Month: July 2018

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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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Show Notes:

• 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)
  • Here’s the study (SSRN)
• 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)
  • Our episode with WaPo’s analysis of “free kill zones” (Fsck #69)
• 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)
  • Similar to Texas deputies killing a 6-year-old to save him back in December (Fsck #46)
  • And the FBI killing hostage Ulises Valladares in January (NBC News)
  • And Independence MO police shooting Mike Becker for protecting his family from a gunman (Kansas City Star)
• 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)
  • Our episode on the initial indictments (Fsck #72)
  • And on the subsequent investigation (Fsck #76)
• 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)
  • Similar results out of Minnesota last week (Fsck #76)
• 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)
  • Our episode on Lopez’s extrajudicial summary execution without due process (Fsck #19)
• 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)
  • Our episode on Justice Loughry’s suspension (Fsck #69)
  • And on the indictment against him (Fsck #71)
• 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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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!

#Law140 will return next week! Until then, make sure to check out our page on Patreon for exclusive patron-only content!

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Show Notes:

• 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)
  • The Maria Butina indictment (NY Times)
  • The Carter Page FISA application (NY Times)
• 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)
  • Thread on some of the study results (Twitter)
• Study: racism – not “economic anxiety” – explains immigration views (Mother Jones)
  • Here’s the paper (GitHub)
• Study: teachers interpret identical behavior differently based on the race of the student (News & Observer)
  • Here’s the paper (ScienceDirect)
• 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)
  • Remember: CBP/ICE routinely arrests Americans (Fsck #61)
  • And even deports citizen-veterans (Fsck #25)
• 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)
  • Our episode on Entrekin stealing money meant for inmate meals at the jail (Fsck #53)
  • And him arresting the informant who turned him in (Fsck #54)
• 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)
  • Our episode with the video of Bishop’s stupidity (Fsck #68)
• 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)
  • Our episode on Chief Atesiano and others being federally indicted (Fsck #72)
• FLORIDA: Lake Butler corrections officer David Moran stripped of pension after Klan membership, plot to kill black inmate (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
  • Our episode on Moran and his co-conspirators being convicted of conspiracy to murder (Fsck #23)
• 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)
  • Thread on the whitest damn things ever (Twitter)
• 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)
  • Our episode on this purchase (Fsck #74)
• 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)
  • Our episode on Rialmo killing both Quintonio LaGrier and Bettie Jones (Fsck #39)
  • And the follow-up litigation (Fsck #42)
  • And Rialmo assaulting two people at a bar (Fsck #66)
• KENTUCKY: Deep dive on confessed pedophile judge and Trump activist Tim Nolan (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • Our episode with Nolan’s guilty plea (Fsck #51)
• 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)
  • Our episode on Cassano getting promoted for racist social media posts (Fsck #41)
• 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)
  • Our episode on the tasing of Sean Williams (Fsck #72)
• 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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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.

More f*ckery will drop Thursday, and a regular #Law140 will return next week! Until then, make sure to check out our page on Patreon for exclusive patron-only content!

Join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Trey Benfield, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, Charlotte Mobley, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Matthew Boyer, Brian Gilbreath, Tyler Kiley, Byron Mobley, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• 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)
  • Our episode with the Government admitting they lacked evidence (Fsck #39)
  • …and the rioting charges getting dismissed (Fsck #42)
  • …and the jury acquitting on other charges (Fsck #46)
  • …and the court dismissing more charges over Brady violations (Fsck #68)
  • …and the jury acquitting 3 more (Fsck #69)
• FLORIDA: Fort Myers PD officer Tim McCormick claimed Burger King served him dirt; it was actually seasoning (WUSA 9)
  • Police have also terrorized restaurants in Missouri… (Fsck #28)
  • …and in New Jersey (Fsck #22)
  • …and in New Jersey again (Fsck #58)
  • …and in North Carolina (Fsck #2)
• 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)
  • Our episode when this crooked cop was caught on video (Fsck #68)
• 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)
  • Our episode on the injunction issued in this case (Fsck #32)
  • And on the WaPo investigation of driver’s losing licenses over tickets (Fsck #36)
• 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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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.

Then, in this week’s #Law140 segment, we talk about the pending retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy and how it will shape the Supreme Court in the years ahead.

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*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Trey Benfield, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, Charlotte Mobley, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Matthew Boyer, Brian Gilbreath, Tyler Kiley, Byron Mobley, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, David Ross, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• 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)
  • I forewarned you this would happen (Twitter)
• 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)
  • Here’s why that matters (Wikipedia)
• 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)
  • Rivera was framed by Reynaldo Guevara, the same cop who framed Thomas Sierra (Fsck #47)
  • And framed two other men (Fsck #42)
• KENTUCKY: Report released showing “mistakes were made” during investigation of teens sexually abused in police Explorer program (The Courier-Journal)
  • There was a similar scandal with the Explorer programs in California (Fsck #41)
• 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)
  • Our episode with the beating (Fsck #69)
• OREGON: Portland police commander Steve Jones arrested for DUI after crashing city SUV into telephone pole (Willamette Week)
  • This happened in Durham NC too… twice in one week (Fsck #51)
• 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)
  • Our episode on the extrajudicial summary execution of black teen Antwon Rose (Fsck #71)
• 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)