By suspending his account recently, Twitter has now punished George Zimmerman more than any arm of our justice system. George Zimmerman, infamous for his 2013 acquittal for the shooting death of unarmed African American minor Trayvon Martin, is no longer welcome on the social media site because he revealed personal information and posted intimate photographs …
Nobody is innocent in the death of Laquan McDonald
In the Chicago shooting death of Laquan McDonald, the behavior of everyone—the police shooter, his fellow officers that night, the police spokesman, the attorney general, the city council, the mayor, and most of the media—now appears to range from incompetence to outright lies and coverup. This is what we mean when we speak of systemic …
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Bill Cosby Desperate To Not Face Lisa Bloom In Janice Dickinson Deposition
Written By: Tommy Lightfoot Garrett Bill Cosby was forced to give a deposition in the Judy Huth case against him, and he had to be deposed by her attorney Gloria Allred, which he fought hard to resist. In a filing made Monday by his attorneys to the California Court of Appeals, Cosby wants the …
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Syrian refugees, George Zimmerman, and the logic of fear
Many bad arguments are being made in the profoundly misguided effort to keep Syrian refugees from coming to the US. We have made this xenophobic mistake before, turning away ships filled with desperate Jews fleeing Hitler and rounding up Japanese-Americans during World War II. Currently, we take only tiny numbers of refugees in general …
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