Enforcers category archive
Suffer the Children 0
It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy.
Arms Race 0
In a timely piece Psychology Today Blogs, Art Markman examines the current state of research into the extent to which race affects police shootings of unarmed suspects.
The five minutes it will take you to read it is well worth the expenditure. Some of the findings may surprise you, especially as regards information received from police dispatchers.
Fakebook Frolics 0
Remember, the internet is a public place.
Comport yourself accordingly.
Walking while Black 0
A black, vision-impaired caller describes the strategies he uses daily to protect himself from being attacked by police as he goes about his business.
The ICE Cap 0
Putting a cap on the conversation.
Two men dressed in suits arrived on his San Jose front door step and identified themselves as agents from the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s Office. During the surprise visit, the pair began asking him questions about whether he tipped off Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in late February, according to a report by CBS News, who was in Schwab’s home at the time. (Schwab vehemently denies doing so–ed.)
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Schwab said he felt like the visit — more than three months after he resigned in protest of what he called lies from the Trump administration and ICE — was to intimidate him and he was “completely shocked.”
The Rule of Lawless 0
Elie Wystal comments on Donald Trump’s desire to abandon “due process” at the border (and, likely, everywhere else).
Just read it.
The Sounds of the Trumpling 0
It’s a difficult listen, but listen do.
Para-Military Side Effects 0
Arthur Rizer and Emily Mooney argue that, in a most insidious fashion, the clothes may indeed make the man.
Immunity Impunity
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Cops stopped a person of color for a (reputed) traffic offense and behaved as expected.
Going for the Dogs 0
In the more stuff you can’t make up file, cops in Illinois threaten to euthanize their drug-sniffing dogs if Illinois legalizes marijuana. Elie Mystal comments.
White Coffee 0
Lee interviews an eyewitness to the racist arrest in the Philadelphia Starbucks. Listen.
Words fail me.
Immunity Impunity
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Warning: Language.