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Half the year is already over! Join us this week as we talk about the ghouls running the Republican Party, police framing innocent people in Florida and Illinois, an ICE prosecutor being sentenced for identity theft in Washington, and killer cops at Portland State University.

Then, in this week’s #Law140 segment, we talk about the pending retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy and how it will shape the Supreme Court in the years ahead.

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

Show Notes:

• Attorney General Beauregard jokes about separating families, crowd laughs (NY Post)
• Dinesh D’Souza, Trumpist intellectual (and felon pardoned by Trump), tweets “#BurnTheJews” (Newsweek)
• Dana Loesch, Trumpist intellectual, tries to spin wanting reporters “curb stomped” after Capital Gazette shooting (Newsweek)
• John Cardillo, Trumpist intellectual, obliterated after tweeting picture of political candidate’s childhood home (The Hill)
• Bona fide Nazi Arthur Jones is the GOP candidate for Congress in Illinois (Politico)
• Russell Walker – of “Martin Luther Coon” fame – wins GOP primary for NC House with 65% of the vote, writes “God is racist” and Jews “all descend from Satan” (News & Observer)
• Supreme Court upholds Muslim Ban 3.0 (NY Times)
  • I forewarned you this would happen (Twitter)
• 5th Circuit reverses dismissal of lawsuit over mass strip-search of 22 preteen girls at school over $50 (5th Circuit COA)
• Study: New look at the dynamics of mass incarceration (Vera Institute)
• DHS embeds “14/88” in an official press release (DHS.gov)
  • Here’s why that matters (Wikipedia)
• ICE rigged its “detain-or-release” algorithm software to always result in “detain” (Techdirt)
• ALABAMA: Trumpist school teacher Shane Ryan Sealy pulls gun on “Families Belong Together” protestors (WHNT 19)
• CALIFORNIA: Oakland police summoned on black firefighter for doing routine inspections (San Francisco Chronicle)
• FLORIDA: Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano, officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez, all federally indicted for framing 16-year-old to keep “perfect score on crime statistics” (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Clay County detective Mark Andrews and Nassau County deputy Kyle Tholl indicted for framing innocent people, staging crime scene (Florida Times-Union)
• FLORIDA: Supreme Court removes Flagler judge Scott DuPont for “reckless disregard for the truth” (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
• FLORIDA: Men notify Miami Beach PD they will be legally carrying weapons at pier, police arrest them anyway (Miami Herald)
• GEORGIA: Alabama corrections officer Matthew Lee Moore indicted in rape of two Sandy Springs women (Sandy Springs Patch)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago jury awards $17M to Jacques Rivera, man framed by police for murder he did not commit (Chicago Sun-Times)
  • Rivera was framed by Reynaldo Guevara, the same cop who framed Thomas Sierra (Fsck #47)
  • And framed two other men (Fsck #42)
• KENTUCKY: Report released showing “mistakes were made” during investigation of teens sexually abused in police Explorer program (The Courier-Journal)
  • There was a similar scandal with the Explorer programs in California (Fsck #41)
• LOUISIANA: Got a traffic ticket? Certain DAs will dismiss if you give money to their office (New Orleans Advocate)
• MARYLAND: Decriminalized marijuana is evidence of crime (MD Court of Special Appeals)
• MISSOURI: St. Louis District Attorney to end prosecutions of “baby weed” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque PD summarily executes 19-year-old Mary Hawkes, all 5 officers’ bodycams “malfunctioned” (Washington Post)
• NEW YORK: NYPD expands database by +70% under liberal Democrat Bill de Blasio; 99%+ are nonwhite (The Intercept)
• NEW YORK: St. Lawrence County DA Mary Rain suspended from practicing law for 2 years over prosecutorial misconduct (North Country Now)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance County law enforcement gets taught that being Catholic is probable cause to be searched (Burlington Times-News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham Sheriffs knew about jail suicide hazards for 20 years, did nothing as 12 people died (Durham Herald-Sun)
• OHIO: Columbus restaurant owner focuses on hiring former inmates and the homeless (Politico Magazine)
• OREGON: No charges for Marion County deputy Jacob Thompson, on camera beating homeless man (The Oregonian)
  • Our episode with the beating (Fsck #69)
• OREGON: Portland police commander Steve Jones arrested for DUI after crashing city SUV into telephone pole (Willamette Week)
  • This happened in Durham NC too… twice in one week (Fsck #51)
• OREGON: Portland State University killer cops Shawn McKenzie and James Dewey on video summarily executing Navy veteran Jason Washington (The Oregonian)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Analysis shows police report -0- hate crimes, but charge defendants with “ethnic intimidation” when they make mean comments… about police (The Appeal)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Lancaster PD officers Philip Bernot and Shannon Mazzante tase unarmed and compliant black man for sport, caught on camera (Washington Post)
• PENNSYLVANIA: East Pittsburgh killer cop Michael Rosfeld charged with criminal homicide (CBS News)
  • Our episode on the extrajudicial summary execution of black teen Antwon Rose (Fsck #71)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Unidentified Anderson County deputy on camera hitting 15-year-old student trying to board school bus (ABC News)
• WASHINGTON: Seattle ICE Chief Counsel Raphael Sanchez sentenced to 4 years for identity theft (ICE.gov)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Manchester police Kerry Reeve and Adam Jackson jailed over raging cocaine habits (UK Telegraph)
• Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring from the Supreme Court (CNBC)
• Article III of the Constitution (LII)

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The criminal justice f*ckery is back! Join us this week for child-molesting police in California, Georgia, Montana, and Texas, a Native American on video being run over by Customers & Border “Protection” in Arizona, and three people shot in the back by police — including the extrajudicial summary execution without due process of unarmed black teen Antwon Rose.

#Law140 will return next week! Until then, 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 Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Matthew Boyer, Brian Gilbreath, Tyler Kiley, Byron Mobley, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, David Ross, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders kicked out of restaurant, whines on official government account (Washington Post)
  • Her tweet was illegal (LII)
• 2nd Circuit: No qualified immunity for NYPD officers using material witness warrant to arrest, interrogate woman for 18 hours (2nd Circuit COA)
• Study: extrajudicial summary executions of unarmed blacks is harmful to blacks’ mental health (Newsweek)
  • The full study, “Police Killings and their Spillover Effects” (The Lancet)
• In middle of opioid crisis, US Department of Justice letting drug dealers run wild to prosecute immigrants (USA Today)
• ARIZONA: Border Patrol officer on video running over Native American man Paulo Remes (Arizona Daily Star)
• CALIFORNIA: Imperial PD officer Ray Valenzuela charges with even more sex crimes against minors (KYMA 11)
  • The original batch of charges against Valenzuela (KYMA 11)
• CALIFORNIA: Policing White Space, as white woman calls police on 8-year-old black girl selling bottled water without a permit (San Francisco Chroncile)
  • The woman, Allison Ettel, is a weed dealer (Sacramento Bee)
• CALIFORNIA: San Francisco PD on video shooting fleeing suspect in the back (KABC 7)
• GEORGIA: White man uses SUV to block black doctor from entering gated community where she lives, calls police for “trespassing” (WXIA 11)
• GEORGIA: Clayton County jury awards $1,000,000,000.00+ verdict to woman for rape by security guard (WAGA 5)
• GEORGIA: Cobb County cop Robert Lanier New jailed for assaulting mentally disabled woman, soliciting her 12-year-old niece for sex (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• GEORGIA: Profile on South Fulton, Georgia’s 5th-largest city, where the criminal justice system is led entirely by black women (CNN)
• GEORGIA: Trial begins in murder of Timothy Coggins, black man killed 34 years ago by police for “socializing with a white woman” (WXIA 11)
  • Our episode on the white police arrested in Coggins’s murder (Fsck #32)
  • And the follow-up episode (Fsck #36)
• GEORGIA: Killer cops Henry Copeland, Michael Howell, and Rhett Scott indicted for murder (WJBF 6)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago EMS assumes 17-year-old Erin Carey was dead, let him bleed out rather than give aid (Chicago Tribune)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD apologizes for raiding wrong home (WBBM 2)
• MAINE: Border patrol agents spend 11 hours running traffic checkpoint for 1 minor arrest (Bangor Daily News)
• MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD summarily execute 30-year-old Thurman Blevins, details in dispute (Splinter News)
• MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD repeatedly ordering EMS to inject detainees with ketamine, powerful sedative (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
• MISSISSIPPI: Columbus PD killer cop Canyon Boykin fired for killing black man, sues city for racial discrimination, gets a settlement! (BuzzFeed News)
• MONTANA: Stevensville School Resource Officer Samuel Steven Fawcett indicted for molesting toddler (Ravalli Republic)
• NEW YORK: Analysis shows bail in NYC almost entirely dependent on the judge, not the defendant or crime (FiveThirtyEight)
• NEW YORK: NYPD detective Thomas Rice pleads guilty to repeatedly fabricating witnesses (NY Daily News)
• NEW YORK: Long Island police officers Erik Skoglund, Karen Ernst, and Bruce Moeller busted for running drug ring, plotting to rob casino (WABC 7)
• NEW YORK: NYPD to start using summonses instead of arrests for weed charges (Associated Press)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Attorney on Planning Commission approves project, gets hired by project’s developer (Durham Herald-Sun)
• NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrol sergeant R.W. Goswick on audio telling police to lie about attack on Kyron Hinton (News & Observer)
  • Our episode covering the attack (Fsck #66)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Former Person County elected DA Wallace Bradsher convicted, disbarred for “wife swap” fraud scheme (WTVD 11)
  • Our first episode on this guy (Fsck #7)
  • And when he was charged (Fsck #12)
  • And on the evidence of conspiracy (Fsck #24)
  • And the felony indictments (Fsck #36)
• NORTH CAROLINA: General Assembly gives police access to your prescription without a warrant (News & Observer)
• OHIO: White Lorain PD cop John Kovach fired for fabricating traffic stop to arrest daughter’s black boyfriend, lying about it (WCMH 4)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia PD charges teenager with felonies for trying to burn Blue Lives Matter flag (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  • The Supreme Court ruled flag-burning was protected expression 30 years ago (Oyez)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Allegheny County killer cop Michael Rosfeld summarily executes unarmed black teen Antwon Rose 90 minutes after getting sworn in (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
  • Killing caught on cell phone video by bystander the next block over (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
  • Police “sources” are making claims to the media that are so false even the police chief says they’re lies (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
  • Rosfeld was forced to resign from his last job for lying under oath (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  • A black sedan drove through a crowd of protestors, knocking over a police barrier (WXPI 11)
• TEXAS: Bexar County child molester deputy Jose Nunez given paid vacation for assaulting 4-year-old girl, threatening her mom with deportation (Houston Star-Telegram)
• TEXAS: At least 5 dead after high-speed car chase ends in crash (Killeen Daily Herald)
• TEXAS: Leon Valley police mass arrest attendees live-streaming a press conference (YouTube)
• WASHINGTON: French teen detained by ICE for 2 weeks after accidentally jogging across border on unmarked beach (CBC News)
• WEST VIRGINIA: The federal indictment against Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry has been unsealed (NPR)
  • Our episode when Loughry was first suspended (Fsck #69)
• WISCONSIN: White UW-M student Alec Cook rapes nearly a dozen women, gets just 3 years in prison (WGN 9)
• WISCONSIN: Sterling Brown lawsuit includes racists posts by Milwaukee PD officers (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
  • Our first episode about Brown’s arrest (Fsck #66)
  • And the initial release of footage (Fsck #69)

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It’s a #Law140-only episode this week, as T. Greg preps for a Wednesday trial. Join us as we talk about our beloved Papaya POTUS Donald Trump, and go over the reasons why he can’t be indicted by Robert Mueller while Trump’s still in office — including the Constitutional text, three of the Federalist papers, two OLC memos, and a handful of Supreme Court cases!

Our summary of criminal justice news will return later this week!

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

Show Notes:

• The New York Attorney General has filed suit against the Trump Foundation (CNN)
• Our #Law140 on Canons of Construction (Patreon, Fsck #13)
• Our #Law140 on the President’s pardon powers (Patreon, Fsck #18)
• Our #Law140 on grand juries (Fsck #20)
• Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution (National Archives)
• Article II, Sections 2-3 of the Constitution (National Archives)
• Federalist No. 65 (Avalon Project)
• Federalist No. 69 (Avalon Project)
• Federalist No. 77 (Avalon Project)
• OLC Opinion on the indictability of the President, 1973 (Federation of American Scientists)
• OLC Opinion on the indictability of the President, 2000 (US DOJ)
• US v Nixon (Oyez)
• President Ford’s testimony in US v Fromme (YouTube)
• Nixon v Fitzgerald (Oyez)
• Clinton v Jones (Oyez)
• Morrison v Olsen (Oyez)
• Symposium Foreword: “Can We Indict a Sitting President?” (Georgetown Law)

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Each of the first 4 Rules of Fsck make an appearance this week! Join us as we talk about police beating unarmed men on camera in Arizona and Oregon, a fired Georgia cop getting hired as a deputy days later, and a Maryland man dying in a Baltimore holding cell for a traffic ticket.

Then, in our #Law140 section, we talk about the federal Bail Reform Act and why Paul Manafort may end up going to jail before trial!

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

Show Notes:

• Paul Manafort was dimed out by his associates (NY Times)
• Trump accomplishes nothing at G7 summit (BBC)
• Supreme Court issues its ruling in the “gay wedding cake” case (SCOTUS)
  • My thread breaking down the opinion (Twitter)
• Block-by-block analysis of murder “hotspots” where killings go unsolved (Washington Post)
• ARIZONA: 4 Mesa PD officers on paid vacation after being caught on security camera beating unarmed Robert Johnson (KPHO 5)
• CALIFORNIA: ICE deports uncle of children orphaned after ICE killed their parents (LA Times)
  • Our episode with the deaths of Santos Garcia and Marcelina Profecto (Fsck #59)
• DC: Latest batch of J20 prosecutions ends in 3 acquittals, 1 mistrial (HuffPost)
  • Our episode with the Government admitting they lacked evidence (Fsck #39)
  • …and the rioting charges getting dismissed (Fsck #42)
  • …and the jury acquitting on other charges (Fsck #46)
  • …and the court dismissing more charges over Brady violations (Fsck #68)
• FLORIDA: Politician’s office stopped running concealed handgun background checks for over a year because a staff member “couldn’t log in” (Tampa Bay Times)
• FLORIDA: Bay County Sheriff’s deputy takes down armed man with 2 cans of baked beans (Miami Herald)
• GEORGIA: Taylor Saulters, cop fired for running over a suspect, already rehired as Sheriff’s deputy (WSB-TV 2)
  • Our episode on Saulters being fired (Fsck #68)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD on video terrifying, arresting unarmed 10-year-old boy in case of “mistaken identity” (Chicago Sun-Times)
• IOWA: Des Moines student Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco, US resident since he was 3, killed weeks after being deported to Mexico (Des Moines Register)
• KENTUCKY: State trooper Mitch Harris, coroner John Goble indicted for stealing ammo, guns, moonshine, eyeballs (WAVE 3)
• MARYLAND: Disabled man turns himself in to Baltimore PD on traffic ticket, dies in holding cell (Baltimore Sun)
• MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD announces end to marijuana stings after 97.8% of those arrested are black (Minneapolis StarTribune)
• NEW YORK: Military personnel at Fort Hamilton order pizza, turn deliveryman over to ICE (NBC News)
  • Pablo Villavicencio’s deportation has been temporarily stayed (NBC News)
• OHIO: ICE comes bearing donuts, then arrests landscapers (Washington Post)
• OREGON: Marion County deputies on video pummeling homeless man (KGW 9)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner working on comprehensive list of tainted cops (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• UTAH: Clint Douglas Shaw, former Davis County SWAT officer, files lawsuit claiming county did not adequately hide his misconduct (Ogden Standard-Examiner)
• WEST VIRGINIA: Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry suspended for lying, other violations of judicial conduct (WV Public Radio)
• WISCONSIN: New Milwaukee PD video of Bucks player Sterling Brown’s arrest shows police expected “firestorm” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
  • Our episode on the first set of video of Brown’s arrest (Fsck #66)
• Mueller tries to revoke Manafort’s pre-trial release (NY Daily News)
• Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 46 (LII)
• The Bail Reform Act of 1984 (Federal Judicial Center)
• US Attorneys’ Manual on Pretrial Proceedings (US DOJ)

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After 3 straight weeks of unusual episodes, we’re back on our regular rotation: a little politics, a lot of criminal justice f*ckery, and a little legal lesson!

Join us this week as we talk about new tariffs, research showing Republican judges give unusually harsh sentences to black defendants, a police officer in Florida arrested for extorting nudes from a women, and police in New Hampshire illegally arresting a guy for criticizing them on social media.

Then, in our #Law140 section, we go over the basics of negligence and how a Florida jury awarded the family of Gregory Hill a mere $0.04.

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Show Notes:

• US Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, pledges America will interfere in foreign elections (UK Guardian)
• The Moscow Muppet promises new aluminum, steel tariffs on US allies (Business Insider)
• The Papaya POTUS legal team sends a memo to Mueller that looks crafted by first-year law students (NY Times)
  • Seriously, look at some of the footnotes (Twitter)
• Study: Republican-appointed judges give harsher sentences to black defendants than Democrat-appointed ones (Harvard)
• Should defendants receive “technological due process”? Harvard student argues yes (Harvard)
• Compilation of cases involving “bloodstain-pattern analysis” and courts accepting junk science (ProPublica)
• CALIFORNIA: Humboldt County pedophile cop Cory Jordan Fisher Sr. set for preliminary hearing later this month (Eureka Times Standard)
  • There are now 14 total charges pending against Fisher (KIEM 3)
  • Plus a civil lawsuit by several inmates (Lost Coast Outpost)
• CALIFORNIA: Oakland church pledges to “divest” from police, avoid calling them (LA Times)
• COLORADO: Unidentified FBI agent on video dropping gun while dancing in club, shooting bystander (Denver Post)
• DC: More J20 charges dismissed after prosecutors commit Brady violations (BuzzFeed News)
  • Our episode with the Government admitting they lacked evidence (Fsck #39)
  • …and the rioting charges getting dismissed (Fsck #42)
  • …and the jury acquitting on other charges (Fsck #46)
• FLORIDA: Racial disparities in how Miami police treat marijuana prosecutions (Miami New Times)
• FLORIDA: Orange City PD officer Joshua David Fancher arrested after threatening to kill woman if she didn’t send him nudes (WKMG 6)
• FLORIDA: Orlando resort apologize to black doctor after video of white family screaming racial slurs at them (Orlando Sentinel)
  • The video is pretty bad (Twitter)
• FLORIDA: Orange County chomo deputy Marcus Leon James arrested for raping “child younger than 12” (WKMG 6)
• FLORIDA: Palm Beach County judge rejects “Stand Your Ground” defense from killer cop Nouman Raja (Florida Sun Sentinel)
• FLORIDA: St. Lucie County jury awards $0.04 to family for police execution of Gregory Hill (Miami Herald)
• GEORGIA: Athens-Clarke County PD officer Taylor Saulters fired for running over unarmed black man with his patrol car (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• HAWAII: Waipahu taxpayers pay $650,000.00+ for extrajudicial summary execution of schizophrenic man in 2013 (Hawaii News Now)
• IDAHO: Deputies in Elmore County shoot, kill unidentified man with knife after car chase (KTVB 7)
• IOWA: Bodycam footage “fails to corroborate” Burlington PD killer cop Jesse Hill’s excuse about why he killed white mother Autumn Steele (Des Moines Register)
• KANSAS: Overland Park PD killer cop Clayton Jenison says he was justified in unloading 13 shots, summarily executing suicidal 17-year-old John Albers (Kansas City Star)
• LOUISIANA: White teen laughs on Snapchat over killing “some n*gger” after running over, killing 31-year-old Rell Lewis (WXIA 11)
• MASSACHUSETTS: In-depth profile on how white drug addicts get treatment, not jail (Politico Magazine)
• MISSOURI: Black drivers +85% more likely to be stopped by police than similarly-situated whites (Associated Press)
• NEW HAMPSHIRE: Exeter PD illegally arrest man for his online criticism of crooked Police Chief William Shupe (Slate)
• NEW JERSEY: Paterson PD officer Roger Then indicted for beating suicidal man in hospital (Paterson Times)
  • Officer Ruben McAusland, involved in the same incident, is also indicted for dealing drugs to the FBI (NorthJersey.com)
  • Officers Jonathan Bustios and Eudy Ramos have been indicted for unrelated warrantless searches (Paterson Times)
• NEW YORK: Hipster real estate agent in NYC on video calling police, shouting racial epithets outside nightclub (NY Post)
  • The video is pretty bad (Reddit)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Unidentified Spring Grove PD officer shoots handcuffed man while he’s seated in back of patrol car (York Dispatch)
• TENNESSEE: Armed, white cop killer arrested alive (Nashville Tennesseean)
• TENNESSEE: White neighbor calls police on black real estate agent, police defend agent (The Root)
• VIRGINIA: Self-avowed pedophile and white supremacist running for Congress (HuffPost)
• VIRGINIA: Chesterfield taxpayers pay $6,500,000.00+ to man severely burned by reckless Taser use (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
• AUSTRALIA: Victoria police fake more than a quarter-million breath test results (The Age)
• INDIA: Sikh cop saves Muslim boy from mob attack over Hindu girlfriend (UK Metro News)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Makeup company runs #SpyCops ad campaign, backtracks after intimidation by police (UK Independent)
• Negligence Overview (Justia)
• Excellent 50-state overview of negligence laws (Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer)

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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.

#Law140 will return next week! Until then, remember to check out our Patreon page for exclusive patron-only content, including a special #Law140 on conflicts of interest!

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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)
  • PDF of the opinion in Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump
  • Our #Law140 on this case (Fsck #9)
• 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)
  • Our earlier episode on Olsen’s murder of Anthony Hill (Fsck #33)
• 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)
  • Our episode on Rialmo killing Quintonio LaGrier and Bettie Jones (Fsck #39)
  • And our episode with follow-up developments (Fsck #42)
• 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)
• 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)
  • Our episode on the Government announcing it wanted Charles back in prison (Fsck #46)
  • Our episode on the court ruling ordering Charles back to prison (Fsck #59)
• 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)

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Show Notes:

• Rob Smith of Harvard’s Fair Punishment Project is clueless about North Carolina (Twitter)
• Arrogant twit Senator Joel Ford mollywhopped in Democratic primary (Charlotte Observer)
  • Sen. Ford was one of the main cheerleaders for H972, the bill that made all police video a state secret (Twitter)
• Former General and Trump apologist John Kelly is a scumbag, Part 514 (Business Insider)
• In-depth look at Palantir, the “predictive policing” software departs are using to violate your civil rights (Bloomberg)
  • Our episode on Louisiana using Palantir for a secret policing program (Fsck #55)
• ARIZONA: Border Patrol killer cop Lonnie Swartz acquitted of murder in death of Mexican teen; will be retried for manslaughter (Arizona Daily Star)
  • Our episode on Swartz shooting the teenager in the back (Fsck #11)
• CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD is using Palantir to create an evergreen list of “probable offenders” (In Justice Today)
• CALIFORNIA: Unnamed Morgan Hill PD officer “accidentally” shoots 14-year-old girl in the eye during traffic stop, given paid vacation (Mercury News)
• COLORADO: White mom summons police on Native American students for wearing heavy metal t-shirts (Inside Higher Ed)
• CONNECTICUT: White Yale student calls police on black Yale student for falling asleep in common room while studying (NY Times)
• DC: Metro PD cop Richard Wince illegally sold guns to murderer (CNN))
• GEORGIA: Cook County police arrest, jail Canadian student for crime of (legally) driving with a Canadian license (CBC)
• ILLINOIS: VP of shopping mall apologizes to black teens who were kicked out of mall for no reason (Chicago Sun Times)
• ILLINOIS: Macon County cop Chad Larner says weed can’t be legalized, or they’ll have to kill all their drug dogs (Reason)
• LOUISIANA: Kevin Smith imprisoned 8 years without trial; when drug charges are dismissed, his parole is revoked over address change (New Orleans Advocate)
• LOUISIANA: Shreveport PD officer Gary Thomas on paid vacation for assaulting black teen over noise complaint (KSLA 12)
• MARYLAND: Carroll County deputy on video blowing away groundhog for blocking traffic (WBAL-TV 11)
• MASSACHUSETTS: State Trooper Alfred Burgos arrested for DWI leaving Irish-American Police party (Springfield Republican)
• MISSOURI: 3 black teens falsely accused of theft at Nordstrom Rack, released without charges (KMOV 4)
• NEW YORK: Entire Galway PD department indicted for falsifying records (The Saratogian)
• NEW YORK: NYPD officers summoned to “burglary” as black man moves into new apartment (Washington Post)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Duke University VP Larry Moneta has coffee shop baristas fired for playing Spotify rap song (Indy Week)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Campaign page for Durham Sheriff Mike Andrews says “Amen!” to racist Facebook rant (Durham Herald Sun)
  • Sheriff Andrews was obliterated in last Tuesday’s primary election (Durham Herald Sun)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Moore County deputy Tracy Carter fired for helping cover up drunk driving of Sheriff Neil Godfrey’s deputy-son Brent (Southern Pines Pilot)
  • Sheriff Godfrey was defeated in last Tuesday’s primary election (Fayetteville Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Moore County deputy Tevin Cadell charged with assault on a female (Fayetteville Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Warsaw PD officer Frank Moss on video beating, choking tuxedoed black man at Waffle House (Fayetteville Observer)
• PENNSYLVANIA: White owners of Grandview Golf Club call police on black women for “golfing too slow” (NY Times)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Black men arrested in Starbucks settle for $1 apiece, expungement, $200K school program (USA Today)
• TEXAS: White elementary school principal Shanna Swearingen “jokes” about fake gun call to police regarding black student (KPRC 2)
• TEXAS: White manager of Sambuca 360 in Plano on video kicking out black diners so white man could have table (WFAA 8)
• TEXAS: Federal judge rules San Antonio police officers Raphael Medel and Sergio Villanueva repeatedly lied in warrantless search of man’s car (DocumentCloud)
• TEXAS: Judge reduces death row inmate’s sentence to life without parole after discovering that prosecuted lied at trial (Texas Tribune)
• VIRGINIA: Maryland Klan leader Richard Preston Jr. found guilty of firing gun at black counterprotestor at Charlottesville rally (The Hill)
  • Our episode when the video of Preston went viral (Fsck #24)
• VIRGINIA: White supremacist Jacob Scott Goodwin found guilty in savage beating of DeAndre Harris at Charlottesville rally (Washington Post)
• VIRGINIA: Customs & Border Patrol killer cop Mark Cochrane charged with felony puppycide (WRC-TV 4)
• WASHINGTON: White manager of Tacoma Fuego store on camera loudly reading shoplifting policies outside black woman’s dressing room, kicks her out (The Grio)
• WISCONSIN: Hennepin County Minnesota deputy Jeffrey Masek charged with child sex crimes (Twin Cities Pioneer Press)
• AUSTRALIA: Mobile phone footage shows officer deliberately running down indigenous teen for sport (NITV)
• UNITED KINGDOM: 9 police officers under investigation for killing mentally ill man during welfare check (UK Guardian)

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