February 11, 2019

Mini-Pod: Wreck It, Ralph (Episode 92)

44 minutes

Join us this week as we go over the extended political f*ckery happening in Virginia, yet another conviction vacated in Indiana because of prosecutorial misconduct, and officer-involved puppycide in California, Florida, Illinois, and Indiana.

Special thanks to AY Shah on Twitter for providing the inspiration for this week’s cover art!

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Show Notes:

Virginia Governor apologizes for appearing in blackface + KKK photo… (Washington Post)

…then says it wasn’t him (Virginian-Pilot)

…but was called “Coonman” in college (WSLS 10)

…and dressed in blackface at a party (The Hill)

Virginia Lieutenant Governor is accused of sexual assault… (NY Times)

…by two different women (Washington Post)

Virginia Attorney General meets with black legislators to confess he dressed in blackface too (Washington Post)

Next in line for Virginia Governor? The Republican Speaker of the House (Twitter)

Seventh Circuit: Attempted murder conviction of Mack Sims overturned after prosecution hid that key witness was hypnotized (ProPublica)

The 7th Circuit’s opinion in Sims v. Hyatte (Justia)

Our episode last week on Fred Clay, who was also convicted by hypnosis testimony (Fsck #91)

Our earlier episode on prosecutorial misconduct in Elkhart (Fsck #77)

ARIZONA: Glendale PD officer Matt Schneider helps tase innocent passenger Johnny Wheatcroft 11 times, including in the testicles (KNXV 15)

CALIFORNIA: Contra Costa County judge Charles Treat denies police union’s demand to block new transparency law (Mercury News)

CALIFORNIA: Unnamed police officer in Kern County summarily executes his police K-9 Defender (KBAK 29)

COLORADO: Internal investigation concludes Denver PD broke the law in arresting newspaper editor for filming police (Colorado Independent)

FLORIDA: Broward County deputy James Cady on bodycam berating, assaulting black father holding a 1-year-old (Miami Herald)

FLORIDA: Polk County deputy Scott Cronin summarily executes police K-9 Recon (WFLA 8)

ILLINOIS: Unnamed Mount Carmel PD officer summarily executes victim’s service dog during response to burglary (Mt. Carmel Register)

INDIANA: Laurel PD officer Clinton Ellis pleads guilty in puppycide death of K-9 Blade, gets probation (Batesville Herald-Tribune)

LOUISIANA: New Orleans man wanted for murder tries to turn himself in, jailers refuse to book him without proper ID (New Orleans Advocate)

MASSACHUSETTS: Unnamed Boston PD officer meets up with 2 prostitutes, gets his gun stolen (WPRI 12)

MICHIGAN: Evidence from murder cases discovered in home of unnamed, retired Detroit officer during eviction (The Detroit News)

NORTH CAROLINA: Grifton PD officer Jason Lovick charged with 8 counts of kiddie porn (Durham Herald-Sun)

TENNESSEE: Nashville jailer Oluwatobi Ola gets anger management class after being caught on video pepper-spraying inmate for no reason (Nashville Tennesseean)

TEXAS: Houston drug raid that killed Navy veteran Dennis Tuttle, Rhogena Nicholas, and their dog was based on fake intel; at least one officer suspended (Houston Chronicle)

Our episode on the botched raid (Fsck #91)

TEXAS: Montgomery School District Police need a better decorator (Twitter)

VIRGINIA: Capitol Police Sergeant Robert Stamm, tasked with monitoring anti-Northam protests, suspended for being a white nationalist (NY Times)

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