Politicians Behaving Badly (Episode 53)

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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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Show Notes:

• Study: Prison philosophy classes help reduce violence (UK Independent)
• More “Student Resource Officers” in schools is a fantastically stupid idea (Reason)
• ALABAMA: Authorities botch a truly ghoulish execution attempt of man with cancer (Columbia Law School)
• ALABAMA: Sheriffs steal money from inmates, claim it’s totally legal (AL.com)
• ARIZONA: Mesa PD officers severely injure 84-year-old woman, to “help” her (KPNX 12)
• ARKANSAS: Judge sentenced to 5 years for trading leniency for nudes (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
  • We first mentioned Judge Boeckmann last October (Fsck 31)
• CALIFORNIA: LA County Sheriff’s Deputy Giancarlo Scotti indicted for sexually assaulting 6 women (LA Times)
• FLORIDA: 4 Broward County deputies hid like cowards as children died (NY Post)
  Sheriff Scott Israel was too busy targeting minorities (Broward Palm Beach New Times)
  • Including constant raids on hip-hop concerts (The Sun-Sentinel)
• DC: Armed TN woman rams White House security barrier, taken alive (WTTG 5)
  • Compare with (black) Miriam Carey, who was summarily executed (Washington Post)
• 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)
  • We talked about the GTTF in Fsck #25
  • …and Fsck #27
  • …and Fsck #32
  • …and Fsck #38
  • …and Fsck #39
  • …and Fsck #41
  • …and Fsck #46
  • …and Fsck #47
  • …and Fsck #50
  • …and Fsck #51
• 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)
  • Our episode on Greitens staying a man’s execution over DNA (Fsck #24)
• 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)
  • I told you this would happen (Fsck #23)
• 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)
• Ken White’s podcast episode on student speech rights (Popehat)
• The First Amendment (LII)
• The Pre-Tinker History of Student Speech Rights (SagePub)
• Tinker v. Des Moines (Oyez)
• Bethel v. Fraser (Oyez)
• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (Oyez)
• Morse v. Frederick (Oyez)