December 10, 2018

Killing the “Good Guy with a Gun” (Episode 89)

1 hour 13 minutes

We’re snowed in here in Durham! Join us as we talk about the flurry of sentencing memos in the Trump-Russia investigation, an 8th Circuit decision to incentivize police dishonesty, and a “Good Guy with a Gun” getting shot by police in Alabama and California and Louisiana!

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Show Notes:

Lots of sentencing memos out this week!

Michael Cohen @ Russia Investigation (DocumentCloud)

Michael Cohen @ New York Investigation (DocumentCloud)

Michael Flynn (DocumentCloud)

Michael Flynn Supplement (DocumentCloud)

Paul Manafort (DocumentCloud)

Russians were in contact with at least 14 Trump campaign operatives (Washington Post)

James Comey testifies to Congress (Vox)

Comey Hearing Transcript (House Judiciary)

Gen. John Kelly, garbage pile in human form, is out as Chief of Staff (NY Times)

Our episode where I forewarned you Kelly was a scumbag (Fsck #19)

…and where he lied about a Gold Star widow and a Congresswoman (Fsck #33)

…and where the Inspector General confirmed Kelly broke the law (Fsck #48)

…and where Kelly publicly defended domestic abusers (Fsck #51)

…and where Kelly argued making kids into orphans was cool (Fsck #64)

Eighth Circuit: Officer lied at trial, but arrest was still legal (8th Circ COA)

Study: nearly half the country has a family member in jail (Washington Post)

The full incarceration report (FWD.us)

Survey: contraband brought into jails via staff, not visitors (Prison Policy Initiative)

ALABAMA: Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., summarily executed by Hoover PD at mall, was shot in back while trying to help panicked shoppers escape (NY Times)

CALIFORNIA: Sacramento law enforcement charged protestors stabbed by Neo-Nazis at protest, let attackers go free (UK Guardian)

CALIFORNIA: Sheriff’s deputy Ron Helus, trying to save patrons in Thousand Oaks massacre, killed by other police (KTLA 5)

COLORADO: Westminster PD cop Curtis Arganbright gets 90 days in jail for raping handcuffed woman (KRDO 13)

DC: Unidentified DOJ staffer sexually assaulted staff, allowed to resign (The Hill)

FLORIDA: Miami taxpayers to shell out $1,300,000.00+ settlement to Taiwan Smart, jailed for 19 months for murders he didn’t commit (Miami New Times)

FLORIDA: Monroe County Sheriff tried to deport American citizen to Jamaica over weed (Miami Herald)

Our episode on ICE routinely deporting Americans (Fsck #61)

GEORGIA: Grantville PD officer James Christopher Holmes indicted for incest (Newnan Times-Herald)

ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer on video repeatedly beating unarmed, restrained 16-year-old boy with handcuffs (Reason)

INDIANA: Elkhart PD officers Cory Newland and Joshua Titus charged with assault for beating handcuffed man (South Bend Tribune)

LOUISIANA: Federal agent shot twice by New Orleans PD while walking back to hotel (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

MICHIGAN: Wayne County Sheriff’s Office seizes woman’s car over $10 of weed (Reason)

NEW YORK: NYPD police on bystander video repeatedly trying to rip 1-year-old child from mother’s arms (Politico)

NEW YORK: Sunray TX police chief Timothy Dean, officer Bron Bohlar indicted in murder of Sodus NY couple (WHAM 13)

NORTH CAROLINA: NC State Highway Patrolman Jonathan K. Whitley decides to randomly share racist thoughts on Instagram (Durham Herald-Sun)

OHIO: Former Cuyahoga County Judge Lance Mason indicted in murder of ex-wife (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

OREGON: Hillsboro PD officers raid classroom with rifles drawn, over verbal argument between students (Portland Tribune)

OREGON: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler demanded reporters sign non-disclosure agreements and let police review articles on them (Willamette Week)

OREGON: Massive $10,000,000.00+ settlement in jail dehydration death of Madaline Pitkin (The Oregonian)

PENNSYLVANIA: Grand jury issues scathing report on police incompetence, interference by union (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

TEXAS: US Border Patrol officer Juan David Ortiz officially indicted on capital murder (Laredo Morning Times)

Our earlier episode on Ortiz’s killing spree (Fsck #82)

TEXAS: Records expunged for “San Antonio Four,” exonerated after spending 15+ years in prison for assault they didn’t commit (San Antonio Express-News)

VIRGINIA: Prominent Neo-Nazi Alex McNabb works as a taxpayer-funded EMT in Patrick County (HuffPost)

WEST VIRGINIA: State Trooper Derek Walker, already on leave for beating a teenager, subject of lawsuit and internal investigation over other incidents (Charleston Gazette-Mail)

CANADA: Toronto PD officer Vittorio Dominelli resigns after eating pot brownie and radioing for medical help (CBC)

FRANCE: Paris riot police force schoolkids onto their knees with hands on their heads for protesting (Sky News)

UK: London police release video showing them running over moped thieves for sport (UK Independent)

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