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New Charges Allege NC Cop/Youth Pastor Held “Nude Drinking Parties” With Church Minors And Played Porn

The Charlotte Observer reports: A former North Carolina police officer now faces additional sex and alcohol charges involving minors in York County, after officials from a Fort Mill church called deputies last month to report the allegations, according to law enforcement and court documents. Erickson Douglas Lee, 25, of Charlotte, was charged with four sex crimes Tuesday by York County …

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NC Cop/Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges

Charlotte’s ABC affiliate reports: Records show a Cornelius police officer arrested for child sex-related crimes is accused of committing them while acting as a church youth leader. According to his arrest warrant out of York County, the allegations against Erickson Douglas Lee were for incidents reported between December 2020 and July 2022. The crimes all appear to have happened at …

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Kentucky Sheriff Hires Cop Who Shot Breonna Taylor

The Associated Press reports: The former Louisville police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor has a new job in law enforcement in a county northeast of the city. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday confirmed the hiring of Myles Cosgrove, who was fired from the Louisville Metro Police Department in January 2021 for violating use-of-force procedures and failing to …

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OK Sheriff Caught On Tape Threatening To Kill Reporters Says They’re Being Investigated For “Illegal” Recording

Tulsa’s NBC affiliate reports: Residents in McCurtain County are outraged after a newspaper article revealed racist comments and threats of murder involving county officials. The McCurtain Gazette newspaper published an audio recording they obtained where the group is heard discussing a plot to kill the publisher and his son, as well as making racist comments condoning lynching, A large crowd …

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Oklahoma Sheriff And County Officials Caught On Tape Discussing Killing Reporters And Lynching Black People

The Oklahoman reports: In southeast Oklahoma, the sheriff of McCurtain County, one of his investigators and a county commissioner are accused by a newspaper of discussing killing a local reporter and lamenting that modern justice no longer includes hanging Black people. The explosive accusations were published this week in the McCurtain Gazette-News. According to the newspaper, Sheriff Kevin Clardy, investigator …

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Indicted Maryland Sheriff Belongs To Extremist Group

Media Matters reports: Frederick County, Maryland, Sheriff Charles “Chuck” Jenkins, a regular Fox News guest, has been indicted for conspiracy and false statements in an illegal machine gun acquisition scheme allegedly carried out over more than six years. During that time, Jenkins appeared on Fox News to repeatedly demonize immigrants, paint them as criminals, and call for harsher penalties to …

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GOP Maryland Sheriff Indicted Over Machine Guns

From the Justice Department: A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Charles Austin Jenkins, age 66, of Thurmont, Maryland, and Robert Justin Krop, age 36, of Frederick, Maryland, with conspiracy and false statements in order to acquire machine guns. Krop is also charged with illegal possession of machine guns. As detailed in the indictment, Charles Jenkins has been …

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Florida Cop Prays With Murder Suspect After Allowing Him To Enter Church To “Dedicate His Life To The Lord”

Tampa’s NBC affiliate reports: A Polk County deputy arrested a suspect in a Hillsborough County murder after tracking him down at a Sunday morning church service, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities said John Skeen, 56, Polk City was wanted on a murder charge after he allegedly shot his friend during a fishing trip in Ruskin on March …

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Garland: Louisville Police Engaged In Systemic Racism

The Washington Post reports: The Louisville Metro Police Department engaged in systemic civil rights abuses and excessive force misconduct in the years leading up to the 2020 police killing of Breonna Taylor, according to the findings of a federal investigation released Wednesday that is likely to force the department to undergo a series of sweeping changes. The Justice Department’s probe …

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FL Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced To 25 Years For Child Sex

Jacksonville’s CBS affiliate reports: 50-year-old Paul Mauricio will be spending the next 25 years behind bars for sex crimes involving a 12-year-old girl. As part of a plea deal, Mauricio, who was an eight-year veteran of the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, pleaded guilty to four out of seven sexual assault charges. A judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison …

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Tomorrow: DeSantis To Attend Staten Island Police Rally

The New York Post reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will visit New York City Monday for a pro-law enforcement rally at a catering hall in Staten Island – a holiday incursion into one of former President Trump’s most loyal strongholds. The 7:30 a.m. President’s Day speech at Privé will be the governor’s first stop on a multi-city tour to showcase …

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DC Cop Tipped Proud Boys Leader To Coming Arrest

The Washington Post reports: The leader of a right-wing extremist group learned days in advance that he would be arrested for his actions after a pro-Trump rally through his conversations with a D.C. police lieutenant, according to testimony in federal court Wednesday. Enrique Tarrio has argued Shane Lamond, a 22-year-veteran of the D.C. police, is a key witness who could …

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Serial Rapist London Ex-Cop Gets 36 Life Sentences

Reuters reports: A former London police officer was jailed on Tuesday for at least 30 years for a “catalogue of violence and brutal sexual offending” in a sustained campaign of abuse against women. David Carrick, who worked in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, used his position of power to intimidate many of his victims, saying no one would believe …

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POLL: Confidence In Police Practices At All-Time Low

ABC News reports: Americans’ confidence in how police are trained and their treatment of Black people both have fallen to new lows in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. Following the death of Tyre Nichols after he was beaten by Memphis police on Jan. 7, just 39 percent of adults in the national survey are confident that the police in this …

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Florida Sheriffs Back No-Permit Concealed Carry Bill

Florida Politics reports: Floridians could soon be able to carry a concealed firearm without a permit, under legislation backed by House Speaker Paul Renner and the Florida Sheriffs Association. “What we’re about here today is a universal right that applies to each and every man and women regardless of race, gender or background,” Renner, a Palm Coast Republican, told reporters. …

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Indiana Sheriff’s Office Baptizes Dozens Of Inmates

The Christian Post reports: One of the nation’s leading atheist organizations has demanded that a sheriff in Indiana quit promoting Christianity on social media and baptizing inmates at a detention center. Decatur County Sheriff David Durant’s office has overseen multiple overtly Christian events and ministries at the detention center and celebrated these gatherings on his Facebook page. In response, the …

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Illinois Sheriffs Vow To Defy Assault Weapons Ban

Fox News reports: More than six dozen Illinois sheriffs have vowed to defy a gun-control law signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker that bans semiautomatic rifles. “Part of my duties that I accepted upon being sworn into office was to protect the rights provided to all of us, in the Constitution,” Edwards County Sheriff Darby Boewe said in a Facebook …

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London Cop Confesses To Dozens Of Rapes [VIDEO]

The Guardian reports: A Metropolitan police officer has been revealed as a serial rapist who committed more than 71 serious sexual offences, despite the force being told of repeated allegations over two decades that he was a threat to women. PC David Carrick, an armed officer in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command, admitted on Monday to 49 counts – …

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Leading Cause Of Death For Cops For 3rd Year: COVID

ABC News reports: COVID-19 remained the leading cause of law enforcement deaths in 2022 despite the number attributed to the virus dramatically declining. A new report by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund looked at preliminary data and found that 226 federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officers died last year while in the line of duty. Of …

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Suspect Arrested In Murders Of Idaho College Students

ABC News reports: A 28-year-old man, Bryan Kohberger, was arrested Friday morning in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains in connection with the murders of four University of Idaho students, law enforcement sources told ABC News. Sources said that authorities knew who they were looking for and had tracked Kohberger down to Pennsylvania. A SWAT team entered the location where he was staying …

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