In the history of antiwar protests leading to student deaths, we always talk about Kent State. But we also do not talk about Jackson State. That the deaths at the former institution were of whites and
Michael Reinoehl is the guy who killed the fascist in Portland last week. He admitted it and said he was scared the cops would kill him. Well, now the cops have killed him. I am extremely anti-conspir
The entire history of supposedly “non-lethal” police technologies is one for which we need greater understanding. What are these technologies really, how did they develop, and how has supp
One of the biggest problems we face in our national conversation about race has been front and center of late. It’s that we speak of it as almost an exclusively black-white relationship, which i
Stephen Greenhouse has an excellent New Yorker piece on the troublesome question of police unions. Plenty of police violence happens without accountability whether the cops have unions or not. But uni
Lest we think that only the U.S. police engages in grotesque murders of people of color, let’s travel a bit north into Canada: The province’s police watchdog is investigating the death of
I was pretty annoyed at how badly many comments misread my post from last week on the relationship between voting and protest. Just because one doesn’t think these protests should be turned towa
Will it surprise you that research suggests the biggest reason for violence in protests is that the cops start it? No, I don’t suppose it will. You will be shocked, simply SHOCKED, to learn that