Enforcers category archive
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.