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We’re snowed in here in Durham! Join us as we talk about the flurry of sentencing memos in the Trump-Russia investigation, an 8th Circuit decision to incentivize police dishonesty, and a “Good Guy with a Gun” getting shot by police in Alabama and California and Louisiana!
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Show Notes:
- Lots of sentencing memos out this week!
- Michael Cohen @ Russia Investigation (DocumentCloud)
- Michael Cohen @ New York Investigation (DocumentCloud)
- Michael Flynn (DocumentCloud)
- Michael Flynn Supplement (DocumentCloud)
- Paul Manafort (DocumentCloud)
- Russians were in contact with at least 14 Trump campaign operatives (Washington Post)
- James Comey testifies to Congress (Vox)
- Comey Hearing Transcript (House Judiciary)
- Gen. John Kelly, garbage pile in human form, is out as Chief of Staff (NY Times)
- Our episode where I forewarned you Kelly was a scumbag (Fsck #19)
- …and where he lied about a Gold Star widow and a Congresswoman (Fsck #33)
- …and where the Inspector General confirmed Kelly broke the law (Fsck #48)
- …and where Kelly publicly defended domestic abusers (Fsck #51)
- …and where Kelly argued making kids into orphans was cool (Fsck #64)
- Eighth Circuit: Officer lied at trial, but arrest was still legal (8th Circ COA)
- Study: nearly half the country has a family member in jail (Washington Post)
- The full incarceration report (FWD.us)
- Survey: contraband brought into jails via staff, not visitors (Prison Policy Initiative)
- ALABAMA: Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., summarily executed by Hoover PD at mall, was shot in back while trying to help panicked shoppers escape (NY Times)
- CALIFORNIA: Sacramento law enforcement charged protestors stabbed by Neo-Nazis at protest, let attackers go free (UK Guardian)
- CALIFORNIA: Sheriff’s deputy Ron Helus, trying to save patrons in Thousand Oaks massacre, killed by other police (KTLA 5)
- COLORADO: Westminster PD cop Curtis Arganbright gets 90 days in jail for raping handcuffed woman (KRDO 13)
- DC: Unidentified DOJ staffer sexually assaulted staff, allowed to resign (The Hill)
- FLORIDA: Miami taxpayers to shell out $1,300,000.00+ settlement to Taiwan Smart, jailed for 19 months for murders he didn’t commit (Miami New Times)
- FLORIDA: Monroe County Sheriff tried to deport American citizen to Jamaica over weed (Miami Herald)
- GEORGIA: Grantville PD officer James Christopher Holmes indicted for incest (Newnan Times-Herald)
- ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer on video repeatedly beating unarmed, restrained 16-year-old boy with handcuffs (Reason)
- INDIANA: Elkhart PD officers Cory Newland and Joshua Titus charged with assault for beating handcuffed man (South Bend Tribune)
- LOUISIANA: Federal agent shot twice by New Orleans PD while walking back to hotel (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
- MICHIGAN: Wayne County Sheriff’s Office seizes woman’s car over $10 of weed (Reason)
- NEW YORK: NYPD police on bystander video repeatedly trying to rip 1-year-old child from mother’s arms (Politico)
- NEW YORK: Sunray TX police chief Timothy Dean, officer Bron Bohlar indicted in murder of Sodus NY couple (WHAM 13)
- NORTH CAROLINA: NC State Highway Patrolman Jonathan K. Whitley decides to randomly share racist thoughts on Instagram (Durham Herald-Sun)
- OHIO: Former Cuyahoga County Judge Lance Mason indicted in murder of ex-wife (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- OREGON: Hillsboro PD officers raid classroom with rifles drawn, over verbal argument between students (Portland Tribune)
- OREGON: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler demanded reporters sign non-disclosure agreements and let police review articles on them (Willamette Week)
- OREGON: Massive $10,000,000.00+ settlement in jail dehydration death of Madaline Pitkin (The Oregonian)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Grand jury issues scathing report on police incompetence, interference by union (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- TEXAS: US Border Patrol officer Juan David Ortiz officially indicted on capital murder (Laredo Morning Times)
- Our earlier episode on Ortiz’s killing spree (Fsck #82)
- TEXAS: Records expunged for “San Antonio Four,” exonerated after spending 15+ years in prison for assault they didn’t commit (San Antonio Express-News)
- VIRGINIA: Prominent Neo-Nazi Alex McNabb works as a taxpayer-funded EMT in Patrick County (HuffPost)
- WEST VIRGINIA: State Trooper Derek Walker, already on leave for beating a teenager, subject of lawsuit and internal investigation over other incidents (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
- CANADA: Toronto PD officer Vittorio Dominelli resigns after eating pot brownie and radioing for medical help (CBC)
- FRANCE: Paris riot police force schoolkids onto their knees with hands on their heads for protesting (Sky News)
- UK: London police release video showing them running over moped thieves for sport (UK Independent)