Follow me Last week, I wrote about former Metro Police Officer Arthur Lee Sewall Jr., who was charged with murder and rape for the 1997 killing of a woman named Nadia Iverson. The original story was that a “lack of funding” prevented the testing of the Iverson’s rape kit and
Follow me Earlier this week, former Metro Police Officer Arthur Lee Sewall Jr. was charged with murder and rape for the 1997 killing of a woman named Nadia Iverson. Iverson’s body had been found by a construction crew at an unoccupied apartment in May of that year. He was finally
Follow me A Culture of Corruption Demanding bribes from pimps. Planting evidence. Fabricating testimony. Shooting and killing citizens with impunity. Committing perjury. What do all of these things have in common? Regular visitors to this site know the answer immediately. This is about the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD)
Follow me On Tuesday May 1st, the 12th Annual Las Vegas May Day Rally and March was held in Downtown Las Vegas. The march was organized by a broad coalition known as the Las Vegas May Day Action Committee, which is comprised of local groups focusing on the rights of
Follow me “What Happened in Vegas” — the superb documentary that focuses on Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department employee brutality, unaccountability, and cover-ups — was screened last week in Vegas to an audience hungry for truth and justice. Though the “bad apples” within the LVMPD have taken steps to dissuade
Follow me As has been noted here numerous times in the past, the documentary “What Happened in Vegas” by director Ramsey Denison exposes the corruption, racism, and violence prevalent throughout the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. It also puts on display the cover-ups and character assassination of their victims that
Follow me Last month, I posted about Bret Theil, who was one of two LVMPD officers to be involved in an armed standoff with Metro’s own SWAT team during the same week. Unlike most regular citizens, Theil survived his encounter with SWAT completely unscathed, in spite of being armed, and
Follow me Bret Theil, one of the LVMPD officers that (eventually) entered Stephen Paddock’s room, was arrested for sexual abuse of a child, leading to speculation of ulterior motives for those charges. Yesterday, I did a post about LVMPD Officer Bret Theil, the latest in a long and fast growing
Follow me On Wednesday (Feb. 7), it was announced that Officer Bret Theil, who has been with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department since 1998, had been indicted on charges related to the sexual abuse of a child. After his indictment was announced, Theil was involved in an armed standoff
Follow me Last week, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin stated that only about half of the police departments in the state were complying with an executive order she issued in April instructing them to perform an audit of all untested rape kits. To be clear, the order wasn’t to complete the
