Police Brutality Rears Its Ugly Head in Memphis
To say that police should not pull people from their cars and beat them to death should not be controversial.
Tagged: Police Brutality
Don’t Forget: Black Lives Matter
While deciding if we can watch Gone with the Wind or use racist pancake mix, the House and Senate were working on bills dealing with police brutality.
Altering the Policing Paradigm
Neither of those is literally what anyone wants to have happen, but they fit on a protest sign and can be chanted during a march. So what are the details?
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: No Good Answers Edition
A shooting in Atlanta shows a reckoning is a hard to acquire, lessons in governing from Seattle summer camp, and the primary heats up…for 2024
Does Anyone Owe Colin Kaepernick An Apology?
That depends on a few things: What did you think and do then, what do you think and do now, and what has changed in the meantime.
Unqualified: The Winding Road of Qualified Immunity
Somewhere along the way, Qualified Immunity was twisted to shield officers from consequences of actions no one can argue were ambiguous in wrongness.
An Appalling Lack of Rights: From Inalienable, to meritorious, to “Yeah, but…”
The ideal of “inalienable rights” has too often been changed to “meritorious rights” by flawed people adding “they have rights, but…”
Cities Burning: Stories of Riots from 1992 and 2020
Stories from 1992 and 2020: We’re not “bad” people. But we’re not as good as we pretend, and we’re not holding ourselves to account.
Daniel Pantaleo Has Been Fired
Daniel Pantaleo has been fired. It is the only consequence of him having used a prohibited chokehold on Eric Garner five years ago. Garner died in the aftermath of its application.
Driving Blind: Let Them Eat Amazon Coins!
Derek Thompson outlines the striking disparity between finance and labor coming out of the 2008 collapse. He explores three possible explanations for why.
