I need to drive my two-year-old to daycare tomorrow morning. To ensure we arrive alive, we won’t take public transit (Oscar Grant). I removed all air fresheners from the vehicle and double-checked my registration status (Daunte Wright), and ensured my license plates were visible (Lt. Caron Nazario[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Brutality’
When a black driver is pulled over, he wonders if he’s going to die
Be courteous. Stay calm. Keep your hands where the police can see them. Bang bang bang. You’re dead anyway. Driving while black “is yet another entry in an ever-growing list” of deadly dangers black people face in this era when lynchings are carried out by police i[...]
April 14th, 2021 - 9:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
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April 14th, 2021 - 8:46 pm § in Law and Courts
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April 10th, 2021 - 3:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Speed trap cops assault black Army officer
Windsor, Virginia (left), is one of that state’s most notorious speed-trap predator towns. The other is nearby Waverly. Both are on U.S. Highway 460 between Richmond and Norfolk (details here). (Traveler warning: Take the interstate instead, and stay the hell away from those towns.) Back in De[...]
What the city paying George Floyd’s family $27 million means
It means “we screwed up BIG TIME.” “We” refers to the four cops, the police department that failed to properly supervise them, and the city government that failed to properly oversee the police department. It also says, “We’re sorry,” but no apology can be a[...]
March 9th, 2021 - 9:22 pm § in Law and Courts
What they’re asking potential jurors in the George Floyd murder trial
Ex-cop Derek Chauvin (photo, right), charged by prosecutors with murdering George Floyd, will soon go on trial. Selecting an impartial jury will be challenging, not only because of the enormous publicity the case has received, but also because many people have strong feelings about it. The jury ques[...]
January 14th, 2021 - 1:31 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Data show police 3X as likely to use force on “leftist” protesters
Just about everyone suspects there’s a strong rightwing bias in U.S. policing, manifesting itself in police violence against peaceful demonstrators against racism and police brutality, with coddling of violent rightwing extremists. Now, hard data bears that out. “In the past 10 months, U[...]
December 24th, 2020 - 9:18 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Ohio cops kill another black man
A Columbus, Ohio, cop with a history of complaints killed a black man with a cellphone on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, the second killing in Columbus this month of unarmed black men by white cops. Officer Adam Coy and a fellow officer had their body cameras turned off, in apparent violation of depart[...]
October 26th, 2020 - 2:46 pm § in Law and Courts
“All lives splatter”
This article contains news and liberal commentary Summer Taylor, 24, was killed on July 4, 2020, while on a closed freeway with other protesters in downtown Seattle by a driver who entered the freeway by driving the wrong way on an exit ramp, maneuvered around barriers, and then drove through the cr[...]