Officers from 17+ departments participated in delivering Ofcr. Talley’s body.
As the Capitol was stormed on January 6th, we watched a sea of Trump supporters with pro law enforcement paraphernalia engage officers. The “Thin Blue Line” image of a blue stripe across the American Flag is explained as a symbol of support for police in a time when they feel under attack by public opinion.
Some combine it with the slogan,
Blue Lives Matter, a coded response to the
Black Lives Matter movement, which highlights concern that Black Americans experience a higher level of brutality than non-Black Americans. Some argue that this is not the case, though the constant stream of negative examples of police interaction with BIPOC people suggest that there is enough of a problem to warrant concern.
We ve Found Deep Parts of The Sea Where The Last Ice Age Never Actually Ended
1 APRIL 2021
Some of the deepest parts of the Black Sea are still responding to climate changes prompted by the last ice age, scientists have discovered – a period which officially ended almost 12,000 years ago.
An analysis of gas hydrate deposits – in this case methane trapped by water molecules, in a solid substance that looks like ice – has revealed the lagging response in a northwestern area of the Black Sea known as the Danube fan.
Together with temperature measurements and other data, the drill cores of the gas hydrate deposits reveal something rather surprising: Levels of free methane gas under the seafloor have not yet adapted to the warmer conditions that have already prevailed on the surface for thousands of years.
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April 1, 2021
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(THE CONVERSATION) Just over two weeks before she died of complications from COVID-19 in December 2020, Dr. Susan G. Moore recorded a smartphone video from her bed in an Indiana hospital. In the recording, which went viral, the Black physician accused a white doctor of letting racial bias affect his medical decisions, from evading her requests for a CT scan, to playing down her pain complaints and refusing to prescribe additional narcotic painkillers.
San Francisco school board member sues over tweet response
April 1, 2021
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FILE- In this Sept. 26, 2018 file photo, Alison Collins, right, is seen during an editorial board meeting in San Francisco. Collins the former vice president of San Francisco s school board is suing the district and her colleagues after they voted to strip her of the position because of tweets she wrote in 2016 that said Asian Americans used white supremacist thinking. The San Francisco Chronicle says Collins filed the suit Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in federal court, alleging violation of her constitutional rights including free speech. She s seeking nearly $30 million. (Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)Liz Hafalia/AP