Here’s another shooting of a black man who turned out to be unarmed, but was actively resisting arrest by fighting with the officer: According to Sgt. Trent Crump, the officer responded Tuesday to reports of someone selling drugs out of … Continue reading →
This assessment of the Eric Garner case seems just about right to me. As does this one. The death of Eric Garner was a sad sequence of events, with unintentional overkill (literally) by the police. There is no evidence there … Continue reading →
A lot of people were up in arms—and rightly so, IMHO—when the NY Times published Darren Wilson’s address, thus facilitating those who would do him harm. So I was happy to see that, before it was ever published, the address … Continue reading →
I was going to write a lengthy article describing how the media has distorted the facts of the Brown/Wilson case, purposely encouraging misperceptions that have led to outrage and destructive rioting. I was planning to list a whole bunch of … Continue reading →
Let’s take a look at the classic depictions of Justice: She wears a blindfold. And not because it’s Halloween. It’s because: Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia, the Roman goddess of Justice, who is equivalent to the Greek goddesses Themis and Dike) … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Yesterday a comment that referenced Jonestown caused me to revisit this post from six years ago. It was written on the 30th anniversary of the suicide/massacre; just a few days ago was the 36th anniversary. I think it holds … Continue reading →
A video has been released by ISIS proclaiming the beheading of an American, aid worker Peter Kassig. Kassig’s murder had been threatened in the most recent video prior to this. The murder seems almost an afterthought, because, “The video also … Continue reading →
This administration has such class: The other day I [journalist Jeffrey Goldberg] was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. “The thing about … Continue reading →
This is terrible: What he saw was freshman Jaylen Fryberg go up to a table with students, “came up from behind … and fired about six bullets into the backs of them,” Luton told CNN. “They were his friends, so … Continue reading →
Something about the fact that Canada’s national government buildings had surprisingly lax security rang a bell. This was the sound of the bell: The commission said key public buildings had to be better secured and that the Norwegian National Security … Continue reading →
Facts I’ve either read or heard today: (1) A friend of the shooter reports that a few years ago: “We were having a conversation in a kitchen, and I don’t know how he worded it. He said the devil is … Continue reading →
I was waiting for more information about the terrorist attack in Canada today before writing about it, but I thought I’d offer a quick post so you can comment on it if you like. It seems to me the new … Continue reading →