What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that arrest warrants were issued Friday for the ex-Atlanta police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black motorist on June 22.
Atlanta cop who shot unarmed black man charged with murder | www.ajc.com
good.
The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child.
Within seconds,” the officer’s electroshock weapon discharged snares into the chest of the 70-pound girl, the lawsuit reads. “The force of the electricity shot through her body, lifted her, and threw her against a wall. After the officers had stunned (the girl) into high voltage submission, they pulled the fish-hook like Taser darts from her chest, gave her emergency medical attention, bandaged the holes left by the razor-sharp hooks, and called the ambulance.”
Attorney Dana Hanna recounts the incident, saying that the “four trained police officers surrounding a 70-pound, 8-year-old Indian girl,” should have used tactics that were less violent and not so risky to the young girl’s health and possibly life. “She had a kitchen paring knife, but hadn’t cut. She was a kid throwing a tantrum. They should have made an attempt to grab the kid, not use a weapon to throw her into a wall. A Taser’s not meant to kill, but it does kill. Many people have died after being hit by a Taser by cops. It never should be used on a little child. She certainly wasn’t presenting a danger to officers.”
The girl’s father, Bobby Jones added, “I don’t fault for the police being there because they were called. They were there. But what happened while they were there is why I’m upset,” in an early interview he did with local KSFY.
Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified – Counter Current News
Grrrrrrrrrr.
One, who the F called the cops over a tantrum? That person should have been charged!
Two, the officers should be facing jail-time for the unnecessary violence and should lose their badges for using piss poor judgement and acting like a militia instead of a force sworn to protect the public..
Ieshia Evans explains what was going through her mind when the poignant photo was captured, and how it has given her a new purpose in life
Woman in iconic Baton Rouge protest photo speaks out
hmmm
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggests testing all US Muslims to see if they believe in Sharia law, and deporting those who do.
Nice attack: Gingrich wants ‘Sharia test’ for US Muslims – BBC News
<facepalm>
Drivers in the Northeast are more likely to yell, honk or gesture angrily than people living in other parts of the country, the AAA Foundation of Traffic Safety determined in a study.
Road rage on the rise: Northeast ‘significantly more likely’ to honk, yell and gesture | NH1
Heh
Why we keep missing Hillary Clinton’s greatest strength.
hmmm
One presidential candidate pledged to “Stand up for America.” Two generations later, another promises to “Make America Great Again.” Their common denominator: convincing certain Americans that their version of the United States is under threat.
Are there echoes of George Wallace in Trump’s message? | PBS NewsHour
hmmmm
On student claims that their tuition requires her to [acquiesce to their desires] : “…The natural and logical extension of your premise is that students on a full scholarship are not entitled to assert their needs and desires to the same extent as other students (or maybe even at all). So, as you can see, arguments premised on consumerism are not likely to influence me.”
On the student premise that “you are not paying for my opinion”: “You are not paying me to pretend I don’t have one.”
On student criticism that Black Lives Matter is “racist and anti-law enforcement and has been known to incite violence”: “If I say ‘law students matter,’ it does not imply that my colleagues, friends and family do not …. When people are receiving messages from the culture in which they live that their lives are less important than other lives, it is a cruel distortion of reality to scold them for not being inclusive enough.”
…Leary then goes on to offer a critique of the writing style of the memo, saying it was poorly written and undercut the argument of the letter writers.
Law professor responds to students who complained about her Black Lives Matter shirt
Awesome sauce!
The text of the former President’s speech at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.
Remarks By Former President George W. Bush At Interfaith Memorial Service For Officers
sometimes I wonder what his tenure would have been like without the influence of Rumsfeld and Cheney…
Oh well, water under the bridge now.
Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History by Matt Lubchansky on The Nib
Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History – by Matt Lubchansky
Heh
The Daily News Hillbilly-in-Chief Trae Crowder is thrilled the FBI has decided to drop this whole business of charging Hillary over her emails because it ‘means this bullsh– is not going to be the mechanism through which Donald Trump walks away with the presidency.
VIDEO: Liberal Redneck Trae Crowder: ‘I’m Thrilled’ FBI is done with Hillary’s emails
Heh
Yeah, he appealed to the working man to the exclusion of black people, he did that. I mean, …it would be fine if the blacks joined along if they wanted to keep things the way they were. And that is segregated schools and all the other things that he fought so long and hard for in his career as Governor of Alabama. Fighting desegregation, fighting civil rights, was the center point of what he did. He appealed to the blue collar constituency, the working class that really have more in common with blacks than they have divisions. But he was a master at driving that division, you know, like us and them. He knew how to do us and them politics, the old southern politics.
Wallace’s appeal to the working class
Striking parallels to current events.
When I met him he told me a version of the story about the rally in Mass.
Turnipseed is a board member of the Carolina Peace Resource Center, which advances peace through research and education, and the S.C. Hispanic Leadership Council, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for the Hispanic community. He is former Chairman of the Board of the Center for Democratic Renewal, formerly the National Anti-Klan Network which is an Atlanta-based civil rights organization. He is the 2005 honorary Co-Chair of the NAACP.
These achievements seem incompatible with a man who was once a spokesman for former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, one of the South’s most notorious segregationists.
Turnipseed did not simply change his mind. He grew. He opened his eyes to civil unrest and injustice and took active steps to change the world around him. Turnipseed’s story is a story of evolution.
The PostScript : Tom Turnipseed Turned Around – The PostScript
Ahhhh… OK, I feel better now.
Tom Turnipseed on war and the military.
I’m about to go on a Tom Turnipseed binge up in here… I just want to swim in the notion of people turning from hate and division and becoming open and woke. So bear with me y’all.
“The tragedy of this though is that there isn’t going to be a wall built. And Mexico’s not going to pay for it,” he said. “And there’s not going to be a ban on Muslims. None of that. This was all, like, a alternative universe that he created. The reality is — that’s not going to happen, and people are going to be deeply frustrated and the divides will grow in our country.
“…That’s the heartbreaking part of this is, I think people are going to really feel betrayed.”
Jeb Bush: I think people are going to really feel betrayed – CBS News
Oh Jeb, really?!
That’s not actually the tragedy part of this. …And people who expect Mexico to build a wall for us being disappointed is not at the heartbreaking thing going on here. Do you really find those people’s disappointment more heartbreaking than the fact that they wanted to build it in the first place? Seriously? Really?
Four Minnesota police officers left their security posts at Saturday’s Lynx game after players wore shirts protesting the deaths of two men at the hands of police.
The black warmup shirts worn said “Change Starts With Us — Justice and Accountability” on the front. (Accountability is a Lynx team mantra.)
The back of the shirt featured the names of Castile and Sterling, the Dallas Police Department shield and, at the bottom, “Black Lives Matter.” Castile was killed by a suburban St. Paul police officer during a traffic stop.
“If we take this time to see that this is a human issue and speak out together, we can greatly decrease fear and create change,” the Lynx’s Maya Moore said prior to Saturday’s game. “Tonight we will be wearing shirts to honor and mourn the losses of precious American citizens and to plead for change in all of us.”
Minneapolis police leave security posts at Minnesota Lynx game over protest shirts
Even though it was off-duty, that is super unprofessional.
Young people are reeling from their losses and harboring pent-up depression that often comes pouring out in panic attacks and breakdowns, relatives say.
In the Turmoil Over Race and Policing, Children Pay a Steep Emotional Price – The New York Times
Sigh…
“People don’t think of Vermont as an aerospace state; they think we’re all cheese, maple syrup and skiing,” said Patricia Moulton, secretary of Vermont’s Agency of Commerce and Community Development. “We have a very robust aerospace sector, and we have a number of advanced tech firms that find Vermont a great place to do business.”
Why Bernie Sanders is backing a $1.5 trillion military boondoggle
hmmm
There’s still a palpable, political wake from the shooting in Dallas, Texas,f on Tuesday night. Republicans and Democrats alike were quick to offer opinions, admonishments, and spin. But, there were some who spoke out against politicizing the event. Surprisingly, former presidential candidate Marco
Marco Rubio’s Statement On The Dallas Shooting Shows That Police Brutality Isn’t Partisan | Romper
Huh
During a press conference on July 8, Rubio said that anyone who is not black will “never fully understand the experience of being black in America, but we should all understand why our fellow Americans in the African American community are angry.” Rubio acknowledged that much progress has been made in race relations over the last few decades, but that “millions of our fellow Americans feel they are treated differently, and they are scared.”
In Dallas response, Marco Rubio shows why he may be future of GOP | Washington Examiner
Heh
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