Police Chiefs Gone WILD

Lots of Rules of #Fsck in this episode. Join us for a police chief casually dropping n-bombs on bodycam, another police chief tolerating her cops pepper-spraying a 9-year-old in the face for sport, another police chief defending his officer for the extrajudicial summary execution of an unarmed black man in mental distress, and a truly audacious police chief juggling a wife, 2 fiancees, and 9+ girlfriends amid getting arrested for fabricating evidence.

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Show Notes:

• Biden, Senate Democrats prioritize civil rights and criminal defense attorneys for judgeships (NBC News)
• 8th Circuit: Qualified immunity denied to SWAT cop who tear-gassed reporters at 2014 BLM protest (8th Circuit COA)
• Data: disturbing patterns in police executions of unarmed black people (NPR)
• CALIFORNIA: Oakland PD seizes 100+ city-provided mobile phones from its officers over suspected criming (KTVU 2)
• CALIFORNIA: San Diego County deputy Aaron Russell charged with 2nd-degree murder after being caught on video shooting unarmed black man in the back for sport (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• FLORIDA: 1st Hispanic Osceola Sheriff Marco Lopez hires nearly-all-white command staff for department, even less diversity than predecessor (Orlando Sentinel)
• FLORIDA: Liberty High School “school resource officer” – a cop – on video bodyslamming an unarmed black schoolgirl to the concrete and knocking her out cold (TMZ)
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• FLORIDA: Lake County “school resource officer” – a cop – on video tasing unarmed black schoolgirl as she backs away with her hands raised (WFTV 9)
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• GEORGIA: Whitfield County deputies boot reporter, crew for asking questions to Congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene during town hall Q&A (Mediaite)
• GEORGIA: Hamilton PD police chief Gene Allmond resigns and Patrolman John Brooks is fired after bodycam catches both using racial slurs ahead of BLM protests (WTVM 9)
• LOUISIANA: