accept you downgraded state of being.

At some point, we recognize that it is not worth it to surrender all to our powerful masters. ?These policies are driving us all toward "breaking bad," a phrase drawn from the popular television show in which a chemistry teacher becomes a meth manufacturer in order to provide for his family. No, we are not making meth, but we are doing lots of things we aren't supposed to do.

Breaking bad takes many forms. We drink more than we should and then work to drive extra safely. Don't gasp; probably two-thirds of the drivers in my town on a weekend night could be jailed for DUI, and the same is true of your town. People buy extra pseudoephedrine in off months to stock up for bad times, technically acting as smurfs just to clear our clogged noses.

We hack our shower heads and our hot water heaters. We buy pirated products and stream videos illegally. We smuggle in Spanish ham in our bags, bring back Cuban cigars from our travels, pay and receive in cash instead of credit cards, search for gas stations that sell cornless gasoline, and drive across state lines to get our TSP so our clothing can get clean.

We are choosing to be outlaws, rather than chumps, and, as such, are ever more willing to recognize how impossible and undesirable it is to comply, rather than live a good life. In fact, the forbidden fruit is attractive to us. We want raw milk, home remedies, real light bulbs, cheap meds from Mexico, sketchy software from Thailand, off-the-books jobs, "counterfeit" sunglasses, and pirated shoes and handbags from anywhere.

Thanks to the Internet, the rebellious spirit in our bones, and the impossibility of stopping it all, we are all breaking bad and getting used to it.

In a country where everything wonderful is becoming illegal, and everything depreciated and inferior is mandated, this is the only way to live. To comply is to accept the status of poor slaves; to break bad is to leap into the speakeasy economy with trepidation but at least some hope of an improved life.

There are ways around the regulatory Nazis, but you have to be creative. I've assembled 12 of the ideas in a single report called ?Hack Your Showerhead and Eleven Other Ways to Get Around Government.? This report singled the dawn of a new epoch at Laissez Faire Books: to embrace not just the theory of liberty, but its practice as well.

The new Laissez Faire Books began a Club of people dedicated to this goal. We gather to read the e-books distributed every week. These are classics and new works. I wish I could tell you some of the offerings that are coming, but this much I promise: there are books coming that no one else on the planet would be willing to risk publishing. Regardless, each book comes with a video and an opportunity for group engagement to inspire more learning and more liberty each day.

No, we never asked permission to start this Club. It's our way of joining the mass movement. Break bad with us and join the Laissez Faire Club.
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Government's Idle Hands: Underwear Bomber 2.0

by Jeffrey Tucker

Government has a serious problem. It's got nothing worthwhile to do. All the cool things in life come from the private sector, and this is more obvious than ever. The market is creating whole worlds before our eyes, while the government seems ever more like a hopeless anachronism.

Government's life depends on public frenzy about some grand task it is seeking to accomplish. But today, there is no epic struggle, no grand historic project, no leading us to the light, no vanquishing evil and all those other things government used to claim to do.

It has certainly flopped as the Savior of the Economy. It can't educate the kids, it can't give us riches and it can't even deliver mail.

So its idle hands do the devil's work. Government grabs our money and dishes it out, roughs people up in the name of safety or security or whatever and otherwise hectors and prods us in a billion dumb ways that make it harder and harder to achieve a better life.

Oh, but wait! Let's not forget the War on Terror. Surely, there is a job worth doing.

Just last week, the headlines blared that government authorities had done it again. They had marvelously protected the homeland from a catastrophic bombing. The plot, fortunately foiled, involved an amazing bomb sewn into underwear, to be worn on another U.S. flight.

But the U.S. officials intervened and saved the day. They bombed the heck out of the nasty terror cell, slaughtered a few of these vermin. Ah, the world is safe for another day.

This is what we were told. I saw the headlines and smelled a rat, but I moved on. But then the headlines continued the next day and the next. You know how this happens. You finally relent and read the thing because the editors think it is important and, of course, it is irresponsible not to be "in the know."

But by the time I actually started paying attention to the latest act in this security theater, the story had changed ? not just a little, but a lot. It turns out that the U.S. had an agent inside this terrorist operation. He was a Saudi national in the pay of the CIA, and he was operating in Yemen. Pretty exotic stuff.

The details continued to pour out. This guy was not just an informant. He actually delivered the real bomb to the CIA! Now, that's an effective agent. Right? It seems so. What's more, he was the actual guy who was going to carry out this operation.

And the operation itself? A suicide bombing. He volunteered to die. He was given the bomb that he would use. He took the bomb to the CIA. To what extent he was the actual plotter, the guy who talked others into this whole thing and whether the bomb even worked ? these things are all unknown. All that is known is that this unnamed informant turns out to be the terrorist in question and that he himself did all of this on behalf of the CIA.

Now, let's just say you are an Islamic follower in Yemen and like nearly everyone else in this region, you are pretty fed up with U.S imperialism. This young punk from Saudi Arabia suggests a plot to blow up an American airliner. Maybe this sounds interesting and epic, but maybe somewhat reckless.

In fact, you are going to be pretty suspicious of this whole idea, but he is driving everyone crazy with demands that he be given a bomb. Then he even suggests that he be the suicide bomber. You might be thinking, "Hmm, whatever else, at least this plot could result in one fatality: this stupid punk from Saudi Arabia!

"Here's your bomb. Knock yourself out. Break more than a leg."

I, of course, have no idea if this is what happened. But the CIA's involvement here compromises the narrative enormously.

As David Shipler wrote in The New York Times:

"The United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years ? or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.

"But all these dramas were facilitated by the FBI, whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naively played their parts until they were arrested."

In the Middle Ages, there was a profession called the wine taster. His job was not to discern the vintage or tell if the bouquet had a hint of blackberry. His job was to make sure the wine was not poison.

But let's say many years went by and none of the wine was poison. The wine taster started getting nervous for his job and profession. So he went around the city and tried to get people to poison wines. He made himself a presence among all the vandals and vagrants and volunteered to do the poisoning himself.

If the news of his mischief came out, do you think he would have been a hero or a villain? It seems that he would have been and should have been completely washed up. He was going around trying to get people to poison wines as a way of maintaining his job. This is a moral outrage. He would surely be out of work.

This is what the government is doing to us these days. It is trying to inspire terrorism and then claiming credit for having discovered it. Then it scares people into thinking that their job is extremely important, and therefore, without it, we would all be sunk.

In other words, this looks less like national security and ever more like a racket.

People say that terrorists are desperate cowards. Maybe. But then what phrase is left for a government that does this sort of thing as a way of maintaining its lease on life in times when ever more people are fed up with the whole game?
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Jeffrey Tucker, publisher and executive editor of Laissez-Faire Books, is author of Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo and It's a Jetsons World. You can write him directly here.

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