Jenny Durkan, the current U.S. Attorney for Western Washington, appears to be a serious candidate to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General. If she gets the nod, and I hope she will, one of her first and top priorities should be cleaning up St. Louis County, which recent news coverage has reveale[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police abuse’
September 30th, 2014 - 3:18 pm § in Uncategorized
Support Your Local Police, Referees, And Umpires — When They’re Right
This is a companion piece to my article, “Did NFL Referees Discriminate Against Muslim Player?,” in which I pointed out that NFL referees must “adhere to a very high standard of unbiased and accurate officiating. Make a wrong call and coaches, players, and millions of fans will [...]
September 25th, 2014 - 9:02 am § in Misc.
White SC Trooper Charged For Shooting Unarmed Black Man During Routine License Check
A veteran South Carolina state trooper was fired today for shooting an unarmed black man during a traffic stop, following a nationwide spate of police shootings of black people that made headlines and provoked demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, and other places. Trooper Sean Groubert, 31, pulled [...]
September 25th, 2014 - 8:25 am § in Uncategorized
California Cops Agree To Pay Beating Victim $1.5 Million
The California Highway Patrol has agreed to pay $1.5 million to Marlene Pinnock, 51, the African-American woman shown being repeatedly punched by CHP Officer Daniel Andrew, 31, alongside a freeway on July 1 in a video made by a passing motorist that quickly went viral, following mediation of her civ[...]
September 24th, 2014 - 12:32 pm § in Misc.
It’s now a crime to be a spastic in Granville, West Virginia
This is another horror story about stupid violent cops. (They seem endless these days.) A 39-year-old disabled man was making his way on a sidewalk in Granville, W.Va., with his two young children, one in a stroller and carrying the other in his arm, in the jerky fashion characteristic of people [...]
September 18th, 2014 - 6:42 pm § in America
Yes, the U.S. Navy has searched your computer looking for kiddie porn
Buried under a small headline in today’s Seattle Times is a story about sensational military and police misconduct. “'[I]t has become a routine practice for the Navy to conduct surveillance of all the civilian computers in an entire state to see whether any child pornography can be found on them[...]
September 18th, 2014 - 10:25 am § in Hypocrisy
How To Avoid Being Shot By Police
It’s easy. Don’t be black. Be white, and preferably rich, too. From a Sept. 6 news report: “A 19-year-old former high school field hockey star plowed her BMW into three cars, left the scene of the accidents and kicked a police officer in the head before being apprehended in B[...]
September 17th, 2014 - 10:33 am § in Uncategorized
Another Missouri Cop Does It Again
A Missouri teenager is in a medically induced coma with brain damage after being shot in the heart with a taser by an Independence cop. The cop asserts the youth was uncooperative and combative during a traffic stop, but eyewitnesses and videos dispute that, and the FBI has initiated an excessive f[...]
September 15th, 2014 - 8:12 am § in Uncategorized
Calif. cops beat up deaf man for using sign language
When ordinary law-abiding citizens have more to fear from police than criminals, we’ve got a serious problem. On February 13, 2014, four cops in Hawthorne, California, encountered a deaf man. He didn’t respond to their verbal commands because — you guessed it — he can’t[...]
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