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[Link] Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Groping TV Judge at Conference
Read: 22/8/2023 www.thedailybeast.com
A sheriff in Georgia pleaded guilty on Monday to groping a TV judge at a hotel bar last year while attending a law enforcement conference in the state.
[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] AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
The identified groups make up less than 4 percent of Chicago's police force but account for a quarter of all complaints, settlements, and shootings.
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[Link] NYPD Have Named a ‘Person of Interest’ in the Brooklyn Subway Mass Shooting
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
The individual is Frank R. James, 62. James rented a U-Haul vehicle in Philadelphia that officials have connected to the shooting, and vehicles’ keys were found at the incident.
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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] Mafia hitman escapes from federal custody in Florida
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A New York mobster who killed three people and attempted to kill two others has escaped from federal custody after recently being moved to a halfway house, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
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[Link] Looks Like Ron DeSantis Is Getting His Election Police Force
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ grand plan for an election police force has been widely panned as an absolutely terrible idea in practice by experts nationally.
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[Link] U.S. Police Have So Much Extra Gear They're Sending It to Ukraine
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Police departments around the U.S. are donating tactical gear to Ukraine, whose annual defense budget is smaller than the NYPD’s.
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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] Tech Firm Offers Cops Facial Recognition to ID Homeless People
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
“Police use ODIN facial recognition to identify even non-verbal or intoxicated individuals,” the brochure from surveillance firm ODIN Intelligence reads. ODIN’s specific homelessness product is called ODIN Homeless Management Information System, or ODIN HMIS.
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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] QAnon Sex Trafficking Conspiracies Have Shut Down a Texas Butterfly Center
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas is situated on the Rio Grande river less than half a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, and has long been the focus of intense and completely baseless conspiracy theories pushed by the QAnon community.
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[Link] LAPD Emails Reveal Fallout of Citizen’s Botched Manhunt
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
After Citizen's CEO Andrew Frame offered a $30,000 bounty on the wrong person, LAPD officers said they would no longer work with Citizen.
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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] Cops Covered Up Sex Trafficking Ring to Receive Free Sex Acts, Lawsuit Says
Read: 23/12/2021 www.vice.com
Top cops for a local department in Virginia actively hindered a sex trafficking investigation for almost four years in exchange for free sex acts from the victimized women, according to a recently updated federal lawsuit.
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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] 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] Arrested couple film themselves having sex in back of US police car
Read: 25/11/2021 www.news.com.au
A raunchy Florida couple got busted for having oral sex in the back of a police car – with the man yelling “F**k Five-O” during the recorded romp, according to an arrest warrant.
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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] School Removes Student Project About Fascism After Cops Complain
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Students at an Indiana high school are on their third day of virtual learning because they protested the school’s decision to remove a class project about ‘V for Vendetta’ which addressed police brutality.
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[Link] Lawyers for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Really Want to Stay Away From Race
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
During opening statements in the murder trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers, defense attorneys avoided mentioning race almost entirely.
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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] The Great Cop Vax Mandate Apocalypse That Never Happened
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
When New York City announced that city workers—including cops–would have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, there was howling, threats, and promises that thousands would walk off the job or retire, turning the city into a dangerous, crime-ridden hellscape.
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[Link] Alabama Judge Loses Job After Saying George Floyd ‘Got What He Deserved’
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Randy Jinks, the Talladega County Probate Judge, was removed from his position Friday.
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[Link] Millions of Americans Say They’d Quit Their Jobs to Avoid Lifesaving Vaccine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The hesitancy is, unsurprisingly, driven almost entirely by currently unvaccinated workers.
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[Link] School Cop Who Shot and Killed Manuela ‘Mona’ Rodriguez Charged With Murder
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The former Long Beach, California, school safety officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old mother as she drove away from the scene of a fight will now face a murder charge.
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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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[Link] Police Thought They Saw Brian Laundrie Coming Home. It Was His Mom.
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When Petito was reported missing, North Port Police set up cameras outside Laundrie’s residence. Laundrie had returned home alone Sept.
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[Link] Capital Rioter Begged to Be Released From ‘Cult-Like’ Patriot Wing of DC Jail
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. An alleged Capitol rioter was released to the custody of his parents Tuesday after a judge in the case said he was surrounded by the “toxic environment” of the D.C. jail holding dozens of January 6 defendants.
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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] This Black Cop Got Kicked Out of Her Union for Supporting BLM
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] What We Know About the ‘Skeletal’ Remains of Brian Laundrie
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed Thursday that remains found at a Florida nature park belonged to Brian Laundrie, the 23-year-old who was a person of interest in the death of his fiancée, 22-year-old Gabby Petito.
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[Link] A Black 10-Year-Old Drew an ‘Offensive Sketch.’ She Was Handcuffed by Cops.
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Ultimately, the child was held for over four hours by either school staff or police. By the time she was released, she “was very hungry and exhausted,” according to the letter.
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[Link] Sim Swapper Doxes and SWATs His Accomplice
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The SIM swapper, 20-year-old Kyell Bryan ended up doxing and swatting his former partner, according to the hacker’s guilty plea.
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[Link] Capitol Police Officer Arrested For Aiding January 6 Rioter
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A U.S. Capitol Police officer was arrested on Friday for allegedly warning a rioter to destroy evidence that they’d made it into the Capitol on January 6.
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[Link] Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo Is Getting Fired
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Art Acevedo had a busy six months as the chief of the Miami Police Department: He unknowingly took a photo with a Proud Boy, said the city was run by “Cuban mafia,” and made enemies for pushing the COVID vaccine on officers.
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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] Trump Recorded a Birthday Video for Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Former President Donald Trump recorded a video message praising Ashli Babbitt, the QAnon supporter who was shot dead by Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 insurrection, pledging his “unwavering” support to her family and friends.
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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] ‘Save Australia’ protest erupts in New York
Read: 5/10/2021 www.news.com.au
Australia became the surprising focal point of an American anti vaccine mandate protest march for teachers in New York City overnight, with hundreds of demonstrators chanting “Save Australia” and some waving Aussie flags.
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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. “The only way you get a medical appointment is by laying on the floor, and they have to come get you in a stretcher.
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[Link] Tesla on Autopilot slammed into police cars despite flashing lights, lawsuit says
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Tesla has been sued by five Texas police officers who were injured when a Tesla Model X in Autopilot mode crashed into police vehicles that were stopped and had their flashing lights turned on. The officers also sued the owner of a restaurant accused of overserving alcohol to the X's driver.
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[Link] She Owes Over $12K for 911 Calls. Now She Could Lose Her Home.
Read: 27/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When Gloria Parker dipped into her retirement savings to purchase a home in a suburb of Cleveland nearly a decade ago, she thought it’d give her a bit of security as she aged.
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[Link] Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Is Officially Dead in Congress
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
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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] Oath Keeper Snitched on Himself to FBI Agent During Tattoo Session, Docs Say
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Roberto Minuta, who’s facing serious conspiracy charges for his alleged role on Jan.
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[Link] Boogaloo Bois Are Using Amazon Ring Doorbells to Protect Them From the FBI
Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com
Paranoia is the bread-and-butter for Amazon’s Ring camera system.
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[Link] Why Won’t the Cops Fight Each Other in 'Grand Theft Auto 5'?
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Last year, the video of Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd sparked another wave of of protest against police violence and its role in upholding systemic racism.
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[Link] This Is How Bad COVID Is Getting in Police Departments
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. COVID-19, the leading cause of death among cops in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic, has continued to explode in departments around the country, as the profession’s vaccine rates continue to lag.
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[Link] A Black Cop Was Fired for Saying the N-Word. He Finally Got His Job Back.
Read: 24/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. But now, nearly six months later and after waves of support from the community, local officials voted to reverse the department’s decision.
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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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[Link] Arson Suspected After House Of Twitch's Biggest Female Star Catches Fire
Read: 17/8/2021 kotaku.com
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, the most-watched woman on Twitch, said in a Twitter thread that her house caught fire last Friday. According to Siragusa, investigators haven’t pinpointed a specific cause but “strongly suspect arson.”
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[Link] Ann Arbor, MI: Landlords Try to Play Games, Tenants Win
Read: 15/8/2021 itsgoingdown.org
Tenants mobilize against picnic in Ann Arbor organized by landlords. Originally posted to Black Ink. On Thursday, a group of tenants gathered for a cookout and speakout at Frissinger Park in opposition to a landlord picnic and Kickball game, hosted by the Washtenaw Area Apartment Association.
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[Link] She Flagged Down Cops for Help. She Was Handcuffed and Forced to Strip.
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When a Scottsdale, Arizona, woman flagged down the police for help finding the person responsible for smashing in her car windshield, she never expected to be the one arrested.
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[Link] Sam Pepper investigated by LA police in July
Read: 14/8/2021 www.bbc.com
Police in Los Angeles have told Newsbeat they investigated YouTube star Sam Pepper in July on suspicion of a sexual offence against a woman. LAPD have confirmed he was not contacted, questioned or arrested.
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[Link] An Oil Company Paid Police $2 Million to Defend Its Pipeline From Protests
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Calgary-based oil giant Enbridge set up a fund called the Public Safety Escrow Trust in May, 2020 as part of its permitting process for the Line 3 pipeline route, which carries tar sands oil from Edmonton, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.
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[Link] US-Trained Cops in Mexico Killed Migrants, Set Them on Fire, Say Prosecutors
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
New evidence obtained by VICE World News paints a chilling picture of the killing of 19 migrants by pnear the U.S border in January. MEXICO CITY — Two trucks carrying migrants sped through dusty roads a few miles south of the U.S. border as four armored police cars gave chase.
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[Link] Repealing the “Walking While Trans” Ban Is Part of the Struggle to Decriminalize Sex Work
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
After years of tireless organizing, advocacy, and struggle led by trans women of color, the state of New York has finally repealed the pernicious anti-loitering statute that was widely known as the law against “walking while trans.” On Monday, New York Gov.
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[Link] Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Invest $500 Million in “Smart City” Surveillance Technology
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Buried in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill is a grant program that would distribute $500 million to cities to experiment with sensors, autonomous vehicles, drones, and other technologies intended to improve urban living standards. Under the $1.
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[Link] 5-Year-Old Had to Get Stitches After Police Dog Bit Him in the Face
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The 8-year-old Dutch Shepherd, whose name is Barry, was off his leash and bit the left side of the boy’s face on his ear and near his eye during what was supposed to be a routine demonstration at a community event in South Pasadena.
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[Link] Austin Police Decline to Investigate Complaints in Protest of Reform Attorneys
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
As has been the case with many progressive district attorneys elected in recent years, the backlash to the Texas DAs’ approach has come in large part from law enforcement and right-wing media.
[Link] A Cop Wrongly Handcuffed a Black Mom and Kids. Now He’s Running for Sheriff.
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Almost a year after Aurora, Colorado, police officers wrongly handcuffed a Black mother and members of her young family in a parking lot, one of the cops involved has thrown his hat into the race for county sheriff of a nearby town.
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[Link] QAnon Thinks Cop Suicides After the Capitol Riot Are a Cover-Up
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon conspiracy theorists firmly believe that pretty much everything is fake or a cover up. The stolen election, the COVID-19 pandemic, and of course, the Capitol riots, in which QAnon followers played a central role.
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[Link] Cops Pulled Their Guns on a Black Realtor Showing a Home to Black Clients
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Eric Brown, a Black realtor in Wyoming, Michigan, had been giving a potential buyer, who also happened to be Black, and his 15-year-old son a tour of a home on the market. Just minutes into the viewing on Aug.
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[Link] Cop Fired For Proud Boy Protests Blames 'Woke Witch Hunt'
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
In the livestream, Proud Boy Eddie Block signalled familiarity with Fitzgerald, calling him “Rick” and implying he was a member of law enforcement. Fitzgerald was wearing sunglasses and a jersey emblazoned with the numbers 76.
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[Link] Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' to Make Millions and Fund the Police
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Thousands of Bitcoiners in June descended on Miami for Bitcoin 2021, a semi-religious event that celebrated all things related to the world’s biggest cryptocurrency.
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[Link] Laura Ingraham says Capitol police beaten by Trump mob have ‘nobody to blame but themselves’
Read: 30/7/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Fox News' Laura Ingraham attacked Capitol Police officers on her Wednesday night show. Following a speech about her perceived failures of Dr Anthony Fauci, she went on to discredit officers: “Fauci has no one to blame but himself, ditto for the Capitol police who testified on Wednesday”.
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[Link] Chauvin Is Guilty but His Accomplices Go Free
Read: 4/7/2021 goodmenproject.com
Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. In a lot of ways, this is a very positive step in correcting the problems of policing in this country.
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[Link] Teenage Girl Is Fatally Shot by the Police in Columbus, Officials Say
Read: 21/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
The police in Ohio, who released body camera footage, said the girl had threatened two other girls with a knife before an officer opened fire. The girl’s death cast an immediate pall over public expressions that justice had been served in Mr.
[Link] Pa. National Guard activated as Philly preps for potential unrest ahead of Derek Chauvin murder trial verdict
Read: 18/4/2021 www.inquirer.com
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[Link] One of the police officers who shot Breonna Taylor is writing a book about it
Read: 18/4/2021 www.indy100.com
Jonathan Mattingly, who was one of three officers who killed Taylor, is writing The Fight for Truth: The Inside Story Behind the Breonna Taylor Tragedy, which will be published by Tennessee-based Post Hill Press later this year.
[Link] Daunte Wright: Obamas say police killing reveals ‘just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety’
Read: 16/4/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Barack and Michelle Obama said their “hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a Black man” following the police killing of Daunte Wright in Minnesota.
[Link] Minneapolis Transit Union Refuses to Transport Arrested BLM Protesters
Read: 16/4/2021 www.leftvoice.org
Daunte Wright, only 20 years old, was brutally murdered by the police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb just outside Minneapolis, on Sunday afternoon.
[Link] Video Is Released of Chicago Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old
Read: 16/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mayor Lori Lightfoot called for calm before the body camera footage was made public. The victim, Adam Toledo, was one of the youngest people killed by the police in Illinois in years.
[Link] Minneapolis under curfew following protests against police killing of 20-year-old black man
Read: 13/4/2021 www.sbs.com.au
Fresh protests broke out Monday night in Minneapolis despite a curfew implemented after a police officer fatally shot a young black man when she appeared to confuse her handgun with her taser, fueling tensions in a US city already on edge because of the George Floyd murder trial.
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[Link] Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed a Black Army Medic Is Fired, Officials Say
Read: 12/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
Joe Gutierrez, who is accused of using excessive force during a traffic stop in Windsor, Va., has been dismissed, the town said. The officer, Joe Gutierrez, was terminated for his role in the Dec. 5 encounter involving Caron Nazario, a second lieutenant in the U.S.
[Link] Black Army Medic Pepper-Sprayed in Traffic Stop Accuses Officers of Assault
Read: 11/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
Second Lt. Caron Nazario was in uniform when two Windsor, Va., police officers ordered him to stop his car, pointed their weapons at him and doused him with pepper spray. Caron Nazario, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, was driving to Petersburg, Va.
[Link] Idaho Officer Killed Man at His Home After Mistaking His Identity, Police Say
Read: 10/2/2021 www.nytimes.com
The shooting took place in the backyard of a home in Idaho Falls, where police officers were searching for a man who fled a traffic stop on Monday morning. The police did not identify the victim or the officer who shot him.
[Link] Rochester Officers Suspended After Pepper-Spraying of 9-Year-Old Girl
Read: 2/2/2021 www.nytimes.com
The incident, captured on body-camera footage, renewed scrutiny of a department whose officers had placed a hood on Daniel Prude, a Black man, before he died from suffocation. The police department in Rochester, N.Y.
[Link] Second police officer dies by suicide after Capitol attack
Read: 28/1/2021 thehill.com
Acting MPD Chief Robert Contee identified the officer as Jeffrey Smith, who he said was injured while trying to help contain the mob of former President Trump's supporters attempting to stop Congress from certifying President Biden's electoral victory.
[Link] ‘Constitutionally Illiterate’ Tennessee Authorities Arrest Man For ‘Posting an Anti-Police Meme’ on Social Media
Read: 26/1/2021 lawandcrime.com
Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and Dickson Police Department on Friday arrested a man accused of posting a fake photograph on social media depicting two men urinating on the grave of a police officer who was tragically killed on duty in 2018.
[Link] Cops Arrest Essential Union Workers Striking for $1 Raise
Read: 24/1/2021 www.vice.com
On Monday night, police officers arrested peaceful striking workers at the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in New York City who were demanding a small hourly raise from management.