Even in a pandemic, police somehow manage to screw up on camera repeatedly. Join us as we review Colorado police handcuffing a man who did nothing wrong, Pennsylvania police ripping a man off a bus, and a very Florida story out of Florida!

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Show Notes:

• CALIFORNIA: CoreCivic, running Otay Mesa Detention Center, refuses to give out facemasks for COVID-19 unless detainees sign a contract waiving rights (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• COLORADO: Man handcuffed, put in squad car for heinous crime of playing teeball with daughter in empty park (KDVR 31)
• FLORIDA: Flagler County woman defies coronavirus shelter-in-place order to distribute porn-filled Easter eggs (Daily Beast)
• ILLINOIS: Unarmed black men thrown out of Walmart for wearing facemasks (The Alton Telegraph)
• ILLINOIS: Mayor of Alton prohibits public gatherings; hours later, his wife gets arrested at a bar (CNN)
• KANSAS: State Supreme Court rules legislature cannot block Governor’s executive order limiting church attendance due to COVID-19 (Bloomberg)
  • The Court’s ruling in Kelly v. LCC et al (KSCourts.gov)
• NEW YORK: NYPD on video swarming, terrorizing young black boy for allegedly selling candy on the subway (Gothamist)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Federal Bureau of Prison caught lying to the public about Butner infection severity (News & Observer)
  • By Saturday, inmates started dying (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: With everyone focused on COVID-19, judge allows payments to lawyers over #SilentSham (The Daily Tar Heel)
• OREGON: New police chief Terry Kruger, who just replaced corrupt former police chief Terry Timeus, also placed on leave for same scandal (The Oregonian)
  • Our episode on this absurd scandal (Fsck #98)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Police on video yanking man off bus for not wearing a facemask; SEPTA reverses facemask policy hours later (BuzzFeed News)
• PENNSYLVANIA: District Attorney’s Office says man was wrongly convicted, but can’t get him released as COVID-19 rages (Reason)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Unarmed black man arrested for running errands for immunocompromised family members (Sky News)

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