Government by Clown Show (Episode 14)

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From our new national anthem to partnering with Russia on cybersecurity at the G19+1 Summit, the political news this week continues to be grim. We also cover the Third Circuit affirming the constitutional right to record police, go through a week’s worth of criminal justice f*ckery (including the extrajudicial summary execution of Dejuan Guillory), and for our #Law140 segment we look into that car accident involving Venus Williams and what happens when you’re defamed by the Government.

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Show Notes:

• Our new national anthem is creepy as hell (Twitter)
• The Director of the Office of Government Ethics bails (Twitter)
• Chris Uhlmann skewers the Cheeto-in-Chief (Twitter)
• The Moscow Muppet wants a cyber task force with Russia (Twitter)
• Don Jr. met with the Russians for the campaign (NY Times)
• Third Circuit: Recording police in PA is now confirmed to be legal (ACLU of PA)
  • Fields v Philadelphia (3rd Circuit COA)
• Fourth Circuit: NC magistrates can refuse to marry LGBT folks (News & Observer)
  • Ansley v Warren (4th Circuit COA)
• You’re 5x more likely to be killed by police than terrorists (Business Insider)
• Excellent study on municipalities and court costs (University of Chicago)
• COLORADO: Six people killed by police in five days (Denver Post)
• FLORIDA: A Florida judge invalidates an amendment to Florida’s Stand Your Ground law (Reason)
  • Judge Hirsch’s opinion (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Lantana police officer Christopher Decker resigns for sending porn to kids (WPTV 5)
• FLORIDA: Police repeatedly abuse their database of your info (News 4 Jax)
• FLORIDA: Jacksonville PD rely on facial recognition software to identify people (Florida Times-Union)
• FLORIDA: Police retract their blame of Venus Williams for a fatal car accident (NPR)
  • The statement from the police (Palm Beach Gardens PD)
• GEORGIA: Sheriff Joe Chapman covered up being charged in a bar fight (WSBTV)
• INDIANA: A police officer let his K-9 officer bake to death (Fox 59)
  • This just happened in Illinois too (Fsck #12)
• KENTUCKY: An inmate is locked in the courthouse overnight (WKYT)
• LOUISIANA: Michael Harriott on Dejuan Guillory (The Root)
• MICHIGAN: Excellent exposé on problem cops (Detroit Free Press)
• MISSOURI: Police Chief Eddie Bogue is being investigated after shooting his neighbor for sport (WGEM)
• NEW YORK: Police union smears a District Attorney for doing her job (NY Post)
• NORTH CAROLINA: A state report says Durham jailers lied about Uniece Fennell (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: CMPD cleared in the execution of Iaroslav Mosiiuk (Charlotte Observer)
• OHIO: More folks dumped from wheelchairs (HuffPost)
  • A similar tactic was used in DC (Fsck #12)
• OHIO: Toledo police dismiss 100+ fraudulent speeding tickets (NPR)
• OKLAHOMA: Thorough exposé on the failures of Oklahoma’s jail system (NewsOK)
• OKLAHOMA: 3rd mistrial of killer cop Shannon Kepler (NY Daily News)
• OREGON: Police tell Homeland Security a protest is a “riot” (Willamette Week)
• TENNESSEE: Tonya Jameson addresses the absurdity of the police response to her situation (Knoxville News Sentinel)
  • Our episode with this story (Fsck #11)
• TEXAS: Perjury charges dropped against officer Brian Encinia (NY Times)
• WEST VIRGINIA: Mother Jones is easily impressed by charts (Mother Jones)
  • Judge Goodwin’s opinion (US District Court for SDWV)
• Paul v Davis (Oyez)
• Siegert v Gilley (Oyez)
• Eric Mitnick’s law review article on Stigma-Plus defamation (UC Davis School of Law)