Mini-Pod: Wreck It, Ralph (Episode 92‪)‬ #FSCK 'Em All!

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.

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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)



* The 7th Circuit’s opinion in Sims v. Hyatte (Justia)

* Our episode last week on Fred Clay, who was also convicted by hypnosis testimony (Fsck #91)

* Our earlier episode on prosecutorial misconduct in Elkhart (Fsck #77)





* 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: a href="https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/bnsf-railway-police-officer-accidentally...