Milwaukee s Promise Stand back, boy : More than four decades later, the memory of my first brush with racism remains vivid and painful
James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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11:48 am UTC Jan. 22, 2021
I remember everything about my first brush with racism.
James E. Causey
I remember what the people wore and said, the expressions on their faces. I remember the layout of the little convenience store in Liberty, Mississippi, even how it smelled.
Over the next 44 years of my life, other incidents would follow. White people called me a nigger. Police officers pulled me over with no reason. Women tightened the grip on their purses when I joined them in elevators.
Elizabeth Bruenig: The man I saw them kill
The idea of execution promises catharsis. The reality of it delivers the opposite.
(Neeta Satam for The New York Times)
The Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, Indiana.
By Elizabeth Bruenig | The New York Times
| Dec. 18, 2020, 12:00 a.m.
Terre Haute, Ind. • On Thursday evening, I sat in the lobby of a Marriott hotel in Terre Haute, Ind., as Shawn Nolan and Victor Abreu tried to save a man’s life. Both wore bluejeans, button-down shirts and a day or more of scruff Mr. Nolan’s salt-and-pepper, Mr. Abreu’s black. We shared a bottle of red wine in plastic cups as the two men, public defenders whose caseloads are strictly death penalty appeals, discussed the merits of pleading with the Supreme Court for a stay of execution.
Dec. 17, 2020
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. On Thursday evening, I sat in the lobby of a Marriott hotel in Terre Haute, Ind., as Shawn Nolan and Victor Abreu tried to save a man’s life. Both wore bluejeans, button-down shirts and a day or more of scruff Mr. Nolan’s salt-and-pepper, Mr. Abreu’s black. We shared a bottle of red wine in plastic cups as the two men, public defenders whose caseloads are strictly death penalty appeals, discussed the merits of pleading with the Supreme Court for a stay of execution.
“Days of life matter,” Mr. Nolan had reflected as we spoke earlier that afternoon.
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Buried in the charging documents in the George Floyd murder case is something called excited delirium. One of the junior officers mentioned it during Floyd s arrest.
We had never heard of excited delirium but discovered it is widely used by police and paramedics to describe a life-threatening syndrome among suspects exhibiting wild behavior and extreme strength, and that it is being used to justify injecting them with a powerful chemical restraint, ketamine. But in the medical world, we found deep skepticism over whether excited delirium is even a real condition and concern about an overreliance on ketamine and the use of excited delirium as a shield to protect police from charges of misconduct.