Cop Watch: Police Brutality Mega Thread

[ADevilYouKhow]

In Memphis, Car Seizures Are a Lucrative and Punishing Police Tactic

Vehicle seizures have been used to combat street racing and other crimes, but critics say that even people not convicted of a crime have been left for months without their cars.

www.nytimes.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Trucking company owner finally recovers cash seized by police through civil asset forfeiture

Police took $39,500 from Jerry Johnson but never charged him with a crime.

www.axios.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Man Exonerated in Alice Sebold Rape Case to Get $5.5 Million

Anthony J. Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted in the assault in Syracuse, N.Y., which Ms. Sebold, a well-known novelist, described in her memoir “Lucky.”

www.nytimes.com

 

[88m3]

N.J. Attorney General Seizes Control of Paterson Police Department

The state takeover comes after calls for the Justice Department to investigate this month’s fatal police shooting of Najee Seabrooks, 31.

www.nytimes.com

 

[88m3]

7 California officers charged in death of man in custody

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors charged seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in connection with the 2020 death of a man who screamed “I can’t breathe” while multiple officers restrained him as they tried to take a blood sample.

apnews.com

 

[NZA]

 

[88m3]

wow...

 

[NZA]

wow...

this gave "stop resisting!" a whole new meaning

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Driver Wrongly Charged in Traffic Death of Phoenix Police Officer Will Sue

Her criminal case was tossed after a judge found evidence and testimony that didn't add up.

jalopnik.com

 

[88m3]

Feds Mistakenly Bust Into Pilot’s Hotel Room in Botched ‘Interrogation’ Exercise

The innocent pilot was handcuffed for 45 minutes and forced to stand in the shower after he was interrogated.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Sex Abuse, Beatings and an Untouchable Mississippi Sheriff (Published 2023)

As abuse allegations in a rural jail piled up, criminal inquiries dragged on or went nowhere. No one scrutinized how the sheriff ran his jail.

www.nytimes.com

@the next guy

Well?

 

[the next guy]

Sex Abuse, Beatings and an Untouchable Mississippi Sheriff (Published 2023)

As abuse allegations in a rural jail piled up, criminal inquiries dragged on or went nowhere. No one scrutinized how the sheriff ran his jail.

www.nytimes.com

@the next guy

Well?

At she has freedom!


And cheap homes!
Live down south brehs!

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Cops Walk Into Home, Find Former Police Watchdog’s Dead Body

Ann Arbor police said they were treating the death of Jude Walton as a homicide.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

A Man Died After Being “Eaten Alive” By Bed Bugs In A Jail Cell And His Family Is Calling For An Investigation

Lashawn Thompson was 35 years old when he was found dead in a filthy jail cell, pockmarked with skin lesions across his body, according to his family.

www.buzzfeednews.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Grand Jury Decides Not to Charge Officers in Shooting Death of Jayland Walker

Mr. Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot dozens of times after an attempted traffic stop and chase in Akron, Ohio, last year.

www.nytimes.com