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Seattle cop, fired two years after triple-the-speed-limit fatal wreck, appeals his firing

Former Antioch police officer pleads guilty to threatening, intimidating residents

‘A thief and a crooked cop’: L.A. deputy committed crimes for crypto mogul, feds say

Marquette police officer misconduct charge tied to OWI investigation

Cop who assisted in killing George Floyd is released from prison

Police chief who replaced chief charged with DUI is charged with DUI

Colorado police reach $2 million settlement with family of pregnant woman mistaken for a shoplifter and killed by cops

Spade tattoo revealed in L.A. deputy’s plea revives questions about Lakewood station gang

Connecticut ex-cop notches his 20th arrest

Police were so determined to charge black woman over miscarriage, her lawyers say, that they recorded “flatly false information” in police reports, including a bizarre lie that she threw her baby away in a bucket

Son of a man who was beaten and died in a New York prison sues guards, officials

Honolulu police officer arrested after allegedly strangling roommate

Charleston County deputy charged with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor

Bakersfield resident captures confrontation with Border Patrol agent

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
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Dead people (lemmy.world)

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, including people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.

   

Black Bart
wrestler

Christopher Benjamin
actor, Doctor Who

Rashaud Boaze
2nd Amendment

Howard Buten
clown, novelist, activist

Bill Byrge
actor, Ernest Saves Christmas

Leslie Charleson
actress, Day of the Dolphin

Barbara Clegg
writer, Doctor Who

Chartara Courtney
2nd Amendment

Phyllis Dalton
costume designer, Lawrence of Arabia

Carol Downer
menstrual extraction

Joanne Marie Erickson
forgotten person

Jay and Joshua Gonzales
2nd Amendment

Richard Hays
God doesn't hate gays?

Arista Hunt
in county jail

Claude Jarman Jr
San Francisco Film Society

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
author, Farewell to Manzanar

Danielle Johnson
forgotten person

Rick Kuhn
crooked basketballer

David Lynch
filmmaker, Eraserhead

Robert Machray
actor, Cheers

name withheld, 15
2nd Amendment

name withheld, 22
in county jail transport bus

name withheld, 27
forgotten person

name withheld, 30-40
forgotten person

name withheld, 53
forgotten person

name withheld
in county jail

name withheld
in county jail

name withheld
forgotten person

name withheld
in county jail

name withheld
forgotten person

name withheld
forgotten person

Joshua Moser
in county jail

Trayvon Ocain
in county jail

Joan Plowright
actress, Equus

Benny Rawlins
forgotten person

Noah Scurry
2nd Amendment

Tony Slattery
actor, The Crying Game

J. Fraser Stoddart
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2016

Jeannot Szwarc
film director, Somewhere in Time

Cornelius Taylor
forgotten person

Lynne Taylor-Corbett
choreographer, Footloose

Bob Uecker
play-by-play, Milwaukee Brewers

Shoji Ueda
cinematographer, Kurasowa's Dreams

Gus Williams
basketballer, Seattle SuperSonics

Nancy Wohlforth
activist

Floyd Zacharie
in county jail

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
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Former Columbus police officer sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for stealing cocaine from crime scenes, police evidence room

Glendale police shoot, kill wrong man after domestic violence call

Two dead in crash after being chased by Pensacola Police

Body cam shows officers walk away from man found shot, still breathing: "Let’s cruise around and come back"

New Jersey man, jailed for 200+ days on charges based on cops' lies, is awarded $5M

Over a traffic stop, cops pursue driver into "multiple parked vehicles" and then a head-on wreck seriously injuring another vehicle's driver and passenger

Two killed when police chase ends in head-on collision

King County deputy who drunkenly assaulted bouncers is still on the job

Deputies lied and filed false reports in man's death, lawsuit says

California ex-prison guard found guilty of 64 charges of sexual abuse of inmates

NYPD officer on trial for punching man more than a dozen times, on camera

Ex-cop SafeSport investigator is arrested again, this time charged with rape and sex trafficking

After second trial, jury awards $3.25 million to family of man killed by St. Paul police

Former deputy arrested for on-duty sexual assault

Ex-cop gets probation for stealing $900 from a man he was arresting

Before his suicide, Bibb County inmate’s cries for help went ignored, lawsuit says

Ex-cop mayor of New York vowed to rein in NYPD overtime. It spiraled out of control instead.

Court to cops: If you can’t prove a warrant existed, you can’t expect us to consider it ‘valid’

Cops chase suspected stolen car into crash that kills three

Family demands justice after police search 5-year-old boy during traffic stop

Active cop and ex-cop both charged with rape

Florida sheriff’s deputy, watching porn while driving, crashes patrol car

Rookie LAPD officer killed bicyclist in DUI crash, police say

North Carolina police officer arrested twice in 3 days (assault, then violating a domestic violence protective order

Man dies in hospital after assault arrest; lawyer says he was hit 'multiple times' by jail staff

Florida’s ‘Halo Law’ goes into effect, allowing more cops to dodge accountability

Former Rikers officer pleads guilty to smuggling illegal drugs into jail for bribes

Lorain County Sheriff’s deputy suspended for allegedly paralyzing inmate

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
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