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Early voting in the 2018 midterms has begun! Join us this week as T. Greg talks about the items on the North Carolina ballot, an audit showing hundreds of Customs & Border Patrol officers being arrested in just two years, a California gang officer pleading guilty to accepting bribes, and teens being beaten on video in Florida, Illinois, and Virginia.

The next #Law140 on evidence should be out later this week! Until then, make sure to check out our page on Patreon for exclusive patron-only content! Then join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

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Show Notes:

• Federal Circuit: Defendant attaches weed samples to his appeal (Federal Circ COA)
• Sixth Circuit: Police cannot commit puppycide for sport (Reason)
  • The opinion in Smith v. Detroit (6th Circ COA)
  • Our episode with the District Court opinion (Fsck #20)
• Analysis: Hundreds of police officers nationwide charged with on-duty rapes, “forcible fondling,” and other sex crimes (CNN)
• 500+ Customs & Border Patrol officers arrested over the past two years (NY Times)
• ARKANSAS: Astonishing Radley Balko deep dive into chronic Fourth Amendment violations by the Little Rock Police Department (Washington Post)
• ARKANSAS: State Supreme Court justices petition themselves to have ethics complaints thrown out (ABA Journal)
• CALIFORNIA: State to allow non-violent third-strike offenders to seek parole (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Man released after 9 years in prison as new law dramatically limits state’s Felony Murder Rule (The Marshall Project)
• CALIFORNIA: Oakland PD officer, Alameda County gang expert Harry Hu pleads guilty to accepting bribes (The Mercury News)
• CALIFORNIA: Orange County Sheriff’s deputy Michael Devitt on video brutally beating drunk man unconscious, lies about it, cuts off bodycam when he realizes it’s recording (HuffPost)
• DELAWARE: Tiffany Reeves, mother of 3, dies in prison over unpaid fine (Wilmington News Journal)
• FLORIDA: White Coral Springs PD officer on video repeatedly punching black teen girl (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel)
  • The Coral Springs PD statement justifying the abuse (Twitter)
• FLORIDA: Jackson County Sheriff’s deputy Zachary Wester fired after lying on reports, 100+ cases dismissed (Tallahassee Democrat)
• ILLINOIS: Video shows off-duty Chicago PD officer shooting unarmed autistic man (UK Guardian)
• LOUISIANA: District Court Judge rules state’s split-jury law is unconstitutional (New Orleans Advocate)
• MARYLAND: Prince George’s County “Officer of the Month” Ryan Macklin arrested for traffic stop rape of undocumented immigrant (Baltimore Sun)
• MICHIGAN: Macomb County jail doctor Steven Cogswell charged for felony sex assault of inmates (WDIV 4)
• MICHIGAN: Rochester Hills firefighter Jeffrey Zeigler, who tried to kill unarmed black teen Brennan Walker for asking for directions, convicted of felony assault (The Detroit News)
  • Our episode with the original story (Fsck #59)
• MISSISSIPPI: Tate County deputy orders man to stop filming police in his own home (WREG 3)
  • Sheriff’s defense is “mistakes were made” (WREG 3)
• NEW YORK: NYPD detective Nicholas DiGaudio encouraged victim to delete evidence in Harvey Weinstein investigation, hide it from DA (WNBC 4)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Bail reform in Charlotte-Mecklenburg triggers pushback (WFAE 90.7)
• NORTH CAROLINA: 4-year-old felony charges in Graham tossed after pro se, handwritten motion (Winston-Salem Journal)
• OHIO: Columbus Police congratulate themselves for not killing black boys doing nothing illegal (Reason)
• OREGON: Portland PD reveals to Mayor, City Council for the first time that Nazis were heavily armed at summer rally (The Oregonian)
  • Our episode on the rally and Portland PD beating unarmed observers for sport (Fsck #78)
• PENNSYLVANIA: All prisoners permanently banned from receiving personal mail (Bloomberg)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Penn State University uses police helicopter to break up football tailgate (CBS News)
  • Bystander video of the flyby (YouTube)
• TEXAS: Dallas PD Sergeant Jamie McDonald arrested for felony child abuse in beating of 8-year-old (Dallas Morning News)
• UTAH: Qualified immunity for Ogden PD officers who broke diabetic man’s leg at hospital (Ogden Standard-Examiner)
  • The trial court’s opinion in Torbett v. Ogden (CourtListener.com)
• VIRGINIA: Norfolk PD officers on video beating 16-year-old black boy, offering shifting explanations (Virginian Pilot)
• WEST VIRGINIA: Former Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry convicted on 11 of 22 federal charges (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
  • Our episode on Justice Loughry’s suspension (Fsck #69)
  • …and subsequent indictment (Fsck #71)
  • …and testimony from the court administrator (Fsck #77)
  • …and the subsequent impeachment process (Fsck #79)
• GERMANY: Police in Bad Oldesloe summarily execute 22-year-old homeless man as he runs away, for knife possession (WordPress)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Senior British police official acknowledges policing is still “institutionally racist” (UK Independent)

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October has already been the longest month in awhile, and we’re only a week in! Join us as our favorite corrupt Alabama sheriff is back in the news, a Maryland police sergeant is arrested at a strip club and then promptly beaten, and a Texas police department confiscating an activist’s political sign out of her own yard because they found it offensive.

The next #Law140 on evidence should be out later this week! Until then, make sure to check out our page on Patreon for exclusive patron-only content! Then join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

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Show Notes:

• Great summary of the Republican Party under Trumpism (The Atlantic)
• Tom Nichols bails on the GOP (The Atlantic)
  • Welcome to the club Tom! (Twitter)
• Long read on large number of people with disabilities who end up summarily executed by police (BBC News)
• NCIS agent Leatrice Malika DeBruhl-Daniels federally indicted for tipping off suspected terrorist (Washington Post)
• ALABAMA: Ousted Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin used gun permit fund to pay for re-election ads (AL.com)
  • Our episode on some of Entrekin’s corruption (Fsck #76)
• ALABAMA: Jackson County adds new $2.50/day meal fee for inmates, to fund pay raises for jailers (Dothan Eagle)
• CALIFORNIA: Surprise audit of ICE jail in Adelanto finds “infernal” conditions (Washington Post)
• CALIFORNIA: Inglewood PD chief Mark Fronterotta gets illegal $61,000.00 “bonus” every year because of 2-week course (The Daily Breeze)
• CALIFORNIA: Orange County Sheriffs illegally eavesdropped on attorney-client phone calls (Orange County Register)
• FLORIDA: Miami Gardens PD killer cop Roland Clarke repeatedly busted for f*cking on the job (Miami New Times)
• GEORGIA: Desmond Marrow files lawsuit over beating, cover-up (WSB-TV 2)
  • Our episode on Marrow’s beating (Fsck #61)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD killer cop Jason Van Dyke convicted by jury for extrajudicial summary execution of black teen Laquan McDonald (Chicago Tribune)
  • And of course the Fraternal Order of Police lost their sh*t (Twitter)
• INDIANA: Indianapolis PD gets qualified immunity in lawsuit by pregnant woman mauled by K-9, because they meant for the dog to maul someone else (IndyStar)
  • The judge’s ruling in Mancini v. Indianapolis (USCourts.gov)
• KANSAS: Tonganoxie police arrest unarmed 61-year-old black man for heinous crime of moving into his own house (Kansas City Star)
• LOUISIANA: Police, on video, successfully disarm machete-wielding black man without killing him (Newsweek)
• LOUISIANA: The New Orleans’ Firefighters Pension and Relief Fund has only 10% of the assets in needs (The Belle Curve)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer Aaron Heilman fired after being found plastered in his patrol car (Baltimore Sun)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore PD Sergeant Henrietta Middleton arrested, beaten for being disorderly at strip club (Baltimore Sun)
• NEW JERSEY: Englewood Cliffs Police Chief Michael Cioffi recorded detailing how he’d like to kill “b*tch” town council President (NJ Advance Media)
• NEW JERSEY: Rowan University PD and Glassboro PD stop, pull guns on unarmed students for sport (NJ.com)
• NEW JERSEY: Paterson PD on video macing deaf man for sport (North Jersey Media Group)
• NEW YORK: Otis Reese files suit after NYPD officers are caught on camera wrongly arresting him for an fake open container violation (WNBC 4)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Report confirms police drove 75+ mph in high-speed crash that killed off-duty deputy (Raleigh News & Observer)
  • Our episode with the story on this crash (Fsck #78)
• OHIO: Killer cop Timothy Loehmann, who summarily executed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, gets new job with Bellaire Police Department (Martins Ferry Times Leader)
• OHIO: Cleveland judge Michael Nelson Sr refuses to send low-level offenders to jail where inmates keep dying (NY Times)
• OREGON: Video released of Clackamas County deputies laughing at veteran dying of drug overdose (The Oregonian)
• TEXAS: Hamilton PD confiscates political yard sign for triggering GOP snowflakes (Dallas Morning News)
• TEXAS: Houston PD officer caught on video taking pictures of woman’s @$$ while working security at Drake concert (KTRK 13)
• TEXAS: John Nolley Jr. officially exonerated after spending 18 years in jail for murder he didn’t commit (Dallas Morning News)
• VIRGINIA: Four racists federally indicted for rioting at Charlottesville rally (Washington Post)
• ENGLAND: London police on video brutalizing, pepper-spraying 23-year-old black man for no apparent reason (UK Guardian)

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The regular assortment of criminal justice f*ckery had to be delayed a few days to accommodate life. Until then, we’ve got the first of a several-part series on the Rules of Evidence and how they play out in the discussion of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court!

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Show Notes:

• *THANK YOU* to everyone who donated to our Boys & Girls Club fundraiser! (Twitter)
• Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of attempted rape (NY Times)
• And waving his schlong in a drunk girl’s face (The New Yorker)
• And gang rape? (Twitter)
• NC’s Pattern Jury Instruction on Direct vs Circumstantial Evidence (UNC School of Government)
• FRE 401 on Relevant Evidence (LII)
• FRE 402 on Admissibility of Evidence (LII)
• FRE 403 on Excluding Relevant Evidence (LII)
• Our earlier episode on scientific evidence (Fsck #12)
• Sprint/United Management Co v Mendelsohn (Oyez)

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We’re back on regular rotation! This week we have *5* different appellate decisions on qualified immunity, child molesters on the police forces in California and Florida, and a killer cop in Texas with a story that makes no sense.

This week’s #Law140 was a Patreon exclusive on Roy Moore’s lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen – a link to check it out is in the show notes!

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Show Notes:

• Check out Episode 81 on Roy Moore’s lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen (Patreon)
• Trump-supporting R Congresscritter Chris Collins has been federally indicted (Fsck #79)
• Trump-supporting R Congresscritter Duncan Hunter has been federally indicted (CNN)
• Trump-supporting foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos has been sentenced (NY Times)
• Trump-supporting former campaign manager Paul Manafort has pled guilty (NY Times)
• Trump-supporting former lawyer Michael Cohen has pled guilty (NPR)
  • And implicated the Papaya POTUS in multiple felonies (The New Yorker)
• 5th Circuit: Judge Don Willett has thoughts on qualified immunity (Simple Justice)
  • The opinion in Zadeh v Robinson et al (5th Circ COA)
• 6th Circuit: No qualified immunity for deputies who intentionally tased pregnant woman in the stomach (6th Circ COA)
• 6th Circuit: No qualified immunity for officer who groped 17-year-old girl because she looked like a “junkie whore” (6th Circ COA)
• 9th Circuit: No qualified immunity for school police officer who arrested group of girls “to prove a point” (9th Circ COA)
• 9th Circuit: No qualified immunity for IRS agent who demanded to watch woman use the bathroom (9th Circ COA)
• Study: Race and gender bias is rampant in law firms (ABA Journal)
• Federal prosecutors admit they falsely accused Russian spy of offering sex for work (NY Times)
• Sheriffs who cheered Trump’s attacks on the media had their own run-ins with the media (UK Guardian)
• CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD officer Kenneth Collard charged for sexually assaulting 13-year-old daughter of fellow officer (LA Times)
• FLORIDA: Biscayne Park PD chief Raimundo Atesiano pleads guilty to framing innocent black men (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)
  • And framing Clarens Desrouleaux (Fsck #79)
• FLORIDA: Miami-Dade PD lieutenant Braulio Gonzalez arrested for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl (WSVN 7)
• GEORGIA: Ilya Zaretsky spent a year in jail for rape he didn’t commit, as ex-wife’s family tried to extort him (WSB 2)
• KENTUCKY: Providence PD sergeant sentenced to 3.5 years in federal prison for illegally beating, arresting a citizen who tried to file a complaint (US DOJ)
• LOUISIANA: Plaquemines Parish deputy Brian Green given “indefinite paid leave” for being in alt-right group (New Orleans Advocate)
• MARYLAND: Harford County deputies get virtual reality training on how to not kill dogs (Reason)
• MINNESOTA: DA expunges 40+ charges brought by former Chaska PD officer Joshua Lawrenz, who profiled Hispanic drivers (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
• NEW JERSEY: NJ Supreme Court decides police video is not a public record (Asbury Park Press)
• NEW YORK: John Bunn spent 17 years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit; now he brings books to prisons (CNN)
• NEW YORK: NYPD officer on camera with gun drawn, casually drops N-bomb, spazzes on methadone patients (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: Multiple NYPD officers arrested for running a gambling and prostitution ring (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: Rochester refuses to disclose how much taxpayer money it paid to settle brutality cases, to “protect taxpayers” (WHEC 10)
• OKLAHOMA: Cleveland PD officer Terry Browne charged with drug trafficking after being stopped with 160 pounds of weed (KFOR 4)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Judge dismisses false report charges against Pittsburgh PD officer Kaelen O’Connor, who falsified reports to cover up partner’s road rage (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  • Our episode on O’Connor’s arrest (Fsck #59)
• TEXAS: Dallas PD killer cop Amanda Guyger charged with manslaughter for extrajudicial summary execution of Botham Jean – in Jean’s own apartment! (Dallas Morning News)
  • A good compilation of subsequent developments (Vox)
• TEXAS: Another U.S. Border Patrol officer in Webb County, Juan David Ortiz, arrested for murdering women (Washington Post)
  • Border Patrol agent Ronald Burgos-Aviles, in the same sector, killed a woman and her 1-year-old child (Fsck #59)
• WISCONSIN: Lawsuit settlements for abuse in Wisconsin’s teen prisons cost taxpayers $20,600,000.00+ (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

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The episode title says it all: we’re still here! Join us in this mini-pod as T. Greg explains where the podcast has been for the past month, and provides updates on what’s coming next!

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Show Notes:

• The origin story of the new podcast mascot: Chance (Twitter)

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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)
  • People knew about Rep. Collins scumminess over a year ago (Daily Beast)
• 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)
  • Our episode on NYPD officers Richard Hall and Eddie Martins raping the teen after arresting her for marijuana (Fsck #31)
  • And Hall claiming the rape was consensual (Fsck #33)
  • And the officers being indicted (Fsck #36)
  • And Hall shagging the prosecutor (Fsck #58)
• 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)

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It’s an abbreviated Fsck this week but we still cover quite a bit! In political news, the President admits his campaign colluded with Russians while Geraldo admits The Wall is a joke. Plus, a homeowner is summarily executed by police in Colorado, a Michigan officer is on video savagely beating a naked woman in a hospital, and North Carolina police engage in a high speed chase that kills a Sheriff’s deputy.

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Show Notes:

• The Papaya POTUS admits his campaign team colluded with the Russians (NY Times)
• Geraldo Rivera admits Trump’s border wall is psychological, needed for white paranoia (Business Insider)
• ARIZONA: CBP/ICE shelter worker Levian Pacheco indicted for sexually assaulting at least 8 immigrant teens (ProPublica)
  • Our episode on rampant sex abuse at these “shelters” (Fsck #77)
• CALIFORNIA: Oxnard PD police successfully arrest violent man without killing him (KCAL 9)
• CALIFORNIA: Sacramento County operates illegal license plate readers outside welfare offices (EFF)
  • Alameda County put them outside hospital emergency rooms (Fsck #39)
• COLORADO: Aurora PD summarily executes Army veteran Richard Black after he saved his grandson from home invader (Denver Post)
• COLORADO: El Paso County perv deputy Donald Fair created kiddie porn, pled guilty, no jail time (KCNC 4)
• FLORIDA: Miami DUIs plummet 65% due to Uber, Lyft (Miami Herald)
• LOUISIANA: Avoyelles Parish deputies on bodycam summarily executing 44-year-old Armando Frank (Acadiana Advocate)
  • Coroner confirms Frank died by manual strangulation from the police (Acadiana Advocate)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer on video beating unarmed 13-year-old black boy with mental disability, yelling “I’m about to send this kid to the f*cking hospital” (Essence)
• MICHIGAN: Unidentified Detroit PD officer on video savagely beating naked woman in hospital (WJBK 2)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Asheville taxpayers shell out $650,000.00 settlement in beating of Johnnie Rush (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  • Our episode on Rush’s beating by APD officer Chris Hickman (Fsck #54)
  • And the political fallout from the cover up (Fsck #55)
  • And the extended bodycam footage (Fsck #58)
  • And the new policy changes (Fsck #66)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Nazi Marine who beat protestors in Charlottesville booted from USMC (Jacksonville Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD high-speed chase ends in crash, death of off-duty Sheriff’s Office deputy (WRAL 5)
• NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrolman Michael Blake, charged with beating Kyron Hinton, on video beating other motorists (WRAL 5)
  • Our episode on Hinton’s beating (Fsck #66)
  • And police trying to cover it up (Fsck #71)
• OREGON: Portland PD on video attacking unarmed observers at Nazi “Patriot Prayer” rally (Twitter)
• TENNESSEE: ICE blinds unarmed 42-year-old Gonzalo Chavez for sport (The Tennessean)
• SWEDEN: Stockholm police summarily execute man with Down’s Syndrome, autism over toy gun (UK Argus)

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July is almost over! Join us this week as we talk about the impeachment of Rod Rosenstein, don’t-call-them-gangs in California, “hackers” in Idaho prisons, and a Maryland man shot for “wielding a comb.” Then, in our #Law140 segment, we talk about the law of prior restraints and CNN broadcasting the audio of Michael Cohen and the Papaya POTUS!

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Show Notes:

• Vote for Fsck ‘Em All in the 13th Annual Podcast Awards!
• Reminder: we’re now on Spotify!
• Republican Congresscritters file resolution to impeach Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein (Washington Post)
• 2nd Circuit: immigrants entitled to suppression hearing after after NY State Police, CBP exposed for lying (2nd Circuit COA)
• Study: Red-light cameras do not reduce traffic accidents or improve public safety (Case Western Reserve University)
  • Here’s the study (SSRN)
• Analysis: Amazon’s facial recognition technology for police produces loads of false positives, especially of minorities (BuzzFeed News)
• Analysis: Most investigations of non-white homicides end in no arrest (Washington Post)
  • Our episode with WaPo’s analysis of “free kill zones” (Fsck #69)
• TSA secretly running new surveillance program of innocent travelers who pose no security threat (Boston Globe)
• Hundreds of young children being molested at CBP/ICE youth detention centers (ProPublica)
• Police departments across the country waste your money on “lip sync challenge” videos (Patch Media)
• CALIFORNIA: LA County sheriff launches investigation into police gangs operating within his department (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: LAPD kills hostage during Trader Joes standoff (LA Times)
  • Similar to Texas deputies killing a 6-year-old to save him back in December (Fsck #46)
  • And the FBI killing hostage Ulises Valladares in January (NBC News)
  • And Independence MO police shooting Mike Becker for protecting his family from a gunman (Kansas City Star)
• CALIFORNIA: Santa Monica PD holds Hollywood star Ving Rhames at gun point for “breaking into” his own house (Washington Post)
• COLORADO: El Paso County jailers run secret “fight club,” win prizes for beating inmates (Colorado Springs Gazette)
• FLORIDA: Biscayne Park PD officer Guillermo Ravelo pleads guilty to framing innocent blacks for crimes they didn’t commit (Miami Herald)
  • Our episode on the initial indictments (Fsck #72)
  • And on the subsequent investigation (Fsck #76)
• FLORIDA: Miami PD officer Luis Arcia sued for beating unarmed black man over insult (Miami New Times)
• FLORIDA: North Miami Beach PD officer Ambar Pachaco fired, arrested after she “beat the sh*t out of” pregnant woman (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Palm Beach County PD tests 994 rape kits, find 140 matches, make 0 arrests (Palm Beach Post)
  • Similar results out of Minnesota last week (Fsck #76)
• FLORIDA: Tampa / Hillsborough County paramedics John “Mike” Morris, Justin Sweeney, Andrew Martin, Cortney Barton suspended after refusing to transport or examine black mom suffering from stroke (Tampa Bay Times)
• GEORGIA: Athens-Clarke County PD on video pinning unarmed 9-year-old boy to the ground (WSB 2)
• KENTUCKY: Louisville PD officer Brian Smith disciplined for racist social media posts (WUKY)
• IDAHO: Hundreds of inmates “hack” JPay tablets, get over $200K in credits (Idaho Statesman)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD fighting consent decree requirement to log when they point their weapons at people (CapitolFax.com)
• INDIANA: Long-read on pervasive misconduct in the prosecutions of Keith Cooper and Christopher Parish, released after years in prison for robbery they didn’t commit (ProPublica)
• LOUISIANA: New Orleans PD officers Spencer Sutton and John Galman fired, arrested for beating Latino military veteran in local bar (New Orleans Advocate)
• LOUISIANA: Shreveport PD offcer Joshua Mayfield arrested for battery (KSLA 12)
• MARYLAND: Aberdeen PD officer James Evans repeatedly man wielding a… comb (Baltimore Sun)
• MISSISSIPPI: Meridian PD officer Daniel Starks fired after being caught on video tasing handcuffed black man in the neck for sport (Reason)
• MISSISSIPPI: No charges against Southaven police who shot Ismael Lopez in the back of the head while serving warrant on wrong person (WMC 5)
  • Our episode on Lopez’s extrajudicial summary execution without due process (Fsck #19)
• MISSISSIPPI: Former Starkville PD officer Gary Wheeler indicted for 2017 shooting of black teen during traffic stop (MS Clarion Ledger)
• NEW JERSEY: Millville PD officer Samuel Brozina indicted for child porn (Vineland Daily Journal)
• NORTH CAROLINA: City of Cary will start monitoring your poop for opioids (WRAL 5)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Federal judge denies Harnett County Sheriff’s Office motion to dismiss lawsuit over 2015 shooting death of John Livingston (Fayetteville Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrol officer James Stahl summarily executes 22-year-old black man for avoiding DWI checkpoint (WRAL 5)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Southport PD chief Gary Lee Smith, Lt Michael Simmons arrested for public corruption and department disbanded (News & Observer)
• OHIO: Columbus PD officer Dean Worthington indicted for child porn (Columbus Dispatch)
• OHIO: Trump supporter Patricia Edelen arrested after spraypainting “Hail Trump,” “N*ggers Keep Out” on black neighbor’s home (WTVG 13)
• OREGON: Multnomah County deputy Dwight Richey indicted for sexual assault (KGW 8)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney stands up to ICE, refuses to renew data-sharing agreement (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Former Walterboro PD officer Stephanie Grant Bridge pleads guilty to stealing $20,000.00+ from evidence locker (The State)
• TENNESSEE: Former UT football player Geraldo Orta threatened a witness in a rape case, rewarded with job in Knoxville PD (The Tennesseean)
• TEXAS: Return of “zero tolerance” school discipline policies are targeting preteens, students with mental disabilities (Texas Tribune)
• TEXAS: Forensic Science Commission concludes – accurately – that “blood-spatter analysis” is bogus non-science (ProPublica)
• WEST VIRGINIA: Testimony underway in impeachment proceedings against Justice Allen Loughry (WV MetroNews)
  • Our episode on Justice Loughry’s suspension (Fsck #69)
  • And on the indictment against him (Fsck #71)
• CNN broadcasts Michael Cohen recording of the Papaya POTUS (CNN)
• Our #Law140 on attorney-client privilege (Fsck #42)
• Patterson v Colorado (Justia)
• Near v Minnesota (Oyez)
• Bantam Books v Sullivan (Oyez)
• New York Times v US (Oyez)
• Great prior restraint case law in EFF’s MuckRock brief (EFF)

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It’s a jam-packed Fsck! Join us this week as we talk about Republicans becoming a threat to national security, the Department of Justice admitting ICE has accidentally detained American citizens as young as 5 years old, Pennsylvania police crushing a man to death with a bulldozer over weed, and a Texas deputy who is still on the job — even after being fired 4 times and suspended 11 more times!

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Show Notes:

• Vote for Fsck ‘Em All in the 13th Annual Podcast Awards!
• We’re now on Spotify!
• Episode 75 on Administrative Law Judges is now on Patreon!
• Donald Trump and his apologists are a threat to national security (New Yorker)
  • The Maria Butina indictment (NY Times)
  • The Carter Page FISA application (NY Times)
• Sixth Circuit: qualified immunity for all officers who summarily executed mentally ill veteran (6th Circ COA)
• Study: black, Latino men far more likely to be killed by police than whites (American Journal of Public Health)
  • Thread on some of the study results (Twitter)
• Study: racism – not “economic anxiety” – explains immigration views (Mother Jones)
  • Here’s the paper (GitHub)
• Study: teachers interpret identical behavior differently based on the race of the student (News & Observer)
  • Here’s the paper (ScienceDirect)
• Study: unemployment rate among formerly incarcerated people is 5x higher than the general population (Prison Policy Initiative)
• Department of Justice admits to court that CBP/ICE has accidentally detained a 5-year-old citizen who is the child of another citizen (The Hill)
  • Remember: CBP/ICE routinely arrests Americans (Fsck #61)
  • And even deports citizen-veterans (Fsck #25)
• 1-year-old child brought into immigration court to defend himself at hearing (HuffPost)
• ALABAMA: Long-read on Dothan prosecutors seeking the death penalty for Pastor Kenneth Glasgow (NY Times)
• ALABAMA: Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin had sex with underage girls (Birmingham News)
  • Our episode on Entrekin stealing money meant for inmate meals at the jail (Fsck #53)
  • And him arresting the informant who turned him in (Fsck #54)
• ARIZONA: Republican state legislator Paul Mosley pulled over for speeding 42mph over the speed limit, claims legislative immunity (KLPZ 1380am)
• ARIZONA: Republican candidate for state legislature Bobby Wilson brags about killing his mother and sister at forum (Arizona Republic)
• ARKANSAS: In-depth look at stunning and pervasive misconduct in the arrest of Adam Finley by Walnut Ridge PD officer Matthew Mercado (Washington Post)
• CALIFORNIA: Alameda County leads state in brutality settlements, costing taxpayers $15,500,000.00+ in just 3 years (East Bay Express)
• CALIFORNIA: Riverside County adopts pre-crime methodology to target students for arrest (The Appeal)
• CALIFORNIA: San Bernardino County prosecutor Michael Selyem suspended for racist tirade against black Congresswoman (San Bernardino Sun)
• CALIFORNIA: San Francisco Bay area homicides drop to historic lows (San Francisco Chronicle)
• COLORADO: Aurora PD officer Chuck DeShazer, fired for racial slur, now back on the job (KUSA 9)
• COLORADO: Dancing FBI agent Chase Bishop – who shot someone while picking up gun he dropped in club – gets his gun back (Denver Post)
  • Our episode with the video of Bishop’s stupidity (Fsck #68)
• DC: DC Metro cop Sean Lojacono on video doing a sidewalk anal probe of unarmed black man for sport (NY Post)
• FLORIDA: Biscayne Park PD practice of targeting random innocent blacks to frame for crimes even worse than thought (Miami Herald)
  • Our episode on Chief Atesiano and others being federally indicted (Fsck #72)
• FLORIDA: Lake Butler corrections officer David Moran stripped of pension after Klan membership, plot to kill black inmate (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
  • Our episode on Moran and his co-conspirators being convicted of conspiracy to murder (Fsck #23)
• FLORIDA: Republican Congressional candidate Javier Manjarres arrested for attempted murder (Florida Politics Blog)
• FLORIDA: Six different Melbourne PD officers disciplined after falsifying timesheets (WKMG 6)
• FLORIDA: Miami-Dade police ordered to return $20K in glitter-covered cash seized from stripper (Newsweek)
• FLORIDA: Miami PD officer lets girlfriend impersonate a cop, arrest man, extort him for money (Miami New Times)
• FLORIDA: High-speed chase in Volusia County ends in selfies with white arrestees (ABC News)
  • Thread on the whitest damn things ever (Twitter)
• GEORGIA: Coweta County judge Seay VanPatten-Poulakos sentences homeless black man to a year in prison for “a couple Cheerios’ worth” of weed, changes her mind after bad publicity (WXIA 11)
• GEORGIA: Exposé on Doravilla PD and others using faulty roadside drug tests to arrest innocent people (WAGA 5)
• GEORGIA: Feds want reimbursement of money spent on Gwinnett County’s Dodge Charger Hellcat (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  • Our episode on this purchase (Fsck #74)
• GEORGIA: Roswell officers Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson on paid leave after using “coin toss” app to decide whether to arrest speeding driver (WXIA 11)
• GEORGIA: Warner Robins PD officers pray with 9-year-old black boy going in for brain surgery (CBS News)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer on video harassing unarmed black men, boasting “I kill motherf*ckers” (The Root)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD killer cop Robert Rialmo involved in yet another assault (Chicago Tribune)
  • Our episode on Rialmo killing both Quintonio LaGrier and Bettie Jones (Fsck #39)
  • And the follow-up litigation (Fsck #42)
  • And Rialmo assaulting two people at a bar (Fsck #66)
• KENTUCKY: Deep dive on confessed pedophile judge and Trump activist Tim Nolan (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • Our episode with Nolan’s guilty plea (Fsck #51)
• LOUISIANA: New Orleans FBI accused of surveilling defense attorney representing dirty DEA agent Chad Scott (New Orleans Advocate)
• MINNESOTA: Carver County deputies summarily execute suicidal 16-year-old boy Archer Amorosi (Minneapolis StarTribune)
• MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD on video arresting four unarmed black teens after 911 caller falsely claims they have guns (BuzzFeed News)
• MINNESOTA: Long-read on victims reporting rape and sexual assault but Minneapolis PD taking no action (Minneapolis StarTribune)
• MONTANA: Missoula County deputies rescue 5-month-old baby abandoned in the mountains (KECI 13)
• NEW JERSEY: Atlantic City officers save 10-year-old PA boy from drowning (NJ Advance Media)
• NEW JERSEY: Wharton PD officer Joseph Lobue suspended after being arrested for stalking (Daily Record)
• NEW YORK: NYFD firefighter Joseph Cassano back at work after 30-day suspension for sh*tting on neighbor’s furniture (NY Daily News)
  • Our episode on Cassano getting promoted for racist social media posts (Fsck #41)
• NEW YORK: Long-read on NYPD supervisor Jason Margolis getting away with sexual harassment of his subordinates (BuzzFeed News)
• NEW YORK: NYC City Council ends extortionate rates for phone calls from Rikers (NY Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Lanesboro prison unit manager Jeffery Wall kept bloody shanks in his office to provide inmates for stabbings (Charlotte Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Racist Republican candidate for NC Senate District 22 – my district – spent his career as a Durham Sheriff’s deputy (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Off-duty Iredell County deputy on motorcycle killed by on-duty deputy in patrol car (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Republican Congressional candidate Steve Von Loor in court for domestic violence (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Prison staff under Republican Governor Pat McCrory were busy selling drugs to inmates, taxpayers now owe $190,000.00 (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Police officer, corrections officer, and ten firefighters charged with deliberately setting homes on fire (News & Observer)
• PENNSYLVANIA: No discipline for Lancaster PD officers Philip Bernot and Shannon Mazzante, caught on camera tasing unarmed black man for sport (The Hill)
  • Our episode on the tasing of Sean Williams (Fsck #72)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Minersville PD officer Ashley Michel indicted for welfare fraud (KDKA 2)
• PENNSYLVANIA: State Trooper in Reading has man crushed to death by bulldozer for 10 marijuana plants (Reading Eagle)
• TEXAS: El Paso PD officer pulls gun on unarmed children, arrests one for recording scene (El Paso Times)
• TEXAS: Black girl brutalized by McKinney PD officer Eric Casebolt at pool party gets $184,850.00 settlement for abuse-of-force lawsuit (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• TEXAS: San Antonio PD Lieutenant Lee Rakun, fired 4 times and suspended 11 more times, is in trouble again (San Antonio Express-News)
• VIRGINIA: Charlottesville PD successfully arrest black gunman without killing him (Daily Progress)
• WISCONSIN: Milwaukee taxpayers shell out $3,400,000.00+ to settle stop-and-frisk lawsuit (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

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We had so much criminal justice f*ckery we had to split it into two episodes! Join us this week for the latest Mueller indictments in the Russia probe, the NSA still illegally collecting your phone calls, a Florida police officer terrorizing a local restaurant over seasoning, and a truly impressive fraud scheme by a cop in New Jersey.

More f*ckery will drop Thursday, and a regular #Law140 will return next week! Until then, make sure to check out our page on Patreon for exclusive patron-only content!

Join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Trey Benfield, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, Charlotte Mobley, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Matthew Boyer, Brian Gilbreath, Tyler Kiley, Byron Mobley, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• Vote for Fsck ‘Em All in the 13th Annual Podcast Awards!
• Mueller files the latest batch of indictments, and lots of Republicans are in it (US DOJ)
• Investigation into women inmates being groomed for prostitution using public info (UK Guardian)
• The NSA is still illegally compiling your call information (Daily Beast)
• CALIFORNIA: ICE officers whine to the media about how unpopular they are now (LA Times)
• DC: All J20 prosecutions dismissed (Washington Post)
  • Our episode with the Government admitting they lacked evidence (Fsck #39)
  • …and the rioting charges getting dismissed (Fsck #42)
  • …and the jury acquitting on other charges (Fsck #46)
  • …and the court dismissing more charges over Brady violations (Fsck #68)
  • …and the jury acquitting 3 more (Fsck #69)
• FLORIDA: Fort Myers PD officer Tim McCormick claimed Burger King served him dirt; it was actually seasoning (WUSA 9)
  • Police have also terrorized restaurants in Missouri… (Fsck #28)
  • …and in New Jersey (Fsck #22)
  • …and in New Jersey again (Fsck #58)
  • …and in North Carolina (Fsck #2)
• FLORIDA: Miami-Dade police story in savage beating of Ephraim Casado “directly contradicted” by video (Miami New Times)
• FLORIDA: North Bay Village police on surveillance video throwing a party as citizens called for help during Hurricane Irma (Miami Herald)
• GEORGIA: Glynn County PD killer cop Robert C. Sasser, who killed Caroline Small in 2010, kills ex-wife, her boyfriend, and himself (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• GEORGIA: Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department uses forfeiture money to buy $70K sports car for Sheriff (WAGA 5)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago taxpayers shell out $2,500,000.00+ to 3-year-old girl traumatized by CPD (WGN 9)
• LOUISIANA: Witness recants in 2002 homicide, claims he was coerced by Jefferson Parrish Sheriff’s Office to lie (New Orleans Advocate)
• MASSACHUSETTS: One Boston PD officer helps take care of a pet dog while family is in the hospital… (Boston Globe)
• MASSACHUSETTS: …while another Boston PD officer summarily executes a “vicious” pitbull, but provides no indications of viciousness (Boston Globe)
• NEW JERSEY: Paterson PD officer Robert McAusland pleads guilty to beating suicidal man in hospital, selling crack, heroin, weed (NJ Advance Media)
  • Our episode when this crooked cop was caught on video (Fsck #68)
• NEW JERSEY: West Deptford PD officer Thomas McWain indicted for falsifying arrest reports, destroying evidence (NJ Advance Media)
• NEW YORK: NYPD officer Tanvir Ahmed on video crashing into car in hit-and-run, punching victim who chases him (NY Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Judge rules that Durham PD detective Jesus Sandoval lied on search warrant in rape investigation (News & Observer)
• OHIO: 20-year-old man takes picture of his 17-year-old girlfriend, now federally indicted for creating kiddie porn (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Police union loses its sh*t over high school reading list (CBLDF)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Richland County deputy Kaleb Broome pleads guilty to defacing domestic violence victim’s poster, spelling “Niger” (WLTX 19)
• TENNESSEE: Federal judge blocks the state’s practice of suspending licenses of the indigent over traffic fines (Reason)
  • Our episode on the injunction issued in this case (Fsck #32)
  • And on the WaPo investigation of driver’s losing licenses over tickets (Fsck #36)
• WISCONSIN: State Supreme Court rules police can draw your blood without a warrant when you’re unconscious (WI Courts)
• VIRGINIA: Couple invents “Not Reaching” pouch to help reduce deaths during traffic stops (WWBT 12)
• CANADA: US CBP boarding Canadian fishing boats to ask about illegal immigrants (Toronto Star)