Enforcers category archive
Knee-Jerk Jerks 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Alan Caron takes on those who would defend the police against any charges of misconduct, regardless of how blatant and egregious and deadly–and of how captured in video–that misconduct may have been. A snippet:
Harmon did a good job representing the conservative ideologue’s response to race problems in America, which seems to mirror its response to climate change and income inequality. Dig a small hole. Put your head into the hole, and bury your eyes and ears. There, in the silence, racism will not exist. Climate change will be a myth. Income equally will not matter.
Here’s a link to Harmon’s column cited by Mr. Caron. (I glanced at it when it first appeared and decided it was the usual right-wing claptrap.)
Sentence Completion 0
Jonathan Capehart fills in the blanks for persons, such as Rudy Guiliani and Donald Trump, too stupid or too intentionally blind or too deeply invested in racism to get it. A snippet:
Folks, I’ve run out of things to say. The ignorance flowing out of the mouths of politicians has me reaching for words I’ve already written. So, let me restate some of them. The best way to understand the meaning of the phrase “Black Lives Matter” is to think of it as an incomplete sentence. To those African-Americans and other Americans marching to protest lives extinguished by law enforcement, the unspoken finish to the phrase “Black Lives Matter” is “as much as anyone else’s.”
Read the rest.
In related news, Kevin Riordan has an eye-opening moment.
Driving while Black, Reprise 0
Ron Sims, who has served as deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as King County (Seattle) Executive, tells his story to the Seattle Times. Here’s a bit of it:
Four stops occurred in my neighborhood, two on Beacon Hill, and one near the intersection of Rainier Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. I was never ticketed but was always asked, “Do you live in this neighborhood?” or “Where are you going?”
More tales of even-handed law enforcement at the link.
“Inflaming Passions,” Reprise 0
One more time: It’s not the deed. It’s the light shining upon the deed.
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.