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The Florida cop who handcuffed a man preaching the Bible on campus lied in his police report, which should earn him a special place in hell if you believe in that kind of stuff.

The Albuquerque Police Department has found its way into another lawsuit. This time a former employee is suing on grounds of wrongful termination for not complying to Police Chief Gorden Eden’s orders to find ways to deny public records request.

A few days ago, the chief of police in my Pennsylvania town of Bethlehem chose to cover up the identity of an off-duty officer involved in a car accident.
This was no ordinary accident though. The off-duty officer involved hit two pedestrians, causing one to collapse and both to need medical care in the hospital.
This is how it was explained in the local media:

Back in August, PINAC reported about the arrest of two prominent police accountability activists in Austin, Texas, Antonio Buehler and Mike Bluehair, who were arrested for the crime of daring to film the police while doing their jobs.

It was just over a year ago when a Utah cop confronted a man going door to door, asking people to shovel their snow in exchange for a few dollars.
The man, James Barker, became annoyed at the officer, and told him to leave him alone, that he was only trying to do his job.
But Salt Lake City police officer Matthew Taylor insisted on knowing his name, telling Barker that he was responding to a complaint of a “suspicious” man walking the neighborhood.
Taylor’s body cam footage shows that Barker grew agitated and lifted the shovel as if to swing it at him.

The Maryland cop convicted of holding a gun to a man’s head after accusing him of parking illegally was sentenced to five years in prison today.
And only because the 2014 incident was captured on cell phone video, showing Prince George’s County police officer Jenchesky Santiago holding his gun sideways in bonafide gangster style, threatening to kill the man.

The Seattle Police Department thought is was a good idea to refuse to release dash cam video to a Seattle-based television station.
Now the police department will foot the bill on a $174,000 settlement to KOMO-TV.
KOMO-TV made a slew of public records request of dash cam video that were suspected of excessive force by Seattle police. But instead of following public records law, the Seattle Police Department used a frivolous statute to deny a records request of the videos in question.

Oblivious to the backlash that left a Texas politician looking like an unconstitutional buffoon last year, an Arizona senator is proposing to make it illegal to record cops from within 20 feet.
John Kavanagh, a republican who is also a retired cop, said such a law is necessary for officer safety.

The Illinois man killed by police Wednesday after taking photos of a school was identified as a 38-year-old man with mental illness named Charles Hollstein.
He was shot three times in the back.
Zion police say they recovered a BB gun from the scene.
But they never said anything about him pointing it at the cops nor if the cops even noticed he had the gun until after they killed him.

Oregon deputies were arresting a man on two counts of sexual abuse when one of the deputies was accused of assaulting a woman trying to record the arrest.
The video was uploaded to YouTube earlier today under the username of George Mendoza with the headline reading, “Deschutes County sheriff brutality.”