I usually reserve the phrase “cartoonishly evil” for tinpot dictators, certain former Bush administration officials, and hedge fund executives, but Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel may actually need to grow a mustache to twirl after this. City of Chicago lawyers, after meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, demanded the Laquan McDonald family bury the video showing the …
#BLM #M4BL
Public health and public savings
Two interesting pieces of public health news. The first is good news. Congress actively is attempting to combat HIV and Hep-C infections by removing asinine restrictions on funding for needle exchanges: (via Vox) Congress quietly made a huge change to help combat HIV: It effectively lifted the federal funding ban on needle exchange programs, which …
Indictment in the Bland Case
The State Trooper who arrested Sandra Bland has been indicted for perjury. Link here, and I am trying to figure out what precisely they allege he lied about.
Sad but True
No Justice for Tamir Rice
Grand Jury refuses to indict police officers for driving up to a 12 year old kid, gunning him down before the car was stopped, and then failing to provide medical attention: A grand jury in Cleveland has declined to indict a city police officer in the fatal shooting last year of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. The …
It’s a Coverup
From the bottom up: On the night of the Laquan McDonald shooting, Chicago police entered the nearby Burger King restaurant on Pulaski Road to see what its security cameras captured, a store official told NBC 5 News six months ago. When they left, the store official said, the security video was missing. Now NBC 5 …
The Public Execution of Laquan McDonald
The cop who shot Laquan McDonald has been charged, and the information contained in the indictment is pretty horrifying: Rarely have officers here faced such charges, and the prosecutor’s announcement came amid a national debate over race, police shootings and a growing number of encounters captured on video showing police conduct. Chicago’s police force has …