"Hands up, don't shoot" — this is one form of defiance against police at the Ferguson protests. It's only in the context of state-sanctioned murder that a symbolic act of surrender can be taken as defiance (source).by Gaius PubliusThe Blue Lives Matter movement is a political counterattack against the Black Lives Matter movement.
On this solo show I discuss the Vegas Shooting and Stephen Paddock. I start off by talking about the Vegas Police and their track record as being unprofessional and trigger happy. The allegations that the police didn’t help evacuate the concert, and that the cover up my stem from their failures are explored. I then begin laying out the facts as we know them about the shooting, Paddock and Marilou Danley. I look into the ever changing narrative, including the latest development regarding hotel security guard Jesus Campos. Then I explore Stephen Paddock and try to make sense of who he was.
A scene from the Hard Hat Riot, March 8, 1970 (source)by Gaius PubliusNo refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave— "The Stars-Spangled Banner" Bottom line first. The main point of this piece is — we should stop pretending.
Hillary couldn't have picked a more sycophantic interviewer than Joy Reid for a taped, edited appearance of MSNBC Saturday morning. Nonetheless, there was something the two of them got to that even Hillary's detractors would whole-heartedly agree with: Trump is worse than she, or almost any of us, imaged he would be as president.
The NAACP issued it's first-ever travel advisory last month-- for the state of Missouri. Missouri has become a real police state-- with the most violent and unaccountable law enforcement systems in America, a virtual occupying force.
Normally, I do not chide political opponents with the derisive, “I told you so” charge – even when they suffer harm after repeated warnings of predictable danger ahead. Normally, that is. But in the following three cases…sorry, I simply cannot resist. Schadenfreude, anyone?
The Nurse and the Cop
-by NoahFor those who don’t remember, Philando Castile was a Missouri-born American citizen who was shot at, 7 times, while sitting in his car, by St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez back on July 6, 2016.Castile had been stopped by the police in a traffic stop as local police were looking for a pair of robbery suspects.
Cops copping a feel. Is it a hate crime in Louisiana to react to this ... or complain?by Gaius PubliusJust a brief note while I work on a longer piece about the bipartisan history behind the most obvious of the multiple coups we're experiencing, the Trumpian one.This has trial balloon written all over it.
Michael Brown lays dead in the street after being shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri.
Despite the protests, media scrutiny, and all around heightened national attention, young black men in 2016 continued to be the predominant victims of police violence in the United States.
