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An innocent man exonerated in Louisiana. Two innocent men exonerated in Pennsylvania. An innocent man exonerated in Wisconsin. Plus literal-dozens of other stories of criminal justice f*ckery.
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Show Notes:
- Fifth Circuit: Qualified immunity for all doctors, nurses in CBP-coordinated roadside rape (5th Circ COA)
- SDNY: Federal judge rules Papaya POTUS can’t block people on Twitter (NY Times)
- Federal prison director quits over “turf war” between Attorney General Beauregard, Jared Kushner (NY Times)
- Your federal government snatches hundreds of children from their parents at border crossings… (NY Times)
- …then “loses” 1,475 of them… (NY Times)
- …and now wants permission to destroy its records (ACLU)
- FBI triple-counts number of mobile phones that law enforcement can’t unlock (The Verge)
- ARIZONA: Bodycam footage released of Mesa PD tackling 84-year-old woman to the ground for sport (Arizona Republic)
- CALIFORNIA: Oakland “Kale Not Jail” urban farming nonprofit helps former prisoners re-enter society (NY TImes)
- CALIFORNIA: Black journalist records neo-Nazi rally, gets stabbed for it; police accuse him of violating Nazis’ rights (UK Guardian)
- CALIFORNIA: San Diego County deputy Timothy Wilson Jr. arrested for groping 14-year-old, using work computer 44 times to check investigation (KNBC 4)
- CALIFORNIA: San Francisco police union pushes ballot initiative to let police tase unarmed civilians (Salon)
- FLORIDA: Miami judge Stephen Millan facing suspension for using racial slur toward black defendant (NY Post)
- FLORIDA: Orlando PD using Amazon’s real-time facial recognition technology in policing (NPR)
- GEORGIA: DeKalb County killer cop Robert Olsen claims naked man he killed had “superhuman strength” and was “impervious to pain” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- GEORGIA: Doraville gloats about using police to balance town budget, gets sued (Reason)
- GEORGIA: Video shows Dunwoody EMT beating restrained 17-year-old black boy (WSB 2)
- GEORGIA: Several Lawrenceville teens remain jailed without trial for 2+ years in case with no prosecuting witness (WSB 2)
- GEORGIA: Surveillance video shows Polk County deputy Harry Battle repeatedly tasing restrained inmate (WAGA 5)
- ILLINOIS: State Department of Corrections routinely keeps disabled inmates locked up past their release dates (WBEZ)
- ILLINOIS: Chicago PD cop William Whitley pleads guilty to federal charges of sex-trafficking children (Kansas City Star)
- ILLINOIS: Chicago PD killer cop Robert Rialmo charged with assaulting 2 people at a bar (Chicago Times)
- KANSAS: Winfield PD Officer Sean Skov on video pulling over black man for “vegetation” on car windshield (Wichita Eagle)
- LOUISIANA: 36-year-old black man Corey Williams released after serving over 20 years for murder he didn’t commit (Washington Post)
- MARYLAND: Brentwood PD officer Ilia Cole charged with assaulting Hispanic man over parking ticket (Washington Post)
- MASSACHUSETTS: Boston PD arrests homeless black man Emory Ellis for buying food with “counterfeit” $10 bill that was real (Mother Jones)
- MICHIGAN: Detroit PD officers Timothy Leach and Frederick Person charged with felony assault, lying to investigators (WJBK 2)
- MICHIGAN: Video released in Taylor PD beating of Cody Meredith for not using turn signal outside his own home (WDIV 4)
- MISSISSIPPI: 2 unnamed Laurel PD police officers fired for brutalizing unarmed black man James Barnett for sport (ABC News)
- MONTANA: Unnamed CBP agent detains two Americans for heinous crime of speaking Spanish (Washington Post)
- NEW JERSEY: Washington Township PD officer Jim Vernon performs emergency C-section on dying deer, saves fawn (BBC News)
- NEW JERSEY: Unnamed Wildwood police officer beats, chokes 20-year-old white girl for heinous crime of underage drinking (NJ Advance Media)
- NEW YORK: NYPD officers on security camera video deliberately running over bicyclist (Bicycling Magazine)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Asheville City Council votes to require police to use signed forms when claiming consent to search (Asheville Citizen Times)
- The police union is now threatening to sue to block the changes (Asheville Citizen Times)
- The move happened after APD covered up the beating of Johnnie Rush (Fsck #58)
- NORTH CAROLINA: In-depth profile on Jesse McCoy and preventing evictions in Durham (Politico)
- NORTH CAROLINA: State trooper Samuel Bullard crashes, dies in needless high-speed chase from checkpoint (Winston-Salem Journal)
- From our deadly-police-chase archives:
- Arizona (Fsck #50)
- California (Fsck #59)
- 71-year-old in Florida (Fsck #11)
- 12-year-old in Louisiana (Fsck #7)
- Michigan (Fsck #54)
- 9-year-old in Missouri (Fsck #16)
- 5 different people in North Carolina (Fsck #31)
- From our deadly-police-chase archives:
- NORTH CAROLINA: Judge orders video footage released in assault trial of Wake County deputy Cameron Broadwell, state troopers Michael Blake & Tabithia Davis (News & Observer)
- OHIO: Bodycam footage released of unnamed Canton PD officer siccing police dog on driver for refusing to answer questions (WKYC 3)
- OHIO: Hamilton County corrections officer Joshua Yeager arrested for kiddie porn (WCPO 9)
- OHIO: Hamilton County corrections officer Jason Mize federally indicted for shoving 61-year-old inmate head-first into concrete wall (WCPO 9)
- OREGON: Judge orders 15-year-old to pay $36,000,000.00+ in restitution for fire (Willamette Week)
- OREGON: North Bend school cop Jason Griggs fired for harassing LGBT students (Willamette Week)
- PENNSYLVANIA: 28-year-old Dontia Patterson released after spending 11 years for murder he didn’t commit (NY Times)
- PENNSYLVANIA: DNA evidence prompts judge to vacate conviction of John Kunco, who spent 27 years in prison for rape he didn’t commit (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- SOUTH CAROLINA: Myrtle Beach police routinely raided homes without announcing themselves (My Horry News)
- TENNESSEE: Matthew Charles, reformed drug offender whose early release was overturned by an appellate court, is back in prison (Nashville Public Radio)
- TENNESSEE: Nashville judge Casey Moreland pleads guilty to federal charges of witness tampering, obstruction (Nashville Tennessean)
- Our episode on Moreland’s indictment (Fsck #57)
- TEXAS: Houston PD officer tells black woman to raise her hands, “pretend we’re going to shoot you” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
- TEXAS: Customs & Border Patrol summarily executes Guatemalan woman at border, changes story about what happened (CNN)
- VIRGINIA: Chesterfield PD police tase, arrest 19-year-old Elkanah Odembo over broken brake light… in his own driveway (WTVR 6)
- WISCONSIN: Bodycam footage released in tasing, arrest of Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Police brutalize NFL players too (Fsck #61)
- WISCONSIN: Richard Beranek exonerated after spending 27 years in prison for rape he didn’t commit (Wisconsin Watch)