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John Bel Edwards: Comatose, Anti-Civil Rights, Anti-#BlackLivesMatter Neoliberal Democrat | Blog#42
Louisiana’s John Bel Edwards (D) is the nation’s first governor to sign a “Blue Lives Matter” Continue reading John Bel Edwards: Comatose, Anti-Civil Rights, Anti-#BlackLivesMatter Neoliberal Democrat | Blog#42
Police brutality: what killer cops don’t know | #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42
So far, just about every cop we know of who was embroiled in a police killing Continue reading Police brutality: what killer cops don’t know | #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42
How we imprison and abuse our own children | in#Justice on Blog#42
I’ve written about BlackLivesMatter and police killings in general, as well as the cases of Kalief Browder and Carlos Montero, Continue reading How we imprison and abuse our own children | in#Justice on Blog#42
The week in #BlackLivesMatter: 5/22 – 5/31 | #Racism #Brutality on Blog#42
This past week hasn’t been a very good week in a bit of a different way than we’ve seen lately. Some loose ends were tied, badly. Some positions were recanted, and hope for good change, well… It just isn’t there yet. Here are some of the most important readings of the past week. Continue reading The week in #BlackLivesMatter: 5/22 – 5/31 | #Racism #Brutality on Blog#42
#Updated: 13 Cleveland PD officers should have been tried for lynching | #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42 | #Brelo
**Updated: May 25, 2015
March 2015’s #PoliceBrutality output in one photo
Brutality, increasingly, reigns king in America. The month of March 2015 was the police state’s most prolific ever in terms of output. In fact, it was so prolific that in one month, our police forces have managed to kill more people than individual countries have since the turn of last century. Continue reading March 2015’s #PoliceBrutality output in one photo
A white mom’s perspective: @Yale’s Report on the January 24 incident
Yale University released, today, its “Ad-Hoc Institutional Advisory Panel’s Review of the Yale Police Department’s Report of the Incident on January 24, 2015.”
This document with a ludicrously long title is fifteen pages long and provides a heavily redacted overview (it’s not an NSA black ops report) of the incident we all know involved an African American Yale police officer drawing a gun on New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow’s son. Continue reading A white mom’s perspective: @Yale’s Report on the January 24 incident
#BlackLivesMatter: Commemorating those who fell to American racism
This is a partial list of recent victims of racism in America. It was compiled with the help of my good friend Charlie. Please look through it and, if you know of anyone else who fell to the militarized racist police state, please give me a name, date, and location.
Thank you. Continue reading #BlackLivesMatter: Commemorating those who fell to American racism
The Criminalization of Everyday Life | BillMoyers
Sometimes a single story has a way of standing in for everything you need to know. In the case of the up-arming, up-armoring and militarization of police forces across the country, there is such a story. Not the police, mind you, but the campus cops at Ohio State University now possess an MRAP; that is, a $500,000, 18-ton, mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored vehicle of a sort used in the war in Afghanistan and, as Hunter Stuart of the Huffington Post reported, built to withstand “ballistic arms fire, mine fields, IEDs and nuclear, biological and chemical environments.” Sounds like just the thing for bouts of binge drinking and post-football-game shenanigans.
Continue reading The Criminalization of Everyday Life | BillMoyers