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.
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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. TrumpOur #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)The post Exoneration Extravaganza (Episode 66) appeared first on #FSCK 'Em All!.