The police killings no one’s talking about

Read this In These Times report about police and Native Americans. From the report: Mike Males, senior researcher at the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, looked at data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collected from medical examiners in 47 states between 1999 and 2011. When compared to their percentage of the …

Here’s the report on the Baltimore police department.

You can read it here. From the Baltimore Sun: The police department “routinely” violated civil rights.

No more charges on the murder of Freddie Gray

All remaining charges have been dropped in the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year old African American who died in the hands of police in April 2015. He was picked up healthy. He was removed from the van with a broken neck. What more is there to say about this? That no one is responsible …

Deadly force and poor people

Since June 2015, the British newspaper, The Guardian, is keeping The Counted, a sad running list of people who’ve been killed by police officers. From FiveThirtyEight, the police are killing people at roughly the same rate as before Ferguson, when teenager Michael Brown was shot in the street in August 2014. But go back to …

Philando Castile had a conceal carry gun permit

But that doesn’t apply to black people, I guess. Here’s the kind of man Philando Castile was. But you know what? Even if he had prior arrests, he did not deserve to die this way. Do that one thing. Do that one thing that interrupts violence or privilege.

Do that one thing

You’re hurt. You’re hurt because you’re black/brown and yet another black/brown man/woman has been shot and killed by the police. You’re hurt. You’re hurt because you’re white and yet another black/brown man/woman has been shot and killed by the police and YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. And then the news breaks that there are …

Why the British police don’t carry guns

In light of the shooting deaths by police of Alton Sterling and others, read this, from the BBC.And thanks, Tim, for the link.

Goddammit. This has to stop now.

Watch those comforting hands on the back of 15-year old Cameron, Alton Sterling’s son. Mr. Sterling was shot dead by police on Tuesday in Baton Rouge. Listen to that young man’s sobs. And then read this. Goddammit. This has to stop. We are awash in these awful videos — including ones that show us the actual taking …

Play “Suffragetto!”

A 100-year old board game was recently uncovered, which pits suffragists against police officers. You can read more about the game here. How cool is this? And thanks, Thomas, for the link.

So a little Texas girls prays with these officers on their lunch break

Her father snapped the photo of 5-year old Chloe with the officers, and sent it to the local police. I would have loved to have heard her prayer.