“Official Reports Usually Side With Police Officers”: Sorry, But It’s Going...
One day in April of 1880, a cadet named Johnson Whittaker was found unconscious in his room at West Point. Whittaker, who was African American, had been gagged and beaten, tied to his bed and slashed...
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Shortly after FBI Director James Comey delivered ill-considered remarks linking increased scrutiny of police to rising crime, a cellphone video of a Columbia, South Carolina, school cop violently...
View Article“Nothing To Do With Race”: The Simplistic Way Many Of Us Perceive The...
It had nothing to do with race. So said Sheriff Leon Lott, last week, in discussing a violent arrest by one of his officers, a white deputy named Ben Fields, of a black female student at Spring Valley...
View Article“Reality Of Implicit Race Bias Is Well-Documented”: Overcoming Implicit...
I once read a question that went as follows: Two groups of young men are walking on opposite sides of the street. One group is black, the other, white. Both are loud and swaggering, both have baseball...
View Article“Cop Killers Serve No Cause”: It’s Getting To The Point Where No Lives Matter
How can anyone ever explain this to Mason? He’s only 4 months old, so that moment still lies years in the future. Still, at some point, too soon, he will ask the inevitable questions, and someone will...
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