Enforcers category archive
The Independent Variable 0
My local rag investigates why some protests turn violent and others do not.
Their findings may surprise you.
Self-Incrimination 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., looks back at the events of the past two weeks and concludes
Yet, here’s the startling truth: No one has made a stronger case against the police than the police.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Immunity Impunity
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Yet another tiresome report of police violence, with a “justification” which is, quite frankly, as shaky as a house of straw.
The Rotting Orchard 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Steven Buckley writes of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. This passage left out at me:
Follow the link for the complete article.
Descent 0
Will Bunch is less than sanguine.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Thom comments on the double standard.
Summary Injustice 0
At AL.com, John Archibald, a white (like me) American, points the finger.
Here’s his conclusion; follow the link for his reasoning:
This is on you, White America.
On me.
Guilty Until Proven Innocent 0
Using the killing in Brunswick, Georgia, of Ahmaud Arbery as a starting point, Jennifer Rae Taylor and Kayla Vinson explore the history of lynching in America. An excerpt:
“[The South’s] police system,” scholar W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, “was arranged to deal with Blacks alone, and tacitly assumed that every white man was ipso facto a member of that police.”
Even after death, Arbery was denied the status of victim, and his killers were shielded from being treated as suspects. As during the lynching era, the mere claim that the dead black man deserved what he got was enough to satisfy the authorities and absolve the undisputed killers. In hundreds of the lynchings EJI (the Equal Justice Institute–ed.) has documented, the victims’ names are not known because newspaper reports did not bother to investigate even that deeply.
I commend the full article to your attention.