Enforcers category archive
“The Protocol” 0
Eric Frazier, writing at the Charlotte News and Observer, explains:
Don’t get out of the car unless told to. Keep your hands on the steering wheel. Don’t take them off until the officer asks to see your driver’s license and registration. When the request comes, repeat it so the officer knows that you understand.
(Snip some details–follow the link for them.)
This is good protocol for anyone to follow. But I know that, as an African-American man who weighs just over 200 pounds, it’s doubly important for me.
Read the rest, in which he explains how recent events convinced him that he had to have “the talk” about “the protocol” with his daughter, the talk that Not Black or Brown parents don’t need to have.
I Feel Young Again 0
All I’m hearing about on my telly vision is “isolated incidents” and “outside agitators.”
It’s How You Look at It 0
At Philly dot com, Elmer Smith points out that perspective is important. (Put another way, persons see what they expect or want to see.) A bit (emphasis added):
It’s a bull’s-eye view of the kind that too often ends with an unarmed black youth killed or maimed by a white policeman whose lethal reaction is fueled by fear.
Any situation seems ominous when seen through the narrow perspective of a gunsight. Every move is menacing, every gesture threatening.
Sham Sandwich (Updated) 0
Addendum, a Little Bit Later:
PoliticalProf agrees. A snippet from his response to a reader’s question:
So no indictment is no surprise.
Power Grab 6
I think Jason330 nails it, or, at least, a lot of it.
SWATting at Flies 0
Jim Hightower reports on the Florida police department that used a SWAT team to raid a properly-licensed barbershop for barbering without a license.
Really. They did.
Keystone Kops in the Keystone State 0
Shaun Mullen still has questions.
Parking Wars 0
A state judge has declared a St. Petersburg, Florida, parking ordinance “unconstitutional.”
I suspect that that’s some kind of first.
Shoot the Messenger 0
At the Bangor Daily News, a guest blogger marvels at the difference in police tactics in responding to the violent riot in Keene, New Hampshire, and the almost-entirely peaceful demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri. She offers a theory of causation; here’s a snippet:
On Being while Black 0
Thom and Joe Madison discuss events on Ferguson.
Keystone Kops in the Keystone State 0
Shaun Mullen has an update on the fustercluck search for a domestic terrorist in Pennsylvania.