A Florida man won the right to surreptitiously record police officers while making internal affairs complaints without the threat of prosecution when he defeated the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office (SAO) in a federal appeals court ruling.
Prosecutors tried to censor the citizen, who published his incriminating recording of a police chief.
Miami-Dade County’s State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle is censoring at least 100 of her critics on Twitter, including a dozen accounts either named Darren Rainey or with the deceased man’s profile image.
We have pictures to prove it.
It all started when the prosecutor sent a tweet about freedom.
Less than 24 hours after Palm Beach State Attorney David Aronberg announced that criminal charges would be filed against the cop who shot and killed Corey Jones, deputies raided the home of a man accused of making online threats against the prosecutor under the guise of the cyberhack group Anonymous.
A Florida cop secretly recorded a “hallway deposition” on his body cam of an innocent criminal court defendant and counsel, without asking his permission, in the courthouse hallway.
Florida’s wiretapping law only exempts police who are investigating a suspected crime.
But this Miami Beach officer was investigating a court case, and in so doing prejudiced the rights of the innocent, and he broke the law too.
Because he didn’t suspect anyone of a crime while having a discussion in a courthouse hallway.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces four new federal charges in an SEC civil court case announced today.
But Paxton still won’t resign his office.
Everything’s bigger in Texas, and the same goes for it’s top law enforcement officials legal woes stemming from his days as a lawyer and member of the Texas State House of Representatives from the suburban cities of Frisco, Allen and McKinney just north of Dallas.
A Missouri prosecutor filed a quo warranto lawsuit against the City Marshal-elect from the town of Dixon, to keep him out of office, as county police step in to keep order after a near-riot.
It’s not often that prosecutors sue police.
According to local news outlet KY3, ‘Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long called the protest at city hall on the night after the election a ‘near riot,'” and:
“That’s murder!” yelled someone in the crowd as prosecutors rolled a grainy video you can see below, collected from the back of the ambulance showing police and Jamar Clark.
Prosecutors presented the grainy video you can see below, showing nothing more than the feet of the officer and Jamar Clark, when suddenly there is a takedown.
It’s the last time anyone would see Jamar Clark alive.
Twenty four seconds into the video, a police officer takes down Jamar Clark putting his arm across the neck.
UPDATE 3/31: Arizona Prosecutor Bill Montgomery asked the Judge to seal video evidence of Daniel Shaver being killed on his hands and knees, while begging police for his life, which Mesa Police took from the unarmed man.
A New York DA just recommended zero jail time for convicted NYPD cop Peter Liang, who fatally shot a man, and texted his union rep as the victim died rather than render assistance.
Liang shot and killed Akai Gurley in the stairwell of a housing project while on “vertical patrol” in 2014 and was later convicted of manslaughter and official misconduct.
Liang faced 15 years in prison.
Cook County DA Anita Alvarez and Cuyahoga County DA Timothy McGinty both lost primary elections on Tuesday, signaling regime change by voters for two of the most hated, worst prosecutors in America.
While much of the country focused on Presidential elections, Chicago area voters dumped Anita Alvarez, whose biggest claim to fame before the Laquan McDonald video cover up was losing the landmark case ACLU vs. Alvarez, which invalidated Illinois unconstitutional wiretapping law.
