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Join us this week for a belated celebration of the new year! We’ve got a surprise denial of qualified immunity in the Fourth Circuit, Alabama cops shooting a woman while they were searching for a guy who was already in jail, a truly crazy story of police abuse in Oregon, and a Pennsylvania judge excoriating officers who lied on the stand during a trial involving a viral arrest video!
*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Anon, Trey Benfield, Chris Hairston, Colleen Mahaney, and Rob Simmons) and our #Law140 Lovers (Lindsey Bowser, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!
Show Notes:
- Personal News:
- I’m engaged (Twitter)
- I said farewell to Le Château T. (Facebook)
- We’ve got a trivia channel on Twitch (Twitch)
- I’ve been dealing with neo-Confederates… (IndyWeek)
- …like, a lot… (IndyWeek)
- …as in “a lot,” a lot… (IndyWeek)
- …and it’s still going (CourtListener)
- 4TH CIRCUIT: Qualified immunity denied to Augusta County (VA) killer deputy Michael Roane for executing family’s dog for sport (4th Circuit COA)
- 5TH CIRCUIT: Qualified immunity granted to Attala County (MS) deputy who unconstitutionally transported disabled man to the county line and dropped him off in the road where he was later killed by a car (5th Circuit COA)
- FEDERAL: DEA agent Jose Irizarry indicted for laundering millions in drug money (Reuters)
- ALABAMA: Local-federal task force agents repeatedly shoot Ann Rylee in her home, looking for unrelated man who was already in police custody (Washington Post)
- DC: Police to stop handcuffing children, after viral videos of handcuffing innocent kids (Washington Post)
- FLORIDA: Jacksonville deputies arrest 6-year-old black girl Nadia King and force her into mental institution for tantrum (Florida Times-Union)
- GEORGIA: Cobb County elected Sheriff Neil Warren admits he blocked jail access to newspaper article critical of jail conditions (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- MARYLAND: Prince George’s County officer Michael Owen Jr. summarily executes William Green for sport, as Green sat handcuffed in a patrol car (Washington Post)
- MICHIGAN: Wayne County hit with federal lawsuit over predatory civil asset forfeiture practices (WDIV 4)
- MICHIGAN: Joint state-federal task force beats innocent man senseless for sport, then Court dismisses lawsuit over it (Washington Post)
- OREGON: West Linn PD police chief Terry Timeus has cops arrest black man to thwart race discrimination lawsuit (The Oregonian)
- PENNSYLVANIA: John Perez, beaten and arrested in viral video, found not guilty by jury (Allentown Morning Call)
- Judge blasts Allentown PD officers, perjury (Allentown Morning Call)
- TEXAS: 22 Dallas PD vice cops disciplined for 2016 embezzlement (WFAA 8)