Fox News Does Special on Police Officers and VAWA
(10/4/05)
Fox News just ran a special based on my column VAWA Renewal Provides Opportunity to Stop Destruction of Innocent Cops' Careers (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Tallahassee Democrat, 7/19/05). The piece details the way the Violence Against Women Act and the Domestic Violence Offender Gun ban have caused many police officers to lose their livelihoods over flimsy, unsubstantiated domestic violence charges.
Fox's special centers around John Brumbaugh, a former Torrance police officer who fought for over seven years to clear his name and get his life back after being falsely accused of domestic violence. John, a Gulf War veteran, showed incredible tenacity, filing 10 different appeals until finally getting his conviction overturned earlier this year. I've written about John and have had him on His Side with Glenn Sacks--he is a hero who won a victory for all of us.
To learn more about John, click here. To see the Fox special, click on VAWA Expires.
John's case is an excellent example of how domestic violence laws are stacked against men. To learn more, see my column Baseball Player's Domestic Violence Arrest Demonstrates How Men are Presumed Guilty in Domestic Disputes (Los Angeles Daily Journal, San Francisco Daily Journal, 8/8/02).
The special also featured VAWA reform activist Harry Crouch and a feminist supporter of VAWA, Marian Otto of the San Diego chapter of the National Organization for Women.
