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From the New York Times Opinion page: Half the...

Police officers are rightly held to higher standards, but the training hasnt kept up.

Was anyone not shocked by the sickening video of Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating by Memphis police? Yes, observed D.L. Hughley while guest-hosting “The Daily Show”: “Black people.”

Why were so many of us surprised that Black officers were so brutal to Tyre Nichols? Sometimes hate doesn’t need a particular color.

Had a mental health unit been deployed, Keenan Anderson would most likely be in a hospital bed right now getting mental health treatment instead of at the coroner trying to figure out the "cause of death."

The militarization of gun culture among both civilians and police reflects an increasingly energetic defense of white rule in the United States. This has been facilitated in part by an NRA-led reinterpretation of what the Second Amendment meant by “militia”.

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal An airman assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base who was accused of keeping a cache of unregistered weapons at his home on base – including an AR-15 propped against a window and photographs showing AR-15 compatible magazines with the names of mass shooters written on them – has been sentenced to prison and discharged from the military. U.S. District Judge Judith Herrera last week sentenced Charles Brent Justice to 20 months in prison followed by three year...

s  America’s criminal legal system is rooted in the nation’s history of legalized slavery and racial oppression. Our current system of punishment is still founded on a basic conception of outsider-hood that continues to create and perpetuate racial, ethnic, and class inequality. Criminal legal reform efforts must engage directly with this sordid lineage to unmoor the inequitable impacts and outcomes of our current system of “justice.” As Cornell William Brooks, former president and CEO...

GUEST WORDS--The murders by cop go on - the latest, Lymond Moses, was asleep in his car - prompting furious calls for police reform from many weary of the carnage. Along with systemic racism, rabid militarization, fascist police unions, no accountability and infamously inadequate if not deranged training, we can thank messianic warrior-cop, uber fear-mongerer and "killology" expert Dave Grossman, a former Army ranger who for 20 years has traveled almost daily to every state in the blood-soaked...

By Mark Anderson Blank minds think alike; they do not think at all. How else to describe the recent baseless heckling and physical attack on Sen. Rand Paul and his wife, Kelley, by clueless leftist agitators? Thankfully, the attack on the Kentucky Republican as he left the White House grounds, just after hearing President Donald Trump’s Aug. 27 acceptance speech at the 2020 virtual GOP convention, did not result in any injuries, due to police protection. Sen. Paul later told Fox News, however...