In June of 2020, family and friends of Hannah Fizer, 25, were shocked to learn that their beloved daughter and friend had been killed during a stop over an alleged speeding violation. Then, four months later, they learned there would be no justice and the officer who killed the unarmed woman as she sat in her vehicle—was back on the job. Since then, Fizer’s father, John Fizer, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Pettis County seeking damages against Pettis County Deputy Jordan Schutte. The lawsuit argues the shooting was an unjustified, an excessive use of force and that Schutte did not...
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Cop Kills Woman
Matt Agorist on the murder of Atatiana Jefferson: On the night of October 12, 2019, Atatiana Jefferson, 28, had committed no crime, had harmed no one, and was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when she heard a noise in the backyard and went to investigate. As Jefferson walked to the window to see who the prowler was, the prowler opened fire and murdered her inside her home. Because this prowler wears a badge, however, instead of investigating a murder, the police department conducted damage control by assassinating Jefferson’s character before arresting Fort Worth police...
5 Dead Inmates in the Same Jail — and Officials Refuse to Talk About It
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Southeast Texas — In October of 2011, 41-year-old Robert Montano was found unresponsive in his cell. He had been booked by a county deputy five days before on suspicion of being under the influence of the synthetic drug commonly referred to as “bath salts.” Medical personnel were dispatched but Montano couldn’t be revived. The official cause of death was renal failure. To this day, the county still claims the man’s kidneys shut down due to drug use, despite the fact that an autopsy revealed no trace of bath salts in Montano’s system....
Mentally Ill Inmate Slowly Expires Over Five Days in ‘The Bubble’
This article was originally published on the author's personal blog on February 25, 2015. It has been republished here to serve as background information for a follow-up piece that ran at Anti-Media on March 16, 2017. On February 11 a Texas jury awarded $2.4 million to the family of Robert Montano, an inmate of the Orange County Correctional Facility who in 2011 died while in custody. Montano, who’d been arrested for public intoxication, passed away after spending five days in an isolation unit of the jail known as “the Bubble.” Less than a week after the jury’s ruling an Assistant...