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The Copper Kaiser spent the week feuding with sports figures instead of governing the country, Oklahoma police kill a deaf man for being deaf while another Oklahoma officer is arrested for helping a carjacking ring, and in Oregon all Hispanic people look alike (to ICE anyway). Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about Government employees retaliating against citizens for First Amendment-protected expression.
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Show Notes:
- The Copper Kaiser dislikes dissent (The Guardian)
- Jared has an email problem (Politico)
- The National Museum of African American History and Culture turns 1 (NPR)
- Qualified immunity for coach forcing kid to play football with concussion (Third Circuit COA)
- No qualified immunity for Sheriff Clarke’s jail (Seventh Circuit COA)
- No qualified immunity for killer deputy Erik Gelhaus (Ninth Circuit COA)
- Excellent piece on America’s long history of opposing protests (Washington Post)
- Police are used to exterminate the disabled (The Nation)
- Customs & Border Patrol runs illegal security teams (The Hill)
- FBI lets informants run amok (Gizmodo)
- ALABAMA: 10 years in prison, still no trial for Kharon Davis (NY Times)
- ALASKA: Murder conviction thrown out due to DA’s misrepresentations (US News)
- CALIFORNIA: Huntington Beach police kill again (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: California Highway Patrol kills again (ABC 7)
- CALIFORNIA: SFPD Officer arrested for filing a false report (San Francisco Chronicle)
- FLORIDA: FEMA tweets a phone sex hotline (Miami Herald)
- ILLINOIS: Urbana taxpayers owe $35,000 for police arrest of Facebook flag burning (Chicago Tribune)
- KENTUCKY: Corrections officer fined for having sex with inmates (The Courier-Journal)
- LOUISIANA: Probation and an essay for homicide – when you’re white (The Times-Picayune)
- LOUISIANA: Bond for a triple homicide – when you’re white (The Advocate)
- MARYLAND: Lamar Johnson freed after 13 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (Baltimore Sun)
- MICHIGAN: Hazel Park cop investigated for embezzling $85,000 (Detroit Free-Press)
- MICHIGAN: Lawsuit filed in jail death of woman needing medical care (MLive.com)
- MICHIGAN: Lawsuit filed by man who spent 9 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (WXYZ)
- MISSISSIPPI: Middle school teacher Cammie Rone has thoughts on race (WVTM 13)
- MISSOURI: St Louis PD arrests a reporter for reporting (St Louis Post-Dispatch)
- They also arrested a police officer by accident (St Louis Post-Dispatch)
- MISSOURI: Police union terrorizes pizza shop (HuffPost)
- This happened in New Jersey too (Fsck #22)
- And in North Carolina (Fsck #2)
- NEW YORK: NYPD tases a man to death (NY Post)
- NEW YORK: How the justice system killed Kalief Browder (FEE)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Murder charges dropped against Shawn Butler (Durham Herald-Sun)
- OKLAHOMA: OKC police execute Magdiel Sanchez, a deaf man, for heinous crime of being deaf (NBC News)
- OKLAHOMA: OKC officer indicted for helping carjacking ring (KOCO 5)
- OREGON: To ICE, all Hispanic people look alike (The Oregonian)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh PD uses man as punching bag (TribLive)
- SOUTH CAROLINA: Newspaper prints letter on “the virtues of slavery” (The State)
- SOUTH DAKOTA: Republican legislator supports vehicular homicide (USA Today)
- TEXAS: Bodycam law lets police review all video before giving statements (Texas Observer)
- TEXAS: Prisons stop using solitary confinement for punishment (Houston Chronicle)
- UTAH: Jeff Payne had a record of sexual harassment before arresting nurse (TalkingPointsMemo)
- WASHINGTON: Whidbey police kill a naval officer (South Whidbey Record)
- WASHINGTON: 17yo convicted of child pornography for taking a dick pic of himself (Reason)
- Pickering v Board of Education (Oyez)
- Connick v Myers (Oyez)
- Garcetti v Ceballos (Oyez)
- Lane v Franks (Oyez)
- Bd of County Comm’rs v Umbehr (Oyez)
- Perry v Sindermann (Oyez)
- Crawford-El v Britton (Oyez)
- Hartman v Moore (Oyez)