manslaughter

Five black police officers beat a man to death and idiots in the mainstream media blame it on white supremacy. For real.

The lethal stabbing of Austin Simon by bodega worker Jose Alba and the firestorm over the resultant murder charge is already one of the most controversial criminal cases this summer, in the United States or anywhere, but is it as clear cut as it seems? You can find actual video of the fatal incident on […]

On Friday, in a Florida courtroom, a clearly guilty and deranged Ronny Oneal was given a sentence of life without parole by the jury, while in a Minnesota courtroom, former police officer Derek Chauvin was given a heavy sentence by the judge. Both sentences were delivered live on YouTube. These two cases could hardly be […]

Are women becoming more violent, or are men now less inhibited about discussing the way they are abused by women? Men’s  rights activists have longed claimed domestic violence is a two-way street, that much or most of it is reciprocal but men simply hit harder. This ground-breaking Channel 5 documentary goes a long way towards […]

George Floyd died in Minneapolis on May 25 last year. On November 27, 2000, Damilola Taylor died on a South London street. Apart from the colour of their skin, these two individuals had nothing in common. Floyd was African-American; Taylor was African African. Floyd was a 46 year old has-been never was with a long […]

Considering how much interest this case has generated, there has been surprisingly little interest in viewing the full bodycam video of George Floyd’s arrest.  This Internet Archive upload had been viewed only 39 times by April 21 since August 4 last year. Other uploads have been viewed even less. Floyd cuts a rather pathetic figure […]

In November 2016, Emma-Jayne Magson was convicted of murdering James Knight. This month, she was convicted again. Why was this woman granted a second trial after stabbing a man through the heart, lying about it, and waiting for him to die? Magson was convicted at Leicester Crown Court on March 5 and will be sentenced […]

Eight years ago, the fourteen year old Florida schoolgirl Cassidy Goodson was pregnant, but didn’t look it. Not only did she conceal her pregnancy but somehow she concealed the birth. The baby boy weighed nine and a half pounds, nearly a tenth of her body weight. What happened next was horrific; having delivered the baby by herself in the toilet, she strangled him and stuffed his body in a shoe box.

In spite of the hysteria generated over the killings of black Americans, as pointed out here recently the police kill more whites than blacks, far more. Unjustified police killings in the UK are far, far less frequent, not just because of its far smaller population but because we are not obsessed with guns. Here as in the US, the deaths of blacks generate far more outrage than those of whites, but there was one notable exception, and the parallels with the death of George Floyd (pictured) are striking.

Drinking fountains are marked “Do Not Drink Until Further Notice” at Flint Northwestern High School in Flint, Mich. . (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
Last week, Michigan’s top prosecutor announced that five officials, including the state’s Health Department head Nick Lyon, will face charges of involuntary manslaughter for a death resulting from the Flint water crisis.