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Security camera video contradicts the official story of CA deputies who killed an unarmed man for jaywalking, while security camera video contradicts the official story of NV police who killed an unarmed man for running away. An OH police officer is indicted for soliciting kiddie porn, while a WA state patrol employee is indicted for attempting to rape a child. Plus another dozen+ stories of criminal justice f*ckery!

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Show Notes:

• ARIZONA: Phoenix PD cops caught on bodycam confirming protest arrests were politically motivated (Washington Post)
• ARIZONA: Phoenix PD also discovered to have created “challenge coin” celebrating lawful protestor shot in the groin (KNXV 15)
• CALIFORNIA: LAPD opens investigation into cops sharing a meme mocking the killing of George Floyd (NY Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies Eduardo Duran and Jonathan Israel summarily execute unarmed homeless black man Kurt Reinhold for the heinous crime of jaywalking (Los Angeles Times)
• FLORIDA: After warnings of right-wing political violence, FBI arrests a leftist for social media posts (Washington Post)
• LOUISIANA: Cell phone video shows an unidentified Baton Rouge PD officer brutally choking out an unarmed 13-year-old black boy (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• LOUISIANA: New Orleans DA waiving objections to new trial requests for those convicted by non-unanimous juries (New Orleans Advocate)
• NEVADA: New security footage exposes Las Vegas Metro Police lied about their extrajudicial summary execution of unarmed 25-year-old Jorge Gomez (KLAS 8)
  • Watch the video yourself (Twitter)
• NEW YORK: No charges for Buffalo PD cops on camera shoving unarmed 75-year-old Martin Gugino to the ground and cracking his skull (New York Times)
• NEW YORK: Career NYPD cop Thomas Webster charged for assaulting a police officer with a flag pole at the 1/6 MAGA Insurrection (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: SDNY federal prosecutors withhold evidence, lie, get found out (Associated Press)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Fuquay Varina cops handcuff an unarmed black 14-year-old for “stealing” a bike the teen bought (Indy Week)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Judge holds Mooresville PD in contempt for failing to return $17,000 it stole man and then sent to the Feds the day before the contempt hearing (Statesville Record & Landmark)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Wake County prosecutor resigns for impersonating police officer (WRAL 5)
• OHIO: Franklin County sheriff’s deputy Daniel Heintz federally indicted for soliciting child pornography (Columbus Dispatch)
• OREGON: Clark County deputies summarily execute unarmed 30-year-old Jenoah Donald for sport, then lie in post-killing reports (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
• OREGON: US DOJ report confirms Portland PD continues to violate its consent decree for abusing people (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
• PENNSYLVANIA: North Cornwall PD officer Joseph Fischer charged for attacking police at the 1/6 MAGA Insurrection (Daily Beast)
• TEXAS: Harris County deputy on camera threatening to kill an unarmed driver for sport (KTRK 13)
• WASHINGTON: Washington State Patrol employee Trevor Smith arrested for attempted rape of a child (Seattle Times)

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Lots of Rules of #Fsck in this episode. Join us for a police chief casually dropping n-bombs on bodycam, another police chief tolerating her cops pepper-spraying a 9-year-old in the face for sport, another police chief defending his officer for the extrajudicial summary execution of an unarmed black man in mental distress, and a truly audacious police chief juggling a wife, 2 fiancees, and 9+ girlfriends amid getting arrested for fabricating evidence.

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Anon, Trey Benfield, Ian Booth, Mary Jo Gustafson, Colleen Mahaney, Neil Richmond, Ari Rutenberg, Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Lindsey Bowser, Casey Carmody, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, and Joe Sevits)!

Show Notes:

• Biden, Senate Democrats prioritize civil rights and criminal defense attorneys for judgeships (NBC News)
• 8th Circuit: Qualified immunity denied to SWAT cop who tear-gassed reporters at 2014 BLM protest (8th Circuit COA)
• Data: disturbing patterns in police executions of unarmed black people (NPR)
• CALIFORNIA: Oakland PD seizes 100+ city-provided mobile phones from its officers over suspected criming (KTVU 2)
• CALIFORNIA: San Diego County deputy Aaron Russell charged with 2nd-degree murder after being caught on video shooting unarmed black man in the back for sport (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• FLORIDA: 1st Hispanic Osceola Sheriff Marco Lopez hires nearly-all-white command staff for department, even less diversity than predecessor (Orlando Sentinel)
• FLORIDA: Liberty High School “school resource officer” – a cop – on video bodyslamming an unarmed black schoolgirl to the concrete and knocking her out cold (TMZ)
  • Video #1 (Twitter)
  • Video #2 (Twitter)
• FLORIDA: Lake County “school resource officer” – a cop – on video tasing unarmed black schoolgirl as she backs away with her hands raised (WFTV 9)
  • Video (Twitter)
• GEORGIA: Whitfield County deputies boot reporter, crew for asking questions to Congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene during town hall Q&A (Mediaite)
• GEORGIA: Hamilton PD police chief Gene Allmond resigns and Patrolman John Brooks is fired after bodycam catches both using racial slurs ahead of BLM protests (WTVM 9)
• LOUISIANA: Oberlin cemetery denies burial to black law enforcement officer, sales contract was whites-only (KLFY 10)
• MARYLAND: Montgomery County Police Officers Dionne Holliday and Kevin Christmon on video shouting at, assaulting, threatening a 5-year-old black child (CNN)
• NEW YORK: Nine Rochester PD cops handcuff 9-year-old black girl, then pepper-spray her in the face for sport (Democrat & Chronicle)
  • Video (Twitter)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Brittany Kittrell jailed for petty theft, given COVID-19 death sentence (IndyWeek)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Southport PD officer Bryon Vessey tells colleagues “I don’t have time for this sh*t,” blows away schizophrenic boy having mental health episode (Insider)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Wake County deputy Rodale Pippen arrested for giving contraband to jail inmates (News & Observer)
  • This is normal. Jail staff have long been the #1 source of jail contraband. (Prison Policy Initiative)
• OHIO: Assorted police departments “rescue” 8 women by arresting and prosecuting them for prostitution (WANE 15)
• TEXAS: Bodycam footage released of Killeen PD officer Reynaldo Contreras summarily executing unarmed black man Patrick Warren Sr. (TheGrio)
• TEXAS: Stinnett PD police chief Jason Collier arrested for fabricating evidence as part of viral multi-woman affair (KAMR 4)
• HONG KONG: Hong Kong cop sexually assaults 6 underage girls aged 11 to 14, gets 46 months in jail (Hong Kong Free Press)

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Join us this week for a case of actual RICO in Georgia, the number of euphemisms a Kentucky news outlet will use to avoid saying a police officer raped 5 women, and an outrageous story in Fort Worth Texas as police kill a woman in her own home while she’s playing video games with her nephew. Plus, a #Law140 overview of the appeals process!

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Show Notes:

• Thanks to Emmett Plant for this week’s cover art! Follow Emmett on Twitter here!
• Vic Mignogna, his attorney Ty Beard, and his advisor Nick Rekieta got LOL’d out of court (Dallas Morning News)
• CBP Officer illegally detains journalist until he admits to writing “propaganda” (Defense One)
• ICE relocates 700 women detainees, refuses to notify attorneys of where they’re being held (HuffPost)
• FLORIDA: West Palm Beach County Judge John Kastrenakes sentences 21-year-old black man to jail for oversleeping jury duty (BuzzFeed News)
• GEORGIA: City of White police chief David Johnny King, city clerk Jane Lanette Richards and police officer Blake Douglas Scheff indicted for RICO, extortion (WMAZ 13)
• ILLINOIS: DeKalb police on video choking the sh*t out of unarmed 25-year-old black man Elonte McDowell for minor weed possession (ABC News)
• ILLINOIS: 9-year-old Kyle Alwood charged with first-degree murder for lethal trailer fire (Peoria Journal Star)
• KENTUCKY: Louisville PD officer Pablo Cano sentenced to just 5 years for “unwanted sex” – rape – of five different women and possession of kiddie porn (WOWK 13)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore DA identifies 25 more “discredited” police officers, asks court to vacate 800+ convictions (Baltimore Sun)
  • We talked about the GTTF in Fsck #25
  • …and Fsck #27
  • …and Fsck #32
  • …and Fsck #38
  • …and Fsck #39
  • …and Fsck #41
  • …and Fsck #46
  • …and Fsck #47
  • …and Fsck #50
  • …and Fsck #51
  • …and Fsck #53
  • …and Fsck #55
  • …and Fsck #57
• NEW YORK: NYPD perv cop Raul Olmeda acquitted of raping 15-year-old, but convicted of witness tampering (NY Daily News)
  • Our episode on Olmeda’s indictment for rape (Fsck #32)
• NEW YORK: Bronx prosecutors release some records on Brady List police (Gothamist)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Chester Township PD officer Pasquale Storace III arrests black folks for “loitering” in their own yard, then re-arrests them again after they’re released from jail (KYW 1080AM)
• PENNSYLVANIA: 54-year-old black man Willie Veasy exonerated, freed after serving 27 years in prison for murder he did not commit (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• TEXAS: Dallas PD killer cop Amanda Guyger convicted of murder, sentenced to 10 years in killing of Botham Jean (Dallas Morning News)
  • Our episode on Jean’s execution (Fsck #82)
  • Our episode on the subsequent murder indictment (Fsck #88)
• TEXAS: Joshua Brown, key witness in Guyger murder trial, gunned down in his parking lot days after the verdict (Dallas Morning News)
• TEXAS: Unidentified Fort Worth police officer summarily executes unarmed 28-year-old black woman Atatiana Jefferson, in her own home, while she was playing video games with her nephew (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• TEXAS: Houston murder suspects stop paying for ankle monitor, so government stops monitoring him (KTRK 13)
• AUSTRALIA: A drug addict dressed up as a police officer and successfully raided another addict’s home for drugs (The Age)

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We announced Season 3 a little early so we’re trying again! Join us this week as we talk about a Florida corrections officer raping a woman on house arrest, a North Carolina sex crimes detective committing sex crimes, the Fifth Circuit denying qualified immunity to a Texas cop who arrested a photographer for sport, and much more!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Anon, Trey Benfield, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, Benjamin Nagy, Rob Simmons, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Lindsey Bowser, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• Threadnought Day 100 Roundtable with the Violet Wanderers podcast!
• Fifth Circuit: No qualified immunity for Dallas police officer who arrested freelance photographer for taking pictures (Reason)
  • The Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Adelman v. Branch (Reason)
• CALIFORNIA: LAPD killer cop Salvador Sanchez will not be charged in the extrajudicial summary execution of schizophrenic Kenneth French (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Uber driver files First Amendment lawsuit after San Diego police officer Jason Langley arrests him and has his car impounded for recording on his phone (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• FLORIDA: Miami-Dade corrections officer Yulian Gonzalez arrested for raping woman on house arrest (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Orlando PD School Resource Officer Dennis Turner, fired for arresting two 6-year-old black kids, had a history of child abuse! (BuzzFeed News)
• FLORIDA: Tamarac Commissioner Mike Gelin confronts Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy Joshua Gallardo during awards ceremony about false arrest (WSVN 7)
• FLORIDA: Tarpon Springs PD officer Steve Bergren resigns before he can be fired for threatening a mass shooting (Tampa Bay Times)
• GEORGIA: Georgia State Patrol officer Brian Sanchez fired, arrested for aggravated child molestation (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• GEORGIA: Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Kathryn Schrader for computer trespass after investigating to see if DA’s Office was spying on her (Gwinnett Daily Post)
• GEORGIA: Hampton PD officers summarily execute naked 24-year-old Fernando Rodriquez as 3 officers tase him at the same time (WSB 2)
• IDAHO: Deputy lies to teens about Miranda rights, felony rape charges reduced to misdemeanor assault after confessions are thrown out (Idaho Statesman)
• KANSAS: Douglas County prosecutor Amy McGowan deliberately kept innocent people in jail, magically avoids discipline (Kansas City Star)
• MICHIGAN: Jonathan Vanderhagen is acquitted in less than 30 minutes after insane prosecution for criticizing judge (Reason)
• MISSISSIPPI: Southaven Police, who went to the wrong house and summarily executed Ismael Lopez in 2017, claim Lopez had no constitutional rights to avoid execution (WMC 5)
  • Our episode on the extrajudicial summary execution without due process of Ismael Lopez (Fsck #19)
  • Our episode on the killer cops who executed Lopez avoiding prosecution (Fsck #77)
• NEW JERSEY: Frank Nucera, ex-police chief indicted for assaulting black teen, insisted to subordinates that Trump was “the last hope for white people” (NJ.com)
  • Our episode on Nucera’s federal indictment (Fsck #36)
  • Our episode on Nucera lying to investigators (Fsck #46)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Jury awards $8,300,000.00 USD verdict to Apex man after Wake County deputies Ricky Spivey, Casey Miller, and Joshua Legan illegally beat and shot him in 2013 then lied about it (WRAL 5)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville PD sex crimes detective Paul G Matrafailo III sent sexual messages to rape victims (News & Observer)

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Join us this week for commentary on the Supreme Court’s criminal justice cases ending the term, a single Florida deputy who’s personally framed more than 100+ motorists for drug offenses, an Illinois man arrested for walking outside, and a bombshell election in New York City!

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Show Notes:

• Episode 93 is a patron-only special on Congressional oversight powers! (Patreon)
• SCOTUS: 7.25-1.75, no §1983 lawsuit for retaliatory arrest if there’s probable cause to arrest on any charge at all (CaseText)
• SCOTUS: 7-2, separate sovereigns exception to double jeopardy remains alive and well (CaseText)
• SCOTUS: 6-3, limitations period for §1983 wrongful prosecution lawsuits don’t start until acquittal (CaseText)
• SCOTUS: 5-4, portion of the Hobbs Act is unconstitutionally vague (CaseText)
• CALIFORNIA: Sacramento County releases disciplinary file on deputy who lied about traffic stop, tased driver (Sacramento Bee)
• CALIFORNIA: San Fransisco police raid home of journalist over leaked report into dead public defender Jeff Adachi (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • The Police Chief is now “sorry” for the raid (San Francisco Chronicle)
• CALIFORNIA: Auditor finds taxpayers pay excessive overtime for the Sheriff’s Office due to paper timesheets (KTVU 2)
• FLORIDA: Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy Zachary Wester planted drugs in at least 118 vehicles! (The Appeal)
  • Our episode on Deputy Wester’s termination (Fsck #86)
  • This also happens in Chicago (Fsck #51)
  • And in Los Angeles (Fsck #37)
  • And in Baltimore (Fsck #24)
  • And in Baltimore (Fsck #20)
  • And in Baltimore (Fsck #17)
• HAWAII: Former prosecutor Katherine Kealoha jailed after being found guilty of conspiracy (AP News)
  • We talked about this case when the officers involved were indicted for fabricating evidence (Fsck #57)
• ILLINOIS: The state is mass-expunging marijuana convictions (CNN)
• ILLINOIS: Freeport PD police arrest hospital patient Shaquille Dukes for going for a walk as doctor directed (Freeport Journal-Standard)
• MINNESOTA: Elected Hennepin County prosecutor Mike Freeman, whose office routinely jails people for alcohol abuse, takes medical leave for alcohol abuse (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
• NEVADA: Las Vegas prosecutor Liz Mercer admonished by Nevada Supreme Court as a 2nd verdict is overturned for misconduct (KLAS 8)
• NEW YORK: Six NYC jailers indicted for conducting illegal searches, lying about it (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: Queens public defender Tiffany Cabán wins Dem nomination for District Attorney (NY Times)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD officer Robert Milton charged for giving alcohol to 1- and 6-year-old boys (Charlotte Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: White supremacist Kevin Stone, vocal neo-Confederate, is also a Chatham County probation officer (WTVD 11)
• TEXAS: Laredo woman arrested for heinous crime of letting children play outside unsupervised (Laredo Morning Times)

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We’re back! With the first episode of Season 3 upon us, T. Greg and Mike the Sound Guy had to cut out the “podcast notes” stuff because it took too long – so they turned it into a separate mini-pod! Listen in for updates on where T. Greg’s been, the newest member of his family, philanthropy updates, and the four-alarm Twitter dumpster fire known as the Vic Mignogna LOLsuit and The Threadnought!

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Show Notes:

• The thread on T. Greg’s foray into death abatement (Twitter)
• Meet Biscuit, the newest member of Team T. (Twitter)
• The final result of our American Heart Association fundraiser! (Twitter)
• The Threadnought needed its own navigation thread (Twitter)
• T. Greg’s interview with The Violet Wanderers podcast! (BuzzSprout)

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Join us this week as we go over the extended political f*ckery happening in Virginia, yet another conviction vacated in Indiana because of prosecutorial misconduct, and officer-involved puppycide in California, Florida, Illinois, and Indiana.

Special thanks to AY Shah on Twitter for providing the inspiration for this week’s cover art!

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Show Notes:

• Virginia Governor apologizes for appearing in blackface + KKK photo… (Washington Post)
  • …then says it wasn’t him (Virginian-Pilot)
  • …but was called “Coonman” in college (WSLS 10)
  • …and dressed in blackface at a party (The Hill)
• Virginia Lieutenant Governor is accused of sexual assault… (NY Times)
  • …by two different women (Washington Post)
• Virginia Attorney General meets with black legislators to confess he dressed in blackface too (Washington Post)
• Next in line for Virginia Governor? The Republican Speaker of the House (Twitter)
• Seventh Circuit: Attempted murder conviction of Mack Sims overturned after prosecution hid that key witness was hypnotized (ProPublica)
  • The 7th Circuit’s opinion in Sims v. Hyatte (Justia)
  • Our episode last week on Fred Clay, who was also convicted by hypnosis testimony (Fsck #91)
  • Our earlier episode on prosecutorial misconduct in Elkhart (Fsck #77)
• ARIZONA: Glendale PD officer Matt Schneider helps tase innocent passenger Johnny Wheatcroft 11 times, including in the testicles (KNXV 15)
• CALIFORNIA: Contra Costa County judge Charles Treat denies police union’s demand to block new transparency law (Mercury News)
• CALIFORNIA: Unnamed police officer in Kern County summarily executes his police K-9 Defender (KBAK 29)
• COLORADO: Internal investigation concludes Denver PD broke the law in arresting newspaper editor for filming police (Colorado Independent)
• FLORIDA: Broward County deputy James Cady on bodycam berating, assaulting black father holding a 1-year-old (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Polk County deputy Scott Cronin summarily executes police K-9 Recon (WFLA 8)
• ILLINOIS: Unnamed Mount Carmel PD officer summarily executes victim’s service dog during response to burglary (Mt. Carmel Register)
• INDIANA: Laurel PD officer Clinton Ellis pleads guilty in puppycide death of K-9 Blade, gets probation (Batesville Herald-Tribune)
• LOUISIANA: New Orleans man wanted for murder tries to turn himself in, jailers refuse to book him without proper ID (New Orleans Advocate)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Unnamed Boston PD officer meets up with 2 prostitutes, gets his gun stolen (WPRI 12)
• MICHIGAN: Evidence from murder cases discovered in home of unnamed, retired Detroit officer during eviction (The Detroit News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Grifton PD officer Jason Lovick charged with 8 counts of kiddie porn (Durham Herald-Sun)
• TENNESSEE: Nashville jailer Oluwatobi Ola gets anger management class after being caught on video pepper-spraying inmate for no reason (Nashville Tennesseean)
• TEXAS: Houston drug raid that killed Navy veteran Dennis Tuttle, Rhogena Nicholas, and their dog was based on fake intel; at least one officer suspended (Houston Chronicle)
  • Our episode on the botched raid (Fsck #91)
• TEXAS: Montgomery School District Police need a better decorator (Twitter)
• VIRGINIA: Capitol Police Sergeant Robert Stamm, tasked with monitoring anti-Northam protests, suspended for being a white nationalist (NY Times)

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Join us this week as we talk about Florida police lying to jail a man for possession of laundry detergent, Missouri police lying to cover up the shooting death of a cop by another cop, North Carolina police lying to keep an innocent man in prison for 42 years, and much (much) more!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Anon, Trey Benfield, Rob Elder, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, Charlotte Mobley, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Brian Gilbreath, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• 4th Circuit: Charles Ray Finch, who’s spent 42 years of his life in prison for murder, is actually innocent (4th Circ COA)
• Vera Institute releases new tool to analyze arrest data, shows ~80% of all arrests are for minor offenses or non-criminal conduct (The Intercept)
• COLORADO: Lakewood PD officer Randall Shaun Butler charged for *3rd* sexual assault (KRDO 13)
  • Story on Butler’s first arrest (Denver Post)
  • And on Butler’s second arrest (Denver Post)
• FLORIDA: Martin County Sheriff’s Deputy Steven O’Leary fired for framing 11 people for drug possession (Miami Herald)
• GEORGIA: Albany PD officer Matthew Brown on video crashing into parked car while trying to murder man in parking lot (WALB 10)
  • The bystander video showing Brown’s crash (Twitter)
• KANSAS: Taxpayers to pay $1,100,000.00 to Richard Jones, who served 17 years for robbery he didn’t commit (ABC News)
• LOUISIANA: 5 deputies indicated in rape and beating at Washington Parish jail (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore police declare they will continue arresting people for cases the DA won’t prosecute (WMAR 2)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Fred Clay spent 37+ years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, taxpayers to pay $1,000,000.00 (WGBH 89.7)
• MISSOURI: St. Louis Metro PD killer cop Nathaniel Hendren executes off-duty SLMPD cop Katlyn Alix (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • After claiming it was an “accident,” police then say it was “Russian Roulette” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • And police claim the hospital wouldn’t honor a warrant for drug testing the killer cop (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Bryson City cops spend 6 months investigating glass pipes, brag about it (Raleigh News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD officer Michael Santiago charged with sexual battery for groping woman (WSOC 9)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville PD perv cop Wade Lane Lee Jr. kills himself after molesting child (Fayetteville Observer)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Massive exposé on state’s asset forfeiture system shows how system benefits police, screws taxpayers (Greenville News)
• TEXAS: Houston police summarily execute middle-aged couple Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas in botched drug raid (Reason)

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Surprise! It’s a new Fsck as we work on getting back into a production routine. Join us this week as we talk about a weird qualified immunity ruling from the US Virgin Islands, taxpayers shelling out $$$$$ for police f*ckery in California and New York, and two separate Pennsylvania officers from different departments in the same county both charged with sexually assaulting a half dozen women.

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Show Notes:

• 3rd Circuit: Qualified immunity for CBP agents who illegally searched vacationers’ cruise cabin (3rd Circ COA)
• ARIZONA: Tuscon PD officer Richard Daniel fired, arrested for sexual assaulting suspect (KTVK 3)
• CALIFORNIA: Jury awards $360,000.00 to family of Connor Zion, who died while Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Higgins repeatedly stomped on his head (Orange County Register)
• FLORIDA: Republican legislators try to limit impact of Amendment 4 by demanding payment of exorbitant fines from ex-felons (WLRN 91.3)
• FLORIDA: Miami-Dade PD had proof 15-year-old Deandre Charles was innocent, indicted him for murder anyway (Miami New Times)
• GEORGIA: Muscogee County judge blasts DA’s Office after Stanley Andrews is jailed for 3.7 years without trial (WRBL 3)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago man Geraldo Iglesias, framed by CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara, exonerated after spending 17 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (BuzzFeed News)
  • Our episode on Guevara framing Geraldo Iglesias (Fsck #72)
  • And framing Thomas Sierra (Fsck #47)
  • And framing Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes (Fsck #42)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore police beat, arrest teenager trying to record them arresting innocent party after report of a fight (WBAL 11)
• MICHIGAN: Northville firefighter Patrick Nolan uses *helicopter* to stalk ex (WDIV 4)
• MISSOURI: St. Louis grand jury looks into perjury charge against DA Kim Gardner in case against former Gov. Greitens (KMOX 1120)
  • Our episode on the indictment against Greitens, later dismissed (Fsck #53)
• NEW YORK: NYC bicyclist Charles Puccio awarded $2,250,000.00 for injuries in attack by NYPD detective Noel Lawrence (Gothamist)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Ashley PD officer Mark Icker arrested for sexually assaulting female drivers (WNEP 16)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Wilkes-Barre PD officer Robert Collins arrested for raping 4 women (WNEP 16)
• TENNESSEE: Chattanooga PD officer Benjamin Piazza suspended with pay after being caught on video beating compliant driver (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

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We’re snowed in here in Durham! Join us as we talk about the flurry of sentencing memos in the Trump-Russia investigation, an 8th Circuit decision to incentivize police dishonesty, and a “Good Guy with a Gun” getting shot by police in Alabama and California and Louisiana!

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Show Notes:

• Lots of sentencing memos out this week!
  • Michael Cohen @ Russia Investigation (DocumentCloud)
  • Michael Cohen @ New York Investigation (DocumentCloud)
  • Michael Flynn (DocumentCloud)
  • Michael Flynn Supplement (DocumentCloud)
  • Paul Manafort (DocumentCloud)
• Russians were in contact with at least 14 Trump campaign operatives (Washington Post)
• James Comey testifies to Congress (Vox)
  • Comey Hearing Transcript (House Judiciary)
• Gen. John Kelly, garbage pile in human form, is out as Chief of Staff (NY Times)
  • Our episode where I forewarned you Kelly was a scumbag (Fsck #19)
  • …and where he lied about a Gold Star widow and a Congresswoman (Fsck #33)
  • …and where the Inspector General confirmed Kelly broke the law (Fsck #48)
  • …and where Kelly publicly defended domestic abusers (Fsck #51)
  • …and where Kelly argued making kids into orphans was cool (Fsck #64)
• Eighth Circuit: Officer lied at trial, but arrest was still legal (8th Circ COA)
• Study: nearly half the country has a family member in jail (Washington Post)
  • The full incarceration report (FWD.us)
• Survey: contraband brought into jails via staff, not visitors (Prison Policy Initiative)
• ALABAMA: Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., summarily executed by Hoover PD at mall, was shot in back while trying to help panicked shoppers escape (NY Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Sacramento law enforcement charged protestors stabbed by Neo-Nazis at protest, let attackers go free (UK Guardian)
• CALIFORNIA: Sheriff’s deputy Ron Helus, trying to save patrons in Thousand Oaks massacre, killed by other police (KTLA 5)
• COLORADO: Westminster PD cop Curtis Arganbright gets 90 days in jail for raping handcuffed woman (KRDO 13)
• DC: Unidentified DOJ staffer sexually assaulted staff, allowed to resign (The Hill)
• FLORIDA: Miami taxpayers to shell out $1,300,000.00+ settlement to Taiwan Smart, jailed for 19 months for murders he didn’t commit (Miami New Times)
• FLORIDA: Monroe County Sheriff tried to deport American citizen to Jamaica over weed (Miami Herald)
  • Our episode on ICE routinely deporting Americans (Fsck #61)
• GEORGIA: Grantville PD officer James Christopher Holmes indicted for incest (Newnan Times-Herald)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer on video repeatedly beating unarmed, restrained 16-year-old boy with handcuffs (Reason)
• INDIANA: Elkhart PD officers Cory Newland and Joshua Titus charged with assault for beating handcuffed man (South Bend Tribune)
• LOUISIANA: Federal agent shot twice by New Orleans PD while walking back to hotel (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
• MICHIGAN: Wayne County Sheriff’s Office seizes woman’s car over $10 of weed (Reason)
• NEW YORK: NYPD police on bystander video repeatedly trying to rip 1-year-old child from mother’s arms (Politico)
• NEW YORK: Sunray TX police chief Timothy Dean, officer Bron Bohlar indicted in murder of Sodus NY couple (WHAM 13)
• NORTH CAROLINA: NC State Highway Patrolman Jonathan K. Whitley decides to randomly share racist thoughts on Instagram (Durham Herald-Sun)
• OHIO: Former Cuyahoga County Judge Lance Mason indicted in murder of ex-wife (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• OREGON: Hillsboro PD officers raid classroom with rifles drawn, over verbal argument between students (Portland Tribune)
• OREGON: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler demanded reporters sign non-disclosure agreements and let police review articles on them (Willamette Week)
• OREGON: Massive $10,000,000.00+ settlement in jail dehydration death of Madaline Pitkin (The Oregonian)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Grand jury issues scathing report on police incompetence, interference by union (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• TEXAS: US Border Patrol officer Juan David Ortiz officially indicted on capital murder (Laredo Morning Times)
  • Our earlier episode on Ortiz’s killing spree (Fsck #82)
• TEXAS: Records expunged for “San Antonio Four,” exonerated after spending 15+ years in prison for assault they didn’t commit (San Antonio Express-News)
• VIRGINIA: Prominent Neo-Nazi Alex McNabb works as a taxpayer-funded EMT in Patrick County (HuffPost)
• WEST VIRGINIA: State Trooper Derek Walker, already on leave for beating a teenager, subject of lawsuit and internal investigation over other incidents (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
• CANADA: Toronto PD officer Vittorio Dominelli resigns after eating pot brownie and radioing for medical help (CBC)
• FRANCE: Paris riot police force schoolkids onto their knees with hands on their heads for protesting (Sky News)
• UK: London police release video showing them running over moped thieves for sport (UK Independent)

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