In another ugly incident of racial profiling, neighbors in an Atlanta suburb who saw an elderly black man moving boxes into a rental house assumed he was a burglar and called police, who threatened him with drawn guns and manhandled him. The cop who slammed his face into a brick wall was fired, not [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
August 2nd, 2015 - 6:34 pm § in Uncategorized
Georgia cops assume black renter is a burglar and rough him up
July 24th, 2015 - 5:46 am § in Uncategorized
Yep, the Texas county that killed Sandra Bland has racist traffic cops
(Source: Mother Jones)[...]
July 21st, 2015 - 5:36 pm § in Uncategorized
A tale of two arrests
Two Georgia cops stopped a 30-year-old white male for a traffic offense last week. According to a police press release, “Immediately, the driver exhibited aggression towards the officers and began making statements consistent with “sovereign citizen” type beliefs. Rather than compl[...]
July 16th, 2015 - 7:35 pm § in Politics
Okies stage “Stand By The Flag” rally at president’s visit
Hey, this is America; you can wave any damn flag you want to. Click here and here for story.[...]
July 14th, 2015 - 1:29 pm § in Misc.
The difference between the South and everywhere else
Why I’m Leaving The South by RationalSouthCarolina I’ve come to the painful decision that in order to preserve my life, I must leave the land that I love. I was born in Mississippi, grew up in Virginia, and lived most of my adult life in South Carolina; all beautiful places with amazing [...]
July 12th, 2015 - 8:00 pm § in Uncategorized
Undemocratic laws, not tradition, keep “Southern Heritage” alive
By now, everyone knows a Confederate battle flag waved over South Carolina’s capitol grounds because of a law — enacted by the long-gone legislators of another era, in protest of the civil rights movement — and it took legislative action to legally remove it. (It was subjected[...]
July 10th, 2015 - 12:10 pm § in Uncategorized
This is how a Yankee lowers a Confederate flag
https://youtu.be/9jRFIQDwqNY[...]
July 10th, 2015 - 11:55 am § in Uncategorized
Confederates finally surrender and haul down their flag in South Carolina
https://youtu.be/bi5rCgHkkmo But some diehards are expected to continue holding out in the hills and hollows. [...]
July 9th, 2015 - 8:46 am § in Uncategorized
What that flag actually means
Deleting the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s capitol grounds decor is a done deal, now that both houses of the legislature have approved its removal by the requisite 2/3 vote, although not without much whining by some Republicans. (Note: giving credit where it’s due, it took Repub[...]