A video of an eight-year-old boy arrested at Gerald Adams Elementary School in Key West, Florida, for allegedly punching a teacher in the chest has recently emerged. The child’s arrest occurred in 2018 but has just now become public. Attorney Ben Crump posted the video on Twitter. He will be representing the family in a civil…
Category: Police
Don’t Confuse De-Fund with Reform
I have taken a position that is not the most popular amongst my friends, but I believe it is a better alternative. We need a viable, honest, and most importantly a justice-based police department. Calls for defunding police departments have been reprised all over America since the murder of George Floyd. There seems to be…
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: boogaloos have their Horst Wessel. #BreonnaTaylor is different
(Originally, I had done something on a MMT podcast with some of its major luminaries, but I’ll save it for a future AC chat diary, since Historical events seem more important for MeetUps) 'Boogaloo' Is The New Far-Right Slang For Civil War x The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization. —…
FBI: White Supremacists Urged to Infect Jews, Police
ABC News has picked an alert issued by the FBI’s New York office: White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says In an alert obtained by ABC News, the FBI’s New York office reports that “members of extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the virus, if contracted, through…
Blue Lives Matter! Except when a black cop told this entitled Virginia state senator where to park
To put it indelicately, something might be off about freshman GOP Senator Amanda Chase. Healthy people aren’t terrified of their own citizens and don’t pack heat on the Senate floor. A recent incident shows how off-kilter Chase is. x The VA state senator who got into a verbal altercation with the Capitol police over a parking spot…
Court to Florida government employee fired for lynching comments: You are NOT the victim
The assistant finance director for Florida’s Seminole County Clerk of Courts was once a man named Stan McCullars. Emphasis on “was.” A little background: In January 2017, Aramis Ayala became Orange-Osceola State Attorney. She’s also the first African American to hold the office in the Sunshine State. Unfortunately, this historic achievement has been marred by the way Ayala has…
When it comes to racism, Detroit cops have a real issue—and not just on Snapchat
In September 2018, Detroit policeman Sean Bostwick, while in uniform, took a selfie in his patrol car and posted it to his Snapchat account with a blatantly racist caption: “Another night to Rangel (sic) up these zoo animals.” He was quickly fired. x Details On Detroit Cop Sean Bostwick’s Firing After He Said It Was Time To Arrest “Zoo…
If you want to know exactly what racial profiling looks like, just watch this video
This is painful and difficult to watch. Yet I’m going to ask you do just that. A local activist group, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI), obtained and published police recordings showing a textbook example of racial bias by Des Moines Senior Police Officer Kyle Thies. Thies apparently pulled over the young man, Montray Little, for…well,…
Policing the Police – A “How To” By An Expert, Detective Frank Serpico
Fully-automatic weapons and armored vehicles used on unarmed protesters in Ferguson, MO., and the questions which remain about Michael Brown's death are both enormous and numerous. The local PD and hundreds of others across the nation close ranks to protect the cop – not to demand that an independent investigation determine the truth about the…
Crank Up Your TVs and Watch This! Updated With a Direct Link
Your opinion of what constitutes “Good TV” may differ from mine. In fact, it should. But I don't believe for a second that you good folks here won't consider this presentation to be “Good TV”. In fact, I'm betting that you're going to think that this is something that all of America should see. Would…