US News Wikileaks is suing the US to reveal any secret charges against Julian Assange. [Link] Michael Treacy on the latest BuzzFeed Russiagate blunder. [Link] Venezuela The State Department withdraws non-emergency personnel from Venezuela and issues a warning advising Americans not travel to Venezuela. [Link] Great Power Rivalries Russia displays the short-range missile the US claims is in violation of the INF Treaty. The US claims that Russia must allow the US to examine the missile and displaying the missile is not enough to save the INF Treaty. [Link] The US sails warships through the...
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News Roundup 5/31/18
Trump signs a 'Right to Try' bill. [Link] Missouri Governor Eric Geritens resigns. [Link] A new Supreme Court ruling strengthens the Fourth Amendment. [Link] A Pennsylvania prosecutor pleas guilty of trading sex for lenient sentences. He will not face any jail time. [Link] A Nashville man has been sent back to jail without committing a crime. Matthew Charles served 21 of his 35 year sentence for selling crack and was released early. Two years after he was released from jail, a federal prosecutor argued he should have never been released. An appeals court ordered him back to jail to finish...
If Cops Can’t Kill Mundanes on a Whim, What’s the Point of Having Police?
To the ears of reasonable people, the expression “de-policing” would refer to the process of abolishing police departments – not the exercise of restraint by police officers in the use of lethal force by police officers. The latter would be described as “de-escalation,” an approach that was once taught to, and expected of, officials whose formal designation, after all, is “peace officers.” De-escalation is incompatible with the militarized mindset of police who have undergone “Bulletproof Warrior” and “No More Hesitation” training that indoctrinates them to view the public they supposedly...
Mundane Lives Don’t Matter, So Don’t Try to Exercise Your Rights
In every encounter between a police officer and a citizen, only one life matters to the former – and it isn’t the latter. “Follow the commands of a police officer or risk dying,” snarled Major Travis Yates of the Tulsa Police Department in a recent essay for Law Officer. Requiring police officers to respect the rights of the citizens they detain, or to practice de-escalation when citizens assert their rights, would be tantamount to asking that “police stop being police” – that is, commissioned ministers of violence acting on behalf of the divine State. Whenever a police officer inflicts...
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