Thank God for Social Media (Episode 16)

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It’s been a busy week for police K-9 units snacking on civilians! We also talk about the Papaya POTUS’s border fence, a bona fide heart-warming story out of Connecticut, and in our #Law140 section we cover defamation of public figures.

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[EDIT (07/17/17 @ 7:21pm): The original version of this episode had an error in describing the lawsuit between Florida Governor Rick Scott and State’s Attorney Aramis Ayala. Thank you to @lpmarkiewicz for the correction!]

Show Notes:

• Check out our new Patreon page! (Patreon)
• Cantaloupe Caligula advocates for a fence (CNN)
• Donald Trump Jr admits he tried to collude with the Soviets (CNN)
• White conservatives have more faith in police under Trump (Twitter)
• Republicans think colleges hurt the country… (Twitter)
• …meaning the GOP has become the Know-Nothings (The Hill)
• Rahm Emanuel wants to block kids from graduating (Vibe)
• Fourth Circuit: Rowan County Commissioners’ prayers violated the First Amendment (4th Circuit COA)
• Ellen McGirt on substance abuse and treatment (Fortune)
• Addiction is rampant in the legal profession (NY Times)
• Police need de-escalation training (Teen Vogue)
• CALIFORNIA: Merced police brutalize a bunch of club-goers (Merced Sun-Star)
  • Here’s the mobile phone video (Twitter)
• CALIFORNIA: San Diego K-9 snacks on handcuffed man’s arm (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• CALIFORNIA: Police in Bakersfield think all black people look alike (Washington Post)
• CALIFORNIA: Santa Ana police beat and tase a man on camera (Orange County Register)
• CONNECTICUT: Aaron Tucker skips a job interview to save a crash victim (CBS News)
• DC: The woman arrested for laughing at Jeff Sessions’s confirmation is freed (HuffPost)
• FLORIDA: Aramis Ayala announced she would not seek the death penalty in any case at all… (CNN)
• FLORIDA: …and now magically gets stopped by police for no reason (Twitter)
• FLORIDA: Law enforcement in St. Augustine is crazy (NY Times)
• GEORGIA: DeKalb County officer beats a black woman for sport (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• IDAHO: Local radio station puts Deray’s photo on a crime tweet (Business Insider)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago cop beats a black woman, owns multiple racist websites (CBS 2)
• MARYLAND: Calvert County sheriffs beat and strip search a man arrested for speeding (LinkedIn)
• MASSACHUSETTS: SWAT practically encourages a distraught man to kill himself (Boston Globe)
• MINNESOTA: Attempted puppycide by Minneapolis PD (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
• MINNESOTA: And Minneapolis PD summarily executes a woman who reported an assault (Sydney Morning-Herald)
• MINNESOTA: Minneapolis pays $48,500 to killer cop who executed Philando Castile (HuffPost)
  • Our episode with Yanez’s acquittal (Fsck #11)
• MISSOURI: 9-year-old killed in police chase (Fox 2)
• NEVADA: Even surrendering won’t save you from the K-9 unit in Washoe County (Reno Gazette-Journal)
• NEW JERSEY: Deputy caught on camera doing an illegal search (The Paterson Times)
• NEW YORK: NYPD continues to target minorities (The Root)
• NEW YORK: New York Metro runs over a man and leaves him there (NY Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: A Charlotte cop drives 100+ mph, flattens a pedestrian (Charlotte Observer)
• OHIO: No charges for cop executioner of John Crawford III (NBC 26)
• OKLAHOMA: District Attorney preps for dismissing the case against killer cop Shannon Kepler (KFOR 4)
• OREGON: Legislators might de-felonize drug possession (Washington Post)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: The lawyers for Walter Scott’s killer want transcripts (The Post and Courier)
• TEXAS: Texas City police officer steals $2,400.00 from a dying man (WTVM)
• TEXAS: Texas ranger pulls a gun on a random driver (KXAN)
• TEXAS: Houston will stop field-testing for drugs (KCBD 11)
• TEXAS: IRS seizes and sells dress shop in hours (Dallas Morning News)
• WASHINGTON: Seattle makes killer cop a police chief (The News Tribune)
• CANADA: Even Canada has crazy K-9 police units (Regina Leader-Post)
• New York Times Co v Sullivan (Oyez)
• Curtis Publishing Co v Butts (Oyez)
• Gertz v Robert Welch Inc (Oyez)
• Hustler Magazine v Falwell (Oyez)
• Our pod last week on defamation (Fsck #14)