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DETROIT -- A man has been released from prison after 22 years after Detroit-area prosecutors acknowledged that his murder conviction was tainted by the key testimony of a rogue police officer who turned out to be a serial bank robber.

“Not much shocks me anymore, but this did,” Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said. “I have never seen anything like this in all of my decades of being a judge or a prosecutor.”….


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Murder conviction overturned 22 years later because of police misconduct

A Michigan man has been released from prison after 22 years after Detroit-area prosecutors acknowledged that his murder conviction was tainted by the key testimony of a rogue police officer
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia jail caused the death of a diabetic inmate by failing to provide insulin and other medical care, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the man’s family Wednesday.

Louis Jung Jr., 50, was a pretrial detainee at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility when he died on Nov. 6, 2023, of ketoacidosis, a serious complication of diabetes.

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons did not administer insulin to Jung, who had Type 1 diabetes, for the last six days of his life, according to the suit. Prison medical officials also failed to provide glucose monitoring, call for emergency care, send Jung to the hospital or place him in the infirmary, the suit said.……

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Philadelphia jail withheld insulin from a diabetic inmate who died, lawsuit says

The family of a former Philadelphia jail inmate is suing the institution, saying officials there caused the death of a diabetic inmate by failing to provide insulin and other medical care.
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Don’t remember this story
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It was 24 years ago that Ansché Hedgepeth got the nickname heard around the world, a name she hated as a kid: “French Fry Girl.”


She was 12 when a Metro cop handcuffed and arrested her, took the laces out of her sneakers, put her in the back of a squad car, drove her to police headquarters and fingerprinted her.

Her crime? Eating a fry in a D.C. Metro station.


Her case made international news and made her a figure in the confirmation of Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who ruled in a 2004 opinion that Hedgepeth’s Fourth Amendment rights were not violated, even if the transit officers overreacted.

“No one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation,” Roberts, then a circuit judge on the U.S. District Court in D.C., wrote in that opinion.


“A twelve-year-old girl was arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted, and detained until released to her mother some three hours later — all for eating a single french fry in a Metrorail station,” Roberts wrote. “The child was frightened, embarrassed, and crying throughout the ordeal.”

I remember sitting in her bedroom talking to her. She had a science fair trophy by her bed and had never been in that kind of trouble before.
“I was embarrassed,” she told me back then.

“[The officer] said: ‘Put down your fries. Put down your book bag.’ They searched my book bag and searched me. They asked me if I have any drugs or alcohol.”
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Niko Estep loved Spider-Man, video games and climbing trees when a D.C. police officer was caught on video knocking the 9-year-old to the ground and handcuffing him on a spring night in 2019.


Footage of the incident was shared widely, prompting police and the D.C. attorney general’s office to restrict officers from handcuffing children under 12, except in situations deemed dangerous to the child or the public.


But a new lawsuit by Niko’s mother says the changes didn’t go far enough, and that stark racial disparities remain in the searches of Black children like Niko in the District.

She is now asking for a jury trial in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and compensatory and punitive damages, alleging in the suit that the officers’ actions that day violated Niko’s constitutional rights when they detained and handcuffed him.

Niko was shot and killed last November in an unrelated incident when he was 14 years old, becoming one of 16 youth killed by gunfire in the city last year.

Niko’s mother, Autumn Drayton, who on Wednesday filed the suit over the handcuffing incident said in a statement she hopes to prevent another child from being treated the same way as her son.

Three months after the incident and struggling with PTSD from his encounter, the complaint states, Niko was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric ward after attempting suicide.


“What happened to Niko never should have happened. Niko wasn’t a threat to any of those officers and their use of force was outrageous and unnecessary. The police are supposed to protect our community and instead they traumatized Niko,” Drayton said.

“He never fully recovered from the incident, and he went from being an outgoing and social little boy to being distant and withdrawn and terrified of authority figures and the people who were supposed to keep him safe.”…….

On April 22, 2019, Niko was leaning against a parked car in Northwest Washington, the suit says. When two D.C. police officers told him to move, he “made a disrespectful comment” and ran, according to the suit. Then, it claims, D.C. officer Joseph Lopez chased him.

A video shows an officer, identified as Lopez in the suit, yanking the boy’s jacket, before he falls onto the pavement. Lopez then drags Niko to the sidewalk and places handcuffs around his wrists as he cries. In the midst of his fear, Niko wet himself.


At the time, Niko spoke to Fox 5 DC, which first broadcast the video of the handcuffing, and described feeling “scared.”


“Because I was in handcuffs and I thought I was locked up,” he said. “It hurt.”


The suit details how this incident injured him physically and mentally.

He was treated at Children’s National Hospital at the United Medical Center for contusions on his foot and arm, a knot on his forehead and abrasions on his back and wrists after the encounter, and ultimately diagnosed with acute PTSD and major depressive disorder.

In July 2019, he attempted suicide and was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric ward.

It was not clear why Niko was detained, the complaint states. He was not accused of any crime and officers can be heard in a video asking him to tell them the name of his mother before eventually releasing him.

The problematic detention of children was a pattern for D.C. police at the time, lawyers argue in the suit, and remains a problem.

An ACLU of the District of Columbia report on D.C. police stops between July and December 2019 found that Black male youth were stopped at 12.5 times the rate of White male youth……..



 
Optimus Prime said:
Don’t remember this story
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It was 24 years ago that Ansché Hedgepeth got the nickname heard around the world, a name she hated as a kid: “French Fry Girl.”


She was 12 when a Metro cop handcuffed and arrested her, took the laces out of her sneakers, put her in the back of a squad car, drove her to police headquarters and fingerprinted her.

Her crime? Eating a fry in a D.C. Metro station.


Her case made international news and made her a figure in the confirmation of Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who ruled in a 2004 opinion that Hedgepeth’s Fourth Amendment rights were not violated, even if the transit officers overreacted.

“No one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation,” Roberts, then a circuit judge on the U.S. District Court in D.C., wrote in that opinion.


“A twelve-year-old girl was arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted, and detained until released to her mother some three hours later — all for eating a single french fry in a Metrorail station,” Roberts wrote. “The child was frightened, embarrassed, and crying throughout the ordeal.”

I remember sitting in her bedroom talking to her. She had a science fair trophy by her bed and had never been in that kind of trouble before.
“I was embarrassed,” she told me back then.

“[The officer] said: ‘Put down your fries. Put down your book bag.’ They searched my book bag and searched me. They asked me if I have any drugs or alcohol.”
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I remember it, moron Metro cops.....and Roberts showing his true self back then, he's unfit to be on any court....
 
Not abuse but negligence

And I hope that 100% quote is a major part of a civil lawsuit
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Minneapolis police have apologized for failing to address a local Black man’s complaints of repeated, racist harassment from his white neighbor until after the neighbor shot the victim in the victim’s own yard.

The attack on 34-year-old Davis Moturi this past Wednesday as he performed yard work left him with a fractured spine, two broken ribs and a concussion.

Authorities by Thursday had obtained criminal charges against John Herbert Sawchak, who is accused of shooting from an upstairs window in his home to wound Moturi – but they waited until early Monday to arrest him.

“We failed this victim 100%,” Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis police chief, told reporters. “And to that victim, I say I am sorry that this happened to you.”

Moturi’s shooting comes after a US justice department investigation last year concluded that the Minneapolis police department had a “pattern or practice” of discrimination against Black Americans, among other findings.

That investigation stemmed from the 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a white officer in plain view of a recording cellphone, a killing that set off racial justice protests worldwide.

Since Moturi purchased his home in 2023, he and his wife contacted authorities at least 19 times to report Sawchak for vandalism, property destruction, harassment and threats of physical harm while hurling racist slurs, court records state.

Police obtained at least three warrants to arrest Sawchak in connection with threats or violent acts against Moturi and other neighbors.

But none resulted in his capture, with police claiming Sawchak “actively evaded [them] during prior attempts to contact or arrest him”.

Finally, from an upstairs window in his home, Sawchak shot Moturi in the neck while the victim pruned a tree that was near the property line with a chainsaw in his own yard. Sawchak had apparently planted the tree with his mother, O’Hara said.

A day later, the Hennepin county attorney’s office charged Sawchak with attempted murder, first-degree assault, felony harassment and stalking – with prosecutors explicitly accusing him of racism.

But it wasn’t until 1.30am on Monday that police took Sawchak into custody.……

www.theguardian.com

Minneapolis police say they 100% failed Black man allegedly shot by white neighbor

Officials say John Herbert Sawchak, 54, shot Davis Moturi, 34, after victim reported neighbor for racist harassment
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On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city’s police department stopped him.

They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived.

Surveillance footage from across the parking lot, which was viewed by the Guardian, shows the 30-year-old on the pavement soon after, with several officers on top of him and holding him down. Once they lift Kenyon off the ground after roughly four minutes, he appears limp.

Kenyon had been burned – severely burned – on the hot city pavement. Medical records indicate he suffered third-degree burns, and hospital photos show deep burn scars and skin peeled off across his body. Kenyon has not been charged with a crime and a police spokesperson confirmed he was not the suspect that officers were seeking as part of a theft investigation.

“It felt like acid burning my skin,” Kenyon told the Guardian. “I thought of George Floyd, and I didn’t understand why people wouldn’t help me as I was screaming in pain … like I was dying.”

It’s not the first time residents in the city have accused police of burning them on the pavement. In 2019, Phoenix police department officers held Roniah Trotter, then 18, on hot pavement on a 113F day, leaving her with second-degree burns. Earlier that year, a 28-year-old man died in police custody after officers held him down on hot asphalt for several minutes.……

www.theguardian.com

Video shows Phoenix police burning man during arrest: ‘Like acid on my skin’

Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement and give him third-degree burns in July footage
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

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Optimus Prime said:
On 6 July 2024, a day when temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, reached 114F (45.5C), Michael Kenyon was walking to his local store to buy a soda when two officers of the city’s police department stopped him.

They hastily told him he was being detained, Kenyon recalls, without clearly stating why. Two more officers arrived.

Surveillance footage from across the parking lot, which was viewed by the Guardian, shows the 30-year-old on the pavement soon after, with several officers on top of him and holding him down. Once they lift Kenyon off the ground after roughly four minutes, he appears limp.

Kenyon had been burned – severely burned – on the hot city pavement. Medical records indicate he suffered third-degree burns, and hospital photos show deep burn scars and skin peeled off across his body. Kenyon has not been charged with a crime and a police spokesperson confirmed he was not the suspect that officers were seeking as part of a theft investigation.

“It felt like acid burning my skin,” Kenyon told the Guardian. “I thought of George Floyd, and I didn’t understand why people wouldn’t help me as I was screaming in pain … like I was dying.”

It’s not the first time residents in the city have accused police of burning them on the pavement. In 2019, Phoenix police department officers held Roniah Trotter, then 18, on hot pavement on a 113F day, leaving her with second-degree burns. Earlier that year, a 28-year-old man died in police custody after officers held him down on hot asphalt for several minutes.……

www.theguardian.com

Video shows Phoenix police burning man during arrest: ‘Like acid on my skin’

Revealed: officers appear to hold Michael Kenyon, 30, to hot pavement and give him third-degree burns in July footage
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

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This shouldn't happen to a suspect, let alone an innocent bystander. Terrible. Every one of those idiots should be fired.
 
Penny McCarthy froze in her front yard as a van full of armed US marshals in bullet-proof vests pulled up in her front yard, screaming and swearing at her. She had no idea what was going on.

“Police! Don’t move, hands up,” one of the officers shouted, pointing his assault weapon at her. At one point they told the 66-year-old that if she turned around again she would be Tasered.

“Do you want to confirm who I am?” McCarthy asked the officers, per bodyworn footage later released by the US Marshal Service (USMS) and obtained by ABC15. “Put your hands behind your back, we’ll discuss this later,” came the reply.

The shocking incident, which took place in Arizona in March 2023 was, ultimately, a case of mistaken identity.

Police had been seeking a totally different woman – 70-year-old Carole Anne Rozak – who was wanted on an outstanding parole violation warrant from 1999 out of Oklahoma.

Rozak served prison time for all non-violent crimes. But according to federal court records also obtained by ABC15, she failed to report to any federal probation officer after she was released from federal custody in Harris County, Texas.

In the police footage McCarthy is heard asking the marshals multiple times if they know who she is but is consistently ignored. It was not until she was in handcuffs that officers finally told.

“Carole Rozak,” she is told, with McCarthy replying: “That’s not who I am.”

Despite McCarthy offering to provide proof that she was not Rozak, she was arrested and put in the back of the police van.

It later emerged in court hearings that federal agents had based the false identification on Facebook postings and “some aliases” that they had obtained. An Arizona federal judge dismissed the case against McCarthy, but not before she had spent time in prison over the mix-up.

According to the Deputy US Marshal Service in Oklahoma, a “glitch” caused them to believe that McCarthy’s digital fingerprints matched Rozak’s. This was later debunked.……

www.independent.co.uk

Moment innocent grandmother is arrested at gunpoint in case of mistaken identity

Penny McCarthy was wrongfully arrested by officers in bullet-proof vests in Arizona, but her protests were ignored
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Optimus Prime said:
Penny McCarthy froze in her front yard as a van full of armed US marshals in bullet-proof vests pulled up in her front yard, screaming and swearing at her. She had no idea what was going on.

“Police! Don’t move, hands up,” one of the officers shouted, pointing his assault weapon at her. At one point they told the 66-year-old that if she turned around again she would be Tasered.

“Do you want to confirm who I am?” McCarthy asked the officers, per bodyworn footage later released by the US Marshal Service (USMS) and obtained by ABC15. “Put your hands behind your back, we’ll discuss this later,” came the reply.

The shocking incident, which took place in Arizona in March 2023 was, ultimately, a case of mistaken identity.

Police had been seeking a totally different woman – 70-year-old Carole Anne Rozak – who was wanted on an outstanding parole violation warrant from 1999 out of Oklahoma.

Rozak served prison time for all non-violent crimes. But according to federal court records also obtained by ABC15, she failed to report to any federal probation officer after she was released from federal custody in Harris County, Texas.

In the police footage McCarthy is heard asking the marshals multiple times if they know who she is but is consistently ignored. It was not until she was in handcuffs that officers finally told.

“Carole Rozak,” she is told, with McCarthy replying: “That’s not who I am.”

Despite McCarthy offering to provide proof that she was not Rozak, she was arrested and put in the back of the police van.

It later emerged in court hearings that federal agents had based the false identification on Facebook postings and “some aliases” that they had obtained. An Arizona federal judge dismissed the case against McCarthy, but not before she had spent time in prison over the mix-up.

According to the Deputy US Marshal Service in Oklahoma, a “glitch” caused them to believe that McCarthy’s digital fingerprints matched Rozak’s. This was later debunked.……

www.independent.co.uk

Moment innocent grandmother is arrested at gunpoint in case of mistaken identity

Penny McCarthy was wrongfully arrested by officers in bullet-proof vests in Arizona, but her protests were ignored
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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get ready for this times thousands if mass deportations are ok'd.. so many American citizens will be locked up and deported. and possibly killed trying to explain they aren't who the paperwork says. and certain people will cheer it on..
 
Interesting story emerging out of Alabama:

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man in Alabama, who was found hanging in an abandoned house, following a request from a local sheriff amid fears among community members who accuse local law enforcement of longstanding, unchecked misconduct.

Sheriff’s deputies found Dennoriss Richardson, 39, in September in a rural part of Colbert County, miles away from his home in Sheffield, a city of approximately 10,000 people near the Tennessee River.

The Colbert County Sheriff’s Office ruled Richardson’s death a suicide. But Richardson’s wife, Leigh Richardson, has said that is not true, explaining her husband did not leave a note and had no connection to the house where he was found.

Instead, the 40-year-old fears her husband’s death was related to a lawsuit he filed against the local police department in February. Dennoriss Richardson, who coached kids in baseball and football, had alleged he was assaulted, denied medical attention, sprayed with tear gas and shocked with a Taser while in jail.

apnews.com

Local sheriff asks FBI to investigate death of Black man found hanging in Alabama

The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man in Alabama who was found hanging in an abandoned house.
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Now, a story out of Florida that should infuriate everyone:

LAKELAND — Less than an hour after being raped by her adoptive father along the side of a country road, the 13-year-old girl stood in the darkness, clutching the cell phone that held video and photographic evidence of his crime.

Preparing to dial 911, the girl paused, thinking back to a year earlier, when she had gone to law enforcement to report Henry Cadle’s sexual abuse, only to have an investigator from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office accuse her of lying.

Taylor Cadle worried: Would that happen again? Still, she overcame her fears and made the call in 2017, and hours later she saw Henry Cadle being led from their home in handcuffs, the last time she would ever see him.

Taylor Cadle remained anonymous until Tuesday night, when PBS NewsHour carried a 10-minute segment exploring her story in a manner critical of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. The story has since spread on social media, gaining more than 1 million views on TikTok as of Friday.

“It’s definitely scary but also, like, very shocking that it has reached this much attention,” Taylor Cadle said.

The NewsHour segment emphasized that Taylor felt it necessary to gather evidence on her own to prove that her adoptive father had raped her. She took those brave actions knowing that about a year earlier, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office not only declined to arrest Henry Cadle but charged Taylor with filing a false report.

At the suggestion of her adoptive mother — Henry Cadle’s wife — Taylor pled guilty. As part of her probation, she was required to write letters of apology to Henry Cadle and to Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Melissa Turnage, the officer who interviewed her after the original complaint.
www.theledger.com

Not believed: Charged with filing false report, Polk teen captured own evidence during rape

PBS NewsHour reported on Lakeland' s Taylor Cadle, who was charged with filing a false report at age 12 after accusing her adoptive father of rape.
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