Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis cop charged with murder for choking George Floyd to death while Floyd lay handcuffed on the pavement, was released from jail on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, after posting $1 million bail. News reports say Chauvin posted a bail bond. The bond (here) doesn’t s[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Brutality’
October 6th, 2020 - 11:42 am § in Racism
Murder charges in Texas white cop’s killing of black man
Johnathan Price, 31, a popular former college football player and a city employee in Wolfe City, Texas, was killed by Shaun Lucas, 22, on Saturday, October 3, 2020. Price was at a gas station when he saw a man assaulting a woman and intervened; the man then assaulted Price. A friend of his later sai[...]
September 28th, 2020 - 9:25 am § in Health, Law and Courts
Law and order
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September 23rd, 2020 - 4:40 pm § in Racism
BREAKING NEWS: No charges for killing Breonna Taylor
This article contains news with liberal commentary. The facts of the case Police suspected Taylor’s current and prior boyfriends of drug dealing, and obtained a no-knock warrant to search her apartment for drugs I(none were found). When they battered down the door, her current boyfriend believ[...]
September 20th, 2020 - 3:35 pm § in Racism
Should cops who randomly arrest people be arrested for kidnapping?
This article contains news and liberal commentary. In Aurora, Colorado, anti-police protesters (and who is for Aurora cops?) “could face years in prison over what critics say are trumped-up charges,” stemming from “a July 3 protest in which a crowd of 600 surrounded an Aurora polic[...]
September 17th, 2020 - 6:12 pm § in Racism
Why wasn’t this cop fired?
An Aurora, Colorado, cop will serve only a 1 week suspension for pulling a gun on a doctor in his own parking garage because the doctor honked at him for blocking him in with a police car. See story here and watch video of incident below. The doctor is Eastern Indian, so racism may have […][...]
Barr threatens rioters with “sedition”
This article is liberal commentary. ” … [S]ome federal prosecutors were taken aback last week when the attorney general brought up the possibility of charging violent protesters with sedition,” CNN reported on Wednesday, September 16, 2020. (Read story here.) Rioting and sedition [...]
September 16th, 2020 - 8:15 am § in Law and Courts
Rightwing idiots cheer illegal bail for protesters
This article contains news with liberal commentary. Police killed a Latino man brandishing a knife in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, September 13, 2020. That night a crowd of protesters gathered outside a police station and, according to police, “piled street signs, trash cans, a metal du[...]
September 13th, 2020 - 8:30 pm § in Racism
Georgia deputy fired for brutal traffic stop beating
A Georgia sheriff’s deputy who beat a black man unconscious was fired on Sunday, September 13, 2020, and may face criminal charges. Two days earlier, a friend was driving Roderick Walker, his girlfriend and their child home after he dropped off a rental car when they were pulled over for a bro[...]
How the right smears BLM
This article is liberal commentary. This story begins with a vicious ambush of two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies assigned as transit police in Compton, California, who were shot and critically wounded by a gunman who sauntered up to their patrol car, opened fire, and then ran away on foot at [...]