Protests/riots in Charlotte
One person killed during riots. Powerline offers this bio of the black police officer who shot Lamont, the act that has sparked the protests.
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My post at Legal Insurrection on the Crutcher case
I have a post up at Legal Insurrection that is a comprehensive look at what we know about the Terence Crutcher case so far (or at least, what we knew last night, when I did the bulk of the research … Continue reading →
UPDATES on the Crutcher shooting
[Scroll down for more updates.] More information on the Crutcher case is coming out, and the situation may be even worse than what I had discussed earlier today. The claim now is that Crutcher wasn’t even reaching into his car … Continue reading →
Tulsa killing of unarmed black man by police
This incident looks like the real thing: a trigger-happy cop panicking and killing an innocent black man, Terence Crutcher. We don’t know enough about it to make a final judgment, but so far the fact situation looks bad. The exchange … Continue reading →
Rahami was already known to be a bad apple, but…what to do?
It’s such a familiar story. After acts of terrorism (or even non-terrorist mass shootings) we hear one of two refrains: he (or she, but it’s almost always a “he”) was a quiet and regular guy and no one saw it … Continue reading →
Europe vs. homegrown terrorists: it’s not easy
We’ve grown used to criticizing Europe’s intelligence and police systems for letting homegrown or home-dwelling jihadis slip through the cracks. But it’s not easy to deal with this problem, not at all, while attempting to keep the countries themselves from … Continue reading →
Kathleen Kane, Pennsylvania AG (Dem), convicted
This is quite a story, one I hadn’t followed till now. It’s complicated, but here’s the basic outline: Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction, and other crimes, after squandering her once-bright political future on … Continue reading →
Milwaukee is the latest in the Black Lives Matter destructiveness
In a pattern that’s become all too familiar around the nation, the death of a black man at the hands of a police officer has sparked riots. This time it’s in Milwaukee. Here’s a lengthy article on the subject in … Continue reading →
Is there an FBI probe into the Clinton Foundation?
Maybe. Would be nice, though. And would be nice if they could announce some findings prior to November. It’s not going to happen, of course.
Continue reading →The IRS and the right
The IRS —up to its old tricks again: The Washington, D.C., Circuit Court, overturning a June lower-court decision, let the suit go forward because, as LSU law professor Philip Hackney noted in the Surly Subgroup blog, “it found that the … Continue reading →
Dallas Police Chief David Brown: the backstory
When the recent police shootings in Dallas were in the news I was singularly impressed by Dallas Police Chief David Brown. In his public statements he was consistently calm yet intense, forceful yet articulate, during a time of great stress. … Continue reading →
I just noticed…
…that the three posts below this one for today are all on the theme of people being released by the legal system or of charges against them being dismissed. Some involve the guilty (Hinckley). Some involve the already-guilty but then … Continue reading →