Who says we don’t? Well, apparently Jennie Nguyen thinks we don’t, if we also support racial equality and justice. Bravo, a cable network owned by NBC Universal that specializes in reality TV shows aimed at women, fired Nguyen from “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” The Hil[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Brutality’
December 21st, 2021 - 2:30 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Conservative campus group fetes Kenosha killer
Turning Point USA bills itself as a campus group that “advocates conservative values” (details here), which apparently include police shooting black people and vigilante violence. (Jacob Blake, the man shot 7 times by a Kenosha cop, not fatally, was no angel; he had warrants for domestic[...]
December 15th, 2021 - 8:12 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Chauvin pleads in 2 civil rights cases
Ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, already convicted of murder in state court, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, to two federal civil rights indictments. In a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Chauvin admitted he violated the civil rights of George Floyd, who he murdered in 2020,[...]
December 9th, 2021 - 6:27 pm § in Law and Courts
When a lawsuit isn’t enough
Short of murder, this is as bad as bigotry and discrimination gets. Amber (aka Charles) Caster, a Maryland trans inmate, is a pain in the ass to correctional staff. She has a history of protesting her treatment by jail staff, filing pro se lawsuits against prison officials (see cases here and here),[...]
November 23rd, 2021 - 9:11 pm § in Law and Courts
Killer cop on trial in Washington
Jeffrey Nelson (photo, left), 43, a violent police officer in Auburn, Washington, who allegedly sports fascist tattoos, has a history of using excessive force in arrests, and has killed 3 people during his 12-year career, is being prosecuted for murder. Prosecutors argue Nelson has a propensity to u[...]
Why the right targets BLM and “critical race theory”
It’s simply about white supremacy. Conservatives like a status quo that puts white people in charge, gives white people preferential treatment, and keeps black people “in their place.” After George Floyd became yet another black man murdered by a white cop, millions of Americans pa[...]
October 9th, 2021 - 7:18 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Cops manhandle black paraplegic
Newly-released bodycam video shows two Dayton, Ohio, white cops yanking a paraplegic black man out of his vehicle and throwing him to the ground after stopping him for a traffic offense on September 30, 2021. The cops wanted him out of the vehicle so a dog could sniff for drugs. When Clifford Owensb[...]
September 19th, 2021 - 12:30 pm § in Law and Courts
The “law and order” mindset
In February 2019, a citizen called Seattle police after seeing a 74-year-old neighbor’s door ajar and “clutter” inside. The police conducted what they usually call a “welfare check,” as follows: 10 officers invaded his home with drawn guns, roughed him up, and handcuffe[...]
September 15th, 2021 - 12:36 pm § in Law and Courts
Who would guess America’s worst police department is racially biased?
For some time now, I’ve nominated Aurora, Colorado, as the U.S. city having the worst police. Many factors contribute to awful policing, such as systemic racism, excessive force and gratuitous violence against (often innocent) citizens, frequent civil rights and constitutional rights violation[...]
September 15th, 2021 - 12:54 am § in Law and Courts
How bad police squander tax dollars
“The city of Philadelphia will pay $2 million to a Black woman who was pulled from a car, beaten by officers and had her toddler used for social media fodder by the police union,” NBC News reported on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. (Read story here.) “Nursing aide Rickia Young was he[...]