The good news is, the awareness of the prevalence of police brutality in these United States has reached such a point that even Donald Trump feels compelled to express sympathy for its victims. The bad news is, everything else. Unsurprisingly, El Trumpo stayed on message for approximately two seconds, before veering off to denounce, you…
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That gosh darn media! GOSH DARN IT!
You may have read about Donald Trump’s utterly disgusting speech to an assembly of police officers in Long Island during which he enouraged the assembled cops to “rough up” suspects and assured the boys in blue that although current laws “totally protect the criminal, not the officers, we’re changing those laws.” Well, I didn’t read…
Justice, South Carolina style
The Washington Post’s Radley Balko has a horrifying story, “Video shows white cops performing roadside cavity search of black man”. The next time you hear racist right-wingers like Chris Christie ranting about President Obama’s “War on Cops,” think about stories like this one.