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We’re back! Join us this week as we cover EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s assorted ways of wasting your tax money, along with full-length coverage of killer cops in New York, Oregon, and Texas, wrongly convicted black men being released in California and Michigan, and assorted other criminal justice f*ckery across the country!
Then, in a brief #Law140, we talk about “Restatements” and why they matter!
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Show Notes:
- Trumpkin EPA administrator Scott Pruitt stays in lobbyist’s DC house (Washington Post)
- 8th Circuit: No qualified immunity for repeatedly punching compliant man in face and testicles (8th Circ COA)
- 8th Circuit: But qualified immunity for breaking mentally ill man’s arm, beating him with nunchucks, tasing him repeatedly (8th Circ COA)
- Deep dive on the frequency of eviction proceedings, and their devastating impacts (NY Times)
- Long-read on the dangers of private prisons (NY Times)
- And on how the mentally ill are treated while incarcerated (UK Guardian)
- Exposé on how your federal government betrays informants, deports them to their deaths (ProPublica)
- ICE Director apologizes for posting anti-Muslim meme on social media (BuzzFeed)
- IRS agent James Clarke got a 21-year-old intern drunk, shoved his gun in her mouth, and raped her at gunpoint (Boston Globe)
- CALIFORNIA: Gardena PD officers Carlos Fernandez and Edward Arao federally indicted for illegal firearm sales (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: Sacramento County deputy caught on video running over woman trying to cross street during Stephon Clark protest (Sacramento Bee)
- CALIFORNIA: Jamal Trulove awarded $10,000,000.00+ after police framed him for murder (SFGate)
- GEORGIA: Molena police too frail to subdue 70-year-old man, shoot him to death instead (WXIA 11)
- IOWA: Supreme Court allows innocent people to challenge their guilty pleas in court (The Gazette)
- KENTUCKY: Louisville man repeatedly fires gun at police, resists arrest, still alive (WLKY 32)
- LOUISIANA: LA is one of only two states that allow criminal juries to convict without a unanimous vote; blacks disproportionately harmed (The Advocate)
- LOUISIANA: New bodycam footage confirms killer cop Blane Salamoni should have been prosecuted in execution of Alton Sterling (The Times-Picayune)
- MARYLAND: Silver Springs PD officer Jose Barahona arrested for stealing oatmeal, condoms from Wal-Mart (Washington Post)
- MICHIGAN: 71-year-old black man Richard Phillips exonerated after being framed for murder, serving 45+ years (MLive.com)
- MISSISSIPPI: 53% of gang members in the state are white, but 100% of gang prosecutions are black or Hispanic (Jackson Free Press)
- NEW JERSEY: Gloucester Township PD officer John Flinn charged for beating 13-year-old girl (WCAU 10)
- NEW JERSEY: Jersey City PD officers Rodney Clark and Courtney Solomon assaulted Domino’s manager over late pizza (Newsweek)
- This has happened in New Jersey before (Fsck #22)
- And in Missouri (Fsck #28)
- Police prefer terrorizing BBQ shops in North Carolina (Fsck #2)
- NEW YORK: NYPD summarily executes Saheed Vassell for holding a shower head (NY Times)
- NEW YORK: Corrections officer Alain Samba “accidentally” shoots, kills woman “while cleaning gun” (WPIX 11)
- NEW YORK: NYPD cop Richard Hall, who raped handcuffed teenage girl, is also f*cking the prosecutor! (NY Post)
- We first mentioned this story here (Fsck #31)
- Hall claimed the rape was “consensual” (Fsck #33)
- We covered the indictments here (Fsck #36)
- NEW YORK: Police arrest ill 15-year-old girl who had permission to leave school, detain her for 7 hours (NY Daily News)
- NEW YORK: Republican Congresscritter and Drug Warrior Dan Donovan exploits position to bail out son-in-law during drug bust (NY Post)
- NORTH CAROLINA: New Asheville PD footage shows Officer Chris Hickman’s beating of Johnnie Rush was as bad as claimed (Asheville Citizen-Times)
- The Asheville City Council has fired the City Manager (Asheville Citizen-Times)
- We first mentioned this story a few weeks ago (Fsck #54)
- And also covered some of the fallout (Fsck #55)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Report by Durham police chief confirms officers used to violate citizens’ rights in traffic stops (Durham Herald-Sun)
- OKLAHOMA: Norman PD shows proper process for addressing officer-involved shootings (NewsOK.com)
- OREGON: Newspaper places lien on public official’s house for court-ordered lawyer bill (Columbia Journalism Review)
- OREGON: Portland PD does Judge Dredd-style summary execution of man in homeless shelter (The Oregonian)
- TEXAS: Video footage released of indicted Fort Worth police officer Jon Romer punching hospital patient in the face (KXAS 5)
- TEXAS: Bodycam footage released of Pasadena PD officer defending himself from gun-wielding driver (KHOU 11)
- VIRGINIA: Deandre Harris has been acquitted of assaulting scumbag supremacist (and NC lawyer) Harold Crews (Washington Post)
- WASHINGTON: Attorney who shot at another attorney’s office busted for running meth lab (The Oregonian)
- AUSTRALIA: Victoria police caught on CCTV video savagely beating man during “mental health check” (The Age)
- The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
- The American Law Institute
- ALI’s List of Restatements
- Cornell Law Review article on §557 of the Restatement (First) of Contracts