3rd Rule of Fsck Remains Undefeated Too (Episode 103)

Join us this week for a lot of cops caught on video doing stupid sh*t, police using stay-at-home orders to keep black folks in the house while whites roam free, a truly excellent long-read dissection of qualified immunity, and other stories that make you wonder wtf is going on in this country. *THANK YOU* to …

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Join us this week for a lot of cops caught on video doing stupid sh*t, police using stay-at-home orders to keep black folks in the house while whites roam free, a truly excellent long-read dissection of qualified immunity, and other stories that make you wonder wtf is going on in this country.

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Anon, Trey Benfield, Colleen Mahaney, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Lindsey Bowser, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, and Joe Sevits)!

Show Notes:

Stanford study of 95,000,000+ traffic stops shows persistent racial disparities, “veil of darkness” everywhere (AAAS)

This is the same basic conclusion of a 2016 RTI study of 20,000 traffic stops in Durham (News & Observer)

Brutal analysis provides the data on how courts favor police in qualified immunity cases (Reuters)
CALIFORNIA: LAPD officer caught on video beating the sh*t out of random black man for sport (KTLA 5)
CALIFORNIA: LAPD officer Ismael Tamayo facing assault charges for trying to kill another LAPD officer during campaign trip (LA Times)
CALIFORNIA: White cop caught on video brutalizing 14-year-old over cigarette possession (Slate)
COLORADO: Denver PD beat the everlasting sh*t out of motorist for sport, on camera bragging “this is what happens when you elude police” (KRON 4)
CONNECTICUT: Inmates who test positive for COVID-19 are sent to solitary confinement… with no toiletries, forbidden to bathe (The Appeal)
GEORGIA: Cops protected by sovereign immunity after jailing woman for 94 days for cotton candy they thought was meth (WAGA 5)
GEORGIA: Ahmaud Arbery, unarmed black jogger, summarily executed for sport on camera by retired DA investigator and his son (NY Times)
INDIANA: Former Jasper County judge Robert Monfort facing criminal investigation, bar discipline for defrauding estates (Indiana Lawyer)
KENTUCKY: Louisville Metro police summarily execute EMT, in botched drug raid on wrong house after actual suspect already arrested (WDRB 41)

This same type of screw-up happened in Alabama a few weeks ago (Fsck #98)
And in Pennsylvania in 2018 (Fsck #76)

LOUISIANA: Garbage collectors protest lack of protective equipment, so New Orleans fires them and orders prisoners to fill in (WWL 4)
MARYLAND: Keith Davis Jr. facing *fifth* murder re-trial (Baltimore Sun)
MASSACHUSETTS: Five suspended officers, currently facing criminal charges for a cover-up, rehired by Springfield police chief (MassLive.com)
MINNESOTA: Judge seals juror information, normally public, after trial of convicted killer cop Mohamed Noor (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

Our episode on the murder charges (Fsck #57)
…and the murder (Fsck #16)
…and the police report (Fsck #19)
…and the prosecutor prepping to lose the case (Fsck #46)

MINNESOTA: Rock County deputies conduct extended roadside rape, in below-freezing temperatures, on video, of passenger in car pulled over for having an air freshener (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
NEW JERSEY: White Jersey City police beat the sh*t out of black man for “not social distancing” (UK Daily Mail)
NEW YORK: 98% of NYPD arrests for social distancing violations are non-white (NY Times)
NORTH CAROLINA: New Hanover County deputy J.T. Kita fired, facing criminal charges for leading all-white lynch mob to black teen’s house (Durham Herald-Sun)
NORTH CAROLINA: UNC System Board of Governors Chairman Randy Ramsey caught lying about his credentials (Charlotte Ledger)

The Board called a special meeting the next day, to re-elect Ramsey to a second term (Twitter)

OHIO: Whites most frequently defying stay-at-home orders, but blacks 4x more likely to be arrested for violating them (ProPublica)

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