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 →
Hillary and the Trump-voter “basket of deplorables”
Seems the big news today is Hillary’s comment about the “ists” and “ics” of Trump’s supporters: “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said. “Right? Racist, … Continue reading →
Georgetown University tries to expiate its guilt over slavery
Georgetown is a Jesuit school trying to atone for an episode in its past: In an effort to acknowledge its ties to slavery, Georgetown University will offer the descendants of nearly 300 slaves preferential treatment in its admissions process. In … Continue reading →
Polls, Florida, Trump, and the black vote
Polls in Florida can be used to illustrate the idea that Trump is staging a huge comeback, or that he’s hopelessly behind. There’s one that says he’s doing pretty well there (2 points ahead of Hillary) and two others that … Continue reading →
Trump and the black vote—fun with statistics
Several commenters have pointed out that Trump made a speech recently that appealed to black voters. Here’s how commenter Richard Saunders describes it, for example: Trump makes the best speech of the campaign, and is the one of the first, … 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 →
Shelby Steele writes about American’s Shame
In Shelby Steele’s Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country, he writes: …[A]ll these victim-focused identities are premised on a belief in the characterological evil of American and the entire Western world. This broad assumption is the idea … 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 →
Here’s the first decent move the Freddie Gray prosecutors have made
Prosecutors in the Freddie Gray cases have now dropped all charges against the remaining three police officers out of the six they have used as scapegoats: Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest … Continue reading →