The Washington Post is just trolling us now.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Stuff no one knows unless they take a law school criminal procedure class. Good grief.
Like anyone actually asks a cop, “Am I being detained?”
I was living in L.A. when that came out. Also, this:
The cops got REALLY upset with Ice-T/Body Count’s “Cop Killer”. Like, terrified upset. I never really listened to it when it came out, but it’s worth re-visiting;
Sorry for bordering on troll, but what’s going on in Ferguson has me really angry. And you know how it’s going to end; with a cop killing a bona-fide child. Like a 5 year old.
Always ends in the aggressor going to far and losing any and all moral high ground. They’ve already lost that, IMO, when they killed an unarmed teenager, but it will take a very young child for white Americans to sit up an take notice and say ‘that shit ain’t right’.
As AG would say, ‘bet on it.’
With grifting psychopaths from the LAPD, no less.
Jeff Bezos fantasy. how about one of those vehicles too
“… and do not represent reality.”
Fixed that for them.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the city paid $138,485,587.30 between January, 2002 and October, 2011 in judgements and settlements of lawsuits brought against the LAPD.
The author of that self-serving dose of tripe is disputed by the numbers.
and this guys a prof of homeland security?? well now we know where some of those airport ppl get their manners
A professor homeland security? If I’d known that they handed out professorships for being rude and obnoxious I would have had one when I was in my Twenties.
And Gov. Jay Nixon channels Ross Barnett with his Anglo-American justice, not racial protesting comment.
The Democratic Party is doomed with nitwits like this.
That goes way beyond a dogwhistle.
Jay Nixon ran for AG, of Missouri, back in 1992. Do you know what he based his campaign on? And why is that PoS still a Democrat?
The fact that he got suburban school districts out from under busing orders for racial balance, maybe?
Too many already elected Republicans at the pig trough. Democratic trough was reasonably empty. It’s what ambitious pols in the South (such as Newt) became Republicans in the 1970s. No need to slug it out so much in the primaries.
Personal responsibility for thee but none whatsoever for me and all my RWNJ pals on the force.
Slap a camera on him and see how he does. Let’s see how “respectful” he is to the average person on the street.
In all the discussion of police wearing cameras, one aspect seems to be left out – that perhaps that level of scrutiny will discourage people like this asshat from joining the force to begin with. If you’re joining so you can bully people and be a big man, perhaps having your actions scrutinized will make the job less attractive.
Definitely trolling, an LAPD Officer with an authority complex??? Naw who’d a thunk it.
Oh, IANAL, so can anyone tell me what’s going on with this?
#Ferguson office Darren Wilson will be given the opportunity to testify in front of the grand jury. (via @ABC)
https://twitter.com/MarkJZinn/status/501846496426622976
IANAL either, but my spidey sense says the fix is in.
We both have the same spidey sense as well.
We’ll see. With AG Holder coming to town tomorrow, and he’s already been briefed on the Federal autopsy finding (which happend Monday and they already have results BTW)
fix was in long ago
What those 4 hours were for while the body lay in the street. “OMG, boss, whadda we gonna do?”
btw I could not find that vet twitter thread. maybe it was linked in a comment thread from a dkos diary. will let you know if it turns up
Thanks again and I’ll search too.
hope you find it.
We are supposed to take the eye witness accounts we have heard with caution. Here is a good compilation of the 5 accounts we know: http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/08/_5_eyewitness_accounts_of_michael_brown_s_shooting.h
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I have been admonished that first person accounts are “notoriously” inaccurate.
So…
How do we learn, much less interpret, the similarly “notoriously inaccurate” eye witness report of the other active participant whose first person account will be given in the publicly inaccessible Grand Jury Chamber.
What are other cases this session’s Grand Jury has been asked to indict? Or is this a specially appointed Grand Jury?
Well, Bezos had to do something to offset the profound embarrassment he caused St. Louis law enforcement community when his reporter Wes Lowery got himself arrested in order to attract attention to the Washington Post. /s
So Holder will be in Ferguson tomorrow.
We already know that the Federal autopsy happened yesterday, and they already have results and Holder has been briefed…let that sink in, the DOJ already has autopys done and yet we STILL don’t know what was in STL county autopsy!
Add to that the report that Wilson will be allowed to testify at Grand Jury tomorrow and tell me this doesn’t stink to high heaven.
oh and this:
“@PresReed
Prosecutor Bob McCulloch says he will recuse himself if ordered by Governor. #MikeBrown #Ferguson.”
https://twitter.com/PresReed/status/501851082302439425
Well there’s a political litmus test for Jay Nixon.
“Just how white are you, Jay?”, signed “Your good friend, Bob McCulloch”
Sunil Dutta’s advice:
“Unless the officer has a legal basis to stop and search you, he or she must let you go. Finally, cops are legally prohibited from using excessive force: The moment a suspect submits and stops resisting, the officers must cease use of force.
But if you believe (or know) that the cop stopping you is violating your rights or is acting like a bully, I guarantee that the situation will not become easier if you show your anger and resentment.”
How’s that working out for folks in Ferguson?
This sounds like a Police State:
“But if you believe (or know) that the cop stopping you is violating your rights or is acting like a bully, I guarantee that the situation will not become easier if you show your anger and resentment.”
Don’t show your anger and resentment ? How about your will to live?
Is Jay Nixon up for re-election? If so, you can best believe there better be an alternative, cause the Black folk for him…is gone.
I’m looking for a party switch within weeks. New GOP hero.
He’s term-limited.