Cop Watch: Police Brutality Mega Thread

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Proposed legislation would ban most solitary confinement at Rikers

If passed, complete isolation could only be used for a few hours if people posed an immediate danger

gothamist.com

 

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Uvalde Officer Passed Up Shot at Gunman for Fear of Hitting Children

 

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South Dakota Attorney General Who Killed Man in Hit-and-Run Convicted in Impeachment Trial

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg will never again hold office in the state.

jalopnik.com

 

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Regretful Officer Believes More Could Have Been Done To Kill Unarmed Black Man

ST. LOUIS—Revealing that he lays awake every night contemplating what he could have done differently, regretful police officer Mike Peltz confirmed Friday that he believes more could have been done to kill an unarmed Black man. “To think, if my trigger finger was just a little quicker, that...

www.theonion.com

 

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NYPD Refuses to Release Records From Amazon/FedEx Undercover Operation to Catch ‘Sexual Offenders’

“It’s very hard to see how FOIL’s personal privacy exemption would justify the wholesale withholding of these incident reports.”

www.vice.com

 

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3 Imprisoned for Fiery 1995 Subway Murder Are Exonerated (Published 2022)

The three men were convicted as teenagers for killing a subway token clerk after setting the booth ablaze, but New York police detectives elicited false confessions from them, prosecutors say.

www.nytimes.com

 

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The NYPD accidentally shot a fellow officer. A Queens man may spend life in prison for his death

Jagger Freeman was unarmed and outside when police responded to an attempted robbery and fired 44 shots, killing one of their own. Because he acted as the lookout, Freeman was convicted of the officer's murder.

gothamist.com

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Deposition claim: Nassau police commissioner used racial slur to describe Black female officer

A lawyer for the county said Commissioner Patrick Ryder denies the accusation, which was made by a now-retired police officer.

gothamist.com

 

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He Fought Boston’s Blue Wall of Silence. Now He’s the Commissioner. (Published 2022)

Boston’s new police commissioner, Michael Cox, was the victim of an assault by fellow officers who mistook him for a suspect.

www.nytimes.com

 

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City taxpayers will pay bill for NYPD's arrest of legal observers during Bronx protest

The observers were detained during a June 2020 protest over the murder of George Floyd.

gothamist.com

 

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Nassau lawmakers approve settlement for former police officer

The move comes after Gothamist reported last week that Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder was accused in court papers of using a racial slur to describe the officer.

gothamist.com

 

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Solitary confinement persists at Rikers Island, just by different names

A plan to replace the current system of punishing detainees with a more humane approach has been delayed indefinitely.

gothamist.com

 

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Last 2 Officers Involved in George Floyd’s Death Are Sentenced to Prison

A judge sentenced J. Alexander Kueng, who helped hold Mr. Floyd down, to three years in prison, and Tou Thao, who kept bystanders away, to three and a half years.

www.nytimes.com