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Abby Zimet has written CD s Further column since 2008. A longtime, award-winning journalist, she moved to the Maine woods in the early 70s, where she spent a dozen years building a house, hauling water and writing before moving to Portland. Having come of political age during the Vietnam War, she has long been involved in women s, labor, anti-war, social justice and refugee rights issues. Email: azimet18@gmail.com
In one of their harshest moves since a purportedly more humane Taliban returned to power, a new edict mandates all Afghan women cover their faces with a full burqa if they dare to leave their now-prison-like homes; it also deputizes men in their lives to enforce the despotic rule. The head-to-toe sheathing is one of many new strictures - female TV journalists in masks, curbs on school, work, travel - by a hardline cabal in charge of virtue and vice, once the Ministry of Women’s Affairs. The goal, besieged women say, is to erase a whole gender and generation.to make women disappear. | Further Column by Abby Zimet
Totally Unnecessary
THE CHAUVIN
TRIAL-In more damning, searing testimony on the fifth day of Derek Chauvin s trial for murdering George Floyd, Minneapolis most senior police officer condemned Chauvin s use of force against Floyd as totally unnecessary.
Lt. Richard Zimmerman, head of the police department s homicide unit and 36-year veteran of the force, added, “Pulling him to the ground facedown and putting the knee on the neck for that amount of time is just uncalled for.”
Zimmerman, who helped secure the scene after Floyd had been taken away, also outlined the Department s use of force policy and the multiple ways Chauvin et al egregiously flouted it.