Enforcers category archive
Grasping at a Broken Straw 0
The Las Vegas Sun editorial board if we can’t get rid of the guns, we have to get rid of the prejudice.
I reckon their hearts are in the right place.
And, in other news, pigs, wings.
To Protect and Service 0
Chicago cop vacations in the Sunshine State and turns into Florida Man.
We are a pathetic excuse for a polity.
Crime and Punishment 0
What Atrios said.
Misdirection Play 0
Methinks Solomon Jones is onto something.
Blind Justice 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
The Profilers 0
B-B-B-But he fit their profile.
Immunity Impunity
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The EFF speaks out about new Arizona law designed, to put it bluntly, to shield misbehaving police from accountability. Here’s how they describe the law; follow the link for their detailed discussion of its inimical implications.
Several news organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona sued last month to prevent the law from going into effect, arguing it “creates an unprecedented and facially unconstitutional content-based restriction on speech about an important governmental function.”
And in related news . . . .
Immunity Impunity
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“But he fit my profile . . . .”
He Must Be Guilty 0
After all, he fits the profile.
Facebook Frolics 0
The lede from the report speaks for itself.
Per the story, a warrant was involved.
Remember, the internet is a public place, even those parts of it that would have you think are private.
And “social” media isn’t.
Immunity Impunity
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Not long ago, the bus carrying the women’s lacrosse team from Delaware State University, an HBCU, was pulled over for a minor traffic offense by the Liberty County, Georgia, sheriff’s department, then the team’s luggage and belongings were searched with drug-sniffing dogs.
The sheriff’s office maintains that racial profiling was in no way a factor. (Also, pigs. Wings.)
New Jersey Advance Media’s Ande Richards spoke to one of the members of the Lacrosse team about her experience.
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Kelly Harris, the director of Africana Studies at Seton Hall University, said this case exemplifies an instance where the police could be telling the truth and are wrong at the same time.
“They could have pulled the bus over for a routine incident. However, because racism is so entrenched in our society, treating Black suspects differently has been normalized — to the point that many police do not recognize their shortcomings,” he said.
The Disinformation Superhighway of Hate 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
