Interesting: Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said on Wednesday that the Internal Affairs Bureau will look into the decision of a high-ranking officer to use pepper spray on a number of female protesters at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration on Saturday. *** The video, which has been posted on YouTube and the Web sites of …
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Just a Few Bad Apples
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Sometime the Lights are Shining on Me
I know I am going to get flamed for this, but I just don’t understand what the goal is for the occupy Wall Street crowd. I confess that I don’t have much use for crowds, so that always has to be factored in as part of my cynicism. And, I suppose, at least these folks …
Today in the Politics of Pets
Mary Shannon Johnstone is a talented photographer who is working on a documentary series called Breeding Ignorance, which is a four-part piece about where unwanted pets come from, how they are euthanized, life in a shelter, and the practice of spaying and neutering. Fair warning: some of the images are quite disturbing, and others are …
Murderous Police Brutality
ED Kain has put together a round up of press stories, disturbing pictures and a video of the brutal beating and death of a schizophrenic man at the hands of Fullerton, California police: “When I first walked into the hospital, I looked at what his mother described as my son … I didn’t recognize him,” …
Friday Evening Open Thread: Juiceball
(Jim Morin via GoComics.com) One of the minor annoyances of this week’s Republican Fail Parade has been that nobody had time to pay attention to the collapse of the Roger Clemens perjury trial: Well, isn’t this special? __ One thing upon which you can always depend. Once the prosecutorial powers-that-be get their teeth into a …
Emily Good
I’ve been traveling and I’m late to this party, but I wanted to post about Emily Good. She’s a DFH in Rochester, someone who occasionally gets arrested during protests. A few weeks ago, she used her iPod to videotape a police stop in front of her house and was arrested by a cop after she …