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[Link] Cleo Smith detective stood down amid misconduct probe

Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com

The decision to stand down a prominent West Australian homicide detective accused of misconduct does not mean he is guilty, the state’s police chief, Col Blanch, said.

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[Link] Cops Pulled Their Guns on Unarmed Teen Filming Them: ‘What Weapon?’

Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com

Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, pointed guns at an unarmed teenager and screamed at him to get on the ground as he recorded them detaining another group of teens.

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[Link] Cops Tried Playing Disney Music to Censor a Video

Read: 10/4/2022 www.vice.com

This time, it’s Disney. Around 11 p.m. on Monday in Santa Ana, a city just south of Los Angeles, a YouTuber with a channel called Santa Ana Audits started recording a group of police investigating a car theft in his neighborhood.

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[Link] Reminder: Telling Cops to ‘Fuck Off’ Is Completely Legal

Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com

When cops confronted Michael Wood while wearing his “fuck the police” T-shirt at a local county fair in Dayton, Ohio, six years ago, he tried to explain he was well within his rights. He even removed the shirt.  But the officers still asked him to leave.

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[Link] Wu-Tang Clan Producer Suing NYPD After Wrongfully Spending 4 Years in Rikers

Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com

Former Wu-Tang Clan producer “True Master” spent four years at Rikers Island after being falsely accused of a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit. Now, he wants justice—with the help of star civil rights attorney Ben Crump.

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[Link] England and Wales police bosses will not admit to institutional racism in their forces

Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

Police leaders in England and Wales will decide not to accept that their forces are still institutionally racist, as they try to battle their way out of a race crisis.

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[Link] Police officer who assaulted teenager spared jall because of own trauma at work

Read: 1/3/2022 www.abc.net.au

Andrew Allan Jaunay was handed a three-month suspended sentence with a year-long good behaviour bond for the 2013 assault of then-17-year-old Matthew Odgers. Jaunay was with other police officers when they stopped and searched Mr Odgers in a Whyalla Stuart street in October of that year.

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[Link] Zachary Rolfe trial: no ‘reasonable’ grounds for shooting Kumanjayi Walker second and third time, court hears

Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

Police officer Zachary Rolfe did not have “reasonable” grounds to shoot Kumanjayi Walker a second and third time, and the second and third shots provided no tactical advantage in the attempted arrest of the Aboriginal man, a former Northern Territory police defensive tactics trainer told Rolfe

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[Link] Woman takes legal action after Met officer who called her ‘hot’ keeps job

Read: 7/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Kristina O’Connor, now 33, said she was sent inappropriate messages by DCI James Mason after he responded to her report of an attempted robbery in October 2011.

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[Link] Amir Locke shooting: hundreds protest in Minneapolis after police killing of Black man

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis on Saturday demanding justice in the fatal police shooting of a young Black man, Amir Locke, during a “no-knock” raid on an apartment earlier this week.

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[Link] 3 Cops Charged in Shooting Death of 8-Year-Old Girl After Gunfight

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Three Pennsylvania officers have turned themselves in to authorities after a grand jury decided to bring charges against them in the death of an 8-year-old killed during a firefight they had with two teens.

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[Link] Cop Caught on Video Shooting Man in Wheelchair 9 Times From Behind

Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com

The officer, Ryan Remington, has since been fired from the Tuscon Police Department as a result of the deadly shooting, police said Wednesday. Remington, a four-year veteran of the force, also faces possible charges in the fatal incident. Police say that sometime before 6 p.

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[Link] 'He has been significantly punished': Prison escape lands man in solitary confinement for a year, court hears

Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

Jason Gregory Burdon has pleaded guilty to escaping from the maximum security prison's kitchen area in December last year, using items of clothing as a rope to climb out of a metal louvre window.

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[Link] Off-Duty Cop Allegedly Hit a Guy With His Car and Took the Body Home to Mom

Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com

Ultimately, the cop’s father—who’s also a police officer—called 911, according to local officials.

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[Link] Fundraiser for US man exonerated after 43 years in prison tops $1.4m

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

By mid-afternoon on Saturday, a fundraiser for a man who spent 43 years in prison before a judge in Missouri this week overturned his conviction in a triple murder had raised more than $1.4m.

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[Link] ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone

Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com

The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive.

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[Link] Police presence at music festivals can lead to ‘panic overdoses’ of drugs

Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Police presence at music festivals leads some people to “panic overdose” in their attempt to avoid getting caught, an Australian study has found, with experts calling for a change in policing culture at festivals.

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[Link] Why are so many NYPD officers fighting vaccination?

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

In New York City, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) tried and failed to block the city’s vaccine mandate for all city workers. New York City police officers have been on the wrong side of public health for most of the pandemic.

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[Link] Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children

Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.

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[Link] Cops Admit Sharing Images of Murdered Sisters on WhatsApp

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

Two Metropolitan police officers have admitted to taking, altering and sharing images of two sisters who were found dead in a London park this year.

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[Link] It Took 7 Years To Charge Cops Who Shot Jamarion Robinson 59 Times

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Members of a U.S. Marshal’s task force shot Jamarion Robinson, a 26-year-old Black man with paranoid schizophrenia, 59 times during a raid on his girlfriend’s home in 2016. 

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