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Defense lawyers have a saying: “If the law is against you, pound on the facts; if the facts are against you, pound on the table.” For military defense lawyers, there is a slight modification: “Before you pound on the table, pound on the chain of command.” Why? Because in the military, leaders are accountable for the failures of their subordinates and military juries are the harshest critics of their colleagues whose leadership failures contribute to misconduct. Indeed, the Vanessa Guillen disappearance at Fort Hood, Texas, and its subsequent fallout, is a prime and recent example of how failures at low levels of the military result in accountability at high levels. With all the public attention focused on police reforms, as a former military officer and lawyer I find it perplexing why leadership accountability is not the central focus of this dialogue. How did a former police officer such as Derek Chauvin get to the point where he felt it was appropriate, as the prosecutor in … [Read more...] about Leadership and accountability: A military lesson for police reform

Emotional Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members on Tuesday cheered a jury’s decision to find former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd, but they said the moment now demands that Congress take the next step: enacting criminal justice reform. “This is just the first step,” Rep. Joyce Beatty Joyce Birdson Beatty Black Caucus: Guilty verdict a 'catalyst' for police reform Democrats debate timing and wisdom of reparations vote Biden's DOJ civil rights nominee faces sharp GOP criticism MORE (D-Ohio), chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said moments after the verdict was announced. “We are hopeful that today will be the catalyst to turn the pain, the agony, the justice delays into actions that go far beyond today.” Those actions primarily focus on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which the House passed on March 3 mostly along party lines. Named for Floyd, a Black man who died last year after Chauvin knelt … [Read more...] about Black Caucus: Guilty verdict a ‘catalyst’ for police reform

DENVER (CBS4) — Police and state troopers stopped a suspected police impersonator in the middle of Interstate 25 in Denver during the morning commute on Monday. Investigators say the 39-year-old man was driving a white 2009 Ford Crown Victoria equipped with police lights, a push bumper and a dash cam. He was wearing tactical gear. (credit: CBS) The Aurora Police Department confirmed the man is not an employee but a volunteer. His volunteer application was accepted last year. It is unclear whether he actually participated in the APD volunteer program because of COVID-19 restrictions. READ MORE: Scammers Using Bogus COVID Vaccine Survey To Trick Victims Police first got reports of what looked like an unmarked police car weaving in and out of traffic on Highway 36 near Sheridan Boulevard around 6:30 a.m. READ MORE: Denver Weather: More Snow! 'Second Winter' Continues In Colorado Wednesday Police stopped the driver on I-25 near Interstate 70 around 7 a.m. … [Read more...] about Man Wearing Tactical Gear, Driving Car With Police Lights Stopped On I-25 In Denver During Monday Morning Commute

White House press secretary Jen Psaki Jen Psaki Biden overruled Blinken, top officials on initial refugee cap decision: report Biden watching Derek Chauvin verdict from West Wing Cruz: Biden comments on Chauvin verdict 'grounds for a mistrial' MORE on Wednesday called the fatal police shooting of a Black teenage girl in Columbus, Ohio “tragic” and said that President Biden Joe Biden Biden overruled Blinken, top officials on initial refugee cap decision: report Suicide bombing hits Afghan security forces Jim Jordan, Val Demings get in shouting match about police during hearing MORE has been briefed on the matter. “The killing of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant by Columbus police is tragic. She was a child. We are thinking of her friends and family and the communities that are grieving her loss,” Psaki said at a briefing when asked whether Biden had been briefed on the shooting, replying in the affirmative. Police in Columbus fatally shot … [Read more...] about White House says fatal police shooting of Black teen in Columbus ‘tragic’

Police arrested a Louisville, Kentucky, mother after authorities found the body of her ten-year-old son in the trunk of her car, authorities said. Officers with the Louisville Metro Police Department responded to a home in the Taylor Berry neighborhood around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, WDRB reported . Police were conducting a welfare check after someone reported seeing a woman with a gun on the home’s porch and a deceased boy wrapped in a blanket. Once officers arrived, they discovered blood on the porch steps, the arrest report noted. Police investigated the home a little further and opened up the trunk of a car belonging to one of the home’s residents, Kaitlyn Higgins, 28. Inside the trunk, they found the body of a ten-year-old boy who sustained a fatal gunshot wound around 9:30 p.m., the Louisville Courier-Journal reported . When the police interviewed Higgins, she allegedly told them that she severed the boy’s tongue, fatally shot him, and placed his body in the trunk of … [Read more...] about Police: Mom Arrested After 10-Year-Old’s Body Found in Car Trunk