Richard Cohen, America's least favorite racist uncle, just can't help himself, calling outrage over cops murdering black people in places like Ferguson, "the liberal Benghazi." Fred Hiatt of course is fine with this.
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Pretty much true. Cops kill black person: "Let's not paint all police with same brush." Cop gets shot by unknown person: Millions of protestors responsible— Howard Bryant (@hbryant42) March 13, 2015
Unlike Noam Scheiber, I don't have a problem with Bill DeBlasio emphasizing police violence against people of color. Scheiber would rather see DeBlasio become an economic populist and unite the.
Bill Fletcher has a great essay about the need to learn from the violence used by the state after Haymarket against the labor movement if the anti-police violence movement is going to survive: The Haymarket Massacre is still the paradigmatic case of the state using...
Nashville police chief Steve Anderson, with an epic response to right-wing citizen of the city who wanted the cops to crack the heads of anti-police violence protestors.
I do not "believe in nonviolence" as a principle. Violence in resisting oppression is often justified. However, violence is almost always a terrible tactic for a social movement that significantly.
While I have linked many times to incidents of police violence, I have very little to say about the actions of police unions, largely because I don't care about them since they do not show solidarity with other workers, or any other cause I believe...
We all support professional athletes wearing shirts protesting the horrors of police violence against people of color. But what happens when that protest runs up against a horror equally as.
Seattle cop handcuffs a drunk black woman and throws her in the back of a police car. She tries to kick at him. He punches her in the face and breaks her orbital bone. Seattle's city attorney urges charges to be pressed as the cop...
Thurgood Marshall: Although the city instructs its officers that use of a chokehold does not constitute deadly force, since 1975 no less than 16 persons have died following the use.
Just because you are a police officer doesn't automatically mean you support the racist killing of black people by your co-workers. There are some Bunny Colvin types out there. Including.