Another day, another cop gets away with murder: Police in Mesa, Arizona released disturbing body camera video on Thursday hours after a former officer was acquitted of a murder charge in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man. The verdict cleared Philip Brailsford, 27, of criminal liability in the 2016 death of Daniel Shaver, of …
Criminal Justice
File This Under Rape Culture
A NY teenager was arrested and handcuffed by NYPD cops, allegedly raped, the cops claim it was consensual (which is impossible when you are under arrest), and the NY Daily News then writes it up and adds a picture of the raped teen but not a picture of the two NAMED cops. Awesome work, media. …
Heartbreaking Read(s): The Participant Who’ll Never Tell Us His Story
A news story about a police officer (in Salt Lake City!) manhandling an ER nurse for RESISTING HIS AUTHORITAY!!! seemed almost too on-the-nose as an analogy for life during the Trump Occupancy. But there are real people at the heart of this metaphor, and the Washington Post followed up: … William Gray, a commercial truck …
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At least he didn’t shoot her…
Shitty cop in Utah manhandles and arrests nurse for doing her job: Via Deseret News: Payne, a veteran Salt Lake police officer, was sent to the hospital by another police agency to get vials of blood for the investigation. But because the patient was not a suspect in the crash nor faced potential criminal charges, …
Open Thread: Trump & Arpaio, Dirty Birds of A Nasty Feather
Admin source: WH readies paperwork for Arpaio pardon https://t.co/nBzH6j5HQ3 @kaitlancollins @jasoncarrollcnn report #TheLead — The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) August 23, 2017 .@RealSheriffJoe: "If they can go after me, they can go after anyone in this country." #Hannity https://t.co/cIFDqXeKBh pic.twitter.com/POGavxfMRA — Fox News (@FoxNews) August 24, 2017 That is literally how the law works, yes. https://t.co/jGmtA2vsbb …
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It’s All Fun & Games, Until Somebody Loses Their Kid
It’s sad (no lie!) that the New England Cosplay Association had to cancel a long-scheduled public gathering because some nitwit college kid got a permit to let Nazi wannabes swarm Boston Common. But this is serious: An army of feral clowns descending upon DC was really more a question of 'when' not 'if' in 2017. …
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Unleashed Cops
While the Russian asset in the White House pushes cops to brutalize their suspects, we have plenty of cases studies on what happens when you license f**kery by the boys folks in blue. Today’s example comes from Baltimore: Maryland prosecutors have tossed 34 criminal cases and are re-examining dozens more in the aftermath of recent …