McCurtain County is a rural county (pop. 31,000) in the southeast corner of Oklahoma. It became a focus of national news coverage when a hidden microphone picked up the sheriff, jail administrator, a sheriff’s investigator, and a county commissioner discussing lynching black people and murderi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Misconduct’
June 26th, 2024 - 9:18 am § in Law and Courts
Seattle police owe BLM protesters $680,000 for chalk graffiti arrests
During the George Floyd protests, Black Lives Matters protesters in Seattle wrote anti-police graffiti with chalk, which washes off. The unhappy cops retaliated by jailing the four protesters overnight in January 2021, despite a directive against holding nonviolent offenders in jail because of the C[...]
June 26th, 2024 - 2:50 am § in Donald Trump, News Media
Reporter at George Floyd protests is dying from police wounds
A reporter who covered the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis in 2020 is dying from her police-inflicted injuries. Linda Tirado (photo, left), then a 38-year-old photojournalist, drove from Tennessee “to cover the unrest” in Minneapolis after a rogue cop murdered George Floyd, an NPR s[...]
May 24th, 2023 - 3:18 pm § in Law and Courts
Mississippi cop on domestic call shoots child
A cop responding to a domestic call shot an 11-year-old boy at the home, a local news source reported (read story here). The boy was the family member who called police. His mother slipped him the phone and told him to call 911 after the father of her other child showed up and became “irate.&#[...]
May 23rd, 2023 - 2:11 pm § in Law and Courts
Killer cop costs Colorado taxpayers $19 million
“The family of a Colorado man who was fatally shot last year by a deputy … after calling 911 for help when his SUV got stuck … will receive a $19 million settlement” from the state and local municipalities, NBC News reported on Tuesday, May 23, 2022 (read story here). Two dep[...]
April 23rd, 2023 - 11:17 pm § in Misc.
Kentucky sheriff hires Breonna Taylor’s killer
Myles Cosgrove, the ex-Louisville cop who fired 16 bullets into Breonna Taylor’s apartment, one of which the FBI said was the bullet that killed her, is a police officer again. The sheriff of Carroll County, Kentucky, a rural enclave of about 11,000 residents across the Ohio River from the sou[...]
March 13th, 2023 - 8:30 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Law school question
Tenino and Tukwila are municipalities in the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia area. Tukwila fired a police officer in 2017 after internal investigations found he “falsified reports, failed to report the use of force and showed a pattern of using a taser or threatening to use one when it wasn’t warrant[...]
March 1st, 2023 - 7:32 pm § in Law and Courts
How NYC cops cost taxpayers $6.45 million
New York City has agreed to pay $21,500 each to 300 protesters who were penned by a police tactic known as ‘kettling,’ and then pepper-sprayed and clubbed, during George Floyd protests in 2020, Raw Story reported on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 (read story here). The protesters sued, allegin[...]
February 28th, 2023 - 11:31 pm § in Law and Courts
How much stupid cops cost taxpayers this time
NBA star Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter (photo, left) were killed in a helicopter crash. Some of the first responders took cellphone pics of the crash scene. One of them, a sheriff’s deputy, would later testify that he “‘didn’t do anything wrong’ when he snapp[...]
January 29th, 2023 - 2:29 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
When police write news stories
Tyre Nichols was kicked and beaten to death on January 7, 2023, by five cops charged with murder. Memphis police issued the press release below the next day. Even making allowances for incomplete information, it’s a remarkable whitewash. By the way, the police chief has admitted there’s [...]