April 16, 2018

“Official Oppression” Everywhere (Episode 59)

1 hour 28 minutes

Join us this week as we talk about how screwed Donald Trump’s lawyer is, a California sheriff on video arguing it’s best to kill suspects, a Pennsylvania prosecutor resigning over repeated sex crimes, and several cases across the country of federal law enforcement endangering people’s lives — or killing them outright.

Then, in our weekly #Law140, we talk about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and an arrest at a Starbucks in Philadelphia!

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Show Notes:

Republicans’ domestic agenda consists primarily of attacking Muslims (BuzzFeed News)

Michael Cohen is going to end up disbarred and indicted (Quartz)

CALIFORNIA: ICE agents chase couple mistaken for someone else, cause fatal car accident, lie about it (Los Angeles Times)

CALIFORNIA: Sheriff Donny Youngblood on video arguing it’s better to “kill suspects” rather than wound them (NY Daily News)

CALIFORNIA: Sacramento adopts policy on turning off body cameras after officers tried to hide audio after Stephon Clark execution (NBC News)

CONNECTICUT: Montville teacher arrested for running a “fight club” at high school (Washington Post)

DC: The lawsuit against Howard University by Tyrone Hankerson is a hot mess (Twitter)

Here’s a PDF copy of the lawsuit (DocumentCloud)

FLORIDA: Braden River High School staff make teen girl leave class, jump in principal’s office so they can watch her breasts jiggle (BuzzFeed News)

ILLINOIS: Elgin police talk about how to handle mentally ill black woman without killing her, then kill her anyway (The Root)

LOUISIANA: 10 Republican senators vote against law to ban sex with animals (WWL)

LOUISIANA: Sheriff’s Association executive testifies 1,300+ people held for 4+ years without trial (The Times-Picayune)

MAINE: Bus driver fired for calling MLK Day “National N*gger Day,” superintendent a “c*nt,” elected to school board (Portland Press-Herald)

MAINE: Another school board member resigns over racist comments (Portland Press-Herald)

MASSACHUSETTS: Cambridge police on video beating the sh*t out of black Harvard student (The Harvard Crimson)

MICHIGAN: Rochester Hills firefighter Jeffery Zeigler chases, shoots at unarmed 14-year-old black boy for asking for directions (WDIV 4)

Racist firefighters in KS (Fsck #54)

Racist firefighters in NY (Fsck #41)

Racist firefighters in FL (Fsck #36)

Racist firefighters in OH (Fsck #27)

NEW YORK: Black parole officer shot and killed in her own apartment, no charges filed (Democrat & Chronicle)

NEW YORK: NYPD cop Joseph Essig gropes woman, gets convicted… but keeps job because his dad is a police chief (NY Daily News)

NORTH CAROLINA: ICE raids local trailers, breaks up families of restaurant owner, other residents (News & Observer)

NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville PD uses civil asset forfeiture money to buy new toys (Spectrum Local News)

OHIO: No jail for teens who killed 22-year-old Ohio man (WTVG 13)

OREGON: Three Sheriff’s deputies indicted in jail death of man arrested on drug charges (The Oregonian)

OREGON: Secret weed raid by Feds leads to innocent bystander with gun to his head (The Oregonian)

PENNSYLVANIA: Bedford County DA William Higgins, “pious prosecutor” waging culture war on liberals, resigns over sexual abuse charges (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

PENNSYLVANIA: “Waiting While Black” leads to arrest of real estate developers in Philadelphia Starbucks (The Inquirer)

PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh cop Kaelen O’Connor charged with falsifying report to protect partner from road rage investigation

(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

TENNESSEE: Hundreds of Morristown kids stop attending school after ICE raid on meatpacking plant (The Intercept)

TENNESSEE: Matthew Charles, model citizen during his 2 years of release, has been ordered back to prison (Twitter)

Our January episode on Charles’s sentence and release (Fsck #46)

TEXAS: Federal Border Patrol officer David Villareal arrested for raping woman (Dallas Morning News)

TEXAS: Federal Border Patrol officer Ronald Burgos-Aviles arrested for murdering 1-year-old child and mother (Dallas Morning News)

VIRGINIA: Hundreds of drivers fined under new law for driving too slow (WTOP)

WASHINGTON: State Supreme Court issues forceful ruling allowing woman with history of drug abuse to take bar exam (Seattle Times)

The Court’s opinion in In Re Simmons (Supreme Court of Washington)

WEST VIRGINIA: Taxpayers shell out more than $265,000.00+ in repeated settlements for abuse by state trooper Ralph Justus (Charleston Gazette-Mail)

UNITED KINGDOM: Welsh police successfully arrest psychotic man in knife attack, all on bodycam (BBC News)

ARGENTINA: Weed goes missing, police claim a rat ate it (USA Today)

Article I of the United States Constitution (LII)

Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (LII)

Background on Civil Rights Act of 1964 (History.com)

Civil Rights Act text (LII)

Heart of Atlanta Motel v US (Oyez)

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