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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] 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] More than 1,000 Victorian police officers incorrectly sworn in due to 'administrative oversight'

Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au

The Victorian government is urgently drafting retrospective legislation to address an administrative error which has resulted in more than 1,000 police officers being invalidly sworn in over the past eight years.

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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] '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] 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] Human remains found in Florida belong to Gabby Petito's boyfriend Brian Laundrie, FBI says

Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The FBI says human remains found in a Florida nature reserve belong to Brian Laundrie. Mr Laundrie was being sought as a person of interest in the death of his girlfriend Gabby Petito while the couple were on a cross-country road trip.

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[Link] Optimum distance to use a taser 3-4 metres, police shooting murder trial told

Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The murder trial of a police officer who shot and killed a woman armed with a knife has been told the best distance to deploy a taser is from 3 to 4 metres — around the same distance some witnesses put him at when he fired his gun.

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[Link] Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain Death Charged With Homicide

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The police officers and paramedics who stopped 23-year-old Elijah McClain and administered a fatal dose of ketamine to the unarmed Black man are being charged with homicide, more than two years after his death.

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[Link] Police officer who fined Brisbane Greens councillor Jonathan Sri regularly criticised him on Facebook

Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

The Queensland police service says it will conduct a “full review” into a fine issued to prominent Brisbane Greens councillor Jonathan Sri, after it emerged the police officer involved had regularly criticised Sri in social media posts.

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[Link] Police Say They’re ‘Too Busy’ to Assist Abused Children On National Children’s Day

Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com

However, when they arrived at the police station on October 1, the officers present refused to record their complaint.

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[Link] Long Beach School Cop Shot and Killed a Teen Mom

Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A Long Beach, California, school resource officer  fatally shoting an 18-year-old mother in the head as she fled a fight in her car. Now, two days after died, police are investigating the shooting as a homicide.

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[Link] Queensland police officer who leaked domestic abuse victim’s address resigns

Read: 4/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

A Queensland police officer who leaked the address of a domestic abuse victim to her violent former partner has resigned, more than five years after first admitting to hacking into a confidential police database.

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[Link] Police bungle cost ‘14 years of potential progress’ in Maria James’ murder, Melbourne inquest hears

Read: 23/9/2021 www.theguardian.com

Police errors regarding the storage and examination of evidence hampered the investigation into the unsolved murder of Maria James in Melbourne, with one bungle costing “14 years of potential progress”, an inquest has been told.

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[Link] US court overturns murder conviction of police officer who shot Justine Damond

Read: 16/9/2021 www.theguardian.com

Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a dual US-Australian citizen who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.

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[Link] Cop Was Instructed to Use Music to Disrupt Filming

Read: 9/9/2021 www.vice.com

From Beverly Hills to Illinois, law enforcement officers are using “copyright hacking” in an attempt to prevent activists from posting videos of encounters to the internet. Over the past few months, some police have loudly broadcast copyrighted music when confronted by cameras.

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[Link] A Cop Killed Another Cop. A Woman Was Charged Instead.

Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jenna Holm, who’s now 35, was holding the tip of a machete under her chin and walking down a Bonneville County street when two sheriff deputies confronted her in May 2020.

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[Link] Explosive Video Shows Police Wrapping Bag Around Suspect’s Head in Thailand. He Later Died.

Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com

Thailand has detained several police officers after a viral video showing the alleged torture and death of a man in custody, a gruesome scene that has shocked the country after it leaked online. Uproar spread across social media after the nearly 10-minute clip was first posted earlier this week.

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[Link] Dallas cops lost 8TB of criminal case data during bungled migration, says the DA... four months later

Read: 23/8/2021 www.theregister.com

A bungled data migration of a network drive caused the deletion of 22 terabytes of information from a US police force's systems – including case files in a murder trial, according to local reports.

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