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Lawsuit Moves Forward After Judge Calls Paralyzed Man’s Jail Cell “Burial Crypt”

July 24, 2016 Asa J 1568 Views Accountability, autopsy, blunt force trauma, broken neck, Burial Crypt, Capt. Tommy Fike, Civil rights, civil rights lawsuit, copblock, copblock.org, Dehydration, deliberate indifference, died in jail cell, Dr. Stephen Harnish, Elliot Williams, federal judge, federal lawsuit, indifference, inhumanity, inmate dies in jail, John Dowdell, Judge John Dowdell, Justice System, lawsuit, Medical care, medical emergency, mental health, mental illness, Oklahoma, Owasso, paralyzed, police abuse, Police State, Sgt. Doug Hinshaw, Sheriff Stanley Glanz, surveillance video, Tulsa County, Tulsa jail, U.S. District Court, video

A federal judge ruled Wednesday, that a lawsuit filed on behalf of a paralyzed mentally ill man who died after

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Police Wife Writes About the “Secret Epidemic” of Police Domestic Violence

April 9, 2016April 9, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2801 Views #ThinBlueLies, 50 percent of all calls, abuse rate for cops, abused police spouse, Accountability, Alex Roslin, Anthony Bouza, assault, Australia, battered woman, Blue code of silence, Brutality, brutality against civilians, CAJ awards, Canada, Canadian Association of Journalists prizes for investigative reporting, Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting, Chief Daniel LaBella, child abuse, Civil rights, cop block, cop marriages, cop psychology, cop wives, copblock, copblock.org, cops protecting each other, Corruption, crime wave, de facto licence to abuse, deliberate indifference, desperate isolation, disavowed generalized and virtually unchecked, Dishonesty, domestic abuse, domestic violence, domestic violence awareness month, domestic violence by law enforcement, Double Standard, double-standards, efficacy, enthusiasm, estranged wife, ex-wife of cop, excessive force, extramarital affairs, far-reaching social ramifications, Featured, ferocity, freedom, gold prize in the National Magazine Awards, Harassment, holster sniffers, Homicide, infamous blue wall of silence, Joseph Longo Jr, Justice System, kelly patterson, Kristin Palumbo-Longo, lapd, law enforcement marriages, lawsuit, Lieutenant Detective Mark Wynn, Los Angeles, mafia, Montreal, Ms. Blog, Ms. Magazine, Ms. Magazine Prison and Domestic Violence Shelter Program, multi-million-dollar lawsuits, murder, murder-suicide, Nashville Metropolitan Police Department, Negligence, New York, new york police department, nine nominations, NMAs, nuisance property laws, officer-involved domestic violence, OIDV, omerta, one of the most surreal crime epidemics ever, open secret, PBS, police, police abuse, police accountability, police actions may have enhanced the danger, police alcoholism, Police brutality, police divorce, police domestic violence, police investigator, police killings of African Americans, Police State, police supervisors, Police Wife, police wives, powerless to protect, professional courtesy, prone to other forms of misconduct, protection orders, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Police Department, researching how to get help, rights, settlement, sexual abuse, sexual harassment of female drivers at traffic stops, sexual harassment of women cops, social inequality, south africa, spouse abuse, stabbing, steep price, strict unwritten code, subjugation of Native Americans, Susanna Hope, sustained domestic violence complaint, taxpayers, Tennessee, The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence, tragedy, trained in the use of physical force, training and tools to track web use phone calls and travels, troubling behavior, UK, upto 15 times higher than among the public, Utica, utter secrecy, very little hope of help, video, violence against fellow officers, violence against women, virtually unknown to the public, we all pay, women fleeing domestic violence, women's shelter, worldwide phenomenon, wrongful death lawsuit

This post was originally published at the “Ms. Magazine” blog in October of 2015 by Alex Roslin and Susanna Hope

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“Who Gives A F***?”: Man Dies After Telling Cops He Can’t Breathe

December 5, 2015 Asa J 841 Views #ICantBreathe, Accountability, appeal, attorney Al Gerhardstein, attorney John Bacevice Jr., Brutality, cardiac arrest, circumstantial evidence, Civil rights, Cleveland, cleveland police, cleveland police department, copblock, copblock.org, deliberate indifference, driving with no headlights, elbowed in neck, EMS, Eric Garner, Eric Harris, excessive force, I Cant Breathe, Judge Karen Nelson Moore, Justice System, lawsuit, medical condition, medical need, no victim no crime, Ohio, Police State, Rodney Brown, Shirley Brown, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, stun-gun, Tasers, Who gives a fuck?, wrongful death

In echoes of Eric Garner and Eric Harris, a battle is ongoing in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals involving

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Woman Exonerated After 20 Years In Prison Alleges Cops Planted Evidence

September 19, 2015March 1, 2016 Asa J 1651 Views Accountability, Civil rights, civil rights lawsuit, constitutional violations, copblock, copblock.org, cops planted evidence, criminalist, David Sugiyama, deliberate indifference, Detective Mike Cook, Dishonesty, District Attorney Tim Harris, dna evidence, emotional distress, exonerated, federal lawsuit, Homicide, inadequate medical care, lost income, Michelle Dawn Murphy, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, oklahoma state bureau of investigation, pain and suffering, police accountability, Tulsa, Tusla police department

A Tulsa, Oklahoma woman exonerated by DNA evidence after spending 20 years in prison for the murder of her infant