The latest victim of killer cops, Tyre Nichols, was murdered after a traffic stop. The initial police story was that he was pulled over for reckless driving and then resisted arrest. But “Memphis’s police chief later told CNN that investigators have ‘been unable to substantiate’ [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Misconduct’
December 15th, 2022 - 3:16 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Trigger-happy white cop convicted of shooting black woman
A trigger-happy Texas cop who killed a black woman while investigating an open door at her home was convicted by a jury of manslaughter on Thursday, December 15, 2022 (read story here). A neighbor had made a non-emergency call to 911 in the early hours of October 12, 2019, upon seeing an open door a[...]
December 1st, 2022 - 6:21 pm § in Law and Courts
Cops are human like the rest of us
Cops are people. They’re imperfect, they have weaknesses. For example, a San Francisco cop with “a string of misconduct complaints” was “accused of drunkenly lying to a game warden about poaching a deer on private property” (see story here). In another example, 54 Calif[...]
November 15th, 2022 - 12:34 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Black men can’t have guns
Harith Augustus, aka “Snoop the Barber,” was a popular barber in Chicago’s south side. On July 14, 2018, Augustus was on a sidewalk near his barbershop, just walking and doing nothing suspicious, when he was accosted by five cops. Two of the officers were black, three were white. T[...]
November 11th, 2022 - 11:30 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Another awful police department
Vallejo, California, is one of America’s most diverse cities; its population is roughly evenly split between whites, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics (details here). Not too surprisingly, it also has one of America’s worst and most racist police departments. I’m not sure where to star[...]
November 9th, 2022 - 10:26 pm § in Law and Courts
Voters fire judge who signed falsified Breonna Taylor search warrant
It wasn’t a movie ending, but the “Kentucky judge who signed off on the police raid that resulted in the death of Breonna Taylor lost her reelection bid on Tuesday,” a Louisville newspaper reported (read story here). Judge Mary Shaw “was the only incumbent circuit judge to [...]
November 7th, 2022 - 5:23 pm § in Law and Courts
Let’s defund dumb cops
I’m a hardliner on crime; I want more cops, tough prosecutors, and long prison sentences for violent and career criminals. But we don’t make streets less safe by eliminating from police budgets the salaries and lawsuit settlements of cops like these. (Read story here.) Return to The-Ave.[...]
September 3rd, 2022 - 2:33 am § in Misc.
Mean adults kill a little girl’s pet goat for meat
“Last April, Jessica Long’s family bought a 4-month-old goat and took it to their Shasta County home, where Long’s young daughter named it Cedar, feeding and caring for it and bonding with it as she ‘would have bonded with a puppy,’ the Sacramento Bee says (read story here). �[...]
September 2nd, 2022 - 11:10 pm § in Law and Courts
Police misconduct stories on 9/2/22
Case #1 “An East Tennessee law enforcer who bragged about the ‘tune-up gloves’ he wore when beating suspects to remind them ‘who the boss was” and shouted ‘I’m not sorry for what I’ve done’ when a judge convicted him of civil-rights abuses is headed to feder[...]
August 12th, 2022 - 4:46 pm § in Law and Courts
Detective pleads guilty to violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights
Ex-Louisville police detective Kelly Goodlett (photo, left) has agreed to plead guilty to falsifying the search warrant that led to Breonna Taylor’s death, and testify against three other police defendants in the federal civil rights prosecution of those responsible for the black woman’s[...]