Enforcers category archive
Driving While Black 0
A caller describes her experiences to Thom.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One more time, when you hear someone wax romantic about “The Lost Cause,” ask, “What, exactly, was the cause that was lost?”
That Unsupported Feeling 0
Writing at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, James Causey talks of being while black in the United States. A snippet:
Too many black men are being shot and killed by police, and this is scary to me because as a black man I know that if I’m shot by police or one of my black friends is shot by police, there is a good chance that nothing will happen to that officer. This is not to say all officers are bad. But I can be stopped by an officer who may be a little jumpy one day and I can reach for my wallet and he can say he thought I was going for a gun — and my life is over.
Read it.
The Killing Fields 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
I can’t make this question go away:
Why are persons surprised that someone might decide, however illogically, insanely, and unjustly, to respond in kind?
Facebook Frolics (Udated) 0
Now you see it, now you don’t.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
From El Reg:
Multiple sources with knowledge of the event have tonight confirmed to The Register that someone – highly suspected to be the city’s police – used her phone to remove her recording from public view shortly after the shooting. This was no technical glitch.
More at the link.
Red Harvest* 0
At Science 2.0, Hontas Farmer discusses yet another case of a black man killed by police for being.
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*With apologies to Dashiel Hammett.
Thin-Skinned in Blue 0
You really can’t make this stuff up.
(snip)
Despite the fact that the bag carried an image of a cat and the phrase “All Cats Are Beautiful” beneath the letters ACAB, the police insisted it was an acronym for the punk phrase “All Cops Are Bastards”.
What is truly sad is that you don’t have to.
(The report goes on to point out that, in the 1970s–that is almost a half-century ago)–some British punk band that I never heard of had some song that I never heard called “ACAB” for “All Cops Are Bastards.” It would seem that these cops are trying to bring the music to life.)
Headline of the Day 0
Police apologize for raiding wrong house in Southwest Philadelphia
At least they apologized, and at least no one was killed. This time.
Twits on Twitter 0
Afterthought:
Be very clear. There’s more to this than just decoding de code. There’s a presumption that if you use encryption, you must have something to hide, an assertion that a desire for privacy is inherently suspicious. (In some ways, this point of view is eerily similar to the philosophy of the Zuckerborg.)
In a snail mail world, what the cops (and the NSA and GHCQ and the FBI and their like) want would be to steam open all your envelopes and read all your mail and all your everything else without showing cause (not that lots of them aren’t already doing that just because they can).
Absolute Power . . . 0
. . . does exactly what it is reputed to do.