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Lots of Rules of #Fsck in this episode. Join us for a police chief casually dropping n-bombs on bodycam, another police chief tolerating her cops pepper-spraying a 9-year-old in the face for sport, another police chief defending his officer for the extrajudicial summary execution of an unarmed black man in mental distress, and a truly audacious police chief juggling a wife, 2 fiancees, and 9+ girlfriends amid getting arrested for fabricating evidence.
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Show Notes:
- Biden, Senate Democrats prioritize civil rights and criminal defense attorneys for judgeships (NBC News)
- 8th Circuit: Qualified immunity denied to SWAT cop who tear-gassed reporters at 2014 BLM protest (8th Circuit COA)
- Data: disturbing patterns in police executions of unarmed black people (NPR)
- CALIFORNIA: Oakland PD seizes 100+ city-provided mobile phones from its officers over suspected criming (KTVU 2)
- CALIFORNIA: San Diego County deputy Aaron Russell charged with 2nd-degree murder after being caught on video shooting unarmed black man in the back for sport (San Diego Union-Tribune)
- FLORIDA: 1st Hispanic Osceola Sheriff Marco Lopez hires nearly-all-white command staff for department, even less diversity than predecessor (Orlando Sentinel)
- FLORIDA: Liberty High School “school resource officer” – a cop – on video bodyslamming an unarmed black schoolgirl to the concrete and knocking her out cold (TMZ)
- FLORIDA: Lake County “school resource officer” – a cop – on video tasing unarmed black schoolgirl as she backs away with her hands raised (WFTV 9)
- Video (Twitter)
- GEORGIA: Whitfield County deputies boot reporter, crew for asking questions to Congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene during town hall Q&A (Mediaite)
- GEORGIA: Hamilton PD police chief Gene Allmond resigns and Patrolman John Brooks is fired after bodycam catches both using racial slurs ahead of BLM protests (WTVM 9)
- LOUISIANA: Oberlin cemetery denies burial to black law enforcement officer, sales contract was whites-only (KLFY 10)
- MARYLAND: Montgomery County Police Officers Dionne Holliday and Kevin Christmon on video shouting at, assaulting, threatening a 5-year-old black child (CNN)
- NEW YORK: Nine Rochester PD cops handcuff 9-year-old black girl, then pepper-spray her in the face for sport (Democrat & Chronicle)
- Video (Twitter)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Brittany Kittrell jailed for petty theft, given COVID-19 death sentence (IndyWeek)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Southport PD officer Bryon Vessey tells colleagues “I don’t have time for this sh*t,” blows away schizophrenic boy having mental health episode (Insider)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Wake County deputy Rodale Pippen arrested for giving contraband to jail inmates (News & Observer)
- This is normal. Jail staff have long been the #1 source of jail contraband. (Prison Policy Initiative)
- OHIO: Assorted police departments “rescue” 8 women by arresting and prosecuting them for prostitution (WANE 15)
- TEXAS: Bodycam footage released of Killeen PD officer Reynaldo Contreras summarily executing unarmed black man Patrick Warren Sr. (TheGrio)
- TEXAS: Stinnett PD police chief Jason Collier arrested for fabricating evidence as part of viral multi-woman affair (KAMR 4)
- HONG KONG: Hong Kong cop sexually assaults 6 underage girls aged 11 to 14, gets 46 months in jail (Hong Kong Free Press)