Tag: Police shootings

Trump’s Metaphor of ‘Missing a Putt’ for Police Killings says everything about our spoiled Plutocrats

Marie Antoinette reportedly said “Let them eat cake” when told the peole had no bread. Trump moment came when he said he understood the cop who shot Blake 7 times in the back “he chocked” “it was like missing a three foot putt”. Marie went to the Guillotine will Trump? (ODT)

All points well-taken. But we can go deeper here. The president’s “three-foot putt” analogy doesn’t just reveal the sordid worldview of an impulsive man. Trump’s vile equivalence between a golf putt and police violence has so much more to tell us about the bubble of enormous wealth that has always enveloped him — and so many others of his super-rich class.

Trump’s Metaphor of ‘Missing a Putt’ for Police Killings says everything about our spoiled Plutocrats

O’Reilly Segment Erroneously Claims Bias In Police Shooting Against Whites, Not African Americans

Bill O’Reilly invited the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald to argue that police use force against blacks at a greater rate than whites for violent felonies. Mac Donald and O’Reilly ignored that police use lethal force against blacks at a much higher rate for nonviolent arrests.On the October 25 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reil

Source: O’Reilly Segment Erroneously Claims Bias In Police Shooting Against Whites, Not African Americans

Police Arrest Man Who Posted Video of Alton Sterling’s Death

The man who was instrumental to publicizing the Alton Sterling video was arrested less than 24 hours later on charges of “assault and battery.”

Source: Police Arrest Man Who Posted Video of Alton Sterling’s Death

Protest after ‘unarmed’ black 19 yo shot dead by Madison police:

Reuters / Carlo Allegri

Protest after ‘unarmed’ black 19 yo shot dead by Madison police — RT USA.