There’s no official tracking of police shootings in the U.S., but the Washington Post makes an effort to collect and compile data. In case you’re interested, here are their numbers, as reported by Daily Mail (here): Police fatally shot 1,055 people in 2021, up from 1,021 in 2020. Of the[...]
Archive for February 10th, 2022
February 10th, 2022 - 10:26 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Shot at for FedEx-ing while black
Two Mississippi white men are facing relatively light criminal charges after chasing a young black FedEx deliveryman in a pickup, and then shooting at him, CNN reported on Thursday, February 10, 2022 (read story here; more details here). D’Monterrio Gibson (photo, right), 24, was in FedEx unif[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 5:55 pm § in Donald Trump
The White House toilets work again
With the White House under new management, the toilets work again. They didn’t for a while. “White House staffers regularly found printed paper clogging a toilet in the president’s residence, leading them to conclude that Trump had flushed pieces of paper down the toilet,” Th[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 10:47 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Mississippi GOP ramps up attacks on transgender people
Mississippi’s GOP-controlled legislature is about to pass a bill prohibiting “incarcerated transgender or nonbinary people from legally changing their name or gender marker while in state custody.” The bill “would prohibit incarcerated individuals from petitioning the court f[...]