A few links from Balko’s Washington Post column, which has more:
- College student’s powdered sugar drink somehow tests positive for cocaine. Add this to the running list of things that police field tests have shown to be illegal drugs that aren’t illegal drugs at all.
- Witness offers new evidence in the case of Richard Glossip, who is condemned to die tomorrow. Witness is promptly arrested at gunpoint and interrogated. Message sent.
- It’s hard to believe, but there’s apparently still some debate about whether prosecutors are obligated to tell a suspect that DNA evidence points to their innocence.
- Apple pulls the plug on an app that tracks U.S. drone strikes.
- It’s difficult to understand why someone who is dying shouldn’t have access to a drug that could save his life, regardless of whether that drug has been approved by the FDA.
- Indiana couple say they were pulled over while speeding to a hospital to give birth. The couple claims one officer then pointed a gun at the pregnant woman’s belly and arrested her husband, causing him to miss the birth of his kid. One officer also apparently assured the other that he would “get rid of” the dash cam video of the incident. Portage, Ind., police chief Troy Williams later said the gun-pointing officer “should not be demonized for one unfortunate incident.”
- DOJ is reviewing what a federal judge called use of “staggering” NSA surveillance data by the FBI and DEA for investigations that have nothing to do with national security.
- The FBI announces that it will be seeking to collect more data from police agencies about officer-involved shootings. However, the collection will still depend on voluntary cooperation from police agencies, which means the data will mostly be worthless.