David Nicholas Dempsey (photo, left), 37, of Van Nuys, California, was one of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters. He “stomped on police officers’ heads,” the Associated Press says (here), and “swung poles at officers defending a tunnel, struck an officer in the head with a metal cru[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Protests’
May 19th, 2024 - 11:21 pm § in Hypocrisy, Republicans
Sen. Ron Johnson is against mayhem
Ron Johnson (R-WI) is the Wisconsin senator who downplayed the Capitol insurrection and described the rioters as “families with small children … elderly … overweight … tired or frail … pro-police” (see story here). But he’s worried about “mayhem”[...]
May 12th, 2024 - 12:37 am § in Schools & Colleges
Alito frets over loss of free speech on campuses
Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito said there’s “declining” support for free speech on college campuses in his commencement speech at a Catholic college on May 11, 2024 (read story here). I’m not sure who he’s blaming, but I don’t disagree with what he’s saying. R[...]
May 11th, 2024 - 8:07 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Schools & Colleges
Who should run universities?
“In recent years, universities across the US have come under increasing pressure from conservative politicians and donors criticizing them as liberal bastions of ‘wokeness.’” This is an excerpt from a CNN article on May 11, 2024, about pro-Palestinian campus protests (read it her[...]
May 7th, 2024 - 8:00 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
Do UW professors have free speech?
Academic freedom. Freedom of inquiry. Free speech. That’s what Stuart Reges (photo, left), a University of Washington computer science professor, and the public interest law firm representing him, thought they were defending when he sued UW in federal court after administrators sought to punis[...]
As usual, officials are lying about the protests
This time Mother Jones is calling out NYC Mayor Eric Adams (see story here). Days after city cops stormed the Columbia University campus, Hizzoner held a press conference. He used it to condemn “outside agitators,” naming a retired teacher Mother Jones says “was not on Columbia’s[...]
May 2nd, 2024 - 12:54 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Schools & Colleges
PHOTOGRAPHY: Peaceful protest
Although the UCLA protest on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, turned violent when pro-Israel counter-demonstrators attacked the protesters (see story here), while police waited more than two hours to intervene (see story here), this photo has nothing to do with that. It’s what the police did to the st[...]
June 12th, 2023 - 5:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
It’s a trap!
They’re not coming for Trump, they’re coming for you. That’s the message Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) is sending out to his fellow rightwing fanatics ahead of Trump’s arraignment in a Miami federal court. In a press release (here), he claims, “This latest DOJ persecution a[...]
June 4th, 2023 - 1:12 am § in Politics
D.C. has the best protests
Honking horns! sirens! confrontations! You can get that in lots of cities, but only Washington D.C. has a live streamer calling herself “Anarchy Princess” who marches in front of Jan. 6 sympathizers shouting into a megaphone: “Terrorists coming, watch out, there’s terrorists behind m[...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 12:12 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Arrested for raising bail money for protesters
Three Georgia activists were arrested by a heavily-armed SWAT team and charged with financial crimes for soliciting donations to a bail fund for protesters against a controversial cop training facility (see story here). “The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced its agents and Atlanta poli[...]