[above: Donald Trump makes his way past a wall of “Fuck Trump” graffiti for a photo-op in front of Washington’s St. John’s church.] Declaring himself a “president of law and order” in the White House Rose Garden this evening, Donald Trump threatened to deploy the United States military against U.S. citizen in order to put […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Serwer, Bible, call to violence, Coke, domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, fascism, George Floyd, Joe Biden, Lafayette Square, law and order, Marian Budde, martial law, Minneapolis, photo-op, police state, protests, rubber bullets, St. John's Church, strafing, strength, tear gas, terrorism, The Gods Must Be Crazy, violence, weakness |
By Mark | January 20, 2017
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the “civil rights” page that used to reside on the White House website is now gone. It apparently disappeared at noon, just as Trump was being sworn in as President. In its place is a page titled Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community, which begins like this, […]
Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged civil rights, crime, District of Columbia, Donald Trump, homicide, illegal immigration, inauguration, law and order, murder, police, police profanity, police state, sanctuary cities, the militarization of the police, undocumented workers, violent crime, White House |
This evening I attended the Unity Town Hall at Eastern Michigan Union, during which Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Black Lives Matter Organizer Myles McGuire, Wahstenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton, Mark Fancher of the Michigan ACLU’s Racial Justice Project, and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie sat before an audience of about 250, responding to questions about civil […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Michigan, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ACLU, Aura Rosser, black lives matter, Brian Mackie, de-escalation, Debbie Dingell, dismantling of public education, drugs, fear, Jerry Clayton, Mark Fancher, mental health, Mobile Justice, Myles McGuire, public education, Racial Justice Project, Seattle, slavery, social work, threats to public education, Unity Town Hall, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Prosecutor |
Following are my extremely rough, admittedly incomplete notes on tonight’s meeting of the Ypsilanti Police-Community Relations / Black Lives Matter Joint Task Force. If you were also in the audience, and have something to add, please leave a comment. And, of course, feel free to weigh in on whatever you read below. As you’ll soon […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anger, Anne Brown, Anthony Morgan, black lives matter, body cameras, cell phones, Citizen Review Board, Crisis Intervention Team, cultural awareness, Dan Vogt, de-escalation, Eastern Washtenaw Safety Alliance, Emmett Till, Heritage Fest, implicit bias, Jerry Clayton, mental health, mental illness, Nicole Brown, over policing, prison industrial complex, racism, sentencing disparities, subject control, Tony DeGiusti, use of force, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Ypsilanti police department |
I’d been working on something about the killings of Alton Sterling and Philander Castile. My premise was pretty simple… While it’s certainly appropriate to focus our anger at the police, I was going to suggest, we can’t lose site of the fact that there are larger forces at play. We can’t just blame the police […]
