Penny Dean and Your Rights

NEW YORK — The State Senate passed a bill Wednesday that aims to make it a felony to “harass, annoy, or threaten a police officer while on duty.”

Bill S.2402, sponsored by Senator Joe Griffo, would potentially make it a crime for a person to make any type of physical action aimed at intimidating a police officer. Harassment of a police officer would be recognized as a Class E Felony, punishable by up to four years in prison.

<img src="http://www.opposingviews.com/sites/opposingviews.com/files/imagecache/30... align="right">“How does choosing a white, rich old man with an offensive degrading speech about the war of 'Northern Aggression' as NRA president forward a sense of reasonableness?” Swindell wrote.

Swindell was referring to new NRA president, James W. Porter Jr., who he believes is not interested in compromise or bringing in support from Republicans to pass future legislation

Federal Judge & appeals court has upheld the Federal Rifle Sales Registry & Registration by the Obama Administration, to be enforced in Southwestern border States by the ATF – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

This ATF rifle sales registry, effectively a federal gun registry, requires federal registration and recording of private citizen rifle purchases of 2 or more rifles by gun sellers in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and California.

<img src="http://www.unionleader.com/storyimage/UL/20130530/NEWS03/130539977/AR/0/... align="right">BRENTWOOD — A Deerfield man charged with assaulting a police officer who responded to a 911 call was recently freed on bail and given a new trial date.

Stanley West, 40, will go on trial the week of Aug. 5 on three counts of simple assault on a police officer and a single count of resisting arrest.

West was expected to go on trial last Monday in Rockingham County Superior Court, but his case was rescheduled.

An Oregon man is facing charges for firing a warning shot with his AR15 when a wanted felon attempted to break into his home.

A veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Corey Thompson, 36, told KDRV that he jumped into combat mode when put in a “stressful” situation.

DAYTON, Ohio — While openly carrying his Springfield XDM .40-caliber handgun, Tipp City resident Roy Call walked into a Riverside Speedway store at 4:30 a.m. Aug. 12, 2012 to buy a sports drink.

That's when — as claimed in a lawsuit against the city of Riverside, its mayor and two police officers — Call said he was illegally detained and briefly had his gun confiscated. Call is seeking compensatory and punitive damages of $3.6 million in a lawsuit field in the United States District Court/Southern District of Ohio in Dayton.

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Students on some of Pennsylvania's college campuses might be carrying more than books.

At least five Pennsylvania state-owned universities are now allowing guns on campus after the state's lawyers concluded that an outright ban on weapons was likely unconstitutional.

See the AP story at http://www.policeone.com/terrorism/articles/6230312-Some-Pa-state-school...

The security features built into <a href="http://thehackernews.com/search?q=Apple">Apple</a>&#8217;s iOS software are so good that the police are unable to gain access to defendant&#8217;s <a href="http://thehackernews.com/search?q=iPhone">iPhones</a> when they need to. &nbsp;Companies like Apple and Google are being asked by law enforcement officials to bypass these protections to aid in investigations.</div>

<img src="http://rt.com/files/news/1f/09/60/00/begged-for-life-cops-beat.si.jpg" align="right" width="320">A California father of four died Wednesday shortly after a group of police allegedly beat him with batons as he lay defenseless on the sidewalk. Cops, before confiscating witness' cameras, also reportedly unleashed a canine unit on him.

Pepe’s Grocery store in Dallas, Texas had a close encounter with a group of four armed robbers on Sunday night. Luckily, store manager Joe Cho of Korea was able to take matters into his own hands.

Cho immediately phoned police and fired two shots from his .38 to scare off the thieves. At least one of the bullets struck his target – the four armed criminals fled, leaving a trail of blood behind them. Cho was left to wait for the police to arrive. And so he waited, and waited, and waited.