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We’re back (again)! Join us this week for an unusually-good-news-filled episode, as dirty cops in Florida and New Jersey are sentenced to federal prison while several more have been indicted in California, Maryland, and Texas! Plus quite a bit more!
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Show Notes:
- Former FBI Director James Comey nominally fights House GOP subpoena (Washington Post)
- It looks like a compromise has been reached (Washington Post)
- North Carolina’s newest Congresscritter-elect, Republican pastor Mark Harris, engaged in voter fraud (Charlotte Observer)
- Analysis: police lose thousands of guns, many end up in hands of criminals (The Trace)
- Study: More police in schools are useless waste of taxpayer money (News & Observer)
- Here’s Dr. Anderson’s study (University of Vermont)
- ALABAMA: Long read on the Etowah ICE detention center where guards sell contraband to inmates and commit other crimes (UK Guardian)
- CALIFORNIA: Chula Vista PD officers spend taxpayer time working on private fundraiser (Voice of San Diego)
- CALIFORNIA: Concord PD spent $$34,000.00+ of taxpayer money on idiotic lip sync video (East County Today)
- CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD assistant chief Jorge Villegas suddenly retires amid investigation for “improper sexual relationships” (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles County sex crimes investigator Neil David Kimball charged with tying up, raping 14-year-old girl (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: Trinity County Sheriff Bruce Haney leaves his job, moves to another state, still gets paid (Sacramento Bee)
- FLORIDA: Former Biscayne Park PD chief Raimundo Atesiano sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for framing innocent black men of crimes (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 from officers (Fsck #77)
- And the framing of Clarens Desrouleaux (Fsck #79)
- And Atesiano’s guilty plea (Fsck #82)
- FLORIDA: Miami PD officer Roberto Destephan records himself ranting about Jewish Scripture, throwing Torah in trash (WTVJ 6)
- GEORGIA: Three lawsuits filed against the Brooklet Police Department for numerous constitutional violations (AllOnGeorgia)
- GEORGIA: 87 inmates file lawsuits over Gwinnett County Jail beatings (WAGA 5)
- MARYLAND: Prince George’s County PD officer Ryan Macklin arrested for raping undocumented motorist after traffic stop (WRC 4)
- MISSISSIPPI: Man wearing racist shirt at Olive Branch poll site is former Memphis PD cop Clayton Hickey, who resigned after being caught with a minor in his patrol car (WGHP 8)
- MISSOURI: Four St. Louis PD Metro officers federally indicted for brutality (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- NEW JERSEY: NJ Advance Media develops comprehensive database of police use-of-force data (NJ.com)
- NEW JERSEY: Former Newark PD officer Domenico Lillo sentenced to 3.5 years in federal prison for beating of Brandon Walsh (NJ.com)
- NEW YORK: NYPD officer Raymond Williams used colleague’s bodycam to record his genitals (NY Daily News)
- NEW YORK: Witness testifies in federal corruption trial to bribing high-ranking NYPD officers with prostitutes (NY Daily News)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Newton Grove PD chief Everett “Frankie” Harrell charged with domestic violence for beating his wife (News & Observer)
- NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrolman Brian Maynard delivers baby on side of highway (WTVD 11)
- TEXAS: Dallas PD killer cop Amber Guyger indicted for murder in extrajudicial summary execution of Botham Jean in his own apartment (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
- Our episode on Jean’s execution (Fsck #82)
- TEXAS: Parker County deputy Jarrett Turner shot himself in what police chief called an “ambush” (KDFW 4)
- WASHINGTON: Seattle PD officer Adley Shepherd, fired for savagely beating a handcuffed drunk woman, is reinstated with back pay (Seattle Times)
- WISCONSIN: New bodycam footage released showing Milwaukee PD shot unarmed and compliant black man Jerry Smith Jr. for sport (Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal)
- FRANCE: Paris police beat the sh*t out of Yellow Vest protestor (Twitter)