“They condition their members to see themselves as soldiers at war with the public they are meant to serve, and above the laws they are meant to enforce.” That’s the subheading of an article by Adam Serwer, an award-winning black journalist (bio here), published in The Atlantic on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
May 17th, 2021 - 7:34 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Loren Culp’s police dog is a crook
Loren Culp ran for Washington governor and lost by a huge margin. Previous to that, he was police chief in the tiny town of Republic, Washington. His campaign ads milked that lofty status for all it was worth: Culp posed in police uniform with Karma, the town’s police dog. Ted Nugent (photo be[...]
May 16th, 2021 - 2:39 pm § in Law and Courts
This police misconduct cost taxpayers $86.3 million
Not counting 64 years’ of incarceration costs.[1] Two black half-brothers, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, 19 and 15 at the time (photo, left), were railroaded to North Carolina’s death row for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl named Sabrina Buie (photo, right) by sheriff’[...]
May 16th, 2021 - 1:21 pm § in Law and Courts
Ex-deputy accused of planting drugs during traffic stops
He was a bad cop, but a Florida sheriff hired him anyway, after another sheriff fired him, and it didn’t go well for that sheriff, either. Zachary Wester, 28, began his police career in Liberty County, pop. 8,354, in 2015. He lasted less than a year, and his boss warned the sheriff of neighbor[...]
May 1st, 2021 - 1:30 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
How Chauvin was convicted of murder, and thoughts on police reform
Minnesota is the only state where Derek Chauvin could have been convicted of “murder,” under the legal definition of the term. That’s the state in which he chose to live, work as a cop, and kill George Floyd. (Gong!) The Hill explains (here), “Many homicides – during robber[...]
April 10th, 2021 - 3:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Speed trap cops assault black Army officer
Windsor, Virginia (left), is one of that state’s most notorious speed-trap predator towns. The other is nearby Waverly. Both are on U.S. Highway 460 between Richmond and Norfolk (details here). (Traveler warning: Take the interstate instead, and stay the hell away from those towns.) Back in De[...]
December 20th, 2020 - 11:02 am § in Racism
Cackling cop brags about driving into protesters (video)
It took months to pry body-cam video from Boston police of a June 1, 2020, protest in which bystanders were injured; they’re now suing the city. In this expletive-laced rant, a Boston cop laughs and brags about running into protesters with an unmarked police car. The incident is now the subjec[...]
Virginia city fires police chief who pushed kangaroo charges against black community leaders after a Confederate statue was damaged
This article contains news and liberal commentary. 2nd Update (11/16:20): The case went to court on Monday, November 16, 2020. The D.A. moved to drop the charges, the judge questioned why the police went around the D.A. and dismissed the charges, and the city fired Police Chief Angela Greene (photo,[...]
October 2nd, 2020 - 3:17 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Can there be justice without prosecution?
The white cop who killed Jemel Roberson, a black security guard, won’t be charged with a crime, CNN reported on Friday, October 2, 2020, adding, “Kim Foxx, Cook County State’s Attorney, said in a statement, ‘The death of Jemel Roberson is tragically heartbreaking, and while i[...]
September 30th, 2020 - 3:26 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Chicago’s model of what “defunding” police might look like
This article is liberal commentary. “Defunding” police is easily misunderstood, which is largely the fault of advocates of the concept who adopted that as their slogan, because to many people it means “no police.” Even for those who realize that’s not what it means, it&[...]