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Join us this week as we talk about the culture of corruption permeating the Trumpkin GOP. In our criminal justice news, an off-duty Ohio officer tases an 11-year-old girl, a Florida boy is arrested at a youth basketball league for bouncing a basketball, and ICE crashes a van in Texas then denies an accident even took place. Then, in our #Law140 section, we talk about a “bait truck” of shoes in Chicago and the law of entrapment!
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Show Notes:
- Mike the Sound Guy got a shout-out! (Twitter)
- We’re finalists in the 13th Annual Podcast Awards! (Podcast Awards)
- I’m getting a new dog! Here’s the origin story on Chance (Twitter)
- Republican Congresscritter Chris Collins indicted for paint-by-numbers insider trading (NY Times)
- Members of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf club, who aren’t veterans or public officials, are secretly running the US Department of Veterans Affairs (ProPublica)
- Analysis: Recreational therapy in jail lowers recidivism among juvenile offenders (JJIE)
- ARKANSAS: England PD officer Michael Moore fired after being caught on video telling black men “you don’t belong in my city” (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
- CALIFORNIA: LAPD Chief Michel Moore collected $1,270,000.00+ from “flash retirement” before hiring as $299,000.00/yr Chief (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: Tyrone McAllister, teen arrested for brutally beating Sikh man, is son of local police chief (San Francisco Chronicle)
- COLORADO: El Paso County taxpayers to pay $60,000.00 for keeping woman in jail 25 days over $55 bail (Colorado Springs Gazette)
- FLORIDA: Department of Correction made millions selling MP3s to inmates; it’s now confiscating them to force inmates to buy new music (Florida Times-Union)
- FLORIDA: Prosecutors admit Biscayne Park PD framed Clarens Desrouleaux, have his conviction set aside after serving 5 years in prison and deportation to Haiti (Miami Herald)
- Our episode on the initial indictments against Biscayne Park PD (Fsck #72)
- And the expanded investigation (Fsck #76)
- And the initial guilty pleas (Fsck #77)
- FLORIDA: Unidentified Jacksonville PD officer arrests 11-year-old black child for bouncing basketball in youth athletic league (WJXT 4)
- FLORIDA: Marion County deputy Jeremie Nix saves lifeless 4-month-old baby (Ocala StarBanner)
- FLORIDA: Republican Melissa Howard, running for State House, lied about graduating from college then posed with fake diploma (The SunSentinel)
- GEORGIA: Rockdale County deputy Dedra Hall charged with sexual battery (WSB 2)
- GEORGIA: Spalding County deputies Howard R. Costner and Jesse A. Jones fired for being neo-Nazis (WXIA 11)
- ILLINOIS: Chicago PD, Norfolk Southern Railroad park truck of shoes in poor neighborhood to entrap residents (UK Daily Mail)
- KANSAS: Overland Park PD officers caught muting bodycams, issuing bogus seatbelt tickets (KCUR 89.3)
- MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer Arthur Williams suspended after being caught on video savagely beating unarmed black man Dashawn McGrier (Baltimore Sun)
- MARYLAND: Baltimore taxpayers to spend $176,800.00 on consultant to maintain decades-old Lotus Notes system at Baltimore PD (Baltimore Sun)
- MARYLAND: Towson mom Elizabeth Eden kept from her newborn for 5 days because a poppy seed bagel trigger a false positive for opioids (WBAL 11)
- MICHIGAN: Clare County PD officer Ashley Gruno jails 80-year-old grandmother for possessing weed for arthritis (Reason)
- MINNESOTA: Minneapolis politician Carol Becker tries to register trademark for name of critic’s blog (Tony Webster)
- NEW JERSEY: Palisades Interstate Parkway PD Chief Michael Coppola arrested for cocaine (North Jersey Media Group)
- NEW YORK: Unidentified Sheriff’s deputy on video calling teen raped by NYPD officers a “stupid b*tch,” other insults (NY Daily News)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Alcoholic Beverage Control commission wasted millions in taxpayer money (Durham Herald Sun)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Moore County Sheriff admits deputies lied, Arthur Kenzie Garner never shot at them before being summarily executed (WRAL 5)
- OHIO: Off-duty Cincinnati PD officer Kevin Brown tased an 11-year-old black girl for stealing food; policy allows them to tase kids as young as 7 (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- OKLAHOMA: Judge hides jail video of inmate dying after indicted Sheriff, deputies kept him in restraint chair for 54 hours (The Oklahoman)
- OREGON: West Linn PD officer Tom Newberry, fired for racist posts, entitled to $100K in back pay because his supervisors encouraged the posts (The Oregonian)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Deep dive on crooked cops in the Philadelphia PD (Philadelphia Weekly)
- SOUTH CAROLINA: York grand jury indicts 900+ cases in a day, at 39 seconds per case (Rock Hill Herald)
- TEXAS: ICE crashed a van full of immigrant women, denied it ever happened… until media got the accident report (Texas Observer)
- UTAH: Enoch PD officer Jeremy Dunn given paid vacation for shooting woman with screwdriver in the leg (Reason)
- WEST VIRGINIA: Legislative committee votes to impeach entire Supreme Court (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
- Our episode on Justice Loughry’s suspension (Fsck #69)
- And the indictment against him (Fsck #71)
- And testimony from the court administrator (Fsck #77)
- Sorrells v US (Justia)
- US v Russell (Oyez)
- Jacobson v US (Oyez)
- US Attorneys Manual entry on entrapment (US Dept of Justice)
