"OFFICER FRANCO, therefore, concluded that the TARGET PREMISES was cultivating cannabis, disregarding the fact that it is a diagnostic facility utilizing an MRI machine, X-ray machine, and other heavy medical equipment—unlike the surrounding businesses selling flowers, chocolates, and childrens’ merchandise, none of which would require significant power usage"
Docket https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69172475/noho-diagnostic-center-inc-v-city-of-los-angeles/
Also, WTF is happening with LASD deputies 1-3?
LA times says:
The U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on whether the deputies … will be charged.
Several deputies, including a detective on the department’s notorious anti-gang unit, were recently relieved of duty in connection with a federal investigation, authorities said earlier this week. The Sheriff’s Department confirmed the move was linked to a probe “involving the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
Today a federal grand jury returned an indictment against a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy alleging that he used excessive force when he assaulted and pepper-sprayed a woman during a shoplifting investigation outside a WinCo Foods in Lancaster last year.
QAnon-loving Millersville, TN assistant police chief Shawn Taylor makes another appearance*, with election-denying, failed AZ Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem bragging Taylor (illegally) provided him FinCEN data https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/qanon-comes-to-main-street/we-already-have-the-receipts-election-denier-says-his-group-gained-access-to-u-s-banking-data
* previously https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/112958201730428269
An election denier says his group — working through the assistant police chief in tiny Millersville — gained access to a confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions.
"Trenton [NJ] officers slammed a 64-year-old man face-first onto his own front porch and pepper-sprayed him after he refused to let them search his house without a warrant … The police searched the residence anyway and did not find any illicit drugs or weapons … the man died at a hospital 18 days later of respiratory failure caused by the confrontation"
Leaving aside SMUD sharing data without a warrant, one plaintiff writes "…two deputies from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department arrived at about 9:00 pm. They didn’t have a warrant, so I said they couldn’t come in. One pushed open the door and pushed my wheelchair aside so that he could enter and search my home"
https://www.eff.org/cases/asian-american-liberation-network-v-smud-et-al
Sacramento’s public-owned utility and police are searching entire zip codes’ worth of people’s private data without any legal authorization or a specific investigation, creating a mass surveillance program that invades the privacy of entire communities.The Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (...
Also, some good old fashioned racism "In fulfilling Sacramento Police’s requests for data, SMUD has sometimes omitted homes in a predominantly white area. A Sacramento Police officer, in passing along a list of names provided by SMUD, removed non-Asian names from the list, leaving only Asian-sounding names for further attention"
https://www.eff.org/cases/asian-american-liberation-network-v-smud-et-al
Sacramento’s public-owned utility and police are searching entire zip codes’ worth of people’s private data without any legal authorization or a specific investigation, creating a mass surveillance program that invades the privacy of entire communities.The Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (...
Former South Bend cop Timothy Barber decertified in Indiana two years after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a 16 year old. No doubt a coincidence the decertification process started shortly after WaPo's original reporting on the case
https://wapo.st/49IFV9N
The state took action against former South Bend officer Timothy Barber after a Post story about his abuse of a 16-year-old girl. He’d kept his certification, despite pleading guilty in 2022 and registering as a sex offender.
WaPo with a look back on two years of reporting cops sexually abusing minors: "on average, a law enforcement officer has been charged with a crime involving child sexual abuse twice a week, every week, for 18 years… Nearly 40 percent of convicted officers identified by The Post avoided prison sentences"
This Texas Observer piece outing ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James J. Rodden as the person behind racist twitter account starts out with a lot of "yeah, that's a heck of a coincidence" stuff, and then… "During the January court hearing the Observer attended, Rodden repeatedly used his phone at moments that corresponded to times GlomarResponder made posts"
https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
Cullman County, Alabama grand jury finds the Hanceville PD should be "immediately abolished" because it's a "particular and ongoing threat to public safety," has a "rampant culture of corruption" and has "recently operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency"
Details not entirely clear, but it seems among other things they were using the evidence room as a drug stash and one of their dispatchers died after OD'd on said stash
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputy Julio Alvarado "saw Arnold, covered in dirt, walking down the street. Arnold told the deputy she was attacked by a group of boys who frequently bullied her. When Alvarado ordered her to stop, Arnold said she just wanted to go home and kept walking. That’s when the deputy jumped out of his vehicle, grabbed Arnold and slammed her into the sidewalk"
Internal investigation determined Alvarado’s actions were "both reasonable and acceptable"
Despite being caught in a 2021 video ripping out Shantel Arnold’s hair, sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to report the incident. A new law authored by Arnold’s attorney will mandate excessive-force reporting for all law enforcement agencies.
"Alvarado received an “approximately” 40-hour suspension for failing to file a written report" and after being sued, the Sheriff's office settled for $300k, "the third — and largest — settlement involving Alvarado"
Alvarado was previously demoted from sergeant to deputy for "patronizing a massage parlor that was being investigated for suspected prostitution" but as of March remained employed by the department.
Despite being caught in a 2021 video ripping out Shantel Arnold’s hair, sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to report the incident. A new law authored by Arnold’s attorney will mandate excessive-force reporting for all law enforcement agencies.
It was obvious the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office were lying from the start, but it's nice to have slam dunk written confirmation: "In documents created prior to the publication of our article, there is zero mention of concern about the woman’s safety. The records show that the police retroactively created a separate document about the Flock search a week after our article was published"
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
Two years later, the only apparent criminal fallout from that absurd raid on the Marion County Record in 2023* "Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home… "
Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher's home, a district judge ruled Wednesday.
"Newell took the stand and testified that Cody told her during a phone call to delete text messages between the two of them so that people wouldn’t get the wrong idea about whether they were romantically involved"
Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher's home, a district judge ruled Wednesday.
Ex Sangamon County Illinois sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson found guilty of second-degree murder for shooting Sonya Massey, which he justified with the absurd claim of fear she was going to throw a pot of boiling water at him
https://apnews.com/article/sean-grayson-sonya-massey-trial-34a5cb31ad44c6243d17cc4f598a9d5c
An Illinois jury has convicted a sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a suspected prowler. The jury announced the verdict against Sean Grayson on Wednesday. Grayson arrived at Massey’s home in Springfield after she reported a prowler early on July 6, 2024. Massey was holding a pan of hot water and Grayson’s attorneys argued that he was afraid she would throw it at him. Grayson faces a sentence of four to 20 years in prison or probation when he is sentenced Jan. 29.
"Larry Bushart, 61, of Lexington, Tenn., had been locked up since Sept. 21 for posting a meme that quoted President Trump, saying "we have to get over it" in response to a shooting in Perry, Iowa" which Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems claimed was a threat of violence (actually, about Charlie Kirk). Charges dismissed after NewsChannel 5 "aired an interview with Weems in which he admitted that investigators knew that the meme was not about Perry County High School"
RE: https://social.freedom.press/@freedomofpress/115537727153605004
Marion County Record raid saga* costs the county another $3 million
https://mastodon.social/@freedomofpres[email protected]/115537727365751856
They didn't quite get an admission of wrongdoing but closer than most: "The Sheriff’s Office wishes to express its sincere regrets to Eric and Joan Meyer and Ruth and Ronald Herbel for its participation in the drafting and execution of the Marion Police Department’s search warrants on their homes and the Marion County Record. This likely would not have happened if established law had been reviewed and applied prior to the execution of the warrants"
"… Paul Campo, worked for the D.E.A. for about 25 years, the indictment said, first as a special agent in New York and eventually rising to become a high-level official … Mr. Campo laundered about $750,000 for the cartel by converting cash into cryptocurrency, and agreed to launder far more — $12 million in all … He also provided a payment for about 220 kilograms of cocaine" - Perfectly on-brand narc
"The union doesn’t want discipline to derail an officer’s career and for years has made that a central point in its labor negotiations with the city" - Classic cop brain: Everyone else has to follow the law or face consequences, and also, how dare you suggest we should face consequences for our actions!
Larry Bushart (with help from FIRE*) sues Perry County (TN) Sheriff Nick Weems for holding him in jail for 37 days over a facebook meme
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/man-sues-cops-who-jailed-him-for-37-days-for-trolling-a-charlie-kirk-vigil/
Texas Observer finds that extremely racist tweeter and ICE attorney James J. Rodden* is back on the job https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-racist-account-back-at-immigration-court/
* previously https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/114033659855913080
Lenexa, Kansas police looking at what happened in Marion (see upthread) and going "Yeah, gotta get us some of that"
SCOTUS upholds immunity for St. Paul Police Officer Heather Weyker, despite multiple courts finding that she lied under oath and fabricated evidence in multiple cases
Background on the cases
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/federal-police-immunity.html
RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116296003942281833
"We're not a racist organization" shirt has people asking a lot of questions etc etc
https://mastodon.social/@ProPublica@newsie.social/116296007027521027
#AIIsGoingGreat / shitbag cops crossover: West Fargo PD used #ClearView to identify a suspect. Never mind that she lived in Tennessee and had no connections to North Dakota, they had her arrested, extradited and held her for 5 months before she got the case dismissed
Lest you think the shitbag part is uncalled for "At the news conference last week, a reporter asked Chief Zibolski, who has since retired, if the police should apologize to Ms. Lipps. He responded that the police were still investigating the bank frauds"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/us/north-dakota-facial-recognition-ai-errors-bank-fraud.html
"She remained in a Tennessee jail for nearly four months without bail while awaiting extradition … Authorities in North Dakota did not transport Lipps from Tennessee until the end of October, 108 days after her arrest … Lipps was later released on Christmas Eve after [her lawyer] obtained her bank records and presented them to investigators … But Lipps said Fargo police did not pay for her trip home, leaving her stranded"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud
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