Shots Shots Shots Shots Shots (Episode 108) 01 Mar 2021 01:06:12 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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Police Chiefs Gone WILD (Episode 107) 01 Feb 2021 01:09:24 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.
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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)
FLORIDA: Lake County “school resource officer” – a cop – on video tasing unarmed black schoolgirl as she backs away with her hands raised (WFTV 9)
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)
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)
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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Vic Mignogna: Dismissed with Prejudice (Episode 97) 14 Oct 2019 01:20:13 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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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)
NEW YORK: NYPD perv cop Raul Olmeda acquitted of raping 15-year-old, but convicted of witness tampering (NY Daily News)
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)
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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Season 3 Reboot (Episode 96) 30 Sep 2019 01:01:42 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!
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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)
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)
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)
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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Perpetual Dumpster Fires (Episode 95) 02 Jul 2019 00:59:43 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)
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)
HAWAII: Former prosecutor Katherine Kealoha jailed after being found guilty of conspiracy (AP News)
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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Mini-Pod: Season 3 Not-A-Preview (Episode 94) 01 Jul 2019 00:48:31 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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Mini-Pod: Wreck It, Ralph (Episode 92) 11 Feb 2019 00:44:16 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.
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Show Notes:
Virginia Governor apologizes for appearing in blackface + KKK photo… (Washington Post)
Virginia Lieutenant Governor is accused of sexual assault… (NY Times)
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)
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)
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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Mini-Pod: Liar Liar (Episode 91) 31 Jan 2019 00:56:51 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!
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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)
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)
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)
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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Mini-Pod: Back in the Saddle (Episode 90) 24 Jan 2019 00:45:11 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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Killing the “Good Guy with a Gun” (Episode 89) 10 Dec 2018 01:13:01 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!
Russians were in contact with at least 14 Trump campaign operatives (Washington Post)James Comey testifies to Congress (Vox)
Gen. John Kelly, garbage pile in human form, is out as Chief of Staff (NY Times)
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)
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)
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)
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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Different Day, Same Sh*t (Episode 88) 03 Dec 2018 01:02:50 We’re back (again)! Join us this week for an unusually-good-news-filled episode, as dirty cops in Florida and New Jersey are sentenced to federal prison while several more have been indicted in California, Maryland, and Texas! Plus quite a bit more!
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Show Notes:
Former FBI Director James Comey nominally fights House GOP subpoena (Washington Post)
North Carolina’s newest Congresscritter-elect, Republican pastor Mark Harris, engaged in voter fraud (Charlotte Observer)Analysis: police lose thousands of guns, many end up in hands of criminals (The Trace)Study: More police in schools are useless waste of taxpayer money (News & Observer)
ALABAMA: Long read on the Etowah ICE detention center where guards sell contraband to inmates and commit other crimes (UK Guardian)
CALIFORNIA: Chula Vista PD officers spend taxpayer time working on private fundraiser (Voice of San Diego)
CALIFORNIA: Concord PD spent $$34,000.00+ of taxpayer money on idiotic lip sync video (East County Today)
CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD assistant chief Jorge Villegas suddenly retires amid investigation for “improper sexual relationships” (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles County sex crimes investigator Neil David Kimball charged with tying up, raping 14-year-old girl (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: Trinity County Sheriff Bruce Haney leaves his job, moves to another state, still gets paid (Sacramento Bee)
FLORIDA: Former Biscayne Park PD chief Raimundo Atesiano sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for framing innocent black men of crimes (Miami Herald)
FLORIDA: Miami PD officer Roberto Destephan records himself ranting about Jewish Scripture, throwing Torah in trash (WTVJ 6)
GEORGIA: Three lawsuits filed against the Brooklet Police Department for numerous constitutional violations (AllOnGeorgia)
GEORGIA: 87 inmates file lawsuits over Gwinnett County Jail beatings (WAGA 5)
MARYLAND: Prince George’s County PD officer Ryan Macklin arrested for raping undocumented motorist after traffic stop (WRC 4)
MISSISSIPPI: Man wearing racist shirt at Olive Branch poll site is former Memphis PD cop Clayton Hickey, who resigned after being caught with a minor in his patrol car (WGHP 8)
MISSOURI: Four St. Louis PD Metro officers federally indicted for brutality (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
NEW JERSEY: NJ Advance Media develops comprehensive database of police use-of-force data (NJ.com)
NEW JERSEY: Former Newark PD officer Domenico Lillo sentenced to 3.5 years in federal prison for beating of Brandon Walsh (NJ.com)
NEW YORK: NYPD officer Raymond Williams used colleague’s bodycam to record his genitals (NY Daily News)
NEW YORK: Witness testifies in federal corruption trial to bribing high-ranking NYPD officers with prostitutes (NY Daily News)
NORTH CAROLINA: Newton Grove PD chief Everett “Frankie” Harrell charged with domestic violence for beating his wife (News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrolman Brian Maynard delivers baby on side of highway (WTVD 11)
TEXAS: Dallas PD killer cop Amber Guyger indicted for murder in extrajudicial summary execution of Botham Jean in his own apartment (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
TEXAS: Parker County deputy Jarrett Turner shot himself in what police chief called an “ambush” (KDFW 4)
WASHINGTON: Seattle PD officer Adley Shepherd, fired for savagely beating a handcuffed drunk woman, is reinstated with back pay (Seattle Times)
WISCONSIN: New bodycam footage released showing Milwaukee PD shot unarmed and compliant black man Jerry Smith Jr. for sport (Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal)
FRANCE: Paris police beat the sh*t out of Yellow Vest protestor (Twitter)
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#Law140: Evidence Basics, Part 2 (Episode 87) 29 Oct 2018 01:06:00 Join us this week on the second in our multi-part series on the Rules of Evidence, with a focus this time on the concept of “hearsay” and its crazy number of exceptions!
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Different Verse, Same as the First (Episode 106) 25 Jan 2021 01:02:22 Happy Biden Administration! Even with a change of presidents, criminal justice f*ckery continues unabated. Join us for civil rights violations in California, more people released from prison for crimes they didn’t commit in North Carolina, and some truly bonkers idiocy by the Dickson TN Police working with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
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Vote Early, Vote Often (Episode 86) 22 Oct 2018 01:24:54 Early voting in the 2018 midterms has begun! Join us this week as T. Greg talks about the items on the North Carolina ballot, an audit showing hundreds of Customs & Border Patrol officers being arrested in just two years, a California gang officer pleading guilty to accepting bribes, and teens being beaten on video in Florida, Illinois, and Virginia.
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Federal Circuit: Defendant attaches weed samples to his appeal (Federal Circ COA)Sixth Circuit: Police cannot commit puppycide for sport (Reason)
Analysis: Hundreds of police officers nationwide charged with on-duty rapes, “forcible fondling,” and other sex crimes (CNN)
500+ Customs & Border Patrol officers arrested over the past two years (NY Times)ARKANSAS: Astonishing Radley Balko deep dive into chronic Fourth Amendment violations by the Little Rock Police Department (Washington Post)
ARKANSAS: State Supreme Court justices petition themselves to have ethics complaints thrown out (ABA Journal)
CALIFORNIA: State to allow non-violent third-strike offenders to seek parole (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: Man released after 9 years in prison as new law dramatically limits state’s Felony Murder Rule (The Marshall Project)
CALIFORNIA: Oakland PD officer, Alameda County gang expert Harry Hu pleads guilty to accepting bribes (The Mercury News)
CALIFORNIA: Orange County Sheriff’s deputy Michael Devitt on video brutally beating drunk man unconscious, lies about it, cuts off bodycam when he realizes it’s recording (HuffPost)
DELAWARE: Tiffany Reeves, mother of 3, dies in prison over unpaid fine (Wilmington News Journal)
FLORIDA: White Coral Springs PD officer on video repeatedly punching black teen girl (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel)
FLORIDA: Jackson County Sheriff’s deputy Zachary Wester fired after lying on reports, 100+ cases dismissed (Tallahassee Democrat)
ILLINOIS: Video shows off-duty Chicago PD officer shooting unarmed autistic man (UK Guardian)
LOUISIANA: District Court Judge rules state’s split-jury law is unconstitutional (New Orleans Advocate)
MARYLAND: Prince George’s County “Officer of the Month” Ryan Macklin arrested for traffic stop rape of undocumented immigrant (Baltimore Sun)
MICHIGAN: Macomb County jail doctor Steven Cogswell charged for felony sex assault of inmates (WDIV 4)
MICHIGAN: Rochester Hills firefighter Jeffrey Zeigler, who tried to kill unarmed black teen Brennan Walker for asking for directions, convicted of felony assault (The Detroit News)
MISSISSIPPI: Tate County deputy orders man to stop filming police in his own home (WREG 3)
NEW YORK: NYPD detective Nicholas DiGaudio encouraged victim to delete evidence in Harvey Weinstein investigation, hide it from DA (WNBC 4)
NORTH CAROLINA: Bail reform in Charlotte-Mecklenburg triggers pushback (WFAE 90.7)
NORTH CAROLINA: 4-year-old felony charges in Graham tossed after pro se, handwritten motion (Winston-Salem Journal)
OHIO: Columbus Police congratulate themselves for not killing black boys doing nothing illegal (Reason)
OREGON: Portland PD reveals to Mayor, City Council for the first time that Nazis were heavily armed at summer rally (The Oregonian)
PENNSYLVANIA: All prisoners permanently banned from receiving personal mail (Bloomberg)
PENNSYLVANIA: Penn State University uses police helicopter to break up football tailgate (CBS News)
TEXAS: Dallas PD Sergeant Jamie McDonald arrested for felony child abuse in beating of 8-year-old (Dallas Morning News)
UTAH: Qualified immunity for Ogden PD officers who broke diabetic man’s leg at hospital (Ogden Standard-Examiner)
VIRGINIA: Norfolk PD officers on video beating 16-year-old black boy, offering shifting explanations (Virginian Pilot)
WEST VIRGINIA: Former Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry convicted on 11 of 22 federal charges (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
GERMANY: Police in Bad Oldesloe summarily execute 22-year-old homeless man as he runs away, for knife possession (WordPress)
UNITED KINGDOM: Senior British police official acknowledges policing is still “institutionally racist” (UK Independent)
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Everything is Awful (Episode 85) 08 Oct 2018 01:15:18 October has already been the longest month in awhile, and we’re only a week in! Join us as our favorite corrupt Alabama sheriff is back in the news, a Maryland police sergeant is arrested at a strip club and then promptly beaten, and a Texas police department confiscating an activist’s political sign out of her own yard because they found it offensive.
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Show Notes:
Great summary of the Republican Party under Trumpism (The Atlantic)Tom Nichols bails on the GOP (The Atlantic)
Long read on large number of people with disabilities who end up summarily executed by police (BBC News)NCIS agent Leatrice Malika DeBruhl-Daniels federally indicted for tipping off suspected terrorist (Washington Post)ALABAMA: Ousted Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin used gun permit fund to pay for re-election ads (AL.com)
ALABAMA: Jackson County adds new $2.50/day meal fee for inmates, to fund pay raises for jailers (Dothan Eagle)
CALIFORNIA: Surprise audit of ICE jail in Adelanto finds “infernal” conditions (Washington Post)
CALIFORNIA: Inglewood PD chief Mark Fronterotta gets illegal $61,000.00 “bonus” every year because of 2-week course (The Daily Breeze)
CALIFORNIA: Orange County Sheriffs illegally eavesdropped on attorney-client phone calls (Orange County Register)
FLORIDA: Miami Gardens PD killer cop Roland Clarke repeatedly busted for f*cking on the job (Miami New Times)
GEORGIA: Desmond Marrow files lawsuit over beating, cover-up (WSB-TV 2)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD killer cop Jason Van Dyke convicted by jury for extrajudicial summary execution of black teen Laquan McDonald (Chicago Tribune)
INDIANA: Indianapolis PD gets qualified immunity in lawsuit by pregnant woman mauled by K-9, because they meant for the dog to maul someone else (IndyStar)
KANSAS: Tonganoxie police arrest unarmed 61-year-old black man for heinous crime of moving into his own house (Kansas City Star)
LOUISIANA: Police, on video, successfully disarm machete-wielding black man without killing him (Newsweek)
LOUISIANA: The New Orleans’ Firefighters Pension and Relief Fund has only 10% of the assets in needs (The Belle Curve)
MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer Aaron Heilman fired after being found plastered in his patrol car (Baltimore Sun)
MARYLAND: Baltimore PD Sergeant Henrietta Middleton arrested, beaten for being disorderly at strip club (Baltimore Sun)
NEW JERSEY: Englewood Cliffs Police Chief Michael Cioffi recorded detailing how he’d like to kill “b*tch” town council President (NJ Advance Media)
NEW JERSEY: Rowan University PD and Glassboro PD stop, pull guns on unarmed students for sport (NJ.com)
NEW JERSEY: Paterson PD on video macing deaf man for sport (North Jersey Media Group)
NEW YORK: Otis Reese files suit after NYPD officers are caught on camera wrongly arresting him for an fake open container violation (WNBC 4)
NORTH CAROLINA: Report confirms police drove 75+ mph in high-speed crash that killed off-duty deputy (Raleigh News & Observer)
OHIO: Killer cop Timothy Loehmann, who summarily executed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, gets new job with Bellaire Police Department (Martins Ferry Times Leader)
OHIO: Cleveland judge Michael Nelson Sr refuses to send low-level offenders to jail where inmates keep dying (NY Times)
OREGON: Video released of Clackamas County deputies laughing at veteran dying of drug overdose (The Oregonian)
TEXAS: Hamilton PD confiscates political yard sign for triggering GOP snowflakes (Dallas Morning News)
TEXAS: Houston PD officer caught on video taking pictures of woman’s @$$ while working security at Drake concert (KTRK 13)
TEXAS: John Nolley Jr. officially exonerated after spending 18 years in jail for murder he didn’t commit (Dallas Morning News)
VIRGINIA: Four racists federally indicted for rioting at Charlottesville rally (Washington Post)
ENGLAND: London police on video brutalizing, pepper-spraying 23-year-old black man for no apparent reason (UK Guardian)
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#Law140: Evidence Basics, Part 1 (Episode 83) 24 Sep 2018 00:42:00 The regular assortment of criminal justice f*ckery had to be delayed a few days to accommodate life. Until then, we’ve got the first of a several-part series on the Rules of Evidence and how they play out in the discussion of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court!
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Baby Steps (Episode 82) 17 Sep 2018 00:57:08 We’re back on regular rotation! This week we have *5* different appellate decisions on qualified immunity, child molesters on the police forces in California and Florida, and a killer cop in Texas with a story that makes no sense.
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Check out Episode 81 on Roy Moore’s lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen (Patreon)Trump-supporting R Congresscritter Chris Collins has been federally indicted (Fsck #79)Trump-supporting R Congresscritter Duncan Hunter has been federally indicted (CNN)Trump-supporting foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos has been sentenced (NY Times)Trump-supporting former campaign manager Paul Manafort has pled guilty (NY Times)Trump-supporting former lawyer Michael Cohen has pled guilty (NPR)
5th Circuit: Judge Don Willett has thoughts on qualified immunity (Simple Justice)
6th Circuit: No qualified immunity for deputies who intentionally tased pregnant woman in the stomach (6th Circ COA)6th Circuit: No qualified immunity for officer who groped 17-year-old girl because she looked like a “junkie whore” (6th Circ COA)9th Circuit: No qualified immunity for school police officer who arrested group of girls “to prove a point” (9th Circ COA)9th Circuit: No qualified immunity for IRS agent who demanded to watch woman use the bathroom (9th Circ COA)Study: Race and gender bias is rampant in law firms (ABA Journal)Federal prosecutors admit they falsely accused Russian spy of offering sex for work (NY Times)Sheriffs who cheered Trump’s attacks on the media had their own run-ins with the media (UK Guardian)CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD officer Kenneth Collard charged for sexually assaulting 13-year-old daughter of fellow officer (LA Times)
FLORIDA: Biscayne Park PD chief Raimundo Atesiano pleads guilty to framing innocent black men (Miami Herald)
FLORIDA: Miami-Dade PD lieutenant Braulio Gonzalez arrested for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl (WSVN 7)
GEORGIA: Ilya Zaretsky spent a year in jail for rape he didn’t commit, as ex-wife’s family tried to extort him (WSB 2)
KENTUCKY: Providence PD sergeant sentenced to 3.5 years in federal prison for illegally beating, arresting a citizen who tried to file a complaint (US DOJ)
LOUISIANA: Plaquemines Parish deputy Brian Green given “indefinite paid leave” for being in alt-right group (New Orleans Advocate)
MARYLAND: Harford County deputies get virtual reality training on how to not kill dogs (Reason)
MINNESOTA: DA expunges 40+ charges brought by former Chaska PD officer Joshua Lawrenz, who profiled Hispanic drivers (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
NEW JERSEY: NJ Supreme Court decides police video is not a public record (Asbury Park Press)
NEW YORK: John Bunn spent 17 years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit; now he brings books to prisons (CNN)
NEW YORK: NYPD officer on camera with gun drawn, casually drops N-bomb, spazzes on methadone patients (NY Post)
NEW YORK: Multiple NYPD officers arrested for running a gambling and prostitution ring (NY Post)
NEW YORK: Rochester refuses to disclose how much taxpayer money it paid to settle brutality cases, to “protect taxpayers” (WHEC 10)
OKLAHOMA: Cleveland PD officer Terry Browne charged with drug trafficking after being stopped with 160 pounds of weed (KFOR 4)
PENNSYLVANIA: Judge dismisses false report charges against Pittsburgh PD officer Kaelen O’Connor, who falsified reports to cover up partner’s road rage (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
TEXAS: Dallas PD killer cop Amanda Guyger charged with manslaughter for extrajudicial summary execution of Botham Jean – in Jean’s own apartment! (Dallas Morning News)
TEXAS: Another U.S. Border Patrol officer in Webb County, Juan David Ortiz, arrested for murdering women (Washington Post)
WISCONSIN: Lawsuit settlements for abuse in Wisconsin’s teen prisons cost taxpayers $20,600,000.00+ (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
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MiniPod: We’re Still Here! (Episode 80) 12 Sep 2018 00:29:05 The episode title says it all: we’re still here! Join us in this mini-pod as T. Greg explains where the podcast has been for the past month, and provides updates on what’s coming next!
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A Culture of Corruption (Episode 79) 13 Aug 2018 01:36:33 Join us this week as we talk about the culture of corruption permeating the Trumpkin GOP. In our criminal justice news, an off-duty Ohio officer tases an 11-year-old girl, a Florida boy is arrested at a youth basketball league for bouncing a basketball, and ICE crashes a van in Texas then denies an accident even took place. Then, in our #Law140 section, we talk about a “bait truck” of shoes in Chicago and the law of entrapment!
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Mike the Sound Guy got a shout-out! (Twitter)We’re finalists in the 13th Annual Podcast Awards! (Podcast Awards)I’m getting a new dog! Here’s the origin story on Chance (Twitter)Republican Congresscritter Chris Collins indicted for paint-by-numbers insider trading (NY Times)
Members of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf club, who aren’t veterans or public officials, are secretly running the US Department of Veterans Affairs (ProPublica)Analysis: Recreational therapy in jail lowers recidivism among juvenile offenders (JJIE)ARKANSAS: England PD officer Michael Moore fired after being caught on video telling black men “you don’t belong in my city” (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
CALIFORNIA: LAPD Chief Michel Moore collected $1,270,000.00+ from “flash retirement” before hiring as $299,000.00/yr Chief (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: Tyrone McAllister, teen arrested for brutally beating Sikh man, is son of local police chief (San Francisco Chronicle)
COLORADO: El Paso County taxpayers to pay $60,000.00 for keeping woman in jail 25 days over $55 bail (Colorado Springs Gazette)
FLORIDA: Department of Correction made millions selling MP3s to inmates; it’s now confiscating them to force inmates to buy new music (Florida Times-Union)
FLORIDA: Prosecutors admit Biscayne Park PD framed Clarens Desrouleaux, have his conviction set aside after serving 5 years in prison and deportation to Haiti (Miami Herald)
FLORIDA: Unidentified Jacksonville PD officer arrests 11-year-old black child for bouncing basketball in youth athletic league (WJXT 4)
FLORIDA: Marion County deputy Jeremie Nix saves lifeless 4-month-old baby (Ocala StarBanner)
FLORIDA: Republican Melissa Howard, running for State House, lied about graduating from college then posed with fake diploma (The SunSentinel)
GEORGIA: Rockdale County deputy Dedra Hall charged with sexual battery (WSB 2)
GEORGIA: Spalding County deputies Howard R. Costner and Jesse A. Jones fired for being neo-Nazis (WXIA 11)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD, Norfolk Southern Railroad park truck of shoes in poor neighborhood to entrap residents (UK Daily Mail)
KANSAS: Overland Park PD officers caught muting bodycams, issuing bogus seatbelt tickets (KCUR 89.3)
MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer Arthur Williams suspended after being caught on video savagely beating unarmed black man Dashawn McGrier (Baltimore Sun)
MARYLAND: Baltimore taxpayers to spend $176,800.00 on consultant to maintain decades-old Lotus Notes system at Baltimore PD (Baltimore Sun)
MARYLAND: Towson mom Elizabeth Eden kept from her newborn for 5 days because a poppy seed bagel trigger a false positive for opioids (WBAL 11)
MICHIGAN: Clare County PD officer Ashley Gruno jails 80-year-old grandmother for possessing weed for arthritis (Reason)
MINNESOTA: Minneapolis politician Carol Becker tries to register trademark for name of critic’s blog (Tony Webster)
NEW JERSEY: Palisades Interstate Parkway PD Chief Michael Coppola arrested for cocaine (North Jersey Media Group)
NEW YORK: Unidentified Sheriff’s deputy on video calling teen raped by NYPD officers a “stupid b*tch,” other insults (NY Daily News)
NORTH CAROLINA: Alcoholic Beverage Control commission wasted millions in taxpayer money (Durham Herald Sun)
NORTH CAROLINA: Moore County Sheriff admits deputies lied, Arthur Kenzie Garner never shot at them before being summarily executed (WRAL 5)
OHIO: Off-duty Cincinnati PD officer Kevin Brown tased an 11-year-old black girl for stealing food; policy allows them to tase kids as young as 7 (Cincinnati Enquirer)
OKLAHOMA: Judge hides jail video of inmate dying after indicted Sheriff, deputies kept him in restraint chair for 54 hours (The Oklahoman)
OREGON: West Linn PD officer Tom Newberry, fired for racist posts, entitled to $100K in back pay because his supervisors encouraged the posts (The Oregonian)
PENNSYLVANIA: Deep dive on crooked cops in the Philadelphia PD (Philadelphia Weekly)
SOUTH CAROLINA: York grand jury indicts 900+ cases in a day, at 39 seconds per case (Rock Hill Herald)
TEXAS: ICE crashed a van full of immigrant women, denied it ever happened… until media got the accident report (Texas Observer)
UTAH: Enoch PD officer Jeremy Dunn given paid vacation for shooting woman with screwdriver in the leg (Reason)
WEST VIRGINIA: Legislative committee votes to impeach entire Supreme Court (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
Sorrells v US (Justia)US v Russell (Oyez)Jacobson v US (Oyez)US Attorneys Manual entry on entrapment (US Dept of Justice)
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Confessions (Episode 78) 06 Aug 2018 00:43:56 It’s an abbreviated Fsck this week but we still cover quite a bit! In political news, the President admits his campaign colluded with Russians while Geraldo admits The Wall is a joke. Plus, a homeowner is summarily executed by police in Colorado, a Michigan officer is on video savagely beating a naked woman in a hospital, and North Carolina police engage in a high speed chase that kills a Sheriff’s deputy.
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The Papaya POTUS admits his campaign team colluded with the Russians (NY Times)Geraldo Rivera admits Trump’s border wall is psychological, needed for white paranoia (Business Insider)ARIZONA: CBP/ICE shelter worker Levian Pacheco indicted for sexually assaulting at least 8 immigrant teens (ProPublica)
CALIFORNIA: Oxnard PD police successfully arrest violent man without killing him (KCAL 9)
CALIFORNIA: Sacramento County operates illegal license plate readers outside welfare offices (EFF)
COLORADO: Aurora PD summarily executes Army veteran Richard Black after he saved his grandson from home invader (Denver Post)
COLORADO: El Paso County perv deputy Donald Fair created kiddie porn, pled guilty, no jail time (KCNC 4)
FLORIDA: Miami DUIs plummet 65% due to Uber, Lyft (Miami Herald)
LOUISIANA: Avoyelles Parish deputies on bodycam summarily executing 44-year-old Armando Frank (Acadiana Advocate)
MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer on video beating unarmed 13-year-old black boy with mental disability, yelling “I’m about to send this kid to the f*cking hospital” (Essence)
MICHIGAN: Unidentified Detroit PD officer on video savagely beating naked woman in hospital (WJBK 2)
NORTH CAROLINA: Asheville taxpayers shell out $650,000.00 settlement in beating of Johnnie Rush (Asheville Citizen-Times)
NORTH CAROLINA: Nazi Marine who beat protestors in Charlottesville booted from USMC (Jacksonville Daily News)
NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD high-speed chase ends in crash, death of off-duty Sheriff’s Office deputy (WRAL 5)
NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrolman Michael Blake, charged with beating Kyron Hinton, on video beating other motorists (WRAL 5)
OREGON: Portland PD on video attacking unarmed observers at Nazi “Patriot Prayer” rally (Twitter)
TENNESSEE: ICE blinds unarmed 42-year-old Gonzalo Chavez for sport (The Tennessean)
SWEDEN: Stockholm police summarily execute man with Down’s Syndrome, autism over toy gun (UK Argus)
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Euphemistically Speaking (Episode 77) 30 Jul 2018 01:34:19 July is almost over! Join us this week as we talk about the impeachment of Rod Rosenstein, don’t-call-them-gangs in California, “hackers” in Idaho prisons, and a Maryland man shot for “wielding a comb.” Then, in our #Law140 segment, we talk about the law of prior restraints and CNN broadcasting the audio of Michael Cohen and the Papaya POTUS!
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Vote for Fsck ‘Em All in the 13th Annual Podcast Awards! Reminder: we’re now on Spotify! Republican Congresscritters file resolution to impeach Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein (Washington Post)2nd Circuit: immigrants entitled to suppression hearing after after NY State Police, CBP exposed for lying (2nd Circuit COA)Study: Red-light cameras do not reduce traffic accidents or improve public safety (Case Western Reserve University)
Analysis: Amazon’s facial recognition technology for police produces loads of false positives, especially of minorities (BuzzFeed News)Analysis: Most investigations of non-white homicides end in no arrest (Washington Post)
TSA secretly running new surveillance program of innocent travelers who pose no security threat (Boston Globe)Hundreds of young children being molested at CBP/ICE youth detention centers (ProPublica)Police departments across the country waste your money on “lip sync challenge” videos (Patch Media)CALIFORNIA: LA County sheriff launches investigation into police gangs operating within his department (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: LAPD kills hostage during Trader Joes standoff (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: Santa Monica PD holds Hollywood star Ving Rhames at gun point for “breaking into” his own house (Washington Post)
COLORADO: El Paso County jailers run secret “fight club,” win prizes for beating inmates (Colorado Springs Gazette)
FLORIDA: Biscayne Park PD officer Guillermo Ravelo pleads guilty to framing innocent blacks for crimes they didn’t commit (Miami Herald)
FLORIDA: Miami PD officer Luis Arcia sued for beating unarmed black man over insult (Miami New Times)
FLORIDA: North Miami Beach PD officer Ambar Pachaco fired, arrested after she “beat the sh*t out of” pregnant woman (Miami Herald)
FLORIDA: Palm Beach County PD tests 994 rape kits, find 140 matches, make 0 arrests (Palm Beach Post)
FLORIDA: Tampa / Hillsborough County paramedics John “Mike” Morris, Justin Sweeney, Andrew Martin, Cortney Barton suspended after refusing to transport or examine black mom suffering from stroke (Tampa Bay Times)
GEORGIA: Athens-Clarke County PD on video pinning unarmed 9-year-old boy to the ground (WSB 2)
KENTUCKY: Louisville PD officer Brian Smith disciplined for racist social media posts (WUKY)
IDAHO: Hundreds of inmates “hack” JPay tablets, get over $200K in credits (Idaho Statesman)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD fighting consent decree requirement to log when they point their weapons at people (CapitolFax.com)
INDIANA: Long-read on pervasive misconduct in the prosecutions of Keith Cooper and Christopher Parish, released after years in prison for robbery they didn’t commit (ProPublica)
LOUISIANA: New Orleans PD officers Spencer Sutton and John Galman fired, arrested for beating Latino military veteran in local bar (New Orleans Advocate)
LOUISIANA: Shreveport PD offcer Joshua Mayfield arrested for battery (KSLA 12)
MARYLAND: Aberdeen PD officer James Evans repeatedly man wielding a… comb (Baltimore Sun)
MISSISSIPPI: Meridian PD officer Daniel Starks fired after being caught on video tasing handcuffed black man in the neck for sport (Reason)
MISSISSIPPI: No charges against Southaven police who shot Ismael Lopez in the back of the head while serving warrant on wrong person (WMC 5)
MISSISSIPPI: Former Starkville PD officer Gary Wheeler indicted for 2017 shooting of black teen during traffic stop (MS Clarion Ledger)
NEW JERSEY: Millville PD officer Samuel Brozina indicted for child porn (Vineland Daily Journal)
NORTH CAROLINA: City of Cary will start monitoring your poop for opioids (WRAL 5)
NORTH CAROLINA: Federal judge denies Harnett County Sheriff’s Office motion to dismiss lawsuit over 2015 shooting death of John Livingston (Fayetteville Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrol officer James Stahl summarily executes 22-year-old black man for avoiding DWI checkpoint (WRAL 5)
NORTH CAROLINA: Southport PD chief Gary Lee Smith, Lt Michael Simmons arrested for public corruption and department disbanded (News & Observer)
OHIO: Columbus PD officer Dean Worthington indicted for child porn (Columbus Dispatch)
OHIO: Trump supporter Patricia Edelen arrested after spraypainting “Hail Trump,” “N*ggers Keep Out” on black neighbor’s home (WTVG 13)
OREGON: Multnomah County deputy Dwight Richey indicted for sexual assault (KGW 8)
PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney stands up to ICE, refuses to renew data-sharing agreement (Philadelphia Inquirer)
SOUTH CAROLINA: Former Walterboro PD officer Stephanie Grant Bridge pleads guilty to stealing $20,000.00+ from evidence locker (The State)
TENNESSEE: Former UT football player Geraldo Orta threatened a witness in a rape case, rewarded with job in Knoxville PD (The Tennesseean)
TEXAS: Return of “zero tolerance” school discipline policies are targeting preteens, students with mental disabilities (Texas Tribune)
TEXAS: Forensic Science Commission concludes – accurately – that “blood-spatter analysis” is bogus non-science (ProPublica)
WEST VIRGINIA: Testimony underway in impeachment proceedings against Justice Allen Loughry (WV MetroNews)
CNN broadcasts Michael Cohen recording of the Papaya POTUS (CNN)Our #Law140 on attorney-client privilege (Fsck #42)Patterson v Colorado (Justia)Near v Minnesota (Oyez)Bantam Books v Sullivan (Oyez)New York Times v US (Oyez)Great prior restraint case law in EFF’s MuckRock brief (EFF)
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Traitors, Part 2 (Episode 76) 23 Jul 2018 01:28:16 It’s a jam-packed Fsck! Join us this week as we talk about Republicans becoming a threat to national security, the Department of Justice admitting ICE has accidentally detained American citizens as young as 5 years old, Pennsylvania police crushing a man to death with a bulldozer over weed, and a Texas deputy who is still on the job — even after being fired 4 times and suspended 11 more times!
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Vote for Fsck ‘Em All in the 13th Annual Podcast Awards! We’re now on Spotify! Episode 75 on Administrative Law Judges is now on Patreon! Donald Trump and his apologists are a threat to national security (New Yorker)
Sixth Circuit: qualified immunity for all officers who summarily executed mentally ill veteran (6th Circ COA)Study: black, Latino men far more likely to be killed by police than whites (American Journal of Public Health)
Study: racism – not “economic anxiety” – explains immigration views (Mother Jones)
Study: teachers interpret identical behavior differently based on the race of the student (News & Observer)
Study: unemployment rate among formerly incarcerated people is 5x higher than the general population (Prison Policy Initiative)Department of Justice admits to court that CBP/ICE has accidentally detained a 5-year-old citizen who is the child of another citizen (The Hill)
1-year-old child brought into immigration court to defend himself at hearing (HuffPost)ALABAMA: Long-read on Dothan prosecutors seeking the death penalty for Pastor Kenneth Glasgow (NY Times)
ALABAMA: Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin had sex with underage girls (Birmingham News)
ARIZONA: Republican state legislator Paul Mosley pulled over for speeding 42mph over the speed limit, claims legislative immunity (KLPZ 1380am)
ARIZONA: Republican candidate for state legislature Bobby Wilson brags about killing his mother and sister at forum (Arizona Republic)
ARKANSAS: In-depth look at stunning and pervasive misconduct in the arrest of Adam Finley by Walnut Ridge PD officer Matthew Mercado (Washington Post)
CALIFORNIA: Alameda County leads state in brutality settlements, costing taxpayers $15,500,000.00+ in just 3 years (East Bay Express)
CALIFORNIA: Riverside County adopts pre-crime methodology to target students for arrest (The Appeal)
CALIFORNIA: San Bernardino County prosecutor Michael Selyem suspended for racist tirade against black Congresswoman (San Bernardino Sun)
CALIFORNIA: San Francisco Bay area homicides drop to historic lows (San Francisco Chronicle)
COLORADO: Aurora PD officer Chuck DeShazer, fired for racial slur, now back on the job (KUSA 9)
COLORADO: Dancing FBI agent Chase Bishop – who shot someone while picking up gun he dropped in club – gets his gun back (Denver Post)
DC: DC Metro cop Sean Lojacono on video doing a sidewalk anal probe of unarmed black man for sport (NY Post)
FLORIDA: Biscayne Park PD practice of targeting random innocent blacks to frame for crimes even worse than thought (Miami Herald)
FLORIDA: Lake Butler corrections officer David Moran stripped of pension after Klan membership, plot to kill black inmate (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
FLORIDA: Republican Congressional candidate Javier Manjarres arrested for attempted murder (Florida Politics Blog)
FLORIDA: Six different Melbourne PD officers disciplined after falsifying timesheets (WKMG 6)
FLORIDA: Miami-Dade police ordered to return $20K in glitter-covered cash seized from stripper (Newsweek)
FLORIDA: Miami PD officer lets girlfriend impersonate a cop, arrest man, extort him for money (Miami New Times)
FLORIDA: High-speed chase in Volusia County ends in selfies with white arrestees (ABC News)
GEORGIA: Coweta County judge Seay VanPatten-Poulakos sentences homeless black man to a year in prison for “a couple Cheerios’ worth” of weed, changes her mind after bad publicity (WXIA 11)
GEORGIA: Exposé on Doravilla PD and others using faulty roadside drug tests to arrest innocent people (WAGA 5)
GEORGIA: Feds want reimbursement of money spent on Gwinnett County’s Dodge Charger Hellcat (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
GEORGIA: Roswell officers Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson on paid leave after using “coin toss” app to decide whether to arrest speeding driver (WXIA 11)
GEORGIA: Warner Robins PD officers pray with 9-year-old black boy going in for brain surgery (CBS News)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer on video harassing unarmed black men, boasting “I kill motherf*ckers” (The Root)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD killer cop Robert Rialmo involved in yet another assault (Chicago Tribune)
KENTUCKY: Deep dive on confessed pedophile judge and Trump activist Tim Nolan (Cincinnati Enquirer)
LOUISIANA: New Orleans FBI accused of surveilling defense attorney representing dirty DEA agent Chad Scott (New Orleans Advocate)
MINNESOTA: Carver County deputies summarily execute suicidal 16-year-old boy Archer Amorosi (Minneapolis StarTribune)
MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD on video arresting four unarmed black teens after 911 caller falsely claims they have guns (BuzzFeed News)
MINNESOTA: Long-read on victims reporting rape and sexual assault but Minneapolis PD taking no action (Minneapolis StarTribune)
MONTANA: Missoula County deputies rescue 5-month-old baby abandoned in the mountains (KECI 13)
NEW JERSEY: Atlantic City officers save 10-year-old PA boy from drowning (NJ Advance Media)
NEW JERSEY: Wharton PD officer Joseph Lobue suspended after being arrested for stalking (Daily Record)
NEW YORK: NYFD firefighter Joseph Cassano back at work after 30-day suspension for sh*tting on neighbor’s furniture (NY Daily News)
NEW YORK: Long-read on NYPD supervisor Jason Margolis getting away with sexual harassment of his subordinates (BuzzFeed News)
NEW YORK: NYC City Council ends extortionate rates for phone calls from Rikers (NY Daily News)
NORTH CAROLINA: Lanesboro prison unit manager Jeffery Wall kept bloody shanks in his office to provide inmates for stabbings (Charlotte Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Racist Republican candidate for NC Senate District 22 – my district – spent his career as a Durham Sheriff’s deputy (News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Off-duty Iredell County deputy on motorcycle killed by on-duty deputy in patrol car (News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Republican Congressional candidate Steve Von Loor in court for domestic violence (News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Prison staff under Republican Governor Pat McCrory were busy selling drugs to inmates, taxpayers now owe $190,000.00 (News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Police officer, corrections officer, and ten firefighters charged with deliberately setting homes on fire (News & Observer)
PENNSYLVANIA: No discipline for Lancaster PD officers Philip Bernot and Shannon Mazzante, caught on camera tasing unarmed black man for sport (The Hill)
PENNSYLVANIA: Minersville PD officer Ashley Michel indicted for welfare fraud (KDKA 2)
PENNSYLVANIA: State Trooper in Reading has man crushed to death by bulldozer for 10 marijuana plants (Reading Eagle)
TEXAS: El Paso PD officer pulls gun on unarmed children, arrests one for recording scene (El Paso Times)
TEXAS: Black girl brutalized by McKinney PD officer Eric Casebolt at pool party gets $184,850.00 settlement for abuse-of-force lawsuit (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
TEXAS: San Antonio PD Lieutenant Lee Rakun, fired 4 times and suspended 11 more times, is in trouble again (San Antonio Express-News)
VIRGINIA: Charlottesville PD successfully arrest black gunman without killing him (Daily Progress)
WISCONSIN: Milwaukee taxpayers shell out $3,400,000.00+ to settle stop-and-frisk lawsuit (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
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Traitors, Part 1 (Episode 74) 16 Jul 2018 01:07:18 We had so much criminal justice f*ckery we had to split it into two episodes! Join us this week for the latest Mueller indictments in the Russia probe, the NSA still illegally collecting your phone calls, a Florida police officer terrorizing a local restaurant over seasoning, and a truly impressive fraud scheme by a cop in New Jersey.
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Vote for Fsck ‘Em All in the 13th Annual Podcast Awards! Mueller files the latest batch of indictments, and lots of Republicans are in it (US DOJ)Investigation into women inmates being groomed for prostitution using public info (UK Guardian)The NSA is still illegally compiling your call information (Daily Beast)CALIFORNIA: ICE officers whine to the media about how unpopular they are now (LA Times)
DC: All J20 prosecutions dismissed (Washington Post)
FLORIDA: Fort Myers PD officer Tim McCormick claimed Burger King served him dirt; it was actually seasoning (WUSA 9)
FLORIDA: Miami-Dade police story in savage beating of Ephraim Casado “directly contradicted” by video (Miami New Times)
FLORIDA: North Bay Village police on surveillance video throwing a party as citizens called for help during Hurricane Irma (Miami Herald)
GEORGIA: Glynn County PD killer cop Robert C. Sasser, who killed Caroline Small in 2010, kills ex-wife, her boyfriend, and himself (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
GEORGIA: Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department uses forfeiture money to buy $70K sports car for Sheriff (WAGA 5)
ILLINOIS: Chicago taxpayers shell out $2,500,000.00+ to 3-year-old girl traumatized by CPD (WGN 9)
LOUISIANA: Witness recants in 2002 homicide, claims he was coerced by Jefferson Parrish Sheriff’s Office to lie (New Orleans Advocate)
MASSACHUSETTS: One Boston PD officer helps take care of a pet dog while family is in the hospital… (Boston Globe)
MASSACHUSETTS: …while another Boston PD officer summarily executes a “vicious” pitbull, but provides no indications of viciousness (Boston Globe)
NEW JERSEY: Paterson PD officer Robert McAusland pleads guilty to beating suicidal man in hospital, selling crack, heroin, weed (NJ Advance Media)
NEW JERSEY: West Deptford PD officer Thomas McWain indicted for falsifying arrest reports, destroying evidence (NJ Advance Media)
NEW YORK: NYPD officer Tanvir Ahmed on video crashing into car in hit-and-run, punching victim who chases him (NY Daily News)
NORTH CAROLINA: Judge rules that Durham PD detective Jesus Sandoval lied on search warrant in rape investigation (News & Observer)
OHIO: 20-year-old man takes picture of his 17-year-old girlfriend, now federally indicted for creating kiddie porn (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
SOUTH CAROLINA: Police union loses its sh*t over high school reading list (CBLDF)
SOUTH CAROLINA: Richland County deputy Kaleb Broome pleads guilty to defacing domestic violence victim’s poster, spelling “Niger” (WLTX 19)
TENNESSEE: Federal judge blocks the state’s practice of suspending licenses of the indigent over traffic fines (Reason)
WISCONSIN: State Supreme Court rules police can draw your blood without a warrant when you’re unconscious (WI Courts)
VIRGINIA: Couple invents “Not Reaching” pouch to help reduce deaths during traffic stops (WWBT 12)
CANADA: US CBP boarding Canadian fishing boats to ask about illegal immigrants (Toronto Star)
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We Live in the Dumbest Possible Timeline (Episode 104) 14 Sep 2020 01:17:54 We’re back! Join us this week for cops doing casual corpse-fondling in California, beating a domestic violence victim for sport in Texas, repeatedly shooting an autistic 13-year-old in Utah, and a lot more!
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WTFsck? Volume 7 (Episode 73) 09 Jul 2018 01:17:03 T. Greg’s been out of town for Independence Day, so that means we turn the show over to YOU
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A Jurisprudential Earthquake (Episode 72) 02 Jul 2018 01:28:02 Half the year is already over! Join us this week as we talk about the ghouls running the Republican Party, police framing innocent people in Florida and Illinois, an ICE prosecutor being sentenced for identity theft in Washington, and killer cops at Portland State University.
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Attorney General Beauregard jokes about separating families, crowd laughs (NY Post)Dinesh D’Souza, Trumpist intellectual (and felon pardoned by Trump), tweets “#BurnTheJews” (Newsweek)Dana Loesch, Trumpist intellectual, tries to spin wanting reporters “curb stomped” after Capital Gazette shooting (Newsweek)John Cardillo, Trumpist intellectual, obliterated after tweeting picture of political candidate’s childhood home (The Hill)Bona fide Nazi Arthur Jones is the GOP candidate for Congress in Illinois (Politico)Russell Walker – of “Martin Luther Coon” fame – wins GOP primary for NC House with 65% of the vote, writes “God is racist” and Jews “all descend from Satan” (News & Observer)Supreme Court upholds Muslim Ban 3.0 (NY Times)
5th Circuit reverses dismissal of lawsuit over mass strip-search of 22 preteen girls at school over $50 (5th Circuit COA)Study: New look at the dynamics of mass incarceration (Vera Institute)DHS embeds “14/88” in an official press release (DHS.gov)
ICE rigged its “detain-or-release” algorithm software to always result in “detain” (Techdirt)ALABAMA: Trumpist school teacher Shane Ryan Sealy pulls gun on “Families Belong Together” protestors (WHNT 19)
CALIFORNIA: Oakland police summoned on black firefighter for doing routine inspections (San Francisco Chronicle)
FLORIDA: Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano, officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez, all federally indicted for framing 16-year-old to keep “perfect score on crime statistics” (Miami Herald)
FLORIDA: Clay County detective Mark Andrews and Nassau County deputy Kyle Tholl indicted for framing innocent people, staging crime scene (Florida Times-Union)
FLORIDA: Supreme Court removes Flagler judge Scott DuPont for “reckless disregard for the truth” (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
FLORIDA: Men notify Miami Beach PD they will be legally carrying weapons at pier, police arrest them anyway (Miami Herald)
GEORGIA: Alabama corrections officer Matthew Lee Moore indicted in rape of two Sandy Springs women (Sandy Springs Patch)
ILLINOIS: Chicago jury awards $17M to Jacques Rivera, man framed by police for murder he did not commit (Chicago Sun-Times)
KENTUCKY: Report released showing “mistakes were made” during investigation of teens sexually abused in police Explorer program (The Courier-Journal)
LOUISIANA: Got a traffic ticket? Certain DAs will dismiss if you give money to their office (New Orleans Advocate)
MARYLAND: Decriminalized marijuana is evidence of crime (MD Court of Special Appeals)
MISSOURI: St. Louis District Attorney to end prosecutions of “baby weed” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque PD summarily executes 19-year-old Mary Hawkes, all 5 officers’ bodycams “malfunctioned” (Washington Post)
NEW YORK: NYPD expands database by +70% under liberal Democrat Bill de Blasio; 99%+ are nonwhite (The Intercept)
NEW YORK: St. Lawrence County DA Mary Rain suspended from practicing law for 2 years over prosecutorial misconduct (North Country Now)
NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance County law enforcement gets taught that being Catholic is probable cause to be searched (Burlington Times-News)
NORTH CAROLINA: Durham Sheriffs knew about jail suicide hazards for 20 years, did nothing as 12 people died (Durham Herald-Sun)
OHIO: Columbus restaurant owner focuses on hiring former inmates and the homeless (Politico Magazine)
OREGON: No charges for Marion County deputy Jacob Thompson, on camera beating homeless man (The Oregonian)
OREGON: Portland police commander Steve Jones arrested for DUI after crashing city SUV into telephone pole (Willamette Week)
OREGON: Portland State University killer cops Shawn McKenzie and James Dewey on video summarily executing Navy veteran Jason Washington (The Oregonian)
PENNSYLVANIA: Analysis shows police report -0- hate crimes, but charge defendants with “ethnic intimidation” when they make mean comments… about police (The Appeal)
PENNSYLVANIA: Lancaster PD officers Philip Bernot and Shannon Mazzante tase unarmed and compliant black man for sport, caught on camera (Washington Post)
PENNSYLVANIA: East Pittsburgh killer cop Michael Rosfeld charged with criminal homicide (CBS News)
SOUTH CAROLINA: Unidentified Anderson County deputy on camera hitting 15-year-old student trying to board school bus (ABC News)
WASHINGTON: Seattle ICE Chief Counsel Raphael Sanchez sentenced to 4 years for identity theft (ICE.gov)
UNITED KINGDOM: Manchester police Kerry Reeve and Adam Jackson jailed over raging cocaine habits (UK Telegraph)
Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring from the Supreme Court (CNBC)Article III of the Constitution (LII)
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Shot in the Back (Episode 71) 25 Jun 2018 01:10:03 The criminal justice f*ckery is back! Join us this week for child-molesting police in California, Georgia, Montana, and Texas, a Native American on video being run over by Customers & Border “Protection” in Arizona, and three people shot in the back by police — including the extrajudicial summary execution without due process of unarmed black teen Antwon Rose.
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Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders kicked out of restaurant, whines on official government account (Washington Post)
2nd Circuit: No qualified immunity for NYPD officers using material witness warrant to arrest, interrogate woman for 18 hours (2nd Circuit COA)Study: extrajudicial summary executions of unarmed blacks is harmful to blacks’ mental health (Newsweek)
In middle of opioid crisis, US Department of Justice letting drug dealers run wild to prosecute immigrants (USA Today)ARIZONA: Border Patrol officer on video running over Native American man Paulo Remes (Arizona Daily Star)
CALIFORNIA: Imperial PD officer Ray Valenzuela charges with even more sex crimes against minors (KYMA 11)
CALIFORNIA: Policing White Space, as white woman calls police on 8-year-old black girl selling bottled water without a permit (San Francisco Chroncile)
CALIFORNIA: San Francisco PD on video shooting fleeing suspect in the back (KABC 7)
GEORGIA: White man uses SUV to block black doctor from entering gated community where she lives, calls police for “trespassing” (WXIA 11)
GEORGIA: Clayton County jury awards $1,000,000,000.00+ verdict to woman for rape by security guard (WAGA 5)
GEORGIA: Cobb County cop Robert Lanier New jailed for assaulting mentally disabled woman, soliciting her 12-year-old niece for sex (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
GEORGIA: Profile on South Fulton, Georgia’s 5th-largest city, where the criminal justice system is led entirely by black women (CNN)
GEORGIA: Trial begins in murder of Timothy Coggins, black man killed 34 years ago by police for “socializing with a white woman” (WXIA 11)
GEORGIA: Killer cops Henry Copeland, Michael Howell, and Rhett Scott indicted for murder (WJBF 6)
ILLINOIS: Chicago EMS assumes 17-year-old Erin Carey was dead, let him bleed out rather than give aid (Chicago Tribune)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD apologizes for raiding wrong home (WBBM 2)
MAINE: Border patrol agents spend 11 hours running traffic checkpoint for 1 minor arrest (Bangor Daily News)
MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD summarily execute 30-year-old Thurman Blevins, details in dispute (Splinter News)
MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD repeatedly ordering EMS to inject detainees with ketamine, powerful sedative (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
MISSISSIPPI: Columbus PD killer cop Canyon Boykin fired for killing black man, sues city for racial discrimination, gets a settlement! (BuzzFeed News)
MONTANA: Stevensville School Resource Officer Samuel Steven Fawcett indicted for molesting toddler (Ravalli Republic)
NEW YORK: Analysis shows bail in NYC almost entirely dependent on the judge, not the defendant or crime (FiveThirtyEight)
NEW YORK: NYPD detective Thomas Rice pleads guilty to repeatedly fabricating witnesses (NY Daily News)
NEW YORK: Long Island police officers Erik Skoglund, Karen Ernst, and Bruce Moeller busted for running drug ring, plotting to rob casino (WABC 7)
NEW YORK: NYPD to start using summonses instead of arrests for weed charges (Associated Press)
NORTH CAROLINA: Attorney on Planning Commission approves project, gets hired by project’s developer (Durham Herald-Sun)
NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrol sergeant R.W. Goswick on audio telling police to lie about attack on Kyron Hinton (News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Former Person County elected DA Wallace Bradsher convicted, disbarred for “wife swap” fraud scheme (WTVD 11)
NORTH CAROLINA: General Assembly gives police access to your prescription without a warrant (News & Observer)
OHIO: White Lorain PD cop John Kovach fired for fabricating traffic stop to arrest daughter’s black boyfriend, lying about it (WCMH 4)
PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia PD charges teenager with felonies for trying to burn Blue Lives Matter flag (Philadelphia Inquirer)
PENNSYLVANIA: Allegheny County killer cop Michael Rosfeld summarily executes unarmed black teen Antwon Rose 90 minutes after getting sworn in (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
TEXAS: Bexar County child molester deputy Jose Nunez given paid vacation for assaulting 4-year-old girl, threatening her mom with deportation (Houston Star-Telegram)
TEXAS: At least 5 dead after high-speed car chase ends in crash (Killeen Daily Herald)
TEXAS: Leon Valley police mass arrest attendees live-streaming a press conference (YouTube)
WASHINGTON: French teen detained by ICE for 2 weeks after accidentally jogging across border on unmarked beach (CBC News)
WEST VIRGINIA: The federal indictment against Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry has been unsealed (NPR)
WISCONSIN: White UW-M student Alec Cook rapes nearly a dozen women, gets just 3 years in prison (WGN 9)
WISCONSIN: Sterling Brown lawsuit includes racists posts by Milwaukee PD officers (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
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#Law140: The Unindictable President (Episode 70) 18 Jun 2018 00:57:05 It’s a #Law140-only episode this week, as T. Greg preps for a Wednesday trial. Join us as we talk about our beloved Papaya POTUS Donald Trump, and go over the reasons why he can’t be indicted by Robert Mueller while Trump’s still in office — including the Constitutional text, three of the Federalist papers, two OLC memos, and a handful of Supreme Court cases!
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Bad Hombres (Episode 69) 11 Jun 2018 01:01:02 Each of the first 4 Rules of Fsck make an appearance this week! Join us as we talk about police beating unarmed men on camera in Arizona and Oregon, a fired Georgia cop getting hired as a deputy days later, and a Maryland man dying in a Baltimore holding cell for a traffic ticket.
Then, in our #Law140 section, we talk about the federal Bail Reform Act and why Paul Manafort may end up going to jail before trial!
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Paul Manafort was dimed out by his associates (NY Times)Trump accomplishes nothing at G7 summit (BBC)Supreme Court issues its ruling in the “gay wedding cake” case (SCOTUS)
Block-by-block analysis of murder “hotspots” where killings go unsolved (Washington Post)ARIZONA: 4 Mesa PD officers on paid vacation after being caught on security camera beating unarmed Robert Johnson (KPHO 5)
CALIFORNIA: ICE deports uncle of children orphaned after ICE killed their parents (LA Times)
DC: Latest batch of J20 prosecutions ends in 3 acquittals, 1 mistrial (HuffPost)
FLORIDA: Politician’s office stopped running concealed handgun background checks for over a year because a staff member “couldn’t log in” (Tampa Bay Times)
FLORIDA: Bay County Sheriff’s deputy takes down armed man with 2 cans of baked beans (Miami Herald)
GEORGIA: Taylor Saulters, cop fired for running over a suspect, already rehired as Sheriff’s deputy (WSB-TV 2)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD on video terrifying, arresting unarmed 10-year-old boy in case of “mistaken identity” (Chicago Sun-Times)
IOWA: Des Moines student Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco, US resident since he was 3, killed weeks after being deported to Mexico (Des Moines Register)
KENTUCKY: State trooper Mitch Harris, coroner John Goble indicted for stealing ammo, guns, moonshine, eyeballs (WAVE 3)
MARYLAND: Disabled man turns himself in to Baltimore PD on traffic ticket, dies in holding cell (Baltimore Sun)
MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD announces end to marijuana stings after 97.8% of those arrested are black (Minneapolis StarTribune)
NEW YORK: Military personnel at Fort Hamilton order pizza, turn deliveryman over to ICE (NBC News)
OHIO: ICE comes bearing donuts, then arrests landscapers (Washington Post)
OREGON: Marion County deputies on video pummeling homeless man (KGW 9)
PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner working on comprehensive list of tainted cops (Philadelphia Inquirer)
UTAH: Clint Douglas Shaw, former Davis County SWAT officer, files lawsuit claiming county did not adequately hide his misconduct (Ogden Standard-Examiner)
WEST VIRGINIA: Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry suspended for lying, other violations of judicial conduct (WV Public Radio)
WISCONSIN: New Milwaukee PD video of Bucks player Sterling Brown’s arrest shows police expected “firestorm” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Mueller tries to revoke Manafort’s pre-trial release (NY Daily News)Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 46 (LII)The Bail Reform Act of 1984 (Federal Judicial Center)US Attorneys’ Manual on Pretrial Proceedings (US DOJ)
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Back to “Normal” (Episode 68) 04 Jun 2018 01:26:59 After 3 straight weeks of unusual episodes, we’re back on our regular rotation: a little politics, a lot of criminal justice f*ckery, and a little legal lesson!
Join us this week as we talk about new tariffs, research showing Republican judges give unusually harsh sentences to black defendants, a police officer in Florida arrested for extorting nudes from a women, and police in New Hampshire illegally arresting a guy for criticizing them on social media.
Then, in our #Law140 section, we go over the basics of negligence and how a Florida jury awarded the family of Gregory Hill a mere $0.04.
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US Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, pledges America will interfere in foreign elections (UK Guardian)The Moscow Muppet promises new aluminum, steel tariffs on US allies (Business Insider)The Papaya POTUS legal team sends a memo to Mueller that looks crafted by first-year law students (NY Times)
Study: Republican-appointed judges give harsher sentences to black defendants than Democrat-appointed ones (Harvard)
Should defendants receive “technological due process”? Harvard student argues yes (Harvard)Compilation of cases involving “bloodstain-pattern analysis” and courts accepting junk science (ProPublica)CALIFORNIA: Humboldt County pedophile cop Cory Jordan Fisher Sr. set for preliminary hearing later this month (Eureka Times Standard)
CALIFORNIA: Oakland church pledges to “divest” from police, avoid calling them (LA Times)
COLORADO: Unidentified FBI agent on video dropping gun while dancing in club, shooting bystander (Denver Post)
DC: More J20 charges dismissed after prosecutors commit Brady violations (BuzzFeed News)
FLORIDA: Racial disparities in how Miami police treat marijuana prosecutions (Miami New Times)
FLORIDA: Orange City PD officer Joshua David Fancher arrested after threatening to kill woman if she didn’t send him nudes (WKMG 6)
FLORIDA: Orlando resort apologize to black doctor after video of white family screaming racial slurs at them (Orlando Sentinel)
FLORIDA: Orange County chomo deputy Marcus Leon James arrested for raping “child younger than 12” (WKMG 6)
FLORIDA: Palm Beach County judge rejects “Stand Your Ground” defense from killer cop Nouman Raja (Florida Sun Sentinel)
FLORIDA: St. Lucie County jury awards $0.04 to family for police execution of Gregory Hill (Miami Herald)
GEORGIA: Athens-Clarke County PD officer Taylor Saulters fired for running over unarmed black man with his patrol car (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
HAWAII: Waipahu taxpayers pay $650,000.00+ for extrajudicial summary execution of schizophrenic man in 2013 (Hawaii News Now)
IDAHO: Deputies in Elmore County shoot, kill unidentified man with knife after car chase (KTVB 7)
IOWA: Bodycam footage “fails to corroborate” Burlington PD killer cop Jesse Hill’s excuse about why he killed white mother Autumn Steele (Des Moines Register)
KANSAS: Overland Park PD killer cop Clayton Jenison says he was justified in unloading 13 shots, summarily executing suicidal 17-year-old John Albers (Kansas City Star)
LOUISIANA: White teen laughs on Snapchat over killing “some n*gger” after running over, killing 31-year-old Rell Lewis (WXIA 11)
MASSACHUSETTS: In-depth profile on how white drug addicts get treatment, not jail (Politico Magazine)
MISSOURI: Black drivers +85% more likely to be stopped by police than similarly-situated whites (Associated Press)
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Exeter PD illegally arrest man for his online criticism of crooked Police Chief William Shupe (Slate)
NEW JERSEY: Paterson PD officer Roger Then indicted for beating suicidal man in hospital (Paterson Times)
NEW YORK: Hipster real estate agent in NYC on video calling police, shouting racial epithets outside nightclub (NY Post)
PENNSYLVANIA: Unidentified Spring Grove PD officer shoots handcuffed man while he’s seated in back of patrol car (York Dispatch)
TENNESSEE: Armed, white cop killer arrested alive (Nashville Tennesseean)
TENNESSEE: White neighbor calls police on black real estate agent, police defend agent (The Root)
VIRGINIA: Self-avowed pedophile and white supremacist running for Congress (HuffPost)
VIRGINIA: Chesterfield taxpayers pay $6,500,000.00+ to man severely burned by reckless Taser use (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
AUSTRALIA: Victoria police fake more than a quarter-million breath test results (The Age)
INDIA: Sikh cop saves Muslim boy from mob attack over Hindu girlfriend (UK Metro News)
UNITED KINGDOM: Makeup company runs #SpyCops ad campaign, backtracks after intimidation by police (UK Independent)
Negligence Overview (Justia)Excellent 50-state overview of negligence laws (Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer)
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Exoneration Extravaganza (Episode 66) 28 May 2018 01:27:02 An innocent man exonerated in Louisiana. Two innocent men exonerated in Pennsylvania. An innocent man exonerated in Wisconsin. Plus literal-dozens of other stories of criminal justice f*ckery.
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Fifth Circuit: Qualified immunity for all doctors, nurses in CBP-coordinated roadside rape (5th Circ COA)
SDNY: Federal judge rules Papaya POTUS can’t block people on Twitter (NY Times)
Federal prison director quits over “turf war” between Attorney General Beauregard, Jared Kushner (NY Times)Your federal government snatches hundreds of children from their parents at border crossings… (NY Times)…then “loses” 1,475 of them… (NY Times)…and now wants permission to destroy its records (ACLU)FBI triple-counts number of mobile phones that law enforcement can’t unlock (The Verge)ARIZONA: Bodycam footage released of Mesa PD tackling 84-year-old woman to the ground for sport (Arizona Republic)
CALIFORNIA: Oakland “Kale Not Jail” urban farming nonprofit helps former prisoners re-enter society (NY TImes)
CALIFORNIA: Black journalist records neo-Nazi rally, gets stabbed for it; police accuse him of violating Nazis’ rights (UK Guardian)
CALIFORNIA: San Diego County deputy Timothy Wilson Jr. arrested for groping 14-year-old, using work computer 44 times to check investigation (KNBC 4)
CALIFORNIA: San Francisco police union pushes ballot initiative to let police tase unarmed civilians (Salon)
FLORIDA: Miami judge Stephen Millan facing suspension for using racial slur toward black defendant (NY Post)
FLORIDA: Orlando PD using Amazon’s real-time facial recognition technology in policing (NPR)
GEORGIA: DeKalb County killer cop Robert Olsen claims naked man he killed had “superhuman strength” and was “impervious to pain” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
GEORGIA: Doraville gloats about using police to balance town budget, gets sued (Reason)
GEORGIA: Video shows Dunwoody EMT beating restrained 17-year-old black boy (WSB 2)
GEORGIA: Several Lawrenceville teens remain jailed without trial for 2+ years in case with no prosecuting witness (WSB 2)
GEORGIA: Surveillance video shows Polk County deputy Harry Battle repeatedly tasing restrained inmate (WAGA 5)
ILLINOIS: State Department of Corrections routinely keeps disabled inmates locked up past their release dates (WBEZ)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD cop William Whitley pleads guilty to federal charges of sex-trafficking children (Kansas City Star)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD killer cop Robert Rialmo charged with assaulting 2 people at a bar (Chicago Times)
KANSAS: Winfield PD Officer Sean Skov on video pulling over black man for “vegetation” on car windshield (Wichita Eagle)
LOUISIANA: 36-year-old black man Corey Williams released after serving over 20 years for murder he didn’t commit (Washington Post)
MARYLAND: Brentwood PD officer Ilia Cole charged with assaulting Hispanic man over parking ticket (Washington Post)
MASSACHUSETTS: Boston PD arrests homeless black man Emory Ellis for buying food with “counterfeit” $10 bill that was real (Mother Jones)
MICHIGAN: Detroit PD officers Timothy Leach and Frederick Person charged with felony assault, lying to investigators (WJBK 2)
MICHIGAN: Video released in Taylor PD beating of Cody Meredith for not using turn signal outside his own home (WDIV 4)
MISSISSIPPI: 2 unnamed Laurel PD police officers fired for brutalizing unarmed black man James Barnett for sport (ABC News)
MONTANA: Unnamed CBP agent detains two Americans for heinous crime of speaking Spanish (Washington Post)
NEW JERSEY: Washington Township PD officer Jim Vernon performs emergency C-section on dying deer, saves fawn (BBC News)
NEW JERSEY: Unnamed Wildwood police officer beats, chokes 20-year-old white girl for heinous crime of underage drinking (NJ Advance Media)
NEW YORK: NYPD officers on security camera video deliberately running over bicyclist (Bicycling Magazine)
NORTH CAROLINA: Asheville City Council votes to require police to use signed forms when claiming consent to search (Asheville Citizen Times)
NORTH CAROLINA: In-depth profile on Jesse McCoy and preventing evictions in Durham (Politico)
NORTH CAROLINA: State trooper Samuel Bullard crashes, dies in needless high-speed chase from checkpoint (Winston-Salem Journal)
From our deadly-police-chase archives:
NORTH CAROLINA: Judge orders video footage released in assault trial of Wake County deputy Cameron Broadwell, state troopers Michael Blake & Tabithia Davis (News & Observer)
OHIO: Bodycam footage released of unnamed Canton PD officer siccing police dog on driver for refusing to answer questions (WKYC 3)
OHIO: Hamilton County corrections officer Joshua Yeager arrested for kiddie porn (WCPO 9)
OHIO: Hamilton County corrections officer Jason Mize federally indicted for shoving 61-year-old inmate head-first into concrete wall (WCPO 9)
OREGON: Judge orders 15-year-old to pay $36,000,000.00+ in restitution for fire (Willamette Week)
OREGON: North Bend school cop Jason Griggs fired for harassing LGBT students (Willamette Week)
PENNSYLVANIA: 28-year-old Dontia Patterson released after spending 11 years for murder he didn’t commit (NY Times)
PENNSYLVANIA: DNA evidence prompts judge to vacate conviction of John Kunco, who spent 27 years in prison for rape he didn’t commit (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
SOUTH CAROLINA: Myrtle Beach police routinely raided homes without announcing themselves (My Horry News)
TENNESSEE: Matthew Charles, reformed drug offender whose early release was overturned by an appellate court, is back in prison (Nashville Public Radio)
TENNESSEE: Nashville judge Casey Moreland pleads guilty to federal charges of witness tampering, obstruction (Nashville Tennessean)
TEXAS: Houston PD officer tells black woman to raise her hands, “pretend we’re going to shoot you” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
TEXAS: Customs & Border Patrol summarily executes Guatemalan woman at border, changes story about what happened (CNN)
VIRGINIA: Chesterfield PD police tase, arrest 19-year-old Elkanah Odembo over broken brake light… in his own driveway (WTVR 6)
WISCONSIN: Bodycam footage released in tasing, arrest of Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
WISCONSIN: Richard Beranek exonerated after spending 27 years in prison for rape he didn’t commit (Wisconsin Watch)
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WTFsck? Volume 6 (Episode 65) 21 May 2018 00:37:02 T. Greg’s got a busy week ahead, so instead of a normal dose of criminal justice f*ckery we answer YOUR
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Policing White Space (Episode 64) 14 May 2018 01:03:05 Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms listening in! Join us this week as T. Greg rants about Yankees who “aren’t from ’round here,” plus an in-depth look at the Palantir “predictive policing” software, Illinois policing insisting they’ll kill their dogs if politicians legalize weed, and nearly a dozen stories about white folks weaponizing the police against minorities in white spaces.
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Show Notes:
Rob Smith of Harvard’s Fair Punishment Project is clueless about North Carolina (Twitter)Arrogant twit Senator Joel Ford mollywhopped in Democratic primary (Charlotte Observer)
Former General and Trump apologist John Kelly is a scumbag, Part 514 (Business Insider)In-depth look at Palantir, the “predictive policing” software departs are using to violate your civil rights (Bloomberg)
ARIZONA: Border Patrol killer cop Lonnie Swartz acquitted of murder in death of Mexican teen; will be retried for manslaughter (Arizona Daily Star)
CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD is using Palantir to create an evergreen list of “probable offenders” (In Justice Today)
CALIFORNIA: Unnamed Morgan Hill PD officer “accidentally” shoots 14-year-old girl in the eye during traffic stop, given paid vacation (Mercury News)
COLORADO: White mom summons police on Native American students for wearing heavy metal t-shirts (Inside Higher Ed)
CONNECTICUT: White Yale student calls police on black Yale student for falling asleep in common room while studying (NY Times)
DC: Metro PD cop Richard Wince illegally sold guns to murderer (CNN))
GEORGIA: Cook County police arrest, jail Canadian student for crime of (legally) driving with a Canadian license (CBC)
ILLINOIS: VP of shopping mall apologizes to black teens who were kicked out of mall for no reason (Chicago Sun Times)
ILLINOIS: Macon County cop Chad Larner says weed can’t be legalized, or they’ll have to kill all their drug dogs (Reason)
LOUISIANA: Kevin Smith imprisoned 8 years without trial; when drug charges are dismissed, his parole is revoked over address change (New Orleans Advocate)
LOUISIANA: Shreveport PD officer Gary Thomas on paid vacation for assaulting black teen over noise complaint (KSLA 12)
MARYLAND: Carroll County deputy on video blowing away groundhog for blocking traffic (WBAL-TV 11)
MASSACHUSETTS: State Trooper Alfred Burgos arrested for DWI leaving Irish-American Police party (Springfield Republican)
MISSOURI: 3 black teens falsely accused of theft at Nordstrom Rack, released without charges (KMOV 4)
NEW YORK: Entire Galway PD department indicted for falsifying records (The Saratogian)
NEW YORK: NYPD officers summoned to “burglary” as black man moves into new apartment (Washington Post)
NORTH CAROLINA: Duke University VP Larry Moneta has coffee shop baristas fired for playing Spotify rap song (Indy Week)
NORTH CAROLINA: Campaign page for Durham Sheriff Mike Andrews says “Amen!” to racist Facebook rant (Durham Herald Sun)
NORTH CAROLINA: Moore County deputy Tracy Carter fired for helping cover up drunk driving of Sheriff Neil Godfrey’s deputy-son Brent (Southern Pines Pilot)
NORTH CAROLINA: Moore County deputy Tevin Cadell charged with assault on a female (Fayetteville Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Warsaw PD officer Frank Moss on video beating, choking tuxedoed black man at Waffle House (Fayetteville Observer)
PENNSYLVANIA: White owners of Grandview Golf Club call police on black women for “golfing too slow” (NY Times)
PENNSYLVANIA: Black men arrested in Starbucks settle for $1 apiece, expungement, $200K school program (USA Today)
TEXAS: White elementary school principal Shanna Swearingen “jokes” about fake gun call to police regarding black student (KPRC 2)
TEXAS: White manager of Sambuca 360 in Plano on video kicking out black diners so white man could have table (WFAA 8)
TEXAS: Federal judge rules San Antonio police officers Raphael Medel and Sergio Villanueva repeatedly lied in warrantless search of man’s car (DocumentCloud)
TEXAS: Judge reduces death row inmate’s sentence to life without parole after discovering that prosecuted lied at trial (Texas Tribune)
VIRGINIA: Maryland Klan leader Richard Preston Jr. found guilty of firing gun at black counterprotestor at Charlottesville rally (The Hill)
VIRGINIA: White supremacist Jacob Scott Goodwin found guilty in savage beating of DeAndre Harris at Charlottesville rally (Washington Post)
VIRGINIA: Customs & Border Patrol killer cop Mark Cochrane charged with felony puppycide (WRC-TV 4)
WASHINGTON: White manager of Tacoma Fuego store on camera loudly reading shoplifting policies outside black woman’s dressing room, kicks her out (The Grio)
WISCONSIN: Hennepin County Minnesota deputy Jeffrey Masek charged with child sex crimes (Twin Cities Pioneer Press)
AUSTRALIA: Mobile phone footage shows officer deliberately running down indigenous teen for sport (NITV)
UNITED KINGDOM: 9 police officers under investigation for killing mentally ill man during welfare check (UK Guardian)
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BONUS: “We Got Blacks!” (Episode 63) 10 May 2018 01:21:57 It’s a special bonus episode for our loyal listeners! Join T. Greg as we welcome back Dave Foxx and James Hankins, for an in-depth discussion of Kanye West and black conservatives, the rise of Nazis, teacher strikes across the country, and much much more!
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3rd Rule of Fsck Remains Undefeated Too (Episode 103) 12 May 2020 01:15:55 Join us this week for a lot
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Stanford study of 95,000,000+ traffic stops shows persistent racial disparities, “veil of darkness” everywhere (AAAS)
Brutal analysis provides the data on how courts favor police in qualified immunity cases (Reuters)CALIFORNIA: LAPD officer caught on video beating the sh*t out of random black man for sport (KTLA 5)
CALIFORNIA: LAPD officer Ismael Tamayo facing assault charges for trying to kill another LAPD officer during campaign trip (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: White cop caught on video brutalizing 14-year-old over cigarette possession (Slate)
COLORADO: Denver PD beat the everlasting sh*t out of motorist for sport, on camera bragging “this is what happens when you elude police” (KRON 4)
CONNECTICUT: Inmates who test positive for COVID-19 are sent to solitary confinement… with no toiletries, forbidden to bathe (The Appeal)
GEORGIA: Cops protected by sovereign immunity after jailing woman for 94 days for cotton candy they thought was meth (WAGA 5)
GEORGIA: Ahmaud Arbery, unarmed black jogger, summarily executed for sport on camera by retired DA investigator and his son (NY Times)
INDIANA: Former Jasper County judge Robert Monfort facing criminal investigation, bar discipline for defrauding estates (Indiana Lawyer)
KENTUCKY: Louisville Metro police summarily execute EMT, in botched drug raid on wrong house after actual suspect already arrested (WDRB 41)
LOUISIANA: Garbage collectors protest lack of protective equipment, so New Orleans fires them and orders prisoners to fill in (WWL 4)
MARYLAND: Keith Davis Jr. facing *fifth* murder re-trial (Baltimore Sun)
MASSACHUSETTS: Five suspended officers, currently facing criminal charges for a cover-up, rehired by Springfield police chief (MassLive.com)
MINNESOTA: Judge seals juror information, normally public, after trial of convicted killer cop Mohamed Noor (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
MINNESOTA: Rock County deputies conduct extended roadside rape, in below-freezing temperatures, on video, of passenger in car pulled over for having an air freshener (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
NEW JERSEY: White Jersey City police beat the sh*t out of black man for “not social distancing” (UK Daily Mail)
NEW YORK: 98% of NYPD arrests for social distancing violations are non-white (NY Times)
NORTH CAROLINA: New Hanover County deputy J.T. Kita fired, facing criminal charges for leading all-white lynch mob to black teen’s house (Durham Herald-Sun)
NORTH CAROLINA: UNC System Board of Governors Chairman Randy Ramsey caught lying about his credentials (Charlotte Ledger)
OHIO: Whites most frequently defying stay-at-home orders, but blacks 4x more likely to be arrested for violating them (ProPublica)
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FIFA-Style Policing (Episode 62) 07 May 2018 01:36:02 It’s our first episode of Season 2! Join us this week as we talk about police in Ohio and Florida using people’s heads as soccer balls, a Kentucky officer who re-raped a woman raped by a different Kentucky officer (seriously), and some good news out of Texas involving a pit bull!
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Our work on Fsck #60 got a shout-out from WUNC! (WUNC)
Analysis: America more integrated overall, but entrenched segregation persists (Washington Post)
Analysis: Police killings of unarmed people are down, for now (Washington Post)
Study: Data confirms police engage in retaliatory violence against minorities when criticized on social media (PLOS One)
CALIFORNIA: Jumpy Buena Park PD officer thinks man stole pack of Mentos he bought, pulls gun on him (Orange County Register)
CALIFORNIA: Rialto PD surrounds black women for heinous crime of checking out of AirBnB (The Grio)
CALIFORNIA: Reserve police officer “accidentally” fires gun in Salinas high school public safety class (USA Today)
CALIFORNIA: A look at the inherent conflict of interest in San Joaquin County’s “Sheriff-Coroner” position (NPR)
FLORIDA: Miami PD officer Mario Figueroa takes running start, kicks handcuffed black man in the head for sport (Miami New Times)
KANSAS: Racist Kansas City firefighter Terrence Jeremy Skeen, who went on “n*gger”-filled rant and spit at 3-year-old, has been reinstated (Kansas City Star)
KANSAS: Bodycam footage shows Olathe police were warned not to bother arresting mentally-ill Ciara Howard, who they shot dead in her laundry room (Kansas City Star)
KENTUCKY: Hillview police officer John Nissen indicted for re-raping rape victim (WLKY 32)
MASSACHUSETTS: Chicopee PD officer Jacek Wanat charged with sex crimes (Springfield Republican)
MICHIGAN: NRA silent as black Detroit mother sentenced to 2 years in prison for protecting 2-year-old daughter from assailant (Reason)
MICHIGAN: Unidentified Fowlerville PD officer “accidentally” fires his gun at wrestling match (Lansing State Journal)
NEW JERSEY: Kenilworth school superintendent Thomas Tramaglini arrested for repeatedly sh*tting on high school football field (NJ Advance Media)
NORTH CAROLINA: Judge suspends law license of Pitt County ADA Phillip Entzminger for lying to court (WNCT 9)
NORTH CAROLINA: Scumbag Florida lawyer Patrick Megaro under investigation for his treatment of two mentally disabled clients (Marshall Project)
NORTH CAROLINA: High school student suspended, charged for helping break up group beatdown of another student (WTVD 11)
OHIO: Franklin Township police officer caught on video kicking handcuffed teen in the head for sport (WBNS 10)
OREGON: State Supreme Court holds appellate hearing in high school auditorium so students can watch (KPTV 12)
PENNSYLVANIA: Ex-Temple University cops Aaron Wright and Marquis Robinson convicted of beating black woman to death in “diabolical torture chamber” (Philadelphia Inquirer)
PUERTO RICO: San Juan police brutalize protestors, execute warrantless arrests after protests (NBC News)
TENNESSEE: Hamblen County man shoots at officers, threatens to kill them, arrested without injury (WATE 6)
TENNESSEE: Emails confirm Knoxville PD, other police agencies coordinated with Nazis to arrest counterprotestors (The Root)
TEXAS: “Vicious dog” turns out to be über-friendly, makes friends with Texarkana police (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
VIRGINIA: Unidentified Alexandria PD officer “accidentally” fires his gun in middle school (WJLA 7)
WASHINGTON: King County deputy Richard Rowe, caught on video pulling gun on motorcyclist, given 5-day suspension (KGW 8)
WASHINGTON: Seattle officer who successfully stops ax-weilding man without violence faces discipline (KOMO 4)
UNITED KINGDOM: Police using Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) despite astronomical error rate (Wired UK)
Article III of the Constitution (LII)The Fifth Amendment (LII)The Eighth Amendment (LII)In re Winship (Oyez)McMillan v Pennsylvania (Oyez)Apprendi v New Jersey (Oyez)Harris v United States (Oyez)Solem v Helm (Oyez)Harmelin v Michigan (Oyez)Ewing v California (Oyez)Excellent overview of case law on Mandatory Minimums (US Sentencing Commission)
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Being White Has Its Perks (Episode 61) 30 Apr 2018 01:34:24 It’s a no-frills-Fsck! With so much happening in just a week, T. Greg skips past the politics and postpones the #Law140 to talk about racial bias in algorithmic sentencing, the Golden State Killer finally being caught (he’s a cop), several bystander videos of police violence in Alabama, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, plus a truly astonishing arrest in Canada!
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SCOTUS: Justice Gorsuch drops absolute fire in concurrence (Reason)
11th Circuit: e-waste recycler has to go to prison for copyright infringement (Washington Post)
Analysis: ICE routinely arrests Americans, leaving several in custody for years (LA Times)
Study: Sentencing algorithms exacerbate racial disparities (The New Atlantis)
Police active with a new batch of unconstitutional “promposals” this year (Reason)Customs and Border Protection (comically) faked statistics to show an increase in assaults on agents (The Intercept)ALABAMA: Three white Saraland PD officers on video beating, disrobing black woman in Waffle House arrest (Washington Post)
CALIFORNIA: Barstow PD officer Jimmie Alfred Walker, who helped kill Deyonte Yarber, has a prior hate crime conviction (The Root)
CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD officer arrested for driving with immigrants, media smears as “smuggling” (KCBS 2)
CALIFORNIA: Exeter PD officer Joseph DeAngelo rapes 45 women, kills 12, finally arrested via DNA (San Francisco Chronicle)
CALIFORNIA: San Francisco PD officer Justin McCall charged with raping someone while they were unconscious (KTVU 2)
FLORIDA: All charges dropped against Devin Gibbs for defending himself against racist in Miami McDonald’s (Miami Herald)
GEORGIA: Henry County police on caught on video brutalizing the f*ck out of ex-NFL player Desmond Marrow for having a phone (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
ILLINOIS: Tyler Lumar has died, following attempted suicide in prison after wrongful arrest for already-paid $25 fine (Chicago Tribune)
KENTUCKY: Louisville Metro PD goes on killing spree, executing 3 people of color in 4 days (WDRB 41)
LOUISIANA: Attorney General argues filing a complaint against police is punishable by 5 years in prison (In Justice Today)
NEW JERSEY: Port Authority commissioner Caren Turner on video cussing out officers, trying to get daughter out of traffic ticket (Washington Post)
NEW YORK: NYPD illegally using, sharing sealed arrest records (NY Daily News)
NEW YORK: Family sues city after extrajudicial summary execution of 69-year-old Mario Sanabria in 4am no knock raid (NY Post)
NORTH CAROLINA: Catawba County DA’s Office investigator Bobby Lee Powell arrested on 32-year-old felony larceny charge (Morganton News-Herald)
NORTH CAROLINA: Hickory PD sergeant Robert George federally indicted for excessive force in slamming woman’s face into the pavement (WBTV 3)
NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville criminalizes you voluntarily helping the homeless (Charlotte Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Gaston County ADA James Graham arrested for meth, heroin (Gaston Gazette)
NORTH CAROLINA: White fraternity members at ECU allowed to finished semester after being busted with 2,500 Xanax bars and other drugs (The East Carolinian)
OKLAHOMA: Another gold star for Norman PD, arresting murder suspect “without incident” (Norman Transcript)
OREGON: Beaverton police say “challenge accepted” when man threatens to kill himself, shoot him dead themselves (KOIN 6)
OREGON: Charges dropped against sovereign citizen after Clackamas County Deputy Dan O’Keeffe beats the sh*t out of him in court (The Oregonian)
PENNSYLVANIA: Alleghany County dog escapes yard, bites police horse; owners charged with felony assault (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
PENNSYLVANIA: New Castle police on video repeatedly slamming suspects head into the ground (UK Mirror)
PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia closes its House of Correction jail after falling inmate population (Washington Post)
TENNESSEE: Memphis PD profiling random Latino men to check citizenship (Memphis Flyer)
TEXAS: Jail employee Gilberto Escaramilla given 50 years for stealing fajitas (Fortune)
TEXAS: White male judge pleads guilty, sentence to probation in election fraud case (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
VERMONT: Bridgewater deputies issue insane volume of “school zone” speeding tickets even though the school closed 3 years ago (Vermont Public Radio)
VIRGINIA: Virginia State Police accuse NFL player of being a drug dealer for driving a nice car (ESPN)
VIRGINIA: Newly-released bodycam footage shows Portsmouth PD officer Jeremy Durocher shooting black teen in the back as he runs away (The Root)
WASHINGTON: Unnamed 16-year-veteran Bellevue PD officer arrested for domestic violence, given paid vacation (KCPQ 13)
WASHINGTON: Seattle makes ground-breaking move, asks Court to retroactively dismiss all prior weed charges (Seattle Times)
WISCONSIN: No charges against Milwaukee PD killer cops Michael Rohleder and Anthony Munoz for tasing mentally ill man 18x until he died (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
CANADA: Toronto police arrest van attacker without killing him; American police are mortified (MacLean’s)
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#DefendDurm II, 2018 Primaries Edition (Episode 60) 23 Apr 2018 01:29:20 It’s election season here in Durham, so we have a special edition of the pod! Join us this week as T. Greg talks about his first-ever vote in a Democrat primary, along with a quick recap of criminal justice f*ckery around the country from killer cops in California to a ruthless judge attacking an elderly woman in Florida to New Jersey once again letting police brutality slide. Then we talk with Durham County’s elected District Attorney Roger Echols about why he became a prosecutor, how he handled the Confederate Cases, and the political blowback he’s endured since!
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Our special guest this week is Roger Echols, the elected District Attorney of Durham NC!
Library of Congress provides OCR’d compilation of every Supreme Court decision ever (Library of Congress)CALIFORNIA: Barstow police summarily execute unarmed black man Diante Yarber in Walmart parking lot (New York Times)
CALIFORNIA: Merced police arrest black man for asking for refund at convenience store, beat him senseless at jail (Merced Sun-Star)
FLORIDA: White judge Merrillee Ehrlich brutally berates elderly black woman in wheelchair; the woman is now dead (Miami Herald)
FLORIDA: Largo police raid funeral home to get fingers of man, killed by police, so they can unlock his iPhone (Tampa Bay Times)
GEORGIA: Militarized Newnan police target counterprotestors at Neo-Nazi rally (Slate)
LOUSIANA: Journalism student’s lawsuit against Department of Corrections leads to lighter restrictions on inmate interviews (KALB 2)
MARYLAND: Baltimore trying an “experiment” by serving the poor (Baltimore Sun)
MICHIGAN: New footage released showing killer cop Mark Bessner’s extrajudicial summary execution of 15-year-old black boy Damon Grimes (Detroit Free Press)
NEW JERSEY: No charges against Camden officer Nicholas Romantino, caught on video punching arrestee in the head 12 times (NJ Advance Media)
NEW YORK: -0- murders in NYC “Killing Fields” since 2017 (NY Times)
NORTH CAROLINA: Charges dismissed for Facebook “threat” to blow up courthouse (Burlington Times-News)
OHIO: Teen suffocates to death in van after 911 call, as lazy cops never bother to leave their patrol car (Washington Post)
OKLAHOMA: How many rape kits have never been tested? No one knows (The Oklahoman)
PENNSYLVANIA: Judge Elizabeth Beckley calls ICE to deport groom at wedding, even though he’s a legal resident (Newsweek)
TENNESSEE: Video shows white teacher dragging 7-year-old black boy off bus by his feet, giving the kid a concussion (WCVB 5)
TEXAS: Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Jose Paez indicted for assault, 4th officer indicted in a week (San Antonio Express-News)
TEXAS: Dallas area Trumpist George Clayton, former elected official, spends his day tweeting racism at minorities accepted to college (Dallas Morning News)
TEXAS: Killer cop Cameron Brewer is fired for the extrajudicial summary execution of Danny Ray Thomas (Houston Chronicle)
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“Official Oppression” Everywhere (Episode 59) 16 Apr 2018 01:28:33 Join us this week as we talk about how screwed Donald Trump’s lawyer is, a California sheriff on video arguing it’s best to kill suspects, a Pennsylvania prosecutor resigning over repeated sex crimes, and several cases across the country of federal law enforcement endangering people’s lives — or killing them outright.
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Republicans’ domestic agenda consists primarily of attacking Muslims (BuzzFeed News)Michael Cohen is going to end up disbarred and indicted (Quartz)CALIFORNIA: ICE agents chase couple mistaken for someone else, cause fatal car accident, lie about it (Los Angeles Times)
CALIFORNIA: Sheriff Donny Youngblood on video arguing it’s better to “kill suspects” rather than wound them (NY Daily News)
CALIFORNIA: Sacramento adopts policy on turning off body cameras after officers tried to hide audio after Stephon Clark execution (NBC News)
CONNECTICUT: Montville teacher arrested for running a “fight club” at high school (Washington Post)
DC: The lawsuit against Howard University by Tyrone Hankerson is a hot mess (Twitter)
FLORIDA: Braden River High School staff make teen girl leave class, jump in principal’s office so they can watch her breasts jiggle (BuzzFeed News)
ILLINOIS: Elgin police talk about how to handle mentally ill black woman without killing her, then kill her anyway (The Root)
LOUISIANA: 10 Republican senators vote against law to ban sex with animals (WWL)
LOUISIANA: Sheriff’s Association executive testifies 1,300+ people held for 4+ years without trial (The Times-Picayune)
MAINE: Bus driver fired for calling MLK Day “National N*gger Day,” superintendent a “c*nt,” elected to school board (Portland Press-Herald)
MAINE: Another school board member resigns over racist comments (Portland Press-Herald)
MASSACHUSETTS: Cambridge police on video beating the sh*t out of black Harvard student (The Harvard Crimson)
MICHIGAN: Rochester Hills firefighter Jeffery Zeigler chases, shoots at unarmed 14-year-old black boy for asking for directions (WDIV 4)
NEW YORK: Black parole officer shot and killed in her own apartment, no charges filed (Democrat & Chronicle)
NEW YORK: NYPD cop Joseph Essig gropes woman, gets convicted… but keeps job because his dad is a police chief (NY Daily News)
NORTH CAROLINA: ICE raids local trailers, breaks up families of restaurant owner, other residents (News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville PD uses civil asset forfeiture money to buy new toys (Spectrum Local News)
OHIO: No jail for teens who killed 22-year-old Ohio man (WTVG 13)
OREGON: Three Sheriff’s deputies indicted in jail death of man arrested on drug charges (The Oregonian)
OREGON: Secret weed raid by Feds leads to innocent bystander with gun to his head (The Oregonian)
PENNSYLVANIA: Bedford County DA William Higgins, “pious prosecutor” waging culture war on liberals, resigns over sexual abuse charges (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
PENNSYLVANIA: “Waiting While Black” leads to arrest of real estate developers in Philadelphia Starbucks (The Inquirer)
PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh cop Kaelen O’Connor charged with falsifying report to protect partner from road rage investigation
TENNESSEE: Hundreds of Morristown kids stop attending school after ICE raid on meatpacking plant (The Intercept)
TENNESSEE: Matthew Charles, model citizen during his 2 years of release, has been ordered back to prison (Twitter)
TEXAS: Federal Border Patrol officer David Villareal arrested for raping woman (Dallas Morning News)
TEXAS: Federal Border Patrol officer Ronald Burgos-Aviles arrested for murdering 1-year-old child and mother (Dallas Morning News)
VIRGINIA: Hundreds of drivers fined under new law for driving too slow (WTOP)
WASHINGTON: State Supreme Court issues forceful ruling allowing woman with history of drug abuse to take bar exam (Seattle Times)
WEST VIRGINIA: Taxpayers shell out more than $265,000.00+ in repeated settlements for abuse by state trooper Ralph Justus (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
UNITED KINGDOM: Welsh police successfully arrest psychotic man in knife attack, all on bodycam (BBC News)
ARGENTINA: Weed goes missing, police claim a rat ate it (USA Today)
Article I of the United States Constitution (LII)Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (LII)Background on Civil Rights Act of 1964 (History.com)Civil Rights Act text (LII)Heart of Atlanta Motel v US (Oyez)
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Judge Dredd Was A Documentary (Episode 58) 09 Apr 2018 01:19:24 We’re back! Join us this week as we cover EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s assorted ways of wasting your tax money, along with full-length coverage of killer cops in New York, Oregon, and Texas, wrongly convicted black men being released in California and Michigan, and assorted other criminal justice f*ckery across the country!
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Trumpkin EPA administrator Scott Pruitt stays in lobbyist’s DC house (Washington Post)
8th Circuit: No qualified immunity for repeatedly punching compliant man in face and testicles (8th Circ COA)
8th Circuit: But qualified immunity for breaking mentally ill man’s arm, beating him with nunchucks, tasing him repeatedly (8th Circ COA)
Deep dive on the frequency of eviction proceedings, and their devastating impacts (NY Times)Long-read on the dangers of private prisons (NY Times)And on how the mentally ill are treated while incarcerated (UK Guardian)Exposé on how your federal government betrays informants, deports them to their deaths (ProPublica)ICE Director apologizes for posting anti-Muslim meme on social media (BuzzFeed)IRS agent James Clarke got a 21-year-old intern drunk, shoved his gun in her mouth, and raped her at gunpoint (Boston Globe)CALIFORNIA: Gardena PD officers Carlos Fernandez and Edward Arao federally indicted for illegal firearm sales (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: Sacramento County deputy caught on video running over woman trying to cross street during Stephon Clark protest (Sacramento Bee)
CALIFORNIA: Jamal Trulove awarded $10,000,000.00+ after police framed him for murder (SFGate)
GEORGIA: Molena police too frail to subdue 70-year-old man, shoot him to death instead (WXIA 11)
IOWA: Supreme Court allows innocent people to challenge their guilty pleas in court (The Gazette)
KENTUCKY: Louisville man repeatedly fires gun at police, resists arrest, still alive (WLKY 32)
LOUISIANA: LA is one of only two states that allow criminal juries to convict without a unanimous vote; blacks disproportionately harmed (The Advocate)
LOUISIANA: New bodycam footage confirms killer cop Blane Salamoni should have been prosecuted in execution of Alton Sterling (The Times-Picayune)
MARYLAND: Silver Springs PD officer Jose Barahona arrested for stealing oatmeal, condoms from Wal-Mart (Washington Post)
MICHIGAN: 71-year-old black man Richard Phillips exonerated after being framed for murder, serving 45+ years (MLive.com)
MISSISSIPPI: 53% of gang members in the state are white, but 100% of gang prosecutions are black or Hispanic (Jackson Free Press)
NEW JERSEY: Gloucester Township PD officer John Flinn charged for beating 13-year-old girl (WCAU 10)
NEW JERSEY: Jersey City PD officers Rodney Clark and Courtney Solomon assaulted Domino’s manager over late pizza (Newsweek)
NEW YORK: NYPD summarily executes Saheed Vassell for holding a shower head (NY Times)
NEW YORK: Corrections officer Alain Samba “accidentally” shoots, kills woman “while cleaning gun” (WPIX 11)
NEW YORK: NYPD cop Richard Hall, who raped handcuffed teenage girl, is also f*cking the prosecutor! (NY Post)
NEW YORK: Police arrest ill 15-year-old girl who had permission to leave school, detain her for 7 hours (NY Daily News)
NEW YORK: Republican Congresscritter and Drug Warrior Dan Donovan exploits position to bail out son-in-law during drug bust (NY Post)
NORTH CAROLINA: New Asheville PD footage shows Officer Chris Hickman’s beating of Johnnie Rush was as bad as claimed (Asheville Citizen-Times)
NORTH CAROLINA: Report by Durham police chief confirms officers used to violate citizens’ rights in traffic stops (Durham Herald-Sun)
OKLAHOMA: Norman PD shows proper process for addressing officer-involved shootings (NewsOK.com)
OREGON: Newspaper places lien on public official’s house for court-ordered lawyer bill (Columbia Journalism Review)
OREGON: Portland PD does Judge Dredd-style summary execution of man in homeless shelter (The Oregonian)
TEXAS: Video footage released of indicted Fort Worth police officer Jon Romer punching hospital patient in the face (KXAS 5)
TEXAS: Bodycam footage released of Pasadena PD officer defending himself from gun-wielding driver (KHOU 11)
VIRGINIA: Deandre Harris has been acquitted of assaulting scumbag supremacist (and NC lawyer) Harold Crews (Washington Post)
WASHINGTON: Attorney who shot at another attorney’s office busted for running meth lab (The Oregonian)
AUSTRALIA: Victoria police caught on CCTV video savagely beating man during “mental health check” (The Age)
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws The American Law Institute ALI’s List of Restatements Cornell Law Review article on §557 of the Restatement (First) of Contracts
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Happy Birthday to Me! (Episode 57) 26 Mar 2018 01:26:49 T. Greg celebrates turning 37 with a full episode of criminal justice f*ckery! Join us as we go over “testi-lying” in New York, California deputies stealing from a woman with dementia and then shipping her to a foreign country (and killing an unarmed black man in his own backyard), a Maryland officer who spent his time in court sexually harassing the judge’s law clerk, and a Texas deputy repeatedly punching a 12-year-old girl with autism for the heinous crime of petting her own dog.
And there’s so much more!
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We talked with Victor Marks of the AppleInsider podcast about geofence warrants! And we were namechecked in the MacAdmins podcast! Massive new study, tracking millions of children, shows pervasive effects of racism on wealth outcomes of black boys (NY Times)Obama-era FBI tracked Black Lives Matter activists across the country (The Intercept)CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD to begin providing public access to police videos (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: Two Sacramento County deputies steal money from woman with dementia, sell her home, ship her to Philippines (KTLA 5)
CALIFORNIA: Sacramento PD summarily executes unarmed black man for heinous crime of holding iPhone (Sacramento Bee)
CALIFORNIA: San Diego PD has a point system with rewards for more arrests (KGTV 10)
CALIFORNIA: New video shows San Luis Obispo jailers lied about inmate’s death, show them laughing as he dies in front of them (San Luis Obispo Tribune)
DC: Prosecutors chicken out, drop charges against Turkish President’s security detail assaulting Americans (Washington Post)
GEORGIA: Columbus prosecutors identify potential black jurors by “N,” then systematically exclude them (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
GEORGIA: Family files suit after Gwinnett County jailers refuse medical treatment to now-dead detainee (Gwinnett Daily Post)
HAWAII: Honolulu police officers Bobby Nguyen and Gordon Shiraishi federally indicted for falsifying records, obstruction (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
ILLINOIS: Homer Glen PD officer demands to search cremated remains of man’s daughter for drugs, spills them everywhere (WFLD 32)
MARYLAND: Baltimore jury awards $37,000,000.00+ to Korryn Gaines’s family (Baltimore Sun)
MARYLAND: Baltimore judge dismisses murder case brought by corrupt GTTF officers (Baltimore Sun)
MICHIGAN: Detroit taxpayers will shell out $225,000.00+ for puppycide killings by police in weed raid (Reason)
MINNESOTA: Murder charges filed against Minneapolis killer cop Mohamed Noor (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
MISSOURI: Officer Rick Hayes, fired for racial profiling, is back on the force (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
NEW JERSEY: Atlantic City officer John Devlin found liable in brutal beating, city taxpayers to pay $300K+ (Press of Atlantic City)
NEW JERSEY: Dashcam footage released of Carteret police admitting fellow officer Joseph Reiman beat black 16-year-old boy for sport (NJ Advance Media)
NEW YORK: Exposé on NYPD officers lying under oath, called “testilying” (NY Times)
NORTH CAROLINA: Integration, civil rights pioneer Millie Dunn Veasey passes away (BBC News)
OREGON: Prison refuses to give inmates flu vaccine; 44 get sick, 1 dies (Willamette Week)
PENNSYLVANIA: New Philly DA Larry Krasner implementing truly radical reforms (The Intercept)
SOUTH CAROLINA: White “volunteer” cop shoots unarmed black man for sport during traffic stop (Myrtle Beach Sun News)
TENNESSEE: Nashville judge Casey Moreland indicted for stealing money, sleeping with defendants (Washington Post)
TENNESSEE: Lawrence McKinney to receive $1M after being imprisoned 31 years for crimes he didn’t commit (The Tennesseean)
TEXAS: Williamson County deputy Jack Danford repeatedly punches autistic 12-year-old girl in the face for petting her own puppy (KXAN 36)
TEXAS: Unnamed Houston police officer summarily executes unarmed black man in broad daylight (Houston Chronicle)
TEXAS: Arrest warrant issued for 37-year-old Lubbock woman arrested for unpaid fine from when she was 12 (Reason)
UTAH: Police raid home, attack family members just minutes after they return from hospital (KSL-TV 5)
FRANCE: Police officer Arnaud Beltrame gives his life to save hostage (BBC News)
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#Law140: Federalism Overview (Episode 56) 19 Mar 2018 00:55:15 T. Greg is under the weather, so it’s an abbreviated episode covering the US Department of Justice lawsuit against California – and how that lawsuit will test the boundaries of federalism envisioned by the Founding Fathers. Join us for a tour of Supreme Court precedent on federal powers versus states’ rights!
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Consequence-Free Policing (Episode 55) 12 Mar 2018 01:08:29 It’s been a busy week! Join us to discover the real reason why Democrat Congresscritter Joe Kennedy III opposes marijuana reform, then in criminal justice news learn about what police can get away with while totally avoiding punishment: killing someone in California and Oklahoma, abusing 10-year-olds in Maryland, trying to kill a puppy for sport in New Jersey, and a whole mess of f*ckery out of the NYPD in New York.
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Carmageddon, Police Edition (Episode 54) 05 Mar 2018 01:03:26 Greetings from Atlanta! Join us this week for a smaller episode that’s part criminal justice f*ckery, and part mini-WTFsck Volume VI. We talk about cops killing people by car in Michigan and Louisiana, hitting a third in New York (before framing the driver for DWI), and a pair of entries from our “Ain’t no systemic racism in this country bih” files about a white nationalist schoolteacher in Florida and a racist firefighter in Kansas.
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ALABAMA: Man who criticized Etowah County Sheriff to media arrested 4 days later (AL.com)
CALIFORNIA: LAPD officers James Nichols, Luis Valenzuela plead no contest to raping multiple women while on duty (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: Pasadena PD Lt. Vasken Gourdikian indicted for illegal gun sales, lying (Pasadena Star-News)
CALIFORNIA: San Francisco PD police fire 65+ shots into occupied RV, somehow hit no one (SFGate)
COLORADO: Democratic legislator Steve Lebsock impeached and removed for sexual harassment, changes to Republican (Denver Post)
FLORIDA: Republican social studies teacher Dayanna Volitich runs white nationalist podcast, Twitter feed (HuffPost)
FLORIDA: Largo attorney arrested for conducting trial while high (Tampa Bay Times)
GEORGIA: “Small government” Republicans use government to punish Delta Airlines for ending NRA discount (Governing Magazine)
ILLINOIS: ICE detains 7-year-old and mother as both seek asylum, holds them apart for 4+ months (Chicago Tribune)
KANSAS: Firefighter spits on 3-year-old “ni—er child,” hides behind badge (KCTV 5)
KENTUCKY: “Family values” Republicans block bill to stop rape of 13-year-olds (Louisville Courier-Journal)
LOUISIANA: Baton Rouge PD killer cop Christopher Manuel demolishes SUV while speeding, kills 1-year-old, mother charged (New Orleans Advocate)
MASSACHUSETTS: Boston PD officer Zachary Crossen accosts random black man walking to barbershop, caught on video (Boston Globe)
MICHIGAN: Detroit PD officers Stephen Heid and Ronald Cadez cause lethal crash, flee scene (Detroit Free Press)
NEW YORK: NYPD officer Justin Joseph plows into sober black man’s car, frames him for DWI (NY Daily News)
NEW YORK: NYPD perv cop Anthony Avosso charged for repeatedly exposing himself to women (NY Daily News)
NORTH CAROLINA: More than 15,000+ rape kits are sitting on shelves, never tested (WRAL)
NORTH CAROLINA: Asheville PD officer Chris Hickman beats the sh*t out of unarmed black man, caught on video (Asheville Citizen Times)
NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte-Meck PD cop Matthew Porter charged with repeatedly raping 10-year-old girl (WCNC 36)
VIRGINIA: Chesterfield County police hold black college student at gunpoint, no charges filed, refuse to release bodycam (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
WTFsck: When can you tell institutions are participating in cover-ups? (Twitter)
WTFsck: Will anything happen with gun control this time?
WTFsck: Are there any legal issues with Georgia’s actions about Delta? (Twitter)
WTFsck: Am I arrogant and belittling on purpose?
WTFsck? Volume 5 (Fsck #43) :
Are “revenge prosecutions” common?
Are NC trial judges elected or appointed or something else?
Can Trump be prosecuted after his term ends?
What is the best way for listeners to support the podcast?
What is my favorite beer?
Any new podcast recommendations?
What do I watch on TV?
What is the weirdest thing in my apartment?
What is my biggest pet peeve?
What is my favorite memory of 2017?
What is my biggest accomplishment of 2017?
What are my predictions for 2018?
WTFsck? Volume 4 (Fsck #28) :
Prospects for race-conscious college admissions?
Thoughts about the #TakeAKnee NFL protests?
What are my “goals” for the podcast?
What tools do you need to start your own podcast?
WTFsck? Volume 3 (Fsck #24) :
Podcast details?
Why did I leave computer science to become a lawyer?
How does “qualified immunity” compare between employees and police?
Why does “Congress” now include all governments?
WTFsck? Volume 2 (Fsck #15) :
How and when to hire a lawyer?
Can Congress undo constitutional laws?
What type of gun do I carry?
Why do lawyers think precedent is so great?
WTFsck? Volume 1 (Fsck #5) :
Segregated Graduation at Harvard?
What do I think about Citizens United?
How will Gorsuch compare to Scalia?
Why am I a conservative?
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Politicians Behaving Badly (Episode 53) 26 Feb 2018 01:35:48 We skip the political discussion this week, because so many politicians ended up in the criminal justice news! A Republican governor is indicted for invasion of privacy, a married Democratic mayor pays her police bodyguard overtime so they could have sex in a cemetery, a Republican senator extorted a page for sex, a Democratic Sheriff terrorizes minorities, and on and on it goes. Plus: a #Law140 on the free speech rights of school students!
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DC: Armed TN woman rams White House security barrier, taken alive (WTTG 5)
IDAHO: State senator Dan Foreman yells at students for wanting better sex education in schools, threatens to call police (Idaho Statesman)
ILLINOIS: Police union says Aurora perv cop Daniel Wagner should be reinstated, arbitrator agrees (Chicago Tribune)
MARYLAND: Corrupt BPD officers Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor have been convicted of racketeering (Baltimore Sun)
MINNESOTA: Minneapolis police target Native Americans even more than black men (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
MISSOURI: Exposé on the state using “envelopes of cash” and other schemes to get death drugs (BuzzFeed)
MISSOURI: Republican Governor indicted for felony invasion of privacy (NY Times)
MISSOURI: St. Louis police officer John Stewart charged with sodomizing a pregnant woman (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
NEW YORK: NYPD police routinely park illegally on private property (am New York)
NEW YORK: NYPD killer cop Hugh Barry found not guilty of summarily executing elderly black woman (NY Daily News)
NORTH CAROLINA: Prison administrator admits abuse is overlooked “because we’re all buddies” (WBTV 3)
NORTH CAROLINA: ICE deports 14-year resident dying of HIV, no criminal record (News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Ramona Brant has passed away (WSOC 9)
NORTH CAROLINA: All charges dismissed against protestors who destroyed Confederate monument (The Root)
NORTH CAROLINA: Durham deputy Christopher Kelly, a school resource officer, pleads guilty after sex with student (Durham Herald Sun)
PENNSYLVANIA: Philly’s new District Attorney revamps bail (WPVI 6)
RHODE ISLAND: Republican state senator Nicholas Kettle charged for extorting sex from a page (Providence Journal)
SOUTH CAROLINA: With all other crimes solved, legislators propose making it a crime to sag your pants (WCIV 4)
TENNESSEE: Democrat Mayor caught on camera shagging bodyguard, who got paid overtime (WTVF 5)
TEXAS: Student seizes gun from gunman, so Amarillo police shoot the student instead (Amarillo Globe-News)
TEXAS: Judge instructs magistrates to deny no-cash bail to anyone supporting Black Lives Matter (Houston Chronicle)
TEXAS: Needville ISD Superintendent Curtis Rhodes threatens to punish students for free speech (Dallas Morning News)
VERMONT: Burlington PD issues strong statement in support of civil disobedience (Burlington Free Press)
VIRGINIA: Blacks in Charlottesville 284% more likely to be stopped and frisked without arrest (The Daily Progress)
CANADA: Toronto transit cops caught on video beating black teen for sport (Toronto Star)
CANADA: York police explain smoking weed doesn’t “make boobies” (Toronto Star)
ISRAEL: Tel Aviv judge caught collaborating with prosecutor on corruption case (Jerusalem Post)
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One Law for Me, Another for Thee (Episode 102) 27 Apr 2020 00:47:29 Join us this week as prisons continue to get swarmed by the coronavirus, more elected officials ignore the laws they demand the rest of us follow, and cops violate the First Amendment to arrest people for Facebook posts.
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Aмерикa первая (Episode 52) 19 Feb 2018 00:55:42 It’s an abridged Fsck this Monday, as T. Greg spends the episode talking politics: the gun control debate following the school shooting in Parkland FL, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiling a 37-page indictment confirming the Russians bought the American Presidency (for cheap!). Plus: Rick Gates agrees to plead guilty in order to help the Trump-Russia probe.
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[CORRECTION (02/19/18 @ 3:46pm EST): On the podcast, I said “Robert” Gates is pleading guilty in Mueller’s Russia probe; it’s actually *Rick* Gates (Robert Gates was a former Secretary of Defense). The show notes are correct now! Thanks to @gortok for the correction !]
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“Never help anyone. Ever. Or Get Shot.” (Episode 51) 12 Feb 2018 01:27:17 Join us this week as two separate wife-beaters resign from the Trump White House, judges in Kentucky and Texas face indictment, two deputies in Durham NC face DWI charges, and police in Georgia and Missouri flip the Parable of the Good Samaritan on its head by arresting one and shooting the other. Then in our #Law140 segment we give you an overview of the overbreadth doctrine, and how a North Carolina law was ruled unconstitutional last week in one of my cases!
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One of our clients is apparently on Reddit (Reddit)The Government shut down again… for 6 hours (Politico)Staff Secretary Rob Porter resigns after beating 2 ex-wives and an ex-girlfriend (The Hill)Speechwriter David Sorenson resigns after running over ex-wife with a car (Vox)Of course scumbag Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly defended them though (Vanity Fair)
Sixth Circuit: the “particularity” requirements of a warrant are more like suggestions (6th Circ COA)
Ninth Circuit: No lawyer for children facing deportation (The Hill)
Tenth Circuit: Convictions upheld for man who trolled Tulsa PD over Terence Crutcher’s killing (Tulsa World)
35 states let police rape someone in their custody (BuzzFeed)
Long-read on the First Amendment application to reporters exposing police abuse (The Intercept)Some of the language police unions get into contracts to protect dirty cops (Marginal Revolution)People think crime is worse than it is, and most crimes go unsolved (Pew Research Center)Attorney General Beauregard insists marijuana is a gateway drug (Twitter)Classified Homeland Security documents left on plane (CNN)ARIZONA: ICE deports man whose 5-year-old citizen son is battling cancer (The Hill)
ARIZONA: Women prisoners get 12 pads a month, banned from buying tampons if they bleed on their clothes (Arizona Republic)
CALIFORNIA: Big changes for those convicted of weed crimes now that Prop 64 is in effect (Business Insider)
CALIFORNIA: But the Los Angeles DA will not undo prior pot convictions now that weed is legal (89.3 KPCC)
CALIFORNIA: Sacramento police collaborate with Nazis to prosecute those with “anti-racist” beliefs (UK Guardian)
CALIFORNIA: Conejo Valley school board member Mike Dunn tries to shame critic’s employer (TechDirt)
CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles deputies kill “armed” 16-year-old Anthony Weber, magically can’t find gun (KTLA 5)
GEORGIA: Woman sues for being raped 8 times while in prison, police repeatedly pull her over after release (INTO)
GEORGIA: Georgia State Patrol Sgt. Rodney Jeter arrests Good Samaritan for saving woman’s life (KNRS 105.9)
ILLINOIS: Cook County jailers’ union locks down massive pay hikes (Chicago Sun-Times)
ILLINOIS: At least 15 Chicago PD officers now involved in scandal stealing drugs, framing residents (WMAQ 5)
ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer given paid vacation while being investigated for sexual assault (Chicago Sun-Times)
KENTUCKY: State Police think anal rape is funny (The Courier Journal)
KENTUCKY: Trump campaign chairman, former judge Timothy Nolan pleads guilty to sex trafficking of children (Cincinnati Enquirer)
MAINE: Missing comma leads to $5M settlement (Portland Press Herald)
MARYLAND: Dead Det. Sean Suiter also stole money with the Gun Trace Task Force (Baltimore Sun)
MARYLAND: Baltimore PD detective kicked out of the corrupt GTTF when he refused to steal (Baltimore Sun)
MISSOURI: Police shoot innocent, unarmed Good Samaritan for protecting store patrons from gunman (Kansas City Star)
MISSOURI: Retired judge Evelyn Baker sentenced a black teenager to 241 years in prison, now says she was wrong (The Intercept)
MISSOURI: White man robs two black men in St. Louis, then convinces police to arrest them (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
MONTANA: Labor Department Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts resigns rather than help ICE break up families (Twitter)
NEW YORK: Mentally ill woman killed by NYPD Sgt. Hugh Barry did not swing bat as claimed (NY Times)
NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrol wastes thousands of dollars, assaults report asking questions (News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Durham deputy charged with DWI after crashing into tractor trailer (Durham Herald-Sun)
NORTH CAROLINA: A different Durham deputy charged with DWI after speeding 101 in a 65 (Durham Herald-Sun)
NORTH CAROLINA: Charges against anti-Klan protestors dismissed, statute ruled unconstitutional (Durham Herald-Sun)
NORTH CAROLINA: Excellent long-read on the f*ckery of NC’s bail system (Indy Week)
NORTH CAROLINA: Davidson County deputy Jeff Athey arrested for robbing a bank in Rockwell (WGHP 8)
OHIO: ICE deports “pillar of the community” who committed no crime, lived in US 40 years (CNN)
OKLAHOMA: Police summarily execute 72-year-old black woman woken up by drug raid (Reason)
OKLAHOMA: Federal judge Stephen Friot gives woman shorter prison sentence as sterilization reward (The Oklahoman)
PENNSYLVANIA: McKean County deputy Colin Meeker suspended for taking down Nazi flag on private property (Newsweek)
TENNESSEE: Memphis PD leaves body in impounded van for 49 days (WHBQ 13)
TENNESSEE: White County Sheriff Oddie Shoupe on bodycam saying “I love this sh*t” after ordering suspect’s killing (UK Guardian)
TEXAS: Clean cars are not reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop (TheNewspaper.com)
TEXAS: Judge Rodolfo Delgado indicted for accepting bribes to influence case outcomes (San Antonio Express-News)
CHINA: Zhengzhou Railway Police use facial recognition glasses connected to police databases (Twitter)
First Amendment (LII)Second Amendment (LII)NC Gen Stat 14-277.2 (NCGA)The First Amendment Overbreadth Doctrine (JSTOR)Broadrick v. Oklahoma (Oyez)Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (Oyez)Packingham v. North Carolina (Oyez)
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“Would You Like Some Drugs With That?” (Episode 50) 05 Feb 2018 00:40:30 It’s a shorter-than-normal Fsck this week because T. Greg had the flu, but we still fit in stories about the Nunes meh-mo, totally bonkers testimony about Maryland’s corrupt Gun Trace Task Force, more ICE stupidity, and the wide variety of police getting charged with dealing drugs.
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“Ihre Papiere, bitte!” (Episode 48) 22 Jan 2018 01:25:48 Happy Shutdown Day! Join us this week as we talk about California police running a drug trafficking ring, an Ohio deputy killing an unarmed 16-year-old in the courthouse, and New York police being upset they’re not getting as many “get out of jail free” cards as they used to. Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about a viral video of CBP agents asking people for citizenship papers on a Greyhound bus in Florida, and talk about the statutes and case law making that legal.
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A summary of past government shutdowns (Vox)9th Circuit: No right to earn a living via prostitution (Reason)
10th Circuit: Qualified immunity for corrupt Sheriff Terry Maketa punishing subordinates in campaign (10th Circ COA)
Study: American neighborhoods are becoming more integrated (City Observatory)
Long-Read: Prosecutors’ abuse of Alford pleas (ProPublica)
Study: The most prominent #BlueLivesMatter accounts on Twitter were Russian propagandists (UW)
Inspector General confirms Gen. John Kelly gleefully defied the law at DHS (Slate)ICE locks detainees in solitary confinement if they don’t participate in “voluntary” labor program (The Intercept)ALASKA: Police, prosecutors secretly recorded inmate conversations with defense attorneys (Anchorage Daily News)
ARIZONA: Border Patrol routinely destroys jugs of water and other supplies (The UK Guardian)
CALIFORNIA: Auburn HOA orders residents to keep garage doors open or be fined $200 (KTXL 40)
CALIFORNIA: Police tase, kill 34-year-old Warren Ragudo in response to welfare check (KPIX 5)
CALIFORNIA: Long Beach police summarily execute 25-year-old Luis Perez for “bicycle infractions” (KTLA 5)
CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles deputy Kenneth Collins and 3 other cops charged with running drug distribution ring (LA Times)
COLORADO: Colorado Springs PD shells out $2,471,350.00 to settle discrimination lawsuit (KOAA 5)
FLORIDA: Video shows Customs & Border Patrol demanding proof of citizenship from everyone riding Greyhound bus (Twitter)
FLORIDA: Palm Beach deputy arrested with 16 pounds of marijuana (The SunSentinel)
FLORIDA: Vero Beach police disconnect innocent man’s security camera (WFTS 28)
ILLINOIS: Chicago police only solve 17.2% of murders (Twitter)
ILLINOIS: Murder convictions thrown out against Jaime Hauad after police tortured him into confessing (WGN 9)
KENTUCKY: Prospect PD assistant police chief’s advice to trainee: “If black, shoot them” (The Courier Journal)
MARYLAND: Baltimore’s police chief has been fired (Baltimore Sun)
MARYLAND: Demetrius Smith is freed after 5 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit (ProPublica)
MICHIGAN: Jackson prison serves rotten, maggot-infested food to inmates (Detroit Metro Times)
MICHIGAN: ICE deporting 42-year-old doctor for decades-old misdemeanor plea (WOOD 8)
NEW YORK: NYPD PBA cuts number of “Get Out of Jail Free” cards given to cops, sparks outrage (NY Post)
NORTH CAROLINA: Durham officer JJ Barazandeh saves 2 women from icy creek (Durham Herald-Sun)
NORTH CAROLINA: Mecklenburg deputy kills deputy husband (Charlotte Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA: Former police officer sexually assaults Laurinburg women in exchange for housing (BBC)
NORTH CAROLINA: Prisons ban “The New Jim Crow” from inmates (NY Times)
OHIO: Columbus officer pulls gun on suicidal black man (WCMH 4)
OHIO: Franklin County officer shoots, kills 16-year-old Joseph Haynes in courthouse (Columbus Dispatch)
OKLAHOMA: Charges dismissed against Tulsa black man arrested for “over-complying” (Raw Story)
PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia police covered up officer’s DUI (Philly.com)
PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh taxpayers will pay $5.5M to Leon Ford after police paralyze him (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
TENNESSEE: Barber police bust Elias Zarate for heinous crime of barbering without a high school diploma (Reason)
TEXAS: Judge tells juror “God told him” Defendant is not guilty (WPXI 11)
TEXAS: Lyndo Jones files civil rights lawsuit against Mesquite PD (Austin American-Statesmen)
UTAH: Most search warrants approved in 10 minutes or less, many in just seconds (Salt Lake Tribune)
CANADA: Police start to write ticket for snow sculpture of Delorean (WGCL 46)
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution (LII)Article II of the Constitution (LII)The Fourth Amendment (LII)8 CFR 287.1 (LII)Chae Chan Ping v US, the “Chinese Exclusion Case” (Justia)Shaughnessy v US ex rel Mezei (Justia)US v Brignoni-Ponce (Oyez)US v Ortiz (Oyez)US v Martinez-Fuerte (Oyez)
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