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Majoring in Minor Events (Episode 28)

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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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Show Notes:

  • 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)

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