JJ Velazquez
JJ Velazquezwas wrongfully sentenced to 25 years at Sing Sing Correctional Facility for the January 27, 1998 murder of Retired NYPD officer Albert Ward. In 2002, Velazquez sent a letter to Dan Slepian, NBC News producer and United Justice Coalition advisor, detailing his innocence. This letter inspired Slepian to investigate Velazquez's case and story. Over the course of a decade, Slepian and fellow Dateline NBC producers identified and interviewed witnesses, culminating in a Dateline broadcast on February 12, 2012. The broadcast served as the catalyst for the review of Velazquez's case by the Manhattan District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit in 2013. After numerous motions filed, denials and appeals by Velazquez and his representation, he was officially released from Sing Sing Correctional Facility in September 2021, after being granted executive clemency by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Letters from Sing Sing broadcast has now been reproduced as a podcast from NBC News.
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THE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS A DECADES-LONG HISTORY OF MISCONDUCT.
URGE THE DOJ: OPEN A PATTERN-OR-PRACTICE INVESTIGATION INTO THE KANSAS CITY KS POLICE DEPT
Sign the petitionFBI INVESTIGATION INTO KCK
TEAM ROC RECEIVES RECORDS AND DETAILS OF 8 FBI INVESTIGATIONS INTO KANSAS CITY, KANSAS INCLUDING EVIDENCE OF THE LEGACY OF CORRUPTION, CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS & RACISM.
TEAM ROC & MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT FILE NEW LAWSUIT AGAINST THE KCKPD AND UNIFIED GOVERNMENT FOR FAILURE TO DISCLOSE RECORDS RELATING TO POLICE CORRUPTION IN VIOLATION OF KANSAS OPEN RECORDS ACT
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UNITED STATES' MOTION TO FILE PRETRIAL WITNESS LISTS UNDER SEAL
THIS MOTION WAS FILED OUT OF CONCERN THAT PRETRIAL PUBLICATION OF WITNESS LISTS WILL CAUSE IRREPARABLE HARM TO THE VICTIMS, WITNESSES, AND DEFENDANT
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Civil Lawsuit Against Golubski (September 2024)
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JUDGE CROUSE’S MEMORANDUM & ORDER DENYING BOTH OF GOLUBSKI’S MOTIONS TO DISMISS INDICTMENT
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UNITED STATES’ RESPONSE TO GOLUBSKI’S MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT AS BARRED BY THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
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UNITED STATES’ RESPONSE TO GOLUBSKI’S MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT FOR LACK OF NOTICE AND FAILURE TO STATE AN OFFENSE
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GOLUBSKI’S MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT AS BARRED BY THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
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GOLUBSKI’S MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT FOR LACK OF NOTICE AND FAILURE TO STATE AN OFFENSE
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UNITED STATES' MOTION TO PERMIT EVIDENCE
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FILES MOTION FOR AN ORDER PERMITTING ADMISSION OF EVIDENCE CITING THE MULTIPLE ABUSES AT THE HANDS OF FORMER KCKPD DETECTIVE ROGER GOLUBSKI AND THREE OTHER DEFENDANTS. ABUSES INCLUDE INJURING, OPPRESSING, THREATENING, INTIMIDATING, AND HOLDING MINORS IN INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE AND FORCING THEM TO PERFORM SEXUAL ACTS .
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ROC NATION’S TEAM ROC AND MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT SUBMIT KORA
ROC NATION AND MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT SUBMIT A KORA (KANSAS OPEN RECORD ACT) DEMANDING THE DISCLOSURE OF REQUESTED INFORMATION OF THE KANSAS CITY KANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
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ROGER GOLUBSKI INDICTMENT #2 (NOVEMBER 2022)
FORMER KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, POLICE DEPARTMENT DETECTIVE, ROGER GOLUBSKI, AND THREE OTHERS WERE INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY TO HOLD YOUNG WOMEN IN INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE AND FORCING THEM TO PROVIDE SEXUAL SERVICES.
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CIVIL LAWSUIT AGAINST GOLUBSKI (NOVEMBER 2023)
FIVE BLACK WOMEN FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST ROGER GOLUBSKI, THE UNIFIED GOVERNMENT OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY, 3 FORMER KCKPD POLICE CHIEFS, AND 4 OTHER KCKPD OFFICERS WHO SERVED AS DETECTIVES.
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ROGER GOLUBSKI INDICTMENT #1 (SEPTEMBER 2022)
FORMER KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, POLICE DEPARTMENT DETECTIVE ROGER GOLUBSKI WAS INDICTED FOR 6 COUNTS OF CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS COMMITTING AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULTS WHILE ACTING UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW.
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OPEN LETTER #2
TEAM ROC PUBLISHES SECOND OPEN LETTER TO DOJ URGING PATTERN-OR-PRACTICE INVESTIGATION INTO KANSAS CITY, KANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT CORRUPTION.
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U.S. DOJ LETTER
ATTORNEY FOR TEAM ROC PENS LETTER TO U.S. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL URGING PATTERN-OR-PRACTICE INVESTIGATION INTO KANSAS CITY, KANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT CORRUPTION.
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OPEN LETTER #1
TEAM ROC PENS OPEN LETTER TO U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE URGING FURTHER INVESTIGATION INTO KANSAS CITY, KANSAS CORRUPTION.
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WRIT OF MANDAMUS
TEAM ROC FILES A WRIT OF MANDAMUS REQUIRING WYANDOTTE COUNTY/KCKPD TO PROVIDE RECORDS OF MISCONDUCT.
Read moreHOW BAD IS IT?
“I HAD TO FLEE KANSAS IN FEAR OF MY LIFE … FOR COOPERATING IN THE INVESTIGATION OF A MURDER OF A … GIRL BEING SEX TRAFFICKED BEFORE SHE WAS KILLED. PLEASE, PLEASE, HELP ME PLEASE.”
“THE CORRUPTION IS NOT ONLY IN OUR POLICE STATION BUT ALL THROUGHOUT THE UNIFIED GOVERNMENT AND THE BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES.”
“IN KANSAS CITY KANSAS THE POLICE FAILED TO CONDUCT A INVESTIGATION AND PUT ME IN JAIL ON HEARSAY AND NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE…”
“SUPERVISORS ABUSED THEIR POSITION BY MAKING SEXUAL ADVANCES TOWARDS FEMALE DEPUTIES AND CIVILIAN STAFF. THEY USED THEIR POSITION TO INTIMIDATE OTHERS, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE OF COLOR. IT WAS ALSO DIFFICULT TO GO TO WORK WHEN YOUR SUPERVISOR WAS CLEARLY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL.”
"Report me to who? The police? I am the police.”
“My sister's dead. My cousin's dead. My life has been ruined. The Unified Government, Kansas City, Kansas, did me wrong.”
“...we watched our friends and families die and disappear and without any help, without being able to cry out to anybody…”
“You would think that they were talking about the Mafia. Drugs, murders, trafficking minors and women. Every crime you can think of. That government looked like they supported it. And the police were involved in it. There was no where you could go for refuge from that…”
“When Golubski was asked in a 2020 deposition in a civil suit if he’d ever raped an underage girl in his cop car, or had a lucrative side hustle in drugs and prostitution, or investigated a crime he himself had committed, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. He did that 555 times in a single sitting.”
“Golubski also contends that in 1997 the state of the law did not provide him with ‘fair warning’ that he could be held criminally liable under 18 U.S.C. § 242 when using his badge of authority to engage in kidnapping and/or sexual abuse.”
“...Golubski argued at the [motion to dismiss] hearing . . . that at the time [of the alleged crimes] there was no substantive due process right to avoid being raped or kidnapped by a state actor.”
PRESS COVERAGE
KMBC
FORMER KCK DETECTIVE ROGER GOLUBSKI IN COURT AFTER POTENTIAL BREACH OF PRE-TRIAL HOUSE ARREST
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KCUR
KCKPD CHIEF DEFENDS INTERNAL REVIEW OF GOLUBSKI'S CASES: 'WHO BETTER TO CLEAN THEIR OWN HOUSE?'
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KCUR
DEEPER THAN GOLUBSKI: A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION DEFINED THE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT
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KANSAS CITY STAR
WHY KCKPD WON’T INVESTIGATE: ‘SHE WAS A STREETWALKER. WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT US TO DO?’
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KANSAS CITY STAR
ROGER GOLUBSKI WASN’T THE ONLY ALLEGED RAPIST IN KCKPD, BUT DA ‘DECLINED TO PROSECUTE’
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USA TODAY
EX-KANSAS POLICE DETECTIVE ALLEGEDLY HELPED RUN UNDERAGE SEX-TRAFFICKING OPERATION FOR GIRLS
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FOX4
FORMER KCKPD DETECTIVE ROGER GOLUBSKI ARRESTED BY FBI, CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT AND KIDNAPPING…
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KCUR.ORG
FORMER KCKPD DETECTIVE ROGER GOLUBSKI ARRESTED BY FBI, CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT AND KIDNAPPING…
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THE KANSAS CITY STAR
EX-KCK DETECTIVE ROGER GOLUBSKI, LONG ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION, ARRESTED BY THE FBI…
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THE KANSAS CITY STAR
FEDS THINK KCK COP, ‘A PLAYER IN A MUCH BIGGER OPERATION,’ KILLED RHONDA TRIBUE HIMSELF…
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THE WASHINGTON POST
DOJ CITES THE DEPARTMENT’S BUDGET AS A LIMITING FACTOR TO CONSIDERING KCKPD INVESTIGATION.
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CNN
FEDERAL GRAND JURY INVESTIGATING KANSAS CITY COP WHO ALLEGEDLY 'EXPLOITED AND TERRORIZED' BLACK RESIDENTS FOR DECADES
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THE ROOT
A CRIMINAL INJUSTICE: HOW A CITY IGNORED THE RAPE, MURDER AND TERRORISM OF BLACK WOMEN FOR FOUR DECADES
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WBUR
INVESTIGATION INTO EX-COP'S BEHAVIOR REVEALS MORE ABOUT THE CULTURE OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, POLICE
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FOX 4 KC
ACTIVISTS CALL FOR US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO INVESTIGATE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT
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FOX 4 KC
‘JUSTICE FOR WYANDOTTE’ GROUP HOLDS RALLY TO BRING ATTENTION TO UNSOLVED HOMICIDES IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS
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KMBC
EX-POLICE CHAPLAIN SAYS HE QUIT AFTER WORKING WITH DETECTIVE NAMED IN LAMONTE MCINTYRE LAWSUIT
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NPR ILLINOIS
INVESTIGATION INTO EX-COP'S BEHAVIOR REVEALS MORE ABOUT THE CULTURE OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, POLICE
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KANSAS REFLECTOR
INTERFAITH CALL FOR JUSTICE SEEKS ACCOUNTABILITY FOR WYANDOTTE COUNTY OFFICIALS
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WYANDOTTE DAILY
STATE SEXUAL ASSAULT CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO FORMER KCK POLICE OFFICER SENT TO FEDERAL AUTHORITIES
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CITIZEN TRUTH
LAWSUIT ACCUSES KANSAS CITY COP OF DECADES OF EXTORTION, SEX ABUSE AND WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT
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PUBLIC RADIO EAST
INVESTIGATION INTO EX-COP'S BEHAVIOR REVEALS MORE ABOUT THE CULTURE OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, POLICE
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KANSAS CITY STAR
DEPOSITION: GOLUBSKI ASKED 13-YEAR-OLD ‘IF I WANT TO SEE MY SWEET LITTLE GRANDMA AGAIN’
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PARCHMAN PRISON
TEAM ROC ADVOCATES FOR HUMANE CONDITIONS AT PARCHMAN PRISON, THE OLDEST MAXIMUM SECURITY IN MISSISSIPPI WITH DEEP ROOTS IN SLAVERY.
DOJ EXPOSES VIOLATIONS IN MISSISSIPPI CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
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SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT: BRISTER MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
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A&E DOCUMENTARY
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THE DOJ FINDS CONDITIONS AT PARCHMAN PRISON VIOLATE THE 8TH AND 14TH AMENDMENTS TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.
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TEAM ROC FILES SECOND LAWSUIT OVER MISSISSIPPI PRISON CONDITIONS
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TEAM ROC SUES PARCHMAN PRISON HEALTH PROVIDER CENTURION
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OPEN LETTER
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TEAM ROC FILES A COMPLAINT ON BEHALF OF 29 INDIVIDUALS INCARCERATED AT PARCHMAN FARM
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EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FINDS UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONDITIONS AT MISSISSIPPI PRISON.
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BILLBOARD
JAY-Z, YO GOTTI & TEAM ROC’S LEGAL EFFORTS LEAD DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO INVESTIGATE MISSISSIPPI PRISON CONDITION.
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THE SOURCE
YO GOTTI & TEAM ROC TO COVER FUNERAL & AUTOPSY EXPENSES FOR MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF CHADARION HENDERSON IN PARCHMAN PRISON.
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PRISON INSIDER
USA: JAY-Z, YO GOTTI, AND TEAM ROC FILE LAWSUIT OVER MISSISSIPPI PRISON CONDITIONS
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CLARION LEDGER
'CONSTANT PERIL': MISSISSIPPI PARCHMAN INMATES FILE 2ND LAWSUIT AIDED BY JAY-Z, YO GOTTI.
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CBS NEWS
JAY-Z AND MEEK MILL'S ORGANIZATION IS SENDING 100,000 SURGICAL MASKS TO JAILS AND PRISONS.
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CBS NEWS
YO GOTTI AND TEAM ROC PEN LETTER TO MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR: PRISON CONDITIONS "GROWING MORE DIRE BY THE MOMENT"
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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
“THE LASTING LEGACY OF PARCHMAN FARM, THE PRISON MODELED AFTER A SLAVE PLANTATION”
- INNOCENCE PROJECT
“INSIDE MISSISSIPPI’S NOTORIOUS PARCHMAN PRISON”
- PBS
“2020 MAY BE THE 'BLOODIEST YEAR IN RECENT MEMORY' FOR MISSISSIPPI'S STATE PRISONS, BUT THE STATE'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM HAS A LONG HISTORY OF RACISM, ABUSE, AND NEGLIGENCE”
- INSIDER
“PARCHMAN FARM BLUES: PUSHING FOR PRISON REFORMS AT MISSISSIPPI STATE PENITENTIARY”
- ACLU
“INSIDE THE US PRISON WHERE INMATES 'BEGGED FOR THEIR LIVES' AMID DAYS OF VIOLENCE.”
- THE GUARDIAN
MISSISSIPPI PRISON REFORM RALLY PHOTO GALLERY
MISSISSIPPI STATE CAPITOL - JACKSON, MS - JANUARY 2020
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