October 23, 2017

The First Rule of Fsck: Confirmed! (Episode 33)

1 hour 25 minutes

This week we get scientific confirmation of the First Rule of Fsck, see the Third Rule of Fsck in action as police across the country sexually assault kids, and in our #Law140 segment we look at the constitutional rights students have when they’re searched for drugs at school.

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Show Notes:

A timeline of the Trump administration’s Niger f*ckery (CNN)

The White House says it’s “highly inappropriate” to question generals (Vox)

Alt-Reich trolls smear widow with fake Facebook post (Twitter)

“Acting white” for white people (National Review Online)

New study confirms the First Rule of Fsck (New York Times)

New police dashcams will identify you via facial recognition (CNN)

Is the Supreme Court allergic to math? (FiveThirtyEight)

Supreme Court opinions also have factual errors (ProPublica)

Sessions DOJ warned about “Black Identity Extremists” right before Nazis killed people in Charlottesville (Foreign Policy)

Gen. John Kelly ordered ICE to portray immigrants as criminals (The Intercept)

DAs Associations lead efforts to block criminal justice reform (The Nation)

Military investigators turn out to be sexual predators (Washington Post)

US Marshal traded parking space for office sex (Washington Examiner)

ALABAMA: Homewood PD refuses to return wrongly seized computers from repair shop (AL.com)

ALABAMA: Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore says kneeling during anthem is against the law (it’s not) (AL.com)

ARIZONA: Judge refuses to erase Arpaio conviction (DocumentCloud)

Our episode with Trump’s Arpaio pardon (Fsck #24)

COLORADO: Denver officer gets 2 weeks vacation for hiring a prostitute (Denver Post)

DC: Justice Department drops request for 6,000 people who “like”d anti-Trump FB page (Gizmodo)

FLORIDA: Broward deputy Leon Campbell repeatedly raped 15-year-old girl (Miami Herald)

FLORIDA: 3 Richard Spencer groupies charged with attempted murder at Nazi rally (Miami Herald)

FLORIDA: Hialeah PD criticized for traffic ticket quota (WSVN 7)

FLORIDA: Addict charged with 1st-degree murder for introducing friend to her dealer (Orlando Sentinel)

FLORIDA: Exposé on the state’s juvenile justice system (Miami Herald)

FLORIDA: Taxpayers pay $38K to settle lawsuit by man arrested for “meth” that was donut icing (Orlando Sentinel)

GEORGIA: State Supreme Court lets prosecution of killer cop Robert Olsen proceed (WABE FM)

GEORGIA: Republican state rep wants Government to quarantine those with HIV (WSB 2)

ILLINOIS: Federal judge rules police can force you to use Touch ID to unlock your phone (Chicago Tribune)

Our #Law140 on phones and the Fifth (Fsck #7)

INDIANA: Officer tases racecar driver for fighting another driver (IndyStar)

INDIANA: Marion County jailers deny meds to mentally ill inmates (Fox 59)

KENTUCKY: Video shows Covington cop handcuffing 8-year-old above the elbows (HuffPost)

LOUISIANA: New Orleans experiments with ending cash bail… (CityLab)

LOUISIANA: …because of abuses by magistrates like Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell (The Nation)

LOUISIANA: District Attorney sued for using fake subpoenas (Reason)

MARYLAND: IRS seizes $59K from innocent veteran, refuses to return it (Washington Post)

MASSACHUSETTS: Lengthy exposé on the state’s dysfunctional mental health system (Boston Globe)

MASSACHUSETTS: State crime lab office withheld evidence in thousands of DUI cases since 2011 (Boston Globe)

MASSACHUSETTS: Methuen police use false form to coerce Spanish-speaking drivers (Boston Globe)

MISSISSIPPI: Reporter expelled from courthouse for reporting on judge giving cotton to reporter (LawNewz)

MISSISSIPPI: Teacher suspended for suggesting black student be lynched (Jackson Free Press)

Mississippi led the nation in Jim Crow-era lynchings (NAACP)

MISSISSIPPI: Police launch sex trafficking investigation due to reporter’s joke tweet (Magnolia State Live)

MISSOURI: St. Louis police are triggered by clothes (Riverfront Times)

Our episode on the STL arrests (Fsck #28)

NEVADA: Las Vegas judge tells felons they can have voting rights restored to vote for Trump (Nevada Independent)

NEW JERSEY: Orange PD officer Hanifah Davis suspended for beating teenage girls (WABC 7)

NEW YORK: Brooklyn judge wants to investigate police lying (NY Times)

NEW YORK: NYPD cops who raped teen use her social media to avoid indictment (NY Post)

Our episode with this story (Fsck #31)

NEW YORK: NYPD cop Adam Fridson arrested for exposing himself to minors (NY Post)

NEW YORK: NYPD SVU closed rape cases too quickly, threatened victims (Newsweek)

NEW YORK: NYPD Sergeant sexually assaults officer (NY Daily News)

NEW YORK: Public defender writes about her client, killed by the justice system (NY Daily News)

NEW YORK: NYPD admits it can’t access asset forfeiture database, has no backup (Reason)

NEW YORK: New study maps geography of arrests for fare evasion to neighborhoods (In Justice Today)

NORTH CAROLINA: Exposé on jail deaths across the state (News & Observer)

NORTH CAROLINA: State legislature mutilates the judiciary (New York Times)

NORTH CAROLINA: Sheriff candidate “not credible,” unable to be used as witness in court (WBTV 3)

NORTH CAROLINA: Baptist minister repossesses dead 5-year-old’s tombstone (News & Observer)

OHIO: Officer Michael Amiott has been fired (Cleveland.com)

Our episode covering the original Amiott beating video (Fsck #22)

And the subsequent dashcam video showing Amiott lied (Fsck #23)

OKLAHOMA: School district adopts (unconstitutional) policy requiring students to stand for the anthem (KTUL 8)

OREGON: Federal agents enter home without warrant, arrest man (Oregon Live)

OREGON: Police rack up $1,900,000.00+ in overtime staffing protests (Willamette Week)

PENNSYLVANIA: Dupont police officer and serial abuser David Turkos gets 9 months for molesting 4-, 6-year-old boys (Raw Story)

SOUTH CAROLINA: Police put 86-year-old black man in coma “for his own good” (Post & Courier)

TENNESSEE: Sevier deputy Justin Johnson loses his sh*t during welfare check (Knoxville News Sentinel)

VIRGINIA: White middle school students hold down black ones, simulate sex while shouting racial slurs (KTUL)

New Jersey v TLO (Oyez)

Vernonia School District 47J v Acton (Oyez)

Board of Education of ISD No 92 v Earls (Oyez)

Safford Unified School District No 1 v Redding (Oyez)

Excellent law review article on this topic by Emily Gold Waldman (Pace University)

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