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This week we talk about Bonespur Brezhnev abandoning his base, a Michigan student physically assaulted by a teacher over the Pledge of Allegience, yet another white cop going unpunished for killing an unarmed black man in Missouri, and a uniquely Texan dispute between a criminal wanting to run for judge and a criminal running the District Attorney’s Office.
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Papaya POTUS sides with Dems on the debt ceiling (Washington Post)…and on DACA (NY Times)…and on the wall (Bloomberg)…and on Paris (Wall Street Journal)Seventh Circuit affirms excluding “department policy” evidence in brutality trial (Seventh Circuit COA)Judge Alex Kozinski drops fire dissent in warrantless search case (Ninth Circuit COA)Deported DACA participant will be readmitted for deposition (The Hill)Governments are now suing people seeking public records (AP)Police bodycam footage is generally not a public record (Ars Technica)Police don’t act like brutality is isolated (The Blaze)Fox News fibs about 2017 police deaths (Twitter)AG Beauregard ends another police accountability program (The Hill)Sessions: “The first civil right is to be alive.” (The Hill)NYT Op-Ed suggests revisiting the science of sex offenders (New York Times)Today in stupid questions: Should police obey the President, or the courts? (New York Times)New study shows the high cost of criminalizing unemployment (Phys.org) Former prosecutor on why police see all black men as thugs (USA Today)The first-ever database to track criminal cops (Vice)2017 is on track to have the 2nd-lowest crime rate since 1990 (Washington Post)ARIZONA: Motel 6 shares guest lists with the Feds (Phoenix New Times)CALIFORNIA: Video released of UC Berkeley police pilfering vendor’s wallet (Twitter)CALIFORNIA: Fresno PD detain assailant without killing him (Fresno Bee)CALIFORNIA: DAs decide killer cop Matthew Hernandez acted in self-defense killing unarmed college student (LA Times)CALIFORNIA: LAPD prioritizes break-ins among the rich, ignores burglaries of the poor (LA Times)CALIFORNIA: Public Defender accuses DA’s Office of withholding DNA evidence (SFGate)COLORADO: Video released of police brutalizing an Aurora woman in 2015 (Denver Post)FLORIDA: Sheriff Grady Judd is getting sued over shelter policy (The Hill)FLORIDA: Polk County Deputy Russell Hilson arrested for beating his girlfriend (The Ledger)FLORIDA: Gainesville cop goes viral for being “hot”; turns out he’s a Nazi (Yahoo News)GEORGIA: GT Campus Police execute a suicidal student (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)ILLINOIS: Chicago Conviction Integrity Unit looks into Roosevelt Myles (BuzzFeed)Our episode with Roosevelt Myles story (Fsck #24)INDIANA: Video released showing Assistant Police Chief punching man in the groin for sport (RedState)KANSAS: Viral video of officer drawing a gun on two sovereign citizens (The Root)LOUISIANA: Corrupt Sheriff settles lawsuit over search of critics’ home (Reason)MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer Christopher Spivey is acquitted, jurors stay to lick boots (WBAL 11)MARYLAND: Baltimore PD Sergeant steals $10,000 from citizen, who ends up dead (Baltimore Sun)MARYLAND: DOJ won’t prosecute Freddie Gray’s killers (The Hill)MICHIGAN: Farmington Hills teacher assaults student for not standing during Pledge of Allegiance (ClickOnDetroit)MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD officer David Campbell charged with raping son’s 16yo girlfriend (StarTribune)MINNESOTA: St. Kate’s University security guard blames black man for gunshot; shot himself (StarTribune)MISSOURI: Bogus charges dropped against Fred Watson after 5 years (Reason)MISSOURI: Killer cop Jason Stockley goes free (CNN)The judge’s order in the Stockley verdict (St Louis Post-Dispatch)Judge Timothy Wilson’s excuses are pathetic (Slate)MISSOURI: Police threaten to tear gas a sanctuary; #GasTheSynagogue trends (The Times of Israel) NEW HAMPSHIRE: Teens try to lynch 8yo, police shrug (RawStory)NEW JERSEY: New amnesty program launched after two dozen arrested for welfare fraud (NBC New York)NEW JERSEY: Three CBP agents charged federally for running a “rape table” at Newark Int’l (US DOJ)NEW JERSEY: Former Edison PD officer Michael Dotro sentenced to 20 years for arson (Time)NEW JERSEY: Eric Kelley and Ralph Lee exonerated for a murder they didn’t commit (Innocence Project)NEW YORK: NYPD releases bodycam of the killing of Miguel Richards (Patch)NEW YORK: Thousands of cases rely on faulty DNA testing techniques (ProPublica)NEW YORK: Long-form piece on Muslim officer Bobby Hadid (New Yorker)NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD officer crashes his car into a tractor trailer (WRAL)NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD Chief says info re KKK rally was “not credible” (Herald-Sun)Our episode with how that day went down (Fsck #23)NORTH CAROLINA: Data shows the Durham Sheriff racially profiles drivers (WNCN)Here’s the Open Data Policing website (SCSJ)NORTH CAROLINA: Judge refuses to accept guilty plea in Confederate memorial case, says no crime (Burlington Times-News)OHIO: Seven Days of Heroin series (Cincinnati Enquirer)OHIO: Clark County Deputy Jake Shaw shoots a photographer (Washington Post)OHIO: Cleveland PD officer Kenneth Bolton Jr pleads guilty to violating 2 women with a sex toy (The Grio)OHIO: Firefighter argues “one dog is more important than a million n*ggers” (HuffPost)OREGON: Multnomah County DA is phasing out grand juries (Portland Mercury)OREGON: Editorial on the racist legacy of the state’s jury system (Mail Tribune)PENNSYLVANIA: Cumberland County DA David Freed promises to do better with Nazis (Penn Live)Our earlier episode on Freed’s Nazi clerk (Fsck #25)PENNSYLVANIA: State Rep. Aaron Bernstine promises to do a Charlottesville if he gets the chance (Twitter)TENNESSEE: Nashville woman shoots homeless man for sport (KTNV)TEXAS: Judicial candidate wants record expunged, opposed by drug-dealing DA (San Antonio Express-News)UTAH: An internal review “sustains findings” against officers who arrested nurse (Fox 13)VERMONT: New State Police policy limits disclosure of crime info (CJR)VIRGINIA: Richmond bans poles, bats, sticks… but guns are cool (Twitter)NEW ZEALAND: Data shows police regularly tase people they shouldn’t (Twitter)UNITED KINGDOM: Police tell black man “you’d be the first one I’d shoot” (The Guardian)The post The Cuckening (Episode 27) appeared first on #FSCK 'Em All!.