Showing posts with label police brutality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police brutality. Show all posts
Friday, September 14, 2018

Let's have some smoke with that whitewash

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Oh, and you just thought the drama surrounding the killing of Botha Shem Jean by an off-duty Dallas police officer was over. How wrong you w...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Whitewashing a police shooting in Dallas

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Did y'all hear the one about the off-duty cop who walked into the wrong apartment and then accidentally shot the person who actually liv...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Internal investigation? What internal investigation?

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In 2015, the family of Darryl Mount, Jr., filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Saratoga Springs, NY, then Public Safety commis...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Let the beatings continue

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For those of y'all who live in Donald Trump's fantasy world, this is the reality of why Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the play...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Turning the tables

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ACLU ‏ Verified account   @ACLU   May 8 More Federal hate crimes laws were passed to correct the centuries of i...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Two cities. Two men. Two very different outcomes.

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Cops aren't racists. Every situation is different. If you just follow orders, you won't get shot. White folks get shot, too. We...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

What accountability?

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On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling was murdered on the sidewalk in front of a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana . Everyone knew the n...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Of split-second decisions

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Whenever an unarmed person is shot and killed by police we hear the same old tropes about officers having to make split-second decisions. Gr...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Tennessee sheriff gets off on killing

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Ordinarily, if you tell someone to shoot someone else - and they do - you're going to find yourself in hot water. But Sheriff Oddie Shou...
Monday, January 22, 2018

The language we use

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I will never forget my English teacher from 7th grade. She drilled into our heads the evil that is the passive voice. If we wrote a sentence...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas from the Bexar County Sheriff's Office

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Kameron Prescott was a 6-year-old who lived in a trailer park in Shertz, Texas (just outside San Antonio). I use the word was  because on th...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Police shoot unarmed black man (again)

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How many more of these police shootings must we witness before it stops? The latest shooting victim, Charles Kinsey, is a caregiver at a gro...
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Praying for hypocrisy

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Last week I was at the Fort Bend County Courthouse in Richmond and noticed a church down the road with a sign announcing a prayer service fo...
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Friday, July 8, 2016

Vacation or jail?

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After the events of the last few days it's time to end the double-standard in our criminal (in)justice system that we don't talk eno...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Hypocrisy 101

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Last fall 24 year-old Jamar Clark was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer . That much is not in dispute. In March the Hennepin...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Talking heads are missing the point

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Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner by putting him in a choke hold on a Staten Island sidewalk. But Mr. Pantaleo faced no legal sanction for ...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Passing the buck, Missouri-style

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Enough. The Grand Jury didn't choose not to indict Darren Wilson. The St. Louis County District Attorney made that decision. For the u...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Sending in the stormtroopers to quell dissent

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Back on August 9 of this year, Ferguson (MO) police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. The kill...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Judge, jury and executioner

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Yes the police have a job to do. It can be a hard job and it can damn sure be a dangerous job at times. But just because you wear a uniform ...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Two years awaiting trial; so much for the presumption of innocence

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One way to quell dissent is to lock up the dissenters so that no one can listen to them.You can do this by overcharging on a criminal compla...
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