“Would You Like Some Drugs With That?” (Episode 50)

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It’s a shorter-than-normal Fsck this week because T. Greg had the flu, but we still fit in stories about the Nunes meh-mo, totally bonkers testimony about Maryland’s corrupt Gun Trace Task Force, more ICE stupidity, and the wide variety of police getting charged with dealing drugs.

Episode 49, a #Law140 on how the First Amendment applies to the Executive Branch, is on our Patreon page exclusively for our patrons! We’ll hopefully be back to regular episodes next week!

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Show Notes:

• The Nunes memo has been released. Emphasis on “meh.” (Vice News)
• Federal regulators approve a legal defense fund for Trump Administration staff (CNN)
• ARIZONA: Police chase ends in violent, head-on crash with innocent civilian (KMPH 26)
• CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles criminalizes homelessness (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Mentally ill 34yo Bertram Hiscock jailed to death (Sacramento Bee)
• COLORADO: Middle school teacher Karen Smith given a paid vacation for assaulting student who didn’t stand for the Pledge (Denver Post)
  • A Michigan student was assaulted too (Fsck #27)
  • And a Texas student was expelled (Fsck #31)
  • Sitting during the Pledge has been legal for 75 years (Oyez)
• FLORIDA: Federal judge strikes down lifetime ban on felon voting rights (Tampa Bay Times)
  • Judge Walker’s opinion (DocumentCloud)
• ILLINOIS: Government attorney resigns over withholding evidence in civil rights lawsuit (Chicago Tribune)
• ILLINOIS: ICE detains Army veteran who served several tours in Afghanistan, to be deported over drug charge (Chicago Tribune)
• ILLINOIS: Seven Chicago PD officers caught on FBI video stealing money, drugs (WBBM 2)
• KANSAS: ICE seizes chemistry professor while taking his daughter to school (Kansas City Star)
• MARYLAND: A compilation of the eye-popping testimony about Baltimore’s corrupt Gun Trace Task Force (Vox)
  • 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
• MARYLAND: A third of Baltimore’s new police don’t understand the law (Baltimore Sun)
• MARYLAND: Hagerstown PD officer Christopher Barnett arrested for stealing paralyzed woman’s medication (Herald-Mail Media)
• MICHIGAN: Police apologize for ignoring victim of Dr. Larry Nassar in 2004 (Chicago Tribune)
• MISSISSIPPI: Starkville PD radio operator indicted for murdering newborn… but coroner hasn’t even reviewed the case (The Dispatch)
• NEW YORK: State Parks police had to “offer up” their wives for promotions (NY Post)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte-Mecklenburg police kill suicidal 27yo Charlie Shoupe (Charlotte Observer)
  • Compare with Fresno CA, where a suicidal man with a knife was stopped without killing him (Fsck #27)
  • Even Baltimore police stopped a suicidal man with a knife without killing him (Fsck #37)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD prevents pair of suicides (Facebook)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh homicide detective Peg Sherwood indicted for lying, falsifying reports (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Bristol police tase man with autism, lie about it, cleared of wrongdoing (UK Guardian)