Enforcers category archive
He Can’t Go Home Again 0
In the Seattle Times, Ace Robinson explains why he left St. Louis and plans not to move back. A nugget:
When the officer walked up to the car, I would say: “Good afternoon, Officer (Insert name),” announce the date and time, and ask why I was being stopped. This script might have saved my life more than once. After Rodney King, black men learned police may be held responsible when their actions are recorded. And even in Los Angeles, that was not guaranteed.
I used academics to get away by attending college on the East Coast, in the same way that my mother used education to flee the Jim Crow South 35 years prior to my birth.
A Picture Is Worth, “Legal Intervention” Dept. 0
“Legal intervention” is a lawyers’ term for someone’s being killed by police while committing (or assumed to be committing) a crime.
er, yeah.
From the Sunlight Foundation, which has much more.
On the Ground in Ferguson, Mo. 0
Chez reports from the scene. (Among other topics, he addresses the reality of those reputed “outside agitators.”)
It’s Always “Outside Agitators” 0
If you can get through it, listen to the mayor of Ferguson, Mo., claim that “there’s not a racial divide in Ferguson . . . .”
I’ve heard this before. It’s the same crap that Orville Faubus, Bull Connor, and the like spewed in the 1960s as they turned fire hoses on Civil Rights demonstrations.
in related news (much more at the link),
The research team, which studied clashes between police and activists during the Occupy movement three years ago, found that protests tend to turn violent when officers use aggressive tactics, such as approaching demonstrators in riot gear or lining up in military-like formations.
Recent events in Ferguson, Mo., are a good example, the study’s lead researcher said. For nearly two weeks, activists angered by a white police officer’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager have ratcheted up their protests when confronted by heavily armed police forces.
The only folks who will take exception to the study will be those who like the sound of cracked heads.
On the Ground in Ferguson, Mo. 0
The significant bit starts at about the three-minute mark.
