The Copper Kaiser spent the week feuding with sports figures instead of governing the country, Oklahoma police kill a deaf man for being deaf while another Oklahoma officer is arrested for helping a carjacking ring, and in Oregon all Hispanic people look alike (to ICE anyway). Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about Government employees retaliating against citizens for First Amendment-protected expression.
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The Copper Kaiser dislikes dissent (The Guardian)Jared has an email problem (Politico)The National Museum of African American History and Culture turns 1 (NPR)Qualified immunity for coach forcing kid to play football with concussion (Third Circuit COA)No qualified immunity for Sheriff Clarke’s jail (Seventh Circuit COA)No qualified immunity for killer deputy Erik Gelhaus (Ninth Circuit COA)Excellent piece on America’s long history of opposing protests (Washington Post)Police are used to exterminate the disabled (The Nation)Customs & Border Patrol runs illegal security teams (The Hill)FBI lets informants run amok (Gizmodo)ALABAMA: 10 years in prison, still no trial for Kharon Davis (NY Times)ALASKA: Murder conviction thrown out due to DA’s misrepresentations (US News)CALIFORNIA: Huntington Beach police kill again (LA Times)CALIFORNIA: California Highway Patrol kills again (ABC 7)CALIFORNIA: SFPD Officer arrested for filing a false report (San Francisco Chronicle)FLORIDA: FEMA tweets a phone sex hotline (Miami Herald)ILLINOIS: Urbana taxpayers owe $35,000 for police arrest of Facebook flag burning (Chicago Tribune)KENTUCKY: Corrections officer fined for having sex with inmates (The Courier-Journal)LOUISIANA: Probation and an essay for homicide – when you’re white (The Times-Picayune)LOUISIANA: Bond for a triple homicide – when you’re white (The Advocate)MARYLAND: Lamar Johnson freed after 13 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (Baltimore Sun)MICHIGAN: Hazel Park cop investigated for embezzling $85,000 (Detroit Free-Press)MICHIGAN: Lawsuit filed in jail death of woman needing medical care (MLive.com)MICHIGAN: Lawsuit filed by man who spent 9 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (WXYZ)MISSISSIPPI: Middle school teacher Cammie Rone has thoughts on race (WVTM 13)MISSOURI: St Louis PD arrests a reporter for reporting (St Louis Post-Dispatch)They also arrested a police officer by accident (St Louis Post-Dispatch)MISSOURI: Police union terrorizes pizza shop (HuffPost)This happened in New Jersey too (Fsck #22)And in North Carolina (Fsck #2)NEW YORK: NYPD tases a man to death (NY Post)NEW YORK: How the justice system killed Kalief Browder (FEE)NORTH CAROLINA: Murder charges dropped against Shawn Butler (Durham Herald-Sun)OKLAHOMA: OKC police execute Magdiel Sanchez, a deaf man, for heinous crime of being deaf (NBC News)OKLAHOMA: OKC officer indicted for helping carjacking ring (KOCO 5)OREGON: To ICE, all Hispanic people look alike (The Oregonian)PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh PD uses man as punching bag (TribLive)SOUTH CAROLINA: Newspaper prints letter on “the virtues of slavery” (The State)SOUTH DAKOTA: Republican legislator supports vehicular homicide (USA Today)TEXAS: Bodycam law lets police review all video before giving statements (Texas Observer)TEXAS: Prisons stop using solitary confinement for punishment (Houston Chronicle)UTAH: Jeff Payne had a record of sexual harassment before arresting nurse (TalkingPointsMemo)Our episode with the nurse’s arrest (Fsck #25)And Internal Affairs “sustaining findings” against the officers (Fsck #27)WASHINGTON: Whidbey police kill a naval officer (South Whidbey Record)WASHINGTON: 17yo convicted of child pornography for taking a dick pic of himself (Reason)Pickering v Board of Education (Oyez)Connick v Myers (Oyez)Garcetti v Ceballos (Oyez)Lane v Franks (Oyez)Bd of County Comm’rs v Umbehr (Oyez)Perry v Sindermann (Oyez)Crawford-El v Britton (Oyez)Hartman v Moore (Oyez)The post Majoring in Minor Events (Episode 28) appeared first on #FSCK 'Em All!.