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Join us this week for a lot of cops caught on video doing stupid sh*t, police using stay-at-home orders to keep black folks in the house while whites roam free, a truly excellent long-read dissection of qualified immunity, and other stories that make you wonder wtf is going on in this country.
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Show Notes:
- Stanford study of 95,000,000+ traffic stops shows persistent racial disparities, “veil of darkness” everywhere (AAAS)
- Brutal analysis provides the data on how courts favor police in qualified immunity cases (Reuters)
- CALIFORNIA: LAPD officer caught on video beating the sh*t out of random black man for sport (KTLA 5)
- CALIFORNIA: LAPD officer Ismael Tamayo facing assault charges for trying to kill another LAPD officer during campaign trip (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: White cop caught on video brutalizing 14-year-old over cigarette possession (Slate)
- COLORADO: Denver PD beat the everlasting sh*t out of motorist for sport, on camera bragging “this is what happens when you elude police” (KRON 4)
- CONNECTICUT: Inmates who test positive for COVID-19 are sent to solitary confinement… with no toiletries, forbidden to bathe (The Appeal)
- GEORGIA: Cops protected by sovereign immunity after jailing woman for 94 days for cotton candy they thought was meth (WAGA 5)
- GEORGIA: Ahmaud Arbery, unarmed black jogger, summarily executed for sport on camera by retired DA investigator and his son (NY Times)
- INDIANA: Former Jasper County judge Robert Monfort facing criminal investigation, bar discipline for defrauding estates (Indiana Lawyer)
- KENTUCKY: Louisville Metro police summarily execute EMT, in botched drug raid on wrong house after actual suspect already arrested (WDRB 41)
- LOUISIANA: Garbage collectors protest lack of protective equipment, so New Orleans fires them and orders prisoners to fill in (WWL 4)
- MARYLAND: Keith Davis Jr. facing *fifth* murder re-trial (Baltimore Sun)
- MASSACHUSETTS: Five suspended officers, currently facing criminal charges for a cover-up, rehired by Springfield police chief (MassLive.com)
- MINNESOTA: Judge seals juror information, normally public, after trial of convicted killer cop Mohamed Noor (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- Our episode on the murder charges (Fsck #57)
- …and the murder (Fsck #16)
- …and the police report (Fsck #19)
- …and the prosecutor prepping to lose the case (Fsck #46)
- MINNESOTA: Rock County deputies conduct extended roadside rape, in below-freezing temperatures, on video, of passenger in car pulled over for having an air freshener (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- NEW JERSEY: White Jersey City police beat the sh*t out of black man for “not social distancing” (UK Daily Mail)
- NEW YORK: 98% of NYPD arrests for social distancing violations are non-white (NY Times)
- NORTH CAROLINA: New Hanover County deputy J.T. Kita fired, facing criminal charges for leading all-white lynch mob to black teen’s house (Durham Herald-Sun)
- NORTH CAROLINA: UNC System Board of Governors Chairman Randy Ramsey caught lying about his credentials (Charlotte Ledger)
- OHIO: Whites most frequently defying stay-at-home orders, but blacks 4x more likely to be arrested for violating them (ProPublica)
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