3rd Rule of Fsck Remains Undefeated Too

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.

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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: