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It’s our first episode of Season 2! Join us this week as we talk about police in Ohio and Florida using people’s heads as soccer balls, a Kentucky officer who re-raped a woman raped by a different Kentucky officer (seriously), and some good news out of Texas involving a pit bull!

Then, in our #Law140 section, we answer a question from #Law140 Lover Matthew Boyer: why are mandatory minimum sentences a thing?

Join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Trey Benfield, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, and Eric Robinson) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Matthew Boyer, Tyler Kiley, Byron Mobley, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, David Ross, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• Our work on Fsck #60 got a shout-out from WUNC! (WUNC)
  • You can listen to that episode here (Fsck #60)
• Analysis: America more integrated overall, but entrenched segregation persists (Washington Post)
• Analysis: Police killings of unarmed people are down, for now (Washington Post)
• Study: Data confirms police engage in retaliatory violence against minorities when criticized on social media (PLOS One)
  • Our episode covering similar results of retaliatory violence after protests (Fsck #46)
• CALIFORNIA: Jumpy Buena Park PD officer thinks man stole pack of Mentos he bought, pulls gun on him (Orange County Register)
• CALIFORNIA: Rialto PD surrounds black women for heinous crime of checking out of AirBnB (The Grio)
• CALIFORNIA: Reserve police officer “accidentally” fires gun in Salinas high school public safety class (USA Today)
• CALIFORNIA: A look at the inherent conflict of interest in San Joaquin County’s “Sheriff-Coroner” position (NPR)
  • Our episode on the resignation of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the former chief forensic pathologist (Fsck #41)
• FLORIDA: Miami PD officer Mario Figueroa takes running start, kicks handcuffed black man in the head for sport (Miami New Times)
• KANSAS: Racist Kansas City firefighter Terrence Jeremy Skeen, who went on “n*gger”-filled rant and spit at 3-year-old, has been reinstated (Kansas City Star)
  • Our episode with this story (Fsck #54)
• KANSAS: Bodycam footage shows Olathe police were warned not to bother arresting mentally-ill Ciara Howard, who they shot dead in her laundry room (Kansas City Star)
• KENTUCKY: Hillview police officer John Nissen indicted for re-raping rape victim (WLKY 32)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Chicopee PD officer Jacek Wanat charged with sex crimes (Springfield Republican)
  • Chicopee PD officer Corey Fournier was suspended on rape charges just a couple weeks ago (Fsck #55)
• MICHIGAN: NRA silent as black Detroit mother sentenced to 2 years in prison for protecting 2-year-old daughter from assailant (Reason)
• MICHIGAN: Unidentified Fowlerville PD officer “accidentally” fires his gun at wrestling match (Lansing State Journal)
• NEW JERSEY: Kenilworth school superintendent Thomas Tramaglini arrested for repeatedly sh*tting on high school football field (NJ Advance Media)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Judge suspends law license of Pitt County ADA Phillip Entzminger for lying to court (WNCT 9)
  • He’s also professor in ECU’s Criminal Justice Department! (ECU)
  • The elected DA – who refuses to fire Entzminger – is running for the General Assembly (Daily Reflector)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Scumbag Florida lawyer Patrick Megaro under investigation for his treatment of two mentally disabled clients (Marshall Project)
• NORTH CAROLINA: High school student suspended, charged for helping break up group beatdown of another student (WTVD 11)
• OHIO: Franklin Township police officer caught on video kicking handcuffed teen in the head for sport (WBNS 10)
• OREGON: State Supreme Court holds appellate hearing in high school auditorium so students can watch (KPTV 12)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Ex-Temple University cops Aaron Wright and Marquis Robinson convicted of beating black woman to death in “diabolical torture chamber” (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• PUERTO RICO: San Juan police brutalize protestors, execute warrantless arrests after protests (NBC News)
• TENNESSEE: Hamblen County man shoots at officers, threatens to kill them, arrested without injury (WATE 6)
• TENNESSEE: Emails confirm Knoxville PD, other police agencies coordinated with Nazis to arrest counterprotestors (The Root)
• TEXAS: “Vicious dog” turns out to be über-friendly, makes friends with Texarkana police (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• VIRGINIA: Unidentified Alexandria PD officer “accidentally” fires his gun in middle school (WJLA 7)
• WASHINGTON: King County deputy Richard Rowe, caught on video pulling gun on motorcyclist, given 5-day suspension (KGW 8)
  • Our episode when this story first happened (Fsck #25)
• WASHINGTON: Seattle officer who successfully stops ax-weilding man without violence faces discipline (KOMO 4)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Police using Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) despite astronomical error rate (Wired UK)
• Article III of the Constitution (LII)
• The Fifth Amendment (LII)
• The Eighth Amendment (LII)
• In re Winship (Oyez)
• McMillan v Pennsylvania (Oyez)
• Apprendi v New Jersey (Oyez)
• Harris v United States (Oyez)
• Solem v Helm (Oyez)
• Harmelin v Michigan (Oyez)
• Ewing v California (Oyez)
• Excellent overview of case law on Mandatory Minimums (US Sentencing Commission)

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It’s a no-frills-Fsck! With so much happening in just a week, T. Greg skips past the politics and postpones the #Law140 to talk about racial bias in algorithmic sentencing, the Golden State Killer finally being caught (he’s a cop), several bystander videos of police violence in Alabama, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, plus a truly astonishing arrest in Canada!

Our #Law140 on mandatory minimums will return next week! Until then remember to check out our Patreon page for exclusive patron-only content!

Join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Trey Benfield, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, and Colleen Mahaney) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Matthew Boyer, Tyler Kiley, Byron Mobley, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, David Ross, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• SCOTUS: Justice Gorsuch drops absolute fire in concurrence (Reason)
  • The Court’s opinion in Sessions v Dimaya (Supreme Court of the US)
• 11th Circuit: e-waste recycler has to go to prison for copyright infringement (Washington Post)
  • The Court’s opinion in USA v Lundgren (11th Circ COA)
• Analysis: ICE routinely arrests Americans, leaving several in custody for years (LA Times)
• Study: Sentencing algorithms exacerbate racial disparities (The New Atlantis)
• Police active with a new batch of unconstitutional “promposals” this year (Reason)
• Customs and Border Protection (comically) faked statistics to show an increase in assaults on agents (The Intercept)
• ALABAMA: Three white Saraland PD officers on video beating, disrobing black woman in Waffle House arrest (Washington Post)
• CALIFORNIA: Barstow PD officer Jimmie Alfred Walker, who helped kill Deyonte Yarber, has a prior hate crime conviction (The Root)
  • Our episode with Yarber’s execution (Fsck #60)
• CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD officer arrested for driving with immigrants, media smears as “smuggling” (KCBS 2)
• CALIFORNIA: Exeter PD officer Joseph DeAngelo rapes 45 women, kills 12, finally arrested via DNA (San Francisco Chronicle)
• CALIFORNIA: San Francisco PD officer Justin McCall charged with raping someone while they were unconscious (KTVU 2)
• FLORIDA: All charges dropped against Devin Gibbs for defending himself against racist in Miami McDonald’s (Miami Herald)
• GEORGIA: Henry County police on caught on video brutalizing the f*ck out of ex-NFL player Desmond Marrow for having a phone (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• ILLINOIS: Tyler Lumar has died, following attempted suicide in prison after wrongful arrest for already-paid $25 fine (Chicago Tribune)
• KENTUCKY: Louisville Metro PD goes on killing spree, executing 3 people of color in 4 days (WDRB 41)
• LOUISIANA: Attorney General argues filing a complaint against police is punishable by 5 years in prison (In Justice Today)
• NEW JERSEY: Port Authority commissioner Caren Turner on video cussing out officers, trying to get daughter out of traffic ticket (Washington Post)
• NEW YORK: NYPD illegally using, sharing sealed arrest records (NY Daily News)
• NEW YORK: Family sues city after extrajudicial summary execution of 69-year-old Mario Sanabria in 4am no knock raid (NY Post)
  • Our episode with Sanabria’s execution (Fsck #42)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Catawba County DA’s Office investigator Bobby Lee Powell arrested on 32-year-old felony larceny charge (Morganton News-Herald)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Hickory PD sergeant Robert George federally indicted for excessive force in slamming woman’s face into the pavement (WBTV 3)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville criminalizes you voluntarily helping the homeless (Charlotte Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Gaston County ADA James Graham arrested for meth, heroin (Gaston Gazette)
• NORTH CAROLINA: White fraternity members at ECU allowed to finished semester after being busted with 2,500 Xanax bars and other drugs (The East Carolinian)
• OKLAHOMA: Another gold star for Norman PD, arresting murder suspect “without incident” (Norman Transcript)
  • Our episode on a separate shooting that Norman PD handled well (Fsck #58)
• OREGON: Beaverton police say “challenge accepted” when man threatens to kill himself, shoot him dead themselves (KOIN 6)
• OREGON: Charges dropped against sovereign citizen after Clackamas County Deputy Dan O’Keeffe beats the sh*t out of him in court (The Oregonian)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Alleghany County dog escapes yard, bites police horse; owners charged with felony assault (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• PENNSYLVANIA: New Castle police on video repeatedly slamming suspects head into the ground (UK Mirror)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia closes its House of Correction jail after falling inmate population (Washington Post)
• TENNESSEE: Memphis PD profiling random Latino men to check citizenship (Memphis Flyer)
• TEXAS: Jail employee Gilberto Escaramilla given 50 years for stealing fajitas (Fortune)
• TEXAS: White male judge pleads guilty, sentence to probation in election fraud case (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
  • Meanwhile, black female given 5 years active time for voting while on probation (Washington Post)
• VERMONT: Bridgewater deputies issue insane volume of “school zone” speeding tickets even though the school closed 3 years ago (Vermont Public Radio)
• VIRGINIA: Virginia State Police accuse NFL player of being a drug dealer for driving a nice car (ESPN)
• VIRGINIA: Newly-released bodycam footage shows Portsmouth PD officer Jeremy Durocher shooting black teen in the back as he runs away (The Root)
• WASHINGTON: Unnamed 16-year-veteran Bellevue PD officer arrested for domestic violence, given paid vacation (KCPQ 13)
• WASHINGTON: Seattle makes ground-breaking move, asks Court to retroactively dismiss all prior weed charges (Seattle Times)
• WISCONSIN: No charges against Milwaukee PD killer cops Michael Rohleder and Anthony Munoz for tasing mentally ill man 18x until he died (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• CANADA: Toronto police arrest van attacker without killing him; American police are mortified (MacLean’s)

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It’s election season here in Durham, so we have a special edition of the pod! Join us this week as T. Greg talks about his first-ever vote in a Democrat primary, along with a quick recap of criminal justice f*ckery around the country from killer cops in California to a ruthless judge attacking an elderly woman in Florida to New Jersey once again letting police brutality slide. Then we talk with Durham County’s elected District Attorney Roger Echols about why he became a prosecutor, how he handled the Confederate Cases, and the political blowback he’s endured since!

#Law140 will return next week! Remember to check out our Patreon page for exclusive patron-only content!

Join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Trey Benfield, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, and Colleen Mahaney) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Matthew Boyer, Tyler Kiley, Byron Mobley, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, David Ross, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• Our special guest this week is Roger Echols, the elected District Attorney of Durham NC!
• Library of Congress provides OCR’d compilation of every Supreme Court decision ever (Library of Congress)
• CALIFORNIA: Barstow police summarily execute unarmed black man Diante Yarber in Walmart parking lot (New York Times)
  • Yarber was the 340th person killed by police in 2018 (KilledByPolice.net)
• CALIFORNIA: Merced police arrest black man for asking for refund at convenience store, beat him senseless at jail (Merced Sun-Star)
• FLORIDA: White judge Merrillee Ehrlich brutally berates elderly black woman in wheelchair; the woman is now dead (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Largo police raid funeral home to get fingers of man, killed by police, so they can unlock his iPhone (Tampa Bay Times)
• GEORGIA: Militarized Newnan police target counterprotestors at Neo-Nazi rally (Slate)
• LOUSIANA: Journalism student’s lawsuit against Department of Corrections leads to lighter restrictions on inmate interviews (KALB 2)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore trying an “experiment” by serving the poor (Baltimore Sun)
• MICHIGAN: New footage released showing killer cop Mark Bessner’s extrajudicial summary execution of 15-year-old black boy Damon Grimes (Detroit Free Press)
  • Our episode on Grimes’s execution (Fsck #25)
  • Our episode on Bessner being charged with murder (Fsck #46)
• NEW JERSEY: No charges against Camden officer Nicholas Romantino, caught on video punching arrestee in the head 12 times (NJ Advance Media)
• NEW YORK: -0- murders in NYC “Killing Fields” since 2017 (NY Times)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Charges dismissed for Facebook “threat” to blow up courthouse (Burlington Times-News)
  • Our episode on the original charges (Fsck #32)
• OHIO: Teen suffocates to death in van after 911 call, as lazy cops never bother to leave their patrol car (Washington Post)
• OKLAHOMA: How many rape kits have never been tested? No one knows (The Oklahoman)
  • We have thousands of untested kits in NC too (Fsck #54)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Judge Elizabeth Beckley calls ICE to deport groom at wedding, even though he’s a legal resident (Newsweek)
• TENNESSEE: Video shows white teacher dragging 7-year-old black boy off bus by his feet, giving the kid a concussion (WCVB 5)
• TEXAS: Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Jose Paez indicted for assault, 4th officer indicted in a week (San Antonio Express-News)
• TEXAS: Dallas area Trumpist George Clayton, former elected official, spends his day tweeting racism at minorities accepted to college (Dallas Morning News)
  • Clayton tweets this sh*t a lot (Twitter)
• TEXAS: Killer cop Cameron Brewer is fired for the extrajudicial summary execution of Danny Ray Thomas (Houston Chronicle)
  • Our episode on Thomas’s death (Fsck #57)

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Join us this week as we talk about how screwed Donald Trump’s lawyer is, a California sheriff on video arguing it’s best to kill suspects, a Pennsylvania prosecutor resigning over repeated sex crimes, and several cases across the country of federal law enforcement endangering people’s lives — or killing them outright.

Then, in our weekly #Law140, we talk about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and an arrest at a Starbucks in Philadelphia!

Remember to check out our Patreon page for exclusive patron-only content!

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*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Trey Benfield, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, and Colleen Mahaney) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Matthew Boyer, Tyler Kiley, Byron Mobley, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, David Ross, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• Republicans’ domestic agenda consists primarily of attacking Muslims (BuzzFeed News)
• Michael Cohen is going to end up disbarred and indicted (Quartz)
• CALIFORNIA: ICE agents chase couple mistaken for someone else, cause fatal car accident, lie about it (Los Angeles Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Sheriff Donny Youngblood on video arguing it’s better to “kill suspects” rather than wound them (NY Daily News)
• CALIFORNIA: Sacramento adopts policy on turning off body cameras after officers tried to hide audio after Stephon Clark execution (NBC News)
• CONNECTICUT: Montville teacher arrested for running a “fight club” at high school (Washington Post)
• DC: The lawsuit against Howard University by Tyrone Hankerson is a hot mess (Twitter)
  • Here’s a PDF copy of the lawsuit (DocumentCloud)
• FLORIDA: Braden River High School staff make teen girl leave class, jump in principal’s office so they can watch her breasts jiggle (BuzzFeed News)
• ILLINOIS: Elgin police talk about how to handle mentally ill black woman without killing her, then kill her anyway (The Root)
• LOUISIANA: 10 Republican senators vote against law to ban sex with animals (WWL)
• LOUISIANA: Sheriff’s Association executive testifies 1,300+ people held for 4+ years without trial (The Times-Picayune)
• MAINE: Bus driver fired for calling MLK Day “National N*gger Day,” superintendent a “c*nt,” elected to school board (Portland Press-Herald)
• MAINE: Another school board member resigns over racist comments (Portland Press-Herald)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Cambridge police on video beating the sh*t out of black Harvard student (The Harvard Crimson)
• MICHIGAN: Rochester Hills firefighter Jeffery Zeigler chases, shoots at unarmed 14-year-old black boy for asking for directions (WDIV 4)
  • Racist firefighters in KS (Fsck #54)
  • Racist firefighters in NY (Fsck #41)
  • Racist firefighters in FL (Fsck #36)
  • Racist firefighters in OH (Fsck #27)
• NEW YORK: Black parole officer shot and killed in her own apartment, no charges filed (Democrat & Chronicle)
• NEW YORK: NYPD cop Joseph Essig gropes woman, gets convicted… but keeps job because his dad is a police chief (NY Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: ICE raids local trailers, breaks up families of restaurant owner, other residents (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville PD uses civil asset forfeiture money to buy new toys (Spectrum Local News)
• OHIO: No jail for teens who killed 22-year-old Ohio man (WTVG 13)
• OREGON: Three Sheriff’s deputies indicted in jail death of man arrested on drug charges (The Oregonian)
• OREGON: Secret weed raid by Feds leads to innocent bystander with gun to his head (The Oregonian)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Bedford County DA William Higgins, “pious prosecutor” waging culture war on liberals, resigns over sexual abuse charges (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• PENNSYLVANIA: “Waiting While Black” leads to arrest of real estate developers in Philadelphia Starbucks (The Inquirer)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh cop Kaelen O’Connor charged with falsifying report to protect partner from road rage investigation
  (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• TENNESSEE: Hundreds of Morristown kids stop attending school after ICE raid on meatpacking plant (The Intercept)
• TENNESSEE: Matthew Charles, model citizen during his 2 years of release, has been ordered back to prison (Twitter)
  • Our January episode on Charles’s sentence and release (Fsck #46)
• TEXAS: Federal Border Patrol officer David Villareal arrested for raping woman (Dallas Morning News)
• TEXAS: Federal Border Patrol officer Ronald Burgos-Aviles arrested for murdering 1-year-old child and mother (Dallas Morning News)
• VIRGINIA: Hundreds of drivers fined under new law for driving too slow (WTOP)
• WASHINGTON: State Supreme Court issues forceful ruling allowing woman with history of drug abuse to take bar exam (Seattle Times)
  • The Court’s opinion in In Re Simmons (Supreme Court of Washington)
• WEST VIRGINIA: Taxpayers shell out more than $265,000.00+ in repeated settlements for abuse by state trooper Ralph Justus (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Welsh police successfully arrest psychotic man in knife attack, all on bodycam (BBC News)
• ARGENTINA: Weed goes missing, police claim a rat ate it (USA Today)
• Article I of the United States Constitution (LII)
• Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (LII)
• Background on Civil Rights Act of 1964 (History.com)
• Civil Rights Act text (LII)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v US (Oyez)

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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)
  • And blows $5,500.00+ *per day* on security (CNN)
  • Plus $43,000.00+ on a phone booth in his office (The Hill)
  • Then demoted anyone who questioned his spending (NPR)
• 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)
  • The Court’s opinion in Schmidt v. Iowa (Justia)
• 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)
  • We talked about “citizen warrants” in this #Law140 on Deandre Harris’s case (Fsck #32)
• 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

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T. Greg celebrates turning 37 with a full episode of criminal justice f*ckery! Join us as we go over “testi-lying” in New York, California deputies stealing from a woman with dementia and then shipping her to a foreign country (and killing an unarmed black man in his own backyard), a Maryland officer who spent his time in court sexually harassing the judge’s law clerk, and a Texas deputy repeatedly punching a 12-year-old girl with autism for the heinous crime of petting her own dog.

And there’s so much more!

#Law140 will return next week! Remember to check out our Patreon page for exclusive patron-only content!

Join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

Show Notes:

• We talked with Victor Marks of the AppleInsider podcast about geofence warrants!
• And we were namechecked in the MacAdmins podcast!
• Massive new study, tracking millions of children, shows pervasive effects of racism on wealth outcomes of black boys (NY Times)
• Obama-era FBI tracked Black Lives Matter activists across the country (The Intercept)
• CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD to begin providing public access to police videos (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Two Sacramento County deputies steal money from woman with dementia, sell her home, ship her to Philippines (KTLA 5)
• CALIFORNIA: Sacramento PD summarily executes unarmed black man for heinous crime of holding iPhone (Sacramento Bee)
• CALIFORNIA: San Diego PD has a point system with rewards for more arrests (KGTV 10)
• CALIFORNIA: New video shows San Luis Obispo jailers lied about inmate’s death, show them laughing as he dies in front of them (San Luis Obispo Tribune)
• DC: Prosecutors chicken out, drop charges against Turkish President’s security detail assaulting Americans (Washington Post)
  • We talked about these beatings way back in Fsck #4
• GEORGIA: Columbus prosecutors identify potential black jurors by “N,” then systematically exclude them (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• GEORGIA: Family files suit after Gwinnett County jailers refuse medical treatment to now-dead detainee (Gwinnett Daily Post)
• HAWAII: Honolulu police officers Bobby Nguyen and Gordon Shiraishi federally indicted for falsifying records, obstruction (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
• ILLINOIS: Homer Glen PD officer demands to search cremated remains of man’s daughter for drugs, spills them everywhere (WFLD 32)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore jury awards $37,000,000.00+ to Korryn Gaines’s family (Baltimore Sun)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore judge dismisses murder case brought by corrupt GTTF officers (Baltimore Sun)
  • …one of whom sexually harassed the judge’s clerk, in court! (TheRealNews.com)
  • We talked about the GTTF in Fsck #25
  • …and Fsck #27
  • …and Fsck #32
  • …and Fsck #38
  • …and Fsck #39
  • …and Fsck #41
  • …and Fsck #46
  • …and Fsck #47
  • …and Fsck #50
  • …and Fsck #51
  • …and Fsck #53
  • …and Fsck #55
• MICHIGAN: Detroit taxpayers will shell out $225,000.00+ for puppycide killings by police in weed raid (Reason)
• MINNESOTA: Murder charges filed against Minneapolis killer cop Mohamed Noor (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  • We first covered Damond’s murder in Fsck #16
  • The police report was in Fsck #19
  • And the prosecutor preparing to lose the case in Fsck #46
• MISSOURI: Officer Rick Hayes, fired for racial profiling, is back on the force (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• NEW JERSEY: Atlantic City officer John Devlin found liable in brutal beating, city taxpayers to pay $300K+ (Press of Atlantic City)
• NEW JERSEY: Dashcam footage released of Carteret police admitting fellow officer Joseph Reiman beat black 16-year-old boy for sport (NJ Advance Media)
• NEW YORK: Exposé on NYPD officers lying under oath, called “testilying” (NY Times)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Integration, civil rights pioneer Millie Dunn Veasey passes away (BBC News)
• OREGON: Prison refuses to give inmates flu vaccine; 44 get sick, 1 dies (Willamette Week)
• PENNSYLVANIA: New Philly DA Larry Krasner implementing truly radical reforms (The Intercept)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: White “volunteer” cop shoots unarmed black man for sport during traffic stop (Myrtle Beach Sun News)
• TENNESSEE: Nashville judge Casey Moreland indicted for stealing money, sleeping with defendants (Washington Post)
• TENNESSEE: Lawrence McKinney to receive $1M after being imprisoned 31 years for crimes he didn’t commit (The Tennesseean)
• TEXAS: Williamson County deputy Jack Danford repeatedly punches autistic 12-year-old girl in the face for petting her own puppy (KXAN 36)
• TEXAS: Unnamed Houston police officer summarily executes unarmed black man in broad daylight (Houston Chronicle)
• TEXAS: Arrest warrant issued for 37-year-old Lubbock woman arrested for unpaid fine from when she was 12 (Reason)
• UTAH: Police raid home, attack family members just minutes after they return from hospital (KSL-TV 5)
• FRANCE: Police officer Arnaud Beltrame gives his life to save hostage (BBC News)

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T. Greg is under the weather, so it’s an abbreviated episode covering the US Department of Justice lawsuit against California – and how that lawsuit will test the boundaries of federalism envisioned by the Founding Fathers. Join us for a tour of Supreme Court precedent on federal powers versus states’ rights!

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Show Notes:

• Attorney General Beauregard sues California over “sanctuary” laws (NY Times)
• The Magna Carta (The History Channel)
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine (Annenberg Learner)
• Federalist No. 69 (Yale’s Avalon Project)
  • Our #Law140 on presidential power (Fsck #24)
• McCulloch v Maryland (Oyez)
• Gibbons v Ogden (Oyez)
  • Our #Law140 on the Commerce Clause (Fsck #45)
• Lochner v New York (Oyez)
• West Coast Hotel Co v Parrish (Oyez)
• Wickard v Filburn (Oyez)
• Brown v Board of Education (Oyez)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v US (Oyez)
• US v Lopez (Oyez)
• Printz v US (Oyez)
• Boerne v Flores (Oyez)
• Gonzales v Raich (Oyez)
• NFIB v Sebelius (Oyez)

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It’s been a busy week! Join us to discover the real reason why Democrat Congresscritter Joe Kennedy III opposes marijuana reform, then in criminal justice news learn about what police can get away with while totally avoiding punishment: killing someone in California and Oklahoma, abusing 10-year-olds in Maryland, trying to kill a puppy for sport in New Jersey, and a whole mess of f*ckery out of the NYPD in New York.

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Show Notes:

• Democrat Congresscritter Joe Kennedy III wants weed to stay illegal so police can search you easier (Boston Globe)
• Fourth Circuit: school resource officer (cop) was wrong to handcuff compliant 10-year-old girl, but still protected by qualified immunity (4th Circuit COA)
• Eleventh Circuit: conviction thrown out after illegal stop (11th Circuit COA)
• Study: Segregation is back with a vengeance (Economic Policy Institute)
  • Editorial from the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission (NY Times)
• Long-read on using the courts as debt collection mills for debtors’ prisons (The Intercept)
• Computer scientists developing new, potentially dangerous algorithms for police data mining (Science Magazine)
• Study: Blacks were enslaved as late as 1963 (VICE News)
• The Papaya POTUS nominates a fact-blind supporter of mandatory minimums to the US Sentencing Commission (Reason)
• The Moscow Muppet also wants Secret Service to be able to roam freely around polling places (The Hill)
• ARIZONA: Phoenix judge Steven Fuller being investigated for molesting teenage girl for years (AP)
• ARIZONA: Customs & Border Patrol officer Marco De la Garza Jr indicted… for falsifying where he was born (ABC News)
• ARKANSAS: Prison transport officer Eric Kindley arrested for sexually assaulting more than 100 women (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
• CALIFORNIA: State Supreme Court bans 50-year sentences for juveniles (LA Times)
  • The opinion in California v. Contreras and Rodriguez (CA Supreme Court)
• CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles prosecutors refuse to indict killer cop Clifford Proctor (Washington Post)
• CALIFORNIA: Oakland coffee shop refuses to serve police to preserve “physical & emotional safety” (San Francisco Chronicle)
• FLORIDA: 2 SWAT officers suspended for responding to Parkland shooting “without permission” (Florida Sun-Sentinel)
• GEORGIA: Washington County deputy Corey King throws his ex-wife in jail for criticizing him on Facebook (CNN)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago brings in $200,000,000.00+ every year from parking tickets (Mother Jones)
• LOUISIANA: Secret “predictive policing” program running in New Orleans (The Verge)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore prosecutor says “thousands” of cases tainted by corrupt Gun Trace Task Force (Baltimore Sun)
  • We talked about the GTTF in Fsck #25
  • …and Fsck #27
  • …and Fsck #32
  • …and Fsck #38
  • …and Fsck #39
  • …and Fsck #41
  • …and Fsck #46
  • …and Fsck #47
  • …and Fsck #50
  • …and Fsck #51
  • …and Fsck #53
• MARYLAND: Corrections officer Chance Hellum convicted for beating the sh*t out of an inmate for sport (Baltimore Sun)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Chicopee PD officer Corey Fournier arrested for rape (Boston Globe)
• MICHIGAN: Monroe County Judge Jarod Calkins charged for violent sex with multiple prostitutes (WJBK 2)
• NEW JERSEY: Atlantic City PD detective Glenn Abrams Jr stole puppy, tried to kill it (Asbury Park-Press)
• NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque PD officer Jonathan McDonnell sues mother of child killed in crash he caused (ABC News)
• NEW YORK: BuzzFeed exposé on hundreds of crooked NYPD officers going unpunished (BuzzFeed News)
• NEW YORK: Greece grand jury refuses to indict creator of “School Shooter” song (WIVB 4)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Assault charges filed against Asheville PD officer Chris Hickman for bodycam beating of unarmed black man (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  • Our episode last week with this story (Fsck #54)
  • A compilation of stories and context on why this happened (Asheville Blade)
• OHIO: Columbus PD officer Zachary Rosen reinstated after curb-stomping unarmed black man in handcuffs (WSYX 6)
  • Our earlier episode on Rosen doing his Edward Norton impression (Fsck #11)
• OKLAHOMA: Killer cop Betty Shelby back on full-time patrol duty in Tulsa (The Frontier)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Westmoreland County Sheriff Jonathan Held charged with corruption, theft (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• TENNESSEE: Highway Patrolman Isaiah Lloyd sued for groping single mother, stalking her (Knoxville News Sentinel)
• TEXAS: Judge repeatedly has Defendant electrocuted for sport (Washington Post)
  • The opinion in Terry Lee Morris v. Texas (TX Court of Appeals)
• UTAH: Bar Association emails picture of boobs to every lawyer in the state (Above the Law)
• VIRGINIA: Charlottesville PD officer Christopher Seymore acquitted of sodomizing woman twice (Charlottesville Daily Progress)
• WASHINGTON: Interesting read on homeless “tent cities” in Seattle (NY Times)
• CANADA: 3 Toronto police under investigation for gang-raping a woman on the job (Toronto Sun)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Exposé on prolific child sex trafficking (UK Mirror)

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We skip the political discussion this week, because so many politicians ended up in the criminal justice news! A Republican governor is indicted for invasion of privacy, a married Democratic mayor pays her police bodyguard overtime so they could have sex in a cemetery, a Republican senator extorted a page for sex, a Democratic Sheriff terrorizes minorities, and on and on it goes. Plus: a #Law140 on the free speech rights of school students!

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Show Notes:

• Study: Prison philosophy classes help reduce violence (UK Independent)
• More “Student Resource Officers” in schools is a fantastically stupid idea (Reason)
• ALABAMA: Authorities botch a truly ghoulish execution attempt of man with cancer (Columbia Law School)
• ALABAMA: Sheriffs steal money from inmates, claim it’s totally legal (AL.com)
• ARIZONA: Mesa PD officers severely injure 84-year-old woman, to “help” her (KPNX 12)
• ARKANSAS: Judge sentenced to 5 years for trading leniency for nudes (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
  • We first mentioned Judge Boeckmann last October (Fsck 31)
• CALIFORNIA: LA County Sheriff’s Deputy Giancarlo Scotti indicted for sexually assaulting 6 women (LA Times)
• FLORIDA: 4 Broward County deputies hid like cowards as children died (NY Post)
  Sheriff Scott Israel was too busy targeting minorities (Broward Palm Beach New Times)
  • Including constant raids on hip-hop concerts (The Sun-Sentinel)
• DC: Armed TN woman rams White House security barrier, taken alive (WTTG 5)
  • Compare with (black) Miriam Carey, who was summarily executed (Washington Post)
• IDAHO: State senator Dan Foreman yells at students for wanting better sex education in schools, threatens to call police (Idaho Statesman)
• ILLINOIS: Police union says Aurora perv cop Daniel Wagner should be reinstated, arbitrator agrees (Chicago Tribune)
• MARYLAND: Corrupt BPD officers Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor have been convicted of racketeering (Baltimore Sun)
  • We talked about the GTTF in Fsck #25
  • …and Fsck #27
  • …and Fsck #32
  • …and Fsck #38
  • …and Fsck #39
  • …and Fsck #41
  • …and Fsck #46
  • …and Fsck #47
  • …and Fsck #50
  • …and Fsck #51
• MINNESOTA: Minneapolis police target Native Americans even more than black men (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
• MISSOURI: Exposé on the state using “envelopes of cash” and other schemes to get death drugs (BuzzFeed)
• MISSOURI: Republican Governor indicted for felony invasion of privacy (NY Times)
  • Our episode on Greitens staying a man’s execution over DNA (Fsck #24)
• MISSOURI: St. Louis police officer John Stewart charged with sodomizing a pregnant woman (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• NEW YORK: NYPD police routinely park illegally on private property (am New York)
• NEW YORK: NYPD killer cop Hugh Barry found not guilty of summarily executing elderly black woman (NY Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Prison administrator admits abuse is overlooked “because we’re all buddies” (WBTV 3)
• NORTH CAROLINA: ICE deports 14-year resident dying of HIV, no criminal record (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Ramona Brant has passed away (WSOC 9)
• NORTH CAROLINA: All charges dismissed against protestors who destroyed Confederate monument (The Root)
  • I told you this would happen (Fsck #23)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham deputy Christopher Kelly, a school resource officer, pleads guilty after sex with student (Durham Herald Sun)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Philly’s new District Attorney revamps bail (WPVI 6)
• RHODE ISLAND: Republican state senator Nicholas Kettle charged for extorting sex from a page (Providence Journal)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: With all other crimes solved, legislators propose making it a crime to sag your pants (WCIV 4)
• TENNESSEE: Democrat Mayor caught on camera shagging bodyguard, who got paid overtime (WTVF 5)
• TEXAS: Student seizes gun from gunman, so Amarillo police shoot the student instead (Amarillo Globe-News)
• TEXAS: Judge instructs magistrates to deny no-cash bail to anyone supporting Black Lives Matter (Houston Chronicle)
• TEXAS: Needville ISD Superintendent Curtis Rhodes threatens to punish students for free speech (Dallas Morning News)
• VERMONT: Burlington PD issues strong statement in support of civil disobedience (Burlington Free Press)
• VIRGINIA: Blacks in Charlottesville 284% more likely to be stopped and frisked without arrest (The Daily Progress)
• CANADA: Toronto transit cops caught on video beating black teen for sport (Toronto Star)
• CANADA: York police explain smoking weed doesn’t “make boobies” (Toronto Star)
• ISRAEL: Tel Aviv judge caught collaborating with prosecutor on corruption case (Jerusalem Post)
• Ken White’s podcast episode on student speech rights (Popehat)
• The First Amendment (LII)
• The Pre-Tinker History of Student Speech Rights (SagePub)
• Tinker v. Des Moines (Oyez)
• Bethel v. Fraser (Oyez)
• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (Oyez)
• Morse v. Frederick (Oyez)