Feb. 11, 2019
Mini-Pod: Wreck It, Ralph (Episode 92)
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)
- 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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