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Baby Steps (Episode 82)

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We’re back on regular rotation! This week we have *5* different appellate decisions on qualified immunity, child molesters on the police forces in California and Florida, and a killer cop in Texas with a story that makes no sense.

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Show Notes:

  • Check out Episode 81 on Roy Moore’s lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen (Patreon)
  • Trump-supporting R Congresscritter Chris Collins has been federally indicted (Fsck #79)
  • Trump-supporting R Congresscritter Duncan Hunter has been federally indicted (CNN)
  • Trump-supporting foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos has been sentenced (NY Times)
  • Trump-supporting former campaign manager Paul Manafort has pled guilty (NY Times)
  • Trump-supporting former lawyer Michael Cohen has pled guilty (NPR)
    • And implicated the Papaya POTUS in multiple felonies (The New Yorker)
    • 5th Circuit: Judge Don Willett has thoughts on qualified immunity (Simple Justice)
      • The opinion in Zadeh v Robinson et al (5th Circ COA)
      • 6th Circuit: No qualified immunity for deputies who intentionally tased pregnant woman in the stomach (6th Circ COA)
      • 6th Circuit: No qualified immunity for officer who groped 17-year-old girl because she looked like a “junkie whore” (6th Circ COA)
      • 9th Circuit: No qualified immunity for school police officer who arrested group of girls “to prove a point” (9th Circ COA)
      • 9th Circuit: No qualified immunity for IRS agent who demanded to watch woman use the bathroom (9th Circ COA)
      • Study: Race and gender bias is rampant in law firms (ABA Journal)
      • Federal prosecutors admit they falsely accused Russian spy of offering sex for work (NY Times)
      • Sheriffs who cheered Trump’s attacks on the media had their own run-ins with the media (UK Guardian)
      • CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD officer Kenneth Collard charged for sexually assaulting 13-year-old daughter of fellow officer (LA Times)
      • FLORIDA: Biscayne Park PD chief Raimundo Atesiano pleads guilty to framing innocent black men (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 (Fsck #77)
        • And framing Clarens Desrouleaux (Fsck #79)
        • FLORIDA: Miami-Dade PD lieutenant Braulio Gonzalez arrested for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl (WSVN 7)
        • GEORGIA: Ilya Zaretsky spent a year in jail for rape he didn’t commit, as ex-wife’s family tried to extort him (WSB 2)
        • KENTUCKY: Providence PD sergeant sentenced to 3.5 years in federal prison for illegally beating, arresting a citizen who tried to file a complaint (US DOJ)
        • LOUISIANA: Plaquemines Parish deputy Brian Green given “indefinite paid leave” for being in alt-right group (New Orleans Advocate)
        • MARYLAND: Harford County deputies get virtual reality training on how to not kill dogs (Reason)
        • MINNESOTA: DA expunges 40+ charges brought by former Chaska PD officer Joshua Lawrenz, who profiled Hispanic drivers (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
        • NEW JERSEY: NJ Supreme Court decides police video is not a public record (Asbury Park Press)
        • NEW YORK: John Bunn spent 17 years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit; now he brings books to prisons (CNN)
        • NEW YORK: NYPD officer on camera with gun drawn, casually drops N-bomb, spazzes on methadone patients (NY Post)
        • NEW YORK: Multiple NYPD officers arrested for running a gambling and prostitution ring (NY Post)
        • NEW YORK: Rochester refuses to disclose how much taxpayer money it paid to settle brutality cases, to “protect taxpayers” (WHEC 10)
        • OKLAHOMA: Cleveland PD officer Terry Browne charged with drug trafficking after being stopped with 160 pounds of weed (KFOR 4)
        • PENNSYLVANIA: Judge dismisses false report charges against Pittsburgh PD officer Kaelen O’Connor, who falsified reports to cover up partner’s road rage (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
          • Our episode on O’Connor’s arrest (Fsck #59)
          • TEXAS: Dallas PD killer cop Amanda Guyger charged with manslaughter for extrajudicial summary execution of Botham Jean – in Jean’s own apartment! (Dallas Morning News)
            • A good compilation of subsequent developments (Vox)
            • TEXAS: Another U.S. Border Patrol officer in Webb County, Juan David Ortiz, arrested for murdering women (Washington Post)
              • Border Patrol agent Ronald Burgos-Aviles, in the same sector, killed a woman and her 1-year-old child (Fsck #59)
              • WISCONSIN: Lawsuit settlements for abuse in Wisconsin’s teen prisons cost taxpayers $20,600,000.00+ (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

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