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Join us this week as we talk about how screwed Donald Trump’s lawyer is, a California sheriff on video arguing it’s best to kill suspects, a Pennsylvania prosecutor resigning over repeated sex crimes, and several cases across the country of federal law enforcement endangering people’s lives — or killing them outright.
Then, in our weekly #Law140, we talk about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and an arrest at a Starbucks in Philadelphia!
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Show Notes:
- Republicans’ domestic agenda consists primarily of attacking Muslims (BuzzFeed News)
- Michael Cohen is going to end up disbarred and indicted (Quartz)
- CALIFORNIA: ICE agents chase couple mistaken for someone else, cause fatal car accident, lie about it (Los Angeles Times)
- CALIFORNIA: Sheriff Donny Youngblood on video arguing it’s better to “kill suspects” rather than wound them (NY Daily News)
- CALIFORNIA: Sacramento adopts policy on turning off body cameras after officers tried to hide audio after Stephon Clark execution (NBC News)
- CONNECTICUT: Montville teacher arrested for running a “fight club” at high school (Washington Post)
- DC: The lawsuit against Howard University by Tyrone Hankerson is a hot mess (Twitter)
- Here’s a PDF copy of the lawsuit (DocumentCloud)
- FLORIDA: Braden River High School staff make teen girl leave class, jump in principal’s office so they can watch her breasts jiggle (BuzzFeed News)
- ILLINOIS: Elgin police talk about how to handle mentally ill black woman without killing her, then kill her anyway (The Root)
- LOUISIANA: 10 Republican senators vote against law to ban sex with animals (WWL)
- LOUISIANA: Sheriff’s Association executive testifies 1,300+ people held for 4+ years without trial (The Times-Picayune)
- MAINE: Bus driver fired for calling MLK Day “National N*gger Day,” superintendent a “c*nt,” elected to school board (Portland Press-Herald)
- MAINE: Another school board member resigns over racist comments (Portland Press-Herald)
- MASSACHUSETTS: Cambridge police on video beating the sh*t out of black Harvard student (The Harvard Crimson)
- MICHIGAN: Rochester Hills firefighter Jeffery Zeigler chases, shoots at unarmed 14-year-old black boy for asking for directions (WDIV 4)
- Racist firefighters in KS (Fsck #54)
- Racist firefighters in NY (Fsck #41)
- Racist firefighters in FL (Fsck #36)
- Racist firefighters in OH (Fsck #27)
- NEW YORK: Black parole officer shot and killed in her own apartment, no charges filed (Democrat & Chronicle)
- NEW YORK: NYPD cop Joseph Essig gropes woman, gets convicted… but keeps job because his dad is a police chief (NY Daily News)
- NORTH CAROLINA: ICE raids local trailers, breaks up families of restaurant owner, other residents (News & Observer)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville PD uses civil asset forfeiture money to buy new toys (Spectrum Local News)
- OHIO: No jail for teens who killed 22-year-old Ohio man (WTVG 13)
- OREGON: Three Sheriff’s deputies indicted in jail death of man arrested on drug charges (The Oregonian)
- OREGON: Secret weed raid by Feds leads to innocent bystander with gun to his head (The Oregonian)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Bedford County DA William Higgins, “pious prosecutor” waging culture war on liberals, resigns over sexual abuse charges (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- PENNSYLVANIA: “Waiting While Black” leads to arrest of real estate developers in Philadelphia Starbucks (The Inquirer)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh cop Kaelen O’Connor charged with falsifying report to protect partner from road rage investigation
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - TENNESSEE: Hundreds of Morristown kids stop attending school after ICE raid on meatpacking plant (The Intercept)
- TENNESSEE: Matthew Charles, model citizen during his 2 years of release, has been ordered back to prison (Twitter)
- TEXAS: Federal Border Patrol officer David Villareal arrested for raping woman (Dallas Morning News)
- TEXAS: Federal Border Patrol officer Ronald Burgos-Aviles arrested for murdering 1-year-old child and mother (Dallas Morning News)
- VIRGINIA: Hundreds of drivers fined under new law for driving too slow (WTOP)
- WASHINGTON: State Supreme Court issues forceful ruling allowing woman with history of drug abuse to take bar exam (Seattle Times)
- The Court’s opinion in In Re Simmons (Supreme Court of Washington)
- WEST VIRGINIA: Taxpayers shell out more than $265,000.00+ in repeated settlements for abuse by state trooper Ralph Justus (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
- UNITED KINGDOM: Welsh police successfully arrest psychotic man in knife attack, all on bodycam (BBC News)
- ARGENTINA: Weed goes missing, police claim a rat ate it (USA Today)
- Article I of the United States Constitution (LII)
- Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (LII)
- Background on Civil Rights Act of 1964 (History.com)
- Civil Rights Act text (LII)
- Heart of Atlanta Motel v US (Oyez)