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This week we talk about Bonespur Brezhnev abandoning his base, a Michigan student physically assaulted by a teacher over the Pledge of Allegience, yet another white cop going unpunished for killing an unarmed black man in Missouri, and a uniquely Texan dispute between a criminal wanting to run for judge and a criminal running the District Attorney’s Office.
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Show Notes:
- Papaya POTUS sides with Dems on the debt ceiling (Washington Post)
- …and on DACA (NY Times)
- …and on the wall (Bloomberg)
- …and on Paris (Wall Street Journal)
- Seventh Circuit affirms excluding “department policy” evidence in brutality trial (Seventh Circuit COA)
- Judge Alex Kozinski drops fire dissent in warrantless search case (Ninth Circuit COA)
- Deported DACA participant will be readmitted for deposition (The Hill)
- Governments are now suing people seeking public records (AP)
- Police bodycam footage is generally not a public record (Ars Technica)
- Police don’t act like brutality is isolated (The Blaze)
- Fox News fibs about 2017 police deaths (Twitter)
- AG Beauregard ends another police accountability program (The Hill)
- Sessions: “The first civil right is to be alive.” (The Hill)
- NYT Op-Ed suggests revisiting the science of sex offenders (New York Times)
- Today in stupid questions: Should police obey the President, or the courts? (New York Times)
- New study shows the high cost of criminalizing unemployment (Phys.org)
- Former prosecutor on why police see all black men as thugs (USA Today)
- The first-ever database to track criminal cops (Vice)
- 2017 is on track to have the 2nd-lowest crime rate since 1990 (Washington Post)
- ARIZONA: Motel 6 shares guest lists with the Feds (Phoenix New Times)
- CALIFORNIA: Video released of UC Berkeley police pilfering vendor’s wallet (Twitter)
- CALIFORNIA: Fresno PD detain assailant without killing him (Fresno Bee)
- CALIFORNIA: DAs decide killer cop Matthew Hernandez acted in self-defense killing unarmed college student (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: LAPD prioritizes break-ins among the rich, ignores burglaries of the poor (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: Public Defender accuses DA’s Office of withholding DNA evidence (SFGate)
- COLORADO: Video released of police brutalizing an Aurora woman in 2015 (Denver Post)
- FLORIDA: Sheriff Grady Judd is getting sued over shelter policy (The Hill)
- FLORIDA: Polk County Deputy Russell Hilson arrested for beating his girlfriend (The Ledger)
- FLORIDA: Gainesville cop goes viral for being “hot”; turns out he’s a Nazi (Yahoo News)
- GEORGIA: GT Campus Police execute a suicidal student (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- ILLINOIS: Chicago Conviction Integrity Unit looks into Roosevelt Myles (BuzzFeed)
- Our episode with Roosevelt Myles story (Fsck #24)
- INDIANA: Video released showing Assistant Police Chief punching man in the groin for sport (RedState)
- KANSAS: Viral video of officer drawing a gun on two sovereign citizens (The Root)
- LOUISIANA: Corrupt Sheriff settles lawsuit over search of critics’ home (Reason)
- MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer Christopher Spivey is acquitted, jurors stay to lick boots (WBAL 11)
- MARYLAND: Baltimore PD Sergeant steals $10,000 from citizen, who ends up dead (Baltimore Sun)
- MARYLAND: DOJ won’t prosecute Freddie Gray’s killers (The Hill)
- MICHIGAN: Farmington Hills teacher assaults student for not standing during Pledge of Allegiance (ClickOnDetroit)
- MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD officer David Campbell charged with raping son’s 16yo girlfriend (StarTribune)
- MINNESOTA: St. Kate’s University security guard blames black man for gunshot; shot himself (StarTribune)
- MISSOURI: Bogus charges dropped against Fred Watson after 5 years (Reason)
- MISSOURI: Killer cop Jason Stockley goes free (CNN)
- The judge’s order in the Stockley verdict (St Louis Post-Dispatch)
- Judge Timothy Wilson’s excuses are pathetic (Slate)
- MISSOURI: Police threaten to tear gas a sanctuary; #GasTheSynagogue trends (The Times of Israel)
- NEW HAMPSHIRE: Teens try to lynch 8yo, police shrug (RawStory)
- NEW JERSEY: New amnesty program launched after two dozen arrested for welfare fraud (NBC New York)
- NEW JERSEY: Three CBP agents charged federally for running a “rape table” at Newark Int’l (US DOJ)
- NEW JERSEY: Former Edison PD officer Michael Dotro sentenced to 20 years for arson (Time)
- NEW JERSEY: Eric Kelley and Ralph Lee exonerated for a murder they didn’t commit (Innocence Project)
- NEW YORK: NYPD releases bodycam of the killing of Miguel Richards (Patch)
- NEW YORK: Thousands of cases rely on faulty DNA testing techniques (ProPublica)
- NEW YORK: Long-form piece on Muslim officer Bobby Hadid (New Yorker)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD officer crashes his car into a tractor trailer (WRAL)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD Chief says info re KKK rally was “not credible” (Herald-Sun)
- Our episode with how that day went down (Fsck #23)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Data shows the Durham Sheriff racially profiles drivers (WNCN)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Judge refuses to accept guilty plea in Confederate memorial case, says no crime (Burlington Times-News)
- OHIO: Seven Days of Heroin series (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- OHIO: Clark County Deputy Jake Shaw shoots a photographer (Washington Post)
- OHIO: Cleveland PD officer Kenneth Bolton Jr pleads guilty to violating 2 women with a sex toy (The Grio)
- OHIO: Firefighter argues “one dog is more important than a million n*ggers” (HuffPost)
- OREGON: Multnomah County DA is phasing out grand juries (Portland Mercury)
- OREGON: Editorial on the racist legacy of the state’s jury system (Mail Tribune)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Cumberland County DA David Freed promises to do better with Nazis (Penn Live)
- Our earlier episode on Freed’s Nazi clerk (Fsck #25)
- PENNSYLVANIA: State Rep. Aaron Bernstine promises to do a Charlottesville if he gets the chance (Twitter)
- TENNESSEE: Nashville woman shoots homeless man for sport (KTNV)
- TEXAS: Judicial candidate wants record expunged, opposed by drug-dealing DA (San Antonio Express-News)
- UTAH: An internal review “sustains findings” against officers who arrested nurse (Fox 13)
- VERMONT: New State Police policy limits disclosure of crime info (CJR)
- VIRGINIA: Richmond bans poles, bats, sticks… but guns are cool (Twitter)
- NEW ZEALAND: Data shows police regularly tase people they shouldn’t (Twitter)
- UNITED KINGDOM: Police tell black man “you’d be the first one I’d shoot” (The Guardian)
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