cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22793898

> Summary > > A US Department of Justice investigation found the Memphis Police Department routinely violates the rights of Black residents, including excessive force and discrimination. > > The inquiry followed the 2023 death of Tyre Nichols, who was fatally beaten by five officers during a traffic stop, sparking national protests and reform demands. > > Memphis officials have opposed federal oversight via a consent decree, citing legal concerns and potential costs to the city. > > Similar DOJ investigations in other cities have revealed patterns of misconduct and racial discrimination in policing practices.

"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail," Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term. Wendt's crimes appear to be part of a nationwide pattern.

I wanted to let you all know about a program I wrote in Python which can be used to request large information sets as individual letters. Basically you list the documents you're interested in and then you create a list of requests that apply to all of the documents. So for instance if you have 10 documents and 6 requests, when you hit the generate button 60 letters will pop up as a pdf which you can then print, sign, and send. I recommend priority mail envelopes. Repos: https://github.com/josephmbasile/FOIAs https://lemmy.world/c/foia_s https://www.reddit.com/r/FOIA_s/

> Pino was fired in 2007 from the MSP crime lab after working as a chemist for more than two decades, the complaint said. He “had allowed the collection of samples not reported by law, reported incomplete results to police, and failed to report DNA database matches to prosecutors until after the statute of limitations for the crimes had elapsed,” according to the complaint. > > Sullivan’s motion to retest his clothing was granted in 2011. His jacket tested negative for blood, and McGrath’s DNA wasn’t found. The test comparing the hair to McGrath’s was “inconclusive,” the complaint said. > > “Pino simply fabricated evidence,” the complaint said, “evidence which proved to be the difference between guilt and innocence.”

The woman, Talisa Coombs, told Delaney she’d just gotten into what she alleged was a physical altercation with her granddaughter’s mother, Maria Pike, and called 911. Independence police’s response to that 911 call ended with the shooting death of Pike, 34, and her two month old daughter, Destinii Hope — who were identified Tuesday by authorities from the Police Involved Investigative Team, or PIIT, a team of eastern Jackson County detectives called in to investigate police shootings and use-of-force incidents.

The officer who fired his weapon was “a long-tenured veteran of law enforcement,” Dustman said. That officer and another two who were at the scene are on administrative leave.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article295483354.html

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22151349

Officers showed up at the home and found a man struggling with a woman over a knife. An officer opened fire and struck the man, killing him at the scene. Only later did they discover the man who was killed lived at the home and was struggling to fend off the woman who had broken into his home.

Police say Brandon Durham, 43, had called 911 and reported multiple people outside his home shooting, then told the 911 operator that someone had entered his home through the front and back doors and he was locking himself in the bathroom.

He also told the 911 operator that he was home with his 15-year-old daughter, according to police. Officers kicked open the door after arriving on scene and hearing someone screaming as well as damage to vehicles parked outside the property, police said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22065771

> Never give the cops your phone.

MCNAIRY CO., Tenn. (WMC) - A state animal cruelty investigation has resulted in the arrest of a now-former McNairy County Sheriff’s deputy, who is accused of shooting multiple dogs to death while tasked with ensuring the animals were okay.

According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, 24-year-old Connor Brackin is charged with seven counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and eight counts of reckless endangerment.

The animals were reportedly the subjects of an animal welfare concern call made on November 4.

>C.H. had reported that her stepmother sold her to be raped for $100 when she was 17 years old. The buyer, she told the sheriff’s department, wasn’t just anyone — it was Police Chief Larry Clay. While he was in uniform and on duty. The first time, against his department-issued vehicle. The second, inside a police office. > >Clay, 55, and the stepmother, 27, were both charged with sex trafficking of a minor. > >It was the second time in Gauley Bridge’s history that a police chief had been charged with child sexual abuse. The first time, in the late 1990s, nearly 100 people had protested the arrest, declaring their loyalty to the chief. > >This time, too, the chief was adamant about his innocence. Clay, who declined to comment to The Washington Post, hired an attorney and pleaded not guilty. C.H.’s furious stepfather told his neighbors that C.H. was just an angry teen, lying to get her stepmother in trouble.

Archived at https://archive.is/9L2T9

Sgt. Sébastien Plouffe threw part of the 14-year-old motorcycle accident victim's skull into a ravine in 2021 after being chastised by the victim's mother for the way law enforcement handled the scene of the accident.

Plouffe, who lied about his actions on a report, admitted the truth a few days later when the family attempted to retrieve the skull part in order to cremate the victim. He returned to the location of the ravine and attempted to search for the missing piece of bone, but was unsuccessful. A larger search was conducted at the scene with additional officials, and the skull part was eventually located.

The original on Washington Post is paywalled. And my usual solutions of bypassing wasn't working. Sorry for the MSN wrapper.

> In Gauley Bridge,” prosecutors told the jury, “Larry Clay was the law.”

> C.H. had reported that her stepmother sold her to be raped for $100 when she was 17 years old. The buyer, she told the sheriff’s department, wasn’t just anyone — it was Police Chief Larry Clay. While he was in uniform and on duty. The first time, against his department-issued vehicle. The second, inside a police office.

> Clay, 55, and the stepmother, 27, were both charged with sex trafficking of a minor.

> When Clay spent his shifts doing nothing but parking his cruiser and waiting for speeding cars, Pack was asked to counsel Clay on taking more initiative. When Clay hastily pulled a gun on a hiking tourist, Pack was told to coach him on being less impulsive.

> The family was struggling to keep the electricity and water paid. Then, her stepmother approached her with a way of getting cash, an idea from Clay.

> “He brought it up to her that he was sexually interested in me,” C.H. said. “We needed the money for bills.”

> C.H. tried to describe it without feeling it. Her head being forced down. Then her body on the hood of the chief’s car. “He was raping me,” C.H. testified. “Did you say anything to him during this?” Herrald asked. “Too scared,” C.H. said, balling her hands in her lap.

> She testified that she saw Clay give Naylor-Legg the cash. She would later learn it was $100.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21996789

> Summary > > The Oklahoma City Police Department faces backlash after body-camera footage showed Officer Joseph Gibson forcefully throwing 71-year-old Lich Vu to the ground during a traffic stop on October 27. > > Vu, who has bone cancer, reportedly suffered a brain bleed requiring surgery and remains hospitalized. > > The incident began with a language-barrier dispute over a U-turn citation. Vu’s family and local Vietnamese American leaders have condemned the officer’s actions, calling for his termination. > > Police placed Gibson on administrative leave, pledging a thorough investigation into the incident.

sheriff is the new county based daddy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18517823

> Day 2 of posting my fav Extra Fabulous comics so Zach doesn't have to: Good Cop Bad Cop > > (No cum)

Wasn't able to find a news article surprisingly.

https://www.facebook.com/MercedUnderConstruction/posts/667087175620752/

https://www.instagram.com/police.pics2/p/C3gZUkLP0cM/?hl=en

> A slide show presentation titled, “Gun PowerPoint 2,” covers training on engaging targets when in street clothes. The instruction advises students to yell “‘Drop the gun!’ while drawing and firing on the target.” Also under the title, “Engaging Targets,” the training suggests that “videos, cameras, phones, and witnesses” are targets to engage presumably to limit “Monday morning quarterbacking” from the public.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21657306

> The woman was wearing clothes so no headlines for her.

On Sept. 12 at 8 a.m., came across a stopped vehicle with hazards on the left shoulder near John Hanson Highway and got out of his cruiser to help.

"Are you here to help her?" Sgt. Warrington asks the man.

"No, she's taking me to the hospital," he responded.

Moments later, he fires a single shot at the passenger who says he was getting a hat blown onto the road.

"Oh my God, what did you do? What did you do?" the driver screams out.

"He had a gun!" Warrington says.

"No, I don't have a gun!" the man shouts, lying on the roadway.

According to the news source, some of the posts stated, “I am sorry. If you support the Democratic Party, I will not help you” and “The problem is that I know which of you supports the Democratic Party, and I will not help you survive the end of days.”

In another post, according to WHIO, Rodgers wrote that people would need to “provide proof of who you voted for” before rendering aid.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21422219

> Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement in July, causing third-degree burns > > On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city’s police department stopped him. > > They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived. > > Surveillance footage from across the parking lot, which was viewed by the Guardian, shows the 30-year-old on the pavement soon after, with several officers on top of him and holding him down. Once they lift Kenyon off the ground after roughly four minutes, he appears limp.

He's finally arrested.

> Minneapolis police are now facing heavy criticism for not arresting Sawchak before the shooting even though he had multiple complaints.

> Members of the Minneapolis City Council, including Mayor Jacob Frey, pointed blame at the Minneapolis police department for not acting on any of the prior complaints against Sawchak and failing to arrest him immediately after the shooting. https://newsone.com/5658819/white-man-shoots-black-neighbor-minneapolis/

>Three changes created this shift: Overdose deaths became a national crisis. Law enforcement agents grew more effective at targeting physicians and pharmacists they thought were over-providing opioids. And legislatures and pharmacies pressured pharmacists to use prescription drug monitoring programs, known as P.D.M.P.s, big data systems funded in part by the U.S. Department of Justice. > >P.D.M.P.s are surveillance technologies initially created for law enforcement. They generally compile personally identifiable information about all controlled substances (not just opioids) dispensed to patients in a state and feed it back to law enforcement and health care providers. Law enforcement uses P.D.M.P.s to track physicians, pharmacists and patients, and health care providers use them to track medications patients receive. P.D.M.P.s lack privacy protections applied to other health care data. > >Use of P.D.M.P.s changed pharmacists’ routines and relationships by incorporating surveillance into patient interactions. When pharmacists refuse to dispense opioids to patients who need them or call the police on patients, they route them toward illegal drug supplies or into law enforcement territory. The result: people with substance use disorders are dying at alarming rates, and some patients with untreated chronic pain are turning to suicide. Pharmacists protect themselves from becoming law enforcement’s targets, but they put their patients in harm’s way.

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/8XrQU

Your privacy is important. Protect yourself from Google with the FreeTube app.

The Supreme Court denied hearing Novak's case Feb 2023 effectively making parody illegal in the United States.

Archive link:

https://archive.ph/9gx9I

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21621324

> Body camera video shows two Phoenix officers violently assaulting Tyron McAlpin, a deaf man with cerebral palsy