It’s been a busy week for police K-9 units snacking on civilians! We also talk about the Papaya POTUS’s border fence, a bona fide heart-warming story out of Connecticut, and in our #Law140 section we cover defamation of public figures.
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[EDIT (07/17/17 @ 7:21pm): The original version of this episode had an error in describing the lawsuit between Florida Governor Rick Scott and State’s Attorney Aramis Ayala. Thank you to @lpmarkiewicz for the correction!]
Check out our new Patreon page! (Patreon)Cantaloupe Caligula advocates for a fence (CNN)Donald Trump Jr admits he tried to collude with the Soviets (CNN)White conservatives have more faith in police under Trump (Twitter)Republicans think colleges hurt the country… (Twitter)…meaning the GOP has become the Know-Nothings (The Hill)Rahm Emanuel wants to block kids from graduating (Vibe)Fourth Circuit: Rowan County Commissioners’ prayers violated the First Amendment (4th Circuit COA)Ellen McGirt on substance abuse and treatment (Fortune)Addiction is rampant in the legal profession (NY Times)Police need de-escalation training (Teen Vogue)CALIFORNIA: Merced police brutalize a bunch of club-goers (Merced Sun-Star)Here’s the mobile phone video (Twitter)CALIFORNIA: San Diego K-9 snacks on handcuffed man’s arm (San Diego Union-Tribune)CALIFORNIA: Police in Bakersfield think all black people look alike (Washington Post)CALIFORNIA: Santa Ana police beat and tase a man on camera (Orange County Register)CONNECTICUT: Aaron Tucker skips a job interview to save a crash victim (CBS News)DC: The woman arrested for laughing at Jeff Sessions’s confirmation is freed (HuffPost)FLORIDA: Aramis Ayala announced she would not seek the death penalty in any case at all… (CNN)FLORIDA: …and now magically gets stopped by police for no reason (Twitter)FLORIDA: Law enforcement in St. Augustine is crazy (NY Times)GEORGIA: DeKalb County officer beats a black woman for sport (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)IDAHO: Local radio station puts Deray’s photo on a crime tweet (Business Insider)ILLINOIS: Chicago cop beats a black woman, owns multiple racist websites (CBS 2)MARYLAND: Calvert County sheriffs beat and strip search a man arrested for speeding (LinkedIn)MASSACHUSETTS: SWAT practically encourages a distraught man to kill himself (Boston Globe)MINNESOTA: Attempted puppycide by Minneapolis PD (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)MINNESOTA: And Minneapolis PD summarily executes a woman who reported an assault (Sydney Morning-Herald)MINNESOTA: Minneapolis pays $48,500 to killer cop who executed Philando Castile (HuffPost)Our episode with Yanez’s acquittal (Fsck #11)MISSOURI: 9-year-old killed in police chase (Fox 2)NEVADA: Even surrendering won’t save you from the K-9 unit in Washoe County (Reno Gazette-Journal)NEW JERSEY: Deputy caught on camera doing an illegal search (The Paterson Times)NEW YORK: NYPD continues to target minorities (The Root)NEW YORK: New York Metro runs over a man and leaves him there (NY Daily News)NORTH CAROLINA: A Charlotte cop drives 100+ mph, flattens a pedestrian (Charlotte Observer)OHIO: No charges for cop executioner of John Crawford III (NBC 26)OKLAHOMA: District Attorney preps for dismissing the case against killer cop Shannon Kepler (KFOR 4)OREGON: Legislators might de-felonize drug possession (Washington Post)SOUTH CAROLINA: The lawyers for Walter Scott’s killer want transcripts (The Post and Courier)TEXAS: Texas City police officer steals $2,400.00 from a dying man (WTVM)TEXAS: Texas ranger pulls a gun on a random driver (KXAN)TEXAS: Houston will stop field-testing for drugs (KCBD 11)TEXAS: IRS seizes and sells dress shop in hours (Dallas Morning News)WASHINGTON: Seattle makes killer cop a police chief (The News Tribune)CANADA: Even Canada has crazy K-9 police units (Regina Leader-Post)New York Times Co v Sullivan (Oyez)Curtis Publishing Co v Butts (Oyez)Gertz v Robert Welch Inc (Oyez)Hustler Magazine v Falwell (Oyez)Our pod last week on defamation (Fsck #14)The post Thank God for Social Media (Episode 16) appeared first on #FSCK 'Em All!.