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

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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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