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The game of musical chairs in the White House continues, while the Attorney General wastes DOJ time (and your money) trying to get back into the Papaya POTUS’s good graces. Plus a truly bizarre story out of Onslow County NC, state-sanctioned puppycide in Michigan, and Baltimore Police again striving to prove that The Wire was a documentary. Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about the role of grand juries and what that may mean for Bob Mueller’s probe of the Parody President and his campaign’s collaboration with the Soviets.
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Show Notes:
- Anthony Scary-Moocher has already been fired (CNN)
- The Yapping Yam just keeps on lying… (CNN)
- …and is a terribly negotiator to boot (Washington Post)
- Attorney General Beauregard rattles his saber on leakers (Time)
- …Plus tells citizens in four cities to drop dead (AP)
- …And will be wasting your money to investigate non-existent reverse discrimination (NY Times)
- Second Circuit encourages false imprisonment of US citizens (NPR)
- A Michigan judge rules dogs are mere “contraband” to be exterminated (Reason)
- The Puppycide Precedent he cites (Twitter)
- CBP deliberately blocked Congress from exercising oversight on the Muslim Ban (Daily Beast)
- Our bail system destroys lives (Mic.com)
- Teens sentenced to LWOP get very different sentences (AP)
- Nearly 1-in-4 fired cops is rehired by the same department (Washington Post)
- ALABAMA: Inmates use peanut butter to escape prison (AL.com)
- ARIZONA: Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces jail time (azcentral.com)
- CALIFORNIA: “Marijuana moms” get a glowing media profile (Today)
- My $0.02 on the “marijuana moms” story (Twitter)
- CALIFORNIA: All charges dismissed against Tatyana Hargrove (Mic.com)
- Our episode with Tatyana’s arrest (Fsck #16)
- Tatyana’s story is precisely what that Proctor & Gamble ad was getting at (The Root)
- INDIANA: Drug-maker sends sales people to pitch judges (NPR)
- KENTUCKY: A killer cop wants his job back (WDRB)
- LOUISIANA: A police chief thought this racist meme was the funniest damn thing (HuffPost)
- MARYLAND: Baltimore PD caught planting evidence AGAIN (CBS News)
- MARYLAND: Baltimore County cop executes a shoplifter because he can (Fox 5)
- MARYLAND: An immigrant was offered a college scholarship. So ICE deported him. (Washington Post))
- MASSACHUSETTS: Former DA writes about how to reform the system (WBUR)
- MINNESOTA: White folks start to care about police reform (Washington Post)
- MISSOURI: The NAACP issues a travel advisory for the whole state (Sacramento Bee)
- NEW MEXICO: Private prison tries to extort state (Sante Fe New Mexican)
- NEW YORK: All black men look alike to the NYPD, so they just picked one to beat (NY Daily News)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Did the Sheriff cover-up a rape by a pedophile deputy? (Raw Story)
- NORTH CAROLINA: The NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes condemns the Bill of Rights (Durham Herald-Sun)
- OREGON: Portland Lieutenant says police brutality is cool (Portland Mercury)
- TENNESSEE: Jailers torture 18-year-old, tase him 40 times (UK Metro)
- TEXAS: “Show Me Your Papers” law emboldens criminals (The Intercept)
- TEXAS: Pedophile cop gets a deferral agreement (Houston Chronicle)
- The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution (Wikipedia)
- The US Attorneys’ Manual on Grand Juries (US DOJ)
- US v. Dionisio (Oyez)
- US v. Williams (Oyez)
- Kaley v. US (Oyez)
- Great summary by Ken White on how grand juries work (Popehat)
I’m sure the most-vocal are bona fide racists who don’t like the stigma of being identified for what they are; it’s a classic example of the Southern saying “a hit dog hollers.”
As for the rest? I wish I knew. The ad was well-produced and I didn’t take it as a personal affront, so it’s a challenge for me to understand those who did.
Another great episode. Keep up the great work!
I have a question – (Re: P&G ad) why do you think it is that white folks get so bloody fragile and defensive anytime (we) black people mention anything about having to have “the talk” with children? What, in your personal opinion, is behind that over-the-top defensiveness and threats of boycotts, etc.? It has to be more than just ignorance and lack of empathy that generates that kind of response. It’s crazy.