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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

4 years

General advice for covering armed groups: It's journalistic malpractice to simply identify groups how they ideally would like to be identified. For example: If an armed militia in downtown Louisville tells you to call them patriots, you shouldn't call them patriots.

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Josh Wood

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5 years

One 2020 candidate says they want to save journalism in America - and they have a plan. My latest for @NiemanLab

Andrew Yang, the most meme-able 2020 candidate, also wants to save journalism

Yang’s core idea — that local journalism, increasingly unable to pay for itself, should be subsidized by the federal government — would broaden the range of policy proposals up for mainstream...

www.niemanlab.org

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

4 years

This account - of a foreign journalist being arrested, manhandled and kept in a dirty cell for covering a protest - sounds like it could have been written about Cairo or Manama during the Arab Spring. But it's about @AndrewBuncombe 's arrest in Seattle

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

4 years

Days after the riot at the US Capitol, armed men gathered at Kentucky’s statehouse today - one bringing zip ties

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Lawmakers exiting the statehouse are reminded by the crowd they “work for the people.” And the guy with zip ties said he brought them “just in case.”

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Josh Wood

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8 years

This is terrifying - from a Richard Spencer speech at an alt-right conference in DC this weekend.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

NEW: A former Louisville police officer used law enforcement software as part of a scheme that involved hacking the Snapchat accounts of young women and using sexually explicit photos and videos they had taken to extort them. My latest for @leoweekly :

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Josh Wood

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4 years

If I took groups at their word overseas, Hezbollah would be a liberation movement and the Syrian Arab Army would solely be confronting terrorism. Armed groups in America today do the same thing and want to control the narrative and their perception.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 months

Four years ago, a Louisville Metro Police officer fired pepper balls at a @wave3news crew broadcasting live on air. That night, LMPD said the incident would be investigated. Four years later, that investigation is still open. My latest:

LMPD investigation of officer who fired pepper balls at news crew unfinished 4 years later

Dusten Dean, the officer who fired the pepper balls, has seen his salary increase and has become a detective in the intervening four years.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

Personal/professional news 🚨: next week I'll be joining the @courierjournal 's enterprise & investigations team. Super excited to be part of such a talented staff. And super excited to start digging into stories that matter to Louisville.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 months

Louisville Police officers from an "elite" unit threw drinks at civilians from unmarked cars. They recorded their attacks. Today @courierjournal is publishing some of those videos, alongside a look at how that kind of misconduct proliferated. My latest:

How a group of LMPD officers went from 'elite unit' to dousing pedestrians with drinks

Newly released videos show the "Slushygate" attacks. At least five officers who knew about them, but didn't report the attacks, remain with LMPD.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 years

Everybody on my timeline is talking about Aleppo, except PEOTUS Trump who is talking about what magazines he likes and doesn't like.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

4 years

Context is everything. Same goes for police terms like "police-involved shooting" etc.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

6 years

Finally got my hands on a copy of the MBS propaganda magazine (courtesy of my father, who found it at a Walmart here in rural New Hampshire)

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Josh Wood

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4 years

In calling off planned protests at the 1967 Kentucky Derby amid high tensions in Louisville, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Sometimes the prediction of a race riot is an invitation to riot," I've been thinking about that quote a lot since I first read it a few weeks ago.

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Josh Wood

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1 year

Day one at the @courierjournal

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Josh Wood

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1 year

Personal news 🚨: This is my last week at LEO Weekly. Last week, amid another round of layoffs/cost reductions, it became clear I would no longer have the room to do the kind of original reporting I’ve been doing for the last 18 months. So I decided to resign.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

When an officer was caught on camera firing pepper balls at a WAVE 3 crew on the 2nd night of Louisville's 2020 protests, LMPD said they would investigate. 2 years later, they haven't started an investigation into policy breaches My latest for @leoweekly

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

Blown away to have won @SPJlouisville Journalist of the Year last night for work I did with @leoweekly in 2022. The work I've done in Louisville has been the highlight of my career. And every day I am inspired by the work done by the talented and dedicated journalists here.

Chris Otts

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1 year

Hearty congrats to @courierjournal @JWoodJourno , SPJ Louisville’s Journalist of the Year. Well deserved. Turns out he did a shoot for Food & Wine Magazine along the way

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Josh Wood

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1 year

Spotted in today’s Harlan Enterprise: @KYLantern stories from @liamniemeyer and @mckennahorsley . The Lantern, which can be republished for free under Creative Commons, is such a valuable addition to the Kentucky media landscape.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

In Louisville police body cam footage I recently got via open records, the city blurred out moments of police misconduct citing privacy concerns. Given they failed to redact SSNs & phone #s of private individuals elsewhere in that response, I wonder if it's really about privacy.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 months

Last night, at a press conference about an ethics complaint filed against him, @LouisvilleMayor called several stories I wrote about his admin “inaccurate.” The Mayor’s Office never raised any alleged inaccuracies with us. I stand by my reporting.

Mayor Craig Greenberg defends wife's role, files motion to dismiss ethics complaint

Mayor Craig Greenberg said the complaint filed against him was "frivolous" and defended his office's hiring of interns tied to influential families

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

5 months

Where are Louisville’s ShotSpotter gunfire sensors? According to data leaked to @wired , most are west of 9th Street in the predominantly Black West End. Wired found ShotSpotters nationwide were disproportionately placed in low-income communities of color

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

National reporters: If our reporting inspired your trip to Louisville and a good chunk of your story, please consider linking to us or name dropping us. National news leans on local news. And local news is a constant struggle.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

An LMPD officer stopped a woman changing her child’s diaper in a car parked in an alley. He ended up kneeling on her neck. An off-duty officer chased and pulled a gun on a 17-year-old girl who passed him on the road. Both remain on the force. My latest:

‘Slap on the hand’: How LMPD officers involved in egregious misconduct remain on the force

LMPD has a difficult path ahead as it struggles to regain public trust in the police force while simultaneously keeping troubled officers in uniform.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 years

When asked about #Syria in NYT interview yesterday, Trump went off the record. Only time he went off record during the interview.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

DOJ: Louisville police arrest of protesters at July 24, 2020 protest in NuLu "unnecessary and unjustified, in violation of LMPD policy and the Constitution." LMPD officers "mass-produced boilerplate citations" and used "guilt-by-association rationale."

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

11 months

Sources tell the @courierjournal the wife of Louisville's mayor has a Metro Hall office and directs staff Separately, a SummerWorks intern listed their job as "Special Assistant to the First Lady." The role might violate nepotism rules. My latest:

Greenberg's wife has role in administration. Louisville's nepotism code might not allow it

According to sources with knowledge of the situation, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg's wife has an office at Metro Hall and gives orders to staff.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

10 months

Yesterday I had to send in an open records request to a large, out-of-state police department. I got what I asked for in less than 8 hours. In Louisville I consider myself lucky if I get just an acknowledgement of the request within the five business days allowed by law.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

For the latest issue of @leoweekly , I wrote about @RacingLouFC star Dr. @nadia_nadim , who fled Taliban rule in her homeland and was smuggled into Europe as a child. "Being a refugee is not something you’re going to be all your life," she said.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 months

Where did Louisville Metro Police officers throw drinks at pedestrians? I was able to geolocate 18 attacks and made a map. Read the full story here:

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

7 months

In August, I filed an open records request for Louisville police search warrant applications cited by the Dept of Justice in its scathing March 2023 report on LMPD. The city never responded to the open records request. Now @courierjournal is suing.

Why the Courier Journal is suing to get LMPD search warrant applications

The records The Courier Journal requested played a key role in the Department of Justice's scathing report on the Louisville Metro Police Department.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

9 months

"In journalism, we sometimes indulge in the fantasy that our work will always have immediate impact, with every flaw we’ve exposed getting addressed and resolved within days, weeks or months...the reality is sometimes slow, incremental change over years."

In 2018, We Reported on an Abusive Cop. He Was Just Sentenced to a Year in Prison.

Five years after ProPublica and the South Bend Tribune partnered to investigate police misconduct in Elkhart, Indiana, reporter Ken Armstrong reflects on the incremental but powerful impact journal...

www.propublica.org

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

For years, a man asked his neighborhood association and Metro Parks why the water wasn't turned on at a park. Within an hour of the @courierjournal asking the city about it, they got to work fixing it. Local journalism has impacts. From @stephkuzy :

Kids played in heat with no water at this West End park for years. How one man changed that

A man said he asked for years why a Shawnee park didn't have water. He asked us too. So we asked Metro Parks. Water returned to the park within the hour.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

Here's a transcript of a text message conversation between the ex-LMPD officer and one of the women that prosecutors included in a sentencing memorandum

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

As this story gets national attention, a reminder that @leoweekly broke it. We're a small alt-weekly. I'm the only writer dedicated to news. I had to delay the story because I had a copy editing shift the day I got the docs. Sharing our story means a lot.

CNN

@CNN

2 years

A former Louisville Metro Police Department detective is possibly facing years in federal prison for using his law enforcement access to a database, obtaining information about women, and stealing sexually explicit photos and videos from them.

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Josh Wood

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2 years

I recently filed an open records request for vanity license plate requests rejected by Kentucky in 2022. The results were weird. Here are a few of them.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

In addition to @LouisvilleMayor not calling on @leoweekly during yesterday's presser, looks like we were left out of the assigned seating at Metro Hall. idk why the city would think I wouldn't attend the press conference about the thing I've reported on and asked about nonstop.

Joe Sonka 😐

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1 year

Media now allowed inside the Louisville mayor’s gallery, waiting for the DOJ’s presser later this morning.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 month

Louisville Metro Government is suing @LouPubMedia after the Attorney General determined that Louisville Metro Police violated Kentucky's open records law. The lawsuit seeks to stop the news organization from accessing police records they asked for.

Louisville Metro sues LPM to keep police files secret

Local officials want a judge to reverse a Kentucky Attorney General decision that found Louisville Metro Police violated the state’s open records laws.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 years

So if "all media institutions" in #Turkey have been "patriotic," does this mean no more arrests of journos?

MTV English News

@MTVEnglishNews

8 years

Reuters quoting Turkish Prime Minister #Yildirim : All media institutions have shown a very patriotic stance, with no exceptions

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

I'm incredibly proud of the work I've done at LEO. Working on impactful, local stories has been the highlight of my career. Hoping to have some news to share on my next steps shortly. Stay tuned.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

Louisville’s alt-weekly paper, LEO Weekly, was sold again this month. To mark the occasion, its new owner, an exec in the company that previously owned LEO, provided a ctrl+c ctrl+v “[insert paper name] is important” quote.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 months

Honored to win an @SPJlouisville award last week for my coverage of Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg's administration. And grateful I have the support of a great newsroom @courierjournal that lets me go after big stories. Here are the stories that won the award 🧵

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

7 months

In a previous role in Atlanta in 2003, Louisville's police chief was suspended for trying to access files related to a narcotics investigation targeting a relative and lying about it, records show. My latest for @courierjournal :

Louisville Metro Police chief previously suspended for lying, Atlanta records show

Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel was suspended for 20 days in 2003 for lying about accessing files from an investigation targeting a relative.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

6 years

The headline on this fawning Saudi Gazette story about MBS's Bloomberg interview is unintentional (or perhaps intentional?) comedic gold

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

On the front page of today’s @courierjournal : my story on the Louisville Metro Police Department’s complicated, frustrating and potentially intimidating civilian complaint process.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

6 years

It's apparently published by the National Enquirer, an actual purveyor of fake news. You can't make this stuff up.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

So, earlier this month I started as the @courierjournal 's Watchdog/News Reporter. What does that mean? Well, my beat is flexible, but my work is largely going to deal with accountability.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

3 months

Hard to believe, but I've now been at @courierjournal for a full year. Here's a look back at some of what I've done 🧵

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

4 months

The Louisville police officer who fatally struck a 17-year-old pedestrian on March 13 was previously punished three times by the department for "at fault" accidents. More from me and @RachelSmithNews in @courierjournal :

Louisville police officer who fatally struck teen previously punished for at fault accidents

The LMPD officer who fatally struck a 17-year-old in Louisville's Portland neighborhood had been punished three times before for at fault accidents.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

Thanks for all the kind words today. It means a lot. For those who asked: I'm staying in Louisville. Local journalism needs more support now than ever. Subscribe to your local paper. Share links of stories you like. Back non-profits. All of that helps keep journalism alive.

Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

Personal news 🚨: This is my last week at LEO Weekly. Last week, amid another round of layoffs/cost reductions, it became clear I would no longer have the room to do the kind of original reporting I’ve been doing for the last 18 months. So I decided to resign.

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1 year

The city can not call on me at press conferences, duck calls and emails and play games with my open records requests, but none of that has deterred me — nor will it deter me — from getting the answers I'm looking for. I'll keep breaking stories whether y'all talk to me or not.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

4 years

Six years ago we learned that my good friend Peter Kassig had been murdered by ISIS. Peter's philosophy was simple: Do the right thing, help people in need, don’t wait for others to fix things, live each day to its fullest. He was an inspiration. But his death hurts every day.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

An inmate at Louisville's jail was locked in an "attorney booth" for 18 hours. Guards were meant to check on her every 20 minutes. They didn't. A breach of policy investigation concluded her suicide might have been prevented. My latest for @leoweekly :

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

🚨 New business cards just dropped 🚨

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@JWoodJourno

1 year

Scenes from a trip through West Virginia and eastern Kentucky this week: The Mountaineer Hotel in Williamson, WV (unfortunately closed)

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 months

The week of the 150th Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs was serving cookies labeled "Please & Thank You," which folks naturally assumed came from Louisville cookie purveyor Please & Thank You. They did not. Now the brand is asking for $50k & apology.

Please & Thank You seeks $50K, apology after alleged counterfeit cookies served at Derby

“Wait,” Please & Thank You owner Brooke Vaughn remembers thinking when she saw photos of her cookies at the Kentucky Derby. “Those aren’t my cookies"

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

Today, LMPD released body cam footage of the Feb. 20 shooting of two teens in the West End. Before the shooting, the officer trapped a group of teens in a garage, did not identify himself as a police officer or try to demand their surrender. My story:

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 months

At least 2x in recent weeks, major Louisville news outlets - including @courierjournal & @LouPubMedia - did not receive timely notices for important press conferences the mayor was holding. That has raised concerns about transparency. From @ByRobertoR :

Louisville mayor's approach to recent press conferences raises transparency concerns

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, who has promised residents he’ll make city government more transparent, has recently tried to limit which local media outlets attend press briefings on important...

www.lpm.org

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

On Twitter, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg says Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville police — strongest wording from a Louisville mayor or police chief I've seen regarding her death three years ago.

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1 year

"What took the DOJ two years to uncover could have been summed up in a 10-minute conversation with just about any Black person living west of 9th Street," writes @Armon_R_perry

Now that the DOJ report on police is out, America knows the real Louisville, Kentucky

As I listened to my colleague express optimism about the prospects for reform and meaningful change, my only thought was, this is the real Louisville.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

While LMPD rolled out the red carpet for the NYT...for a story I'm working on, I pressed to interview several people. LMPD said I could talk to one, but only by submitting FOUR written questions. I sent five. A month later, still no response, but they say it's coming...

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Meanwhile, local reporters in Louisville have to beg LMPD for days to get even basic questions answered (or outright ignored) and sue for open records. Fun!

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

3 years

Apparently this is “JUST IN” even though @TessaDuvall and @dctello had this more than 48 hours ago for @courierjournal

The Hill

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3 years

JUST IN: Internal investigation finds officers shouldn't have shot into Breonna Taylor's apartment

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

11 months

According to an internal email obtained by the @courierjournal , the wife of Louisville's mayor has a city-issued iPhone, computer and email address. The memo to Metro Hall staff followed our reporting on her role in the administration. My latest:

Louisville mayor's wife had city-issued phone and computer, internal email says

The email came after reporting by The Courier Journal that the mayor's wife had a role in his administration, which could violate ethics rules.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

4 years

The last week has been pretty hard but my emotional support pit bull makes things significantly better than they would be.

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@JWoodJourno

2 years

Between Nov. 29 and Feb. 6 - a span of just 69 days - a total of 6 people died at Louisville's jail. Five had been recommended for release but remained in custody. For weeks I've been looking into recent jail deaths for @leoweekly . Here's what we found

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

LMPD training materials portrayed police as avengers who carry out God's wrath. My latest for @leoweekly

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@JWoodJourno

3 months

Meanwhile, police discipline records in Louisville require an open records request in nearly all cases, despite the city saying it is working towards creating the most transparent police department in America.

ProPublica

@propublica

3 months

New: The NYPD’s public site for tracking officers’ discipline is shockingly unreliable, a ProPublica analysis found. Cases against officers frequently vanish for days — sometimes weeks — at a time.

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1 year

Hello 👋 It's been two months since I joined the @courierjournal (seen here on a moody day the other week). Here are some of the things I've done since starting there 🧵

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@JWoodJourno

1 year

On the front page of today’s @courierjournal : -My story on how interns with close Greenberg connections were hired to work at Metro Hall through a program aimed at disadvantaged youth. - @KristaJ1993 with the latest on JCPS’s rocky start to the school year.

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@JWoodJourno

4 years

"I assumed that once jail officials had been informed I was a reporter, I'd simply be let go," he writes.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

Re people thinking marijuana is fine in Louisville because we've had de facto decriminalization since 2019: The DOJ found that in 2021, LMPD charged Black people with marijuana possession more than SIX TIMES the rate of white people.

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@JWoodJourno

1 year

I recently realized that the 90-page DOJ report on the Louisville Metro Police Department didn't even mention the Explorer scandal, which makes me wonder if DOJ was only looking at misconduct and unconstitutional policing in more recent years.

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Josh Wood

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10 years

Saddened and angered by the murder of Alan Henning by IS. Praying for my good friend Peter Kassig, one of the best people I know.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

Hey look, it’s my name in print again (alongside @oliviakrauth , @oliviamevans_ and @Joe_Gerth on this Election Day wrap)

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@JWoodJourno

1 year

Today I have two stories out today in the @courierjournal dealing with Louisville Metro Police Department misconduct complaints. The first is a deep look into the complicated, intimidating process civilians filing complaints face.

'An intimidation thing': LMPD's misconduct complaint process leaves citizens discouraged

Accounts from Louisvillians and a cache of documents illustrate a complicated, frustrating officer misconduct complaint process at LMPD.

www.courier-journal.com

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@JWoodJourno

3 months

Just filed an open records request with this as my view. #scenicfoias #kentuckyoaks

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

4 years

I didn’t even know Barbar had shutters; It’s open 24/7 and even stayed open during times of war. What a sight.

Hasan Shaaban

@hasanshaaban

4 years

#Lebanon : Tourism police are shutting down restaurants in #Beirut and across the country in a bid to limit the spread of #Coronavirus . الحق في الوصول الى الشاورما يكفله الدستور. المادة 139\ج. #Photojournalism #Covid_19

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Last year, a former Louisville Metro Police supervisor received a 30 day suspension after the department said he knew about subordinates carrying out Slushygate attacks but did nothing. Now, LMPD has quietly slashed that suspension to 10 days. My latest:

Punishment reduced for ex-supervisor who LMPD says knew about 'Slushygate' attacks

LMPD had said Kevin Casper would be suspended for 30 days for knowing about drink-throwing attacks by subordinates but doing nothing to stop it.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

3 months

Always blown away by the great work done by @courierjournal photographers.

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Mystik Dan wins the 150th Running of the Kentucky Derby @ChurchillDowns @courierjournal @UKGranger

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Josh Wood

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2 years

For the latest issue of @leoweekly , I took a look at where six recent local unionization efforts stand. Featuring: @CJNewsGuild , @HBWorkersUnion , @LvillePD_Union , @SunergosUnion , @RWU_louisville & @SBWorkersUnited Check out the story here:

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@JWoodJourno

1 year

Have you ever wondered who the mayor invites to the Kentucky Derby? For years, the city kept guests secret, saying disclosure could harm business prospects. Through open records, I learned the names of some folks Mayor Greenberg is inviting this year.

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@JWoodJourno

1 year

To fill a vacant airport board position, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg recommended Metro Council approve an applicant whose family donated $13k to his campaign. The applicant only submitted a two-sentence resume. Good digging from @ellie_mccrary

A 2-sentence resume: Metro Council balks at Mayor Greenberg's airport board pick

Louisville developer Mark Blieden and his family donated $13,000 to the Greenberg campaign.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

This NYTMag writer leaves out that the protester Evans struck didn't just have a wound that required 3 staples to close — he lost hearing for a week & suffered from nausea and dizziness for weeks. Feds aggressively prosecuted this, in part, because you can kill someone like this

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 years

This is one of the men being considered for homeland security chief under Trump administration.

David A. Clarke, Jr.

@SheriffClarke

8 years

How to stop riots. 1)Declare state of emergency.2)Impose early curfew. 3)Mobilize Nat Guard.4)Authorize ALL non lethal force. 5)Tear gas.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

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In recent years, sexual misconduct has proliferated at Louisville Metro Police. A @courierjournal investigation found allegations are not always thoroughly investigated and often go hand in hand with threats of retaliation. My latest:

'Patriarchal, misogynistic culture': How sexual misconduct proliferated at LMPD

A Courier Journal review of hundreds of pages of LMPD discipline documents found sexual misconduct allegations were not always thoroughly investigated

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

Public & press again barred from Louisville police contract negotiations. “This was one of the 1st steps that the mayor could have made to ensure us that this was going to be a concerted effort to do things differently," - @LouisvilleUL 's Kish Cumi Price

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

19 days

Last week, amid heightened attention to how LMPD handles reports of sexual misconduct, the department's official Facebook page called a man driving around exposing himself to women "not the crime of the century but annoying nevertheless"

Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

19 days

In recent years, sexual misconduct has proliferated at Louisville Metro Police. A @courierjournal investigation found allegations are not always thoroughly investigated and often go hand in hand with threats of retaliation. My latest:

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

My @leoweekly story on the findings of the wide-ranging DOJ investigation into LMPD: Feds: Louisville Police ‘Routinely’ Engaged In Unconstitutional Practices, ‘Harmed’ Black Community. Consent Decree Coming.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

In addition to the Journalist of the Year award, I also picked up first place in crime/courts/criminal justice reporting and first place in personality/profile writing 🧵

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

7 months

Since @courierjournal published the Slushygate videos last week & a deep dive on Ninth Mobile, I've seen a few comments questioning why we are reporting on something that happened 4-5 years ago. 🧵

How a group of LMPD officers went from 'elite unit' to dousing pedestrians with drinks

Newly released videos show the "Slushygate" attacks. At least five officers who knew about them, but didn't report the attacks, remain with LMPD.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 months

In 2020, police viewed protesters throwing two water bottles at a drone (and missing) as a justification to use force and fire pepper balls at a small crowd. @RyanVanVelzer wrote about that episode here:

Police Drones Capture 'Beautiful And Ugly Truths' Of Louisville Protests

WFPL News obtained 168 videos and dozens of photos captured by police drones flown over Louisville protests in late May and early June.

www.lpm.org

Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 months

Louisville Police officers from an "elite" unit threw drinks at civilians from unmarked cars. They recorded their attacks. Today @courierjournal is publishing some of those videos, alongside a look at how that kind of misconduct proliferated. My latest:

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

8 years

Erdogan, who jailed more journalists than any other leader last year, applauds Trump putting journo "in his place"

Trump put CNN reporter in his place, Erdoğan says

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan backed on Thursday U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's recent reaction against CNN for allegedly reporting 'fake news'...

www.dailysabah.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

Louisville's inspector general's office is charged with independently investigating citizen complaints of police misconduct. But the inspector general says LMPD is blocking access to the information his office needs to do those investigations. My latest:

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

4 months

Louisville Metro Gov said Mayor's Office staff only "intermittently interact" with the mayor's wife "just like" staff interact with other volunteers. But texts show she frequently called on a city employee for Instagram help. From @ellie_mccrary and me:

Louisville mayor's wife repeatedly turned to city worker for social media help, texts show

Text messages obtained by The Courier Journal show Rachel Greenberg frequently asked a city employee to provide and create content for her Instagram.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

3 years

A Louisville Metro Police Department training course aimed to have recruits be able to "identify aspects of Hispanic/Latino culture that may pose hazards to law enforcement.” My latest for @leoweekly

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

2 years

The latest issue of @leoweekly features a cover drawing by @MurphyCartoons displaying the names of the 12 people who died in the custody of Louisville’s jail between Nov. 29, 2021 and Oct. 4 of this year. Inside, you’ll find a story about who a few of those people were.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

"A @courierjournal review of 35 Kentucky agencies' policies found that 70% restrict or prohibit employees from talking to news outlets − some in ways that legal scholars say are unconstitutional." @adwolfson looks at "censorship by PIO" in Kentucky.

'Censorship by PIO': Kentucky agencies' strict media rules putting a gag on workers

A review of 35 Kentucky agencies' policies found most restrict or bar employees from talking to media − and some could be fired if they do so.

www.courier-journal.com

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

7 months

Per @AP : In response to @courierjournal 's open records lawsuit, @LouisvilleMayor calls LMPD failure to respond to search warrant records request "unacceptable" & says he directed LMPD & records dept to take "immediate steps" to respond to requests.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

LEO's reporting bona fides are right there in the absolutely damning 90-page DOJ report, which brought up incidents we first reported.

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Josh Wood

@JWoodJourno

1 year

LMPD: An officer accidentally discharged their firearm last night while trying to detain a teen as others fled. Later, two teens showed up at hospitals with gunshot wounds and were tied to the scene of the discharge through evidence. Stops short of saying officer shot them.

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