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A male inmate was handcuffed in his cell when three guards stabbed the inmate multiple times. The stabbing occurred at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.
Jarrell Boyan, 26, Pernell Fogle, 24, and Jaquan Smith, 24, have now been arrested for attempted murder and misconduct in office. And they have all been fired from the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
The charges against the three officers were announced on December 1st just one day after they were fired.

A North Carolina district attorney announced no charges will be filed against Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Brentley Vinson in the September shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott, which sparked several nights of riots.

Charlotte police finally respected the will of Keith Lamont Scott’s family and released two official videos of his last moments in a police killing that touched off peaceful protests, deployment of riot police and eventually violent protests and looting.
But audio is redacted.
Dash cam video reveals that Keith Lamont Scott only lived ten seconds after exiting his car.

Charlotte riot police shot and killed a man protesting against the cop shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott Wednesday night, contradicting the police narrative that he was killed by another protester, according to multiple witnesses.
The victim’s name was Justin Carr. Police have yet to say whether he was killed by a live bullet, rubber bullet or tear gas canister.
We interviewed Kahran Meyer, who is a North Carolina criminal defense lawyer, who is a key eye witness to the shooting.

North Carolina’s Governor Pat McCrory just signed into law an act making police body camera video an official state secret. Naturally, following the events of last week, civil rights and transparency advocates are in an uproar.

An Alabama cop is accused of holding a gun to a man’s head and forcing him to perform oral sex on him during a traffic stop.
The felony sex crime arrest report was released last week, as the 27-year-old officer traded his badge for an orange jump suit.
Investigators said Montgomery cop Deonte Lashawn Hamner was on-duty when he pulled the victim over, then pulled his department issued firearm on the victim and forced him to perform oral sex at gunpoint.

Louisiana’s top educator filed an unusual lawsuit against a citizen, for requesting public records sufficient to give oversight to one of the largest government agencies in his state.
James Finney, is a mathematician from Baton Rouge, and he likes to work with numbers.
He’s requesting the records he needs to review the statewide Louisiana Department of Education for compliance and performance.

A Florida cop who became internet famous in a viral video showing him slapping a camera out of the hands of a disabled veteran who had parked in a handicapped spot was acquitted of battery Wednesday.
But Riviera Beach Police Sergeant Garry Wilson was convicted of criminal mischief for the incident that left the veteran’s phone with a cracked screen. He was sentenced to six months probation.
The incident occurred on August 9 after Isiah James had parked his car in a handicap stop and went into Walgreens to make a purchase.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said this week that the Zika virus is “scarier than we initially thought.” The agency made a connection between Zika and microcephaly, a horrible birth defect that causes babies to be born with small heads and brains, in pregnant women. It also suspected that Zika causes Guillain-Barré, a nervous system disorder that can temporarily paralyze people and cause permanent brain damage.

Over the past two months alone, two officers serving the public with the Valdosta Police Department have been exposed in two different viral videos abusing citizens and seeking to, or actively violating their civil rights which are guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America.