Had certainly had a 5A right not to speak. I don’t believe 5A protection extends to shutting off employer-mandated recording devices before choosing to speak.
What if I just forget to turn it off and it loops around and records over the relevant content?
Don’t most police offers have some sort of immunity from prosecution or civil lawsuit for actions committed in the performance of their duties? (I know there’s an official name for this but I can’t remember it ATM.)
Qualified immunity, which applies to most (all?) government officials.
IANAL, but a quick search suggests that if you have electronic evidence that you know or should have known may be relevant to a criminal case, and you don’t take steps to preserve it (this includes allowing automatic delete/overwrite), you might be in trouble.
Police detain Tyreek Hill, wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins, on the morning of the opening game. They handcuff him and put him on the ground.
All over the news.
Lots of videos of him, but I don’t have much luck linking videos.
A muscular black man? I’d say they had cause to shoot him. You can’t be too careful.
I just can’t deal with this shit, day after day after day. Cops are supposed to be the god damn good guys. This drunk cop hit a motorcycle and two young people are in critical condition. He doesn’t even get tested for alcohol when he’s so obviously drunk. Cops protecting cops even in he face of this. Sickening.
The cop’s body cam footage was (partially?) released today.
Um…
I have some hope that this will be the case that finally opens people’s eyes. Maybe.
District Judge Kevin Mullin was shot to death in his chambers. The suspect in this case is Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines.
(Letcher County is in the Appalachian part of the state, on the Virginia border.)
Ugh, this one hits close. I’ve known this guy for probably 25 years. Not as a friend, just in a local cop/local business way. That is, for as long as he’s been a cop, he’s been stopping in at my place for lunch, responding to calls we’ve made etc. Over the years we’ve gotten to know each other just from chit chatting for 5 or 10 minutes when he’s in the store.
He was one of the two cops from this story:
I walked out to the store and could see two cops with their AR-15s pointed at the front door. At this point they didn’t have any details and didn’t know that the guy had already left. I walked out with my hands up. Both these cops know me by name, I see them on a nearly daily basis, but I didn’t want to find out if they’d recognize me walking out of the scene of an armed robbery at night, hence the arms up. I made eye contact with them, waved them in and they put their guns away.
Anyways, he’s the School Resource Officer/SRO. As far as I know, based on what I’ve heard over the years from my employees that have gone to that school, he’s generally well liked and I, based on my limited interactions, never got any weird vibes from him.
Anyway…
Kamolov, who is employed as a part-time certified law enforcement officer with the St. Francis Police Department as the school resource officer for St. Francis High School, invited the girl into his private office for a surprise. He told her he’d brought shirts back from Brazil and told her to try two on to see which fit better as they were different sizes.
Kamolov drew the blinds and exited the office.
The student took off her zip-up hoodie to try on the shirts while still wearing a tank top. As she was trying on one of the shirts, she noticed a cellphone propped up and recording her.
She went directly to the principal’s office and told the principal what she saw.
And good job to the girl who thought quickly enough, and had the courage, to report this to the school before he had time to realize she spotted the camera. If she waited until she got home and told her parents, this may have all been much harder to prove.
I’m posting this because of the cops that wrote the tickets, not the judge.
Here’s another video with a second clip of the same judge doing the same thing for someone else. I like what he’s doing, but the way he warns the defendants almost sounds like a threat. I know he’s genuinely trying to tell them that life’s not fair and they need to watch their back (for cops), but it has a ‘nice place ya here, shame if something happened to it’ ring to it.
He’s essentially pushing back against Stop and Frisk (ie “walking while black”). And it’s not that he’s soft on defendants either. In fact, I’m seeing a lot of videos of him being particularly tough on defendants.
*Trevor Noah did a great video (only a few minutes long) on that topic a while ago. We all know what it is, but this gave me a lot of insight into it’s effect on people.
The infamous Scott v. Sandford i.e. “Dred Scott” Supreme Court decision at one point expounded on the liberties that free blacks would have to be accorded if they were considered citizens of the United States of America, including:
to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
Apparently we still aren’t there yet.
A while back when Kamala Harris was in town, the police were trying to clear the streets and must’ve forgotten to put up No Parking signs on one block. What did they do? They put up the signs, 10 minutes later gave everyone $150 tickets and towed their cars. The only reason for voiding the tickets was because it was caught on video.
The fact that this murderous douchebag has a reflex sight on his pistol says everything we need to know about him.
Under accessory to felony laws, the original assailant can now be charged with murder. 
Yes. But for the cop who killed him “just an innocent mistake”.
What’s a reflex sight, and what does it tell us about him?