This was recording before the results of the independent autopsy were revealed. Also, at the time I mistakenly thought George Floyd had been accused of forging a check as opposed to passing a $20. The Mindcrime Liberty Show is joined by Keith Preston to discuss the details around […]
Good job, Justin. In the Ottoman Empire, murder was literally legal for someone who held the rank of sultan. “Qualified immunity” serves the same purpose for cops in the US Empire. By David Morgan Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With cities across America in turmoil over the death of […]
The question is: Why are we simply obligated to take this shit? On August 30, 2010, John T. Williams, a Native American woodcarver, was walking across the street carrying his carving knife and a small piece of wood when he was shot four times by Officer Ian Birk […]
This is an interesting discussion at times, although the Jacobin boys show their statism at times.
Of course. It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book.
By Sean Collins Vox The protests that have risen up in many cities in the United States over the past week were sparked by the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by now-fired police officers in Minneapolis. Even though one former officer, Derek Chauvin, has been […]
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells The New Yorker I lived in Baltimore during the Freddie Gray protests in April, 2015. My apartment was in a brownstone next to a small park in a pretty neighborhood called Bolton Hill, which sits on the border between downtown and the West Baltimore neighborhoods […]
Anyone into fringe politics should oppose this. A “right-wing” administration will target the Antifa, and then a “left-wing” administration will target “alt-right/lite” groups, and then the cycle will repeat.
This could set a dangerous precedent.
Even Sean Hannity isn’t going to bat for the pigs who killed George Floyd. Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden’s independent autopsy finds that George Floyd died by homicide caused by asphyxia.
Kim predictably nails. What we are experiencing right now is a class-based insurrection against an authoritarian state. The ruling class media (the new clerisy) is trying to deflect attention from that by fueling political/racial/cultural divisions.
There is some pretty hard-core footage of police brutality in this. Apparently, the cops at a police station in Cincinnatti took down the US flag and put up a “thin blue line” flag. Fourth-generation warfare and tribalism have arrived.
From what I have seen so far, many of the attacks have been directed at localized municipal police targets but where are the attacks on the federal alphabet soup agencies?
Giving cops “qualified immunity” is like giving physicians exemptions from malpractice lawsuits. By C.J. Ciaramella Reason The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on Monday has reignited calls for national reforms to policing, including ending qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that civil liberties groups say has […]
By Troy Southgate People have every right to fight back against the corrupt US system and its brutal mercenaries, but let’s not pretend that police violence is reserved for Black people. At the same time, the Right’s predictable response to Black Lives Matter is to claim that most […]
Serious facepalm. By Chris Riotta The Independent A Seattle police officer was seen kneeling on the necks of suspected looters amid protests against the death of George Floyd, who died after an officer kneeled on his neck in now-viral footage. The police department was responding to reports of […]
Both of these memes make some important points. Anyone, from any socioeconomic or demographic group, can be a victim of the police state. Numerically, there may be more white victims, because whites are the largest group (about 60-70% of the US population). But, per capita, it is blacks, […]
These memes make some very important points in the sense that people of virtually all ethnic and even socioeconomic backgrounds can be victims of police brutality, whose ranks include everyone from mayors, professional athletes, suburban teenagers, upper-middle-class white women, active-duty military personnel and off-duty cops, to the poorest […]
Tonight the Minneapolis Police Department Opened fire on our first aid station with no regard for the wounded people we had inside.
I don’t think they liked that one of their cop shops was burned to the ground. Slate The ongoing protests following the killing of George Floyd were caught up in violence again on Saturday, as police all over the country teargassed protestors, drove vehicles through crowds, opened fire […]
By Patrick Jaicomo and Anya Bidwell USA Today On Monday, May 25, Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. While two officers pinned the handcuffed Floyd on a city street, another fended off would-be intervenors, as a fourth knelt on Floyd’s neck until — and well after — he lost […]
Vince has the perfect comeback to the “he shouldn’t have broken the law” dumbasses. “Why the protesting and rioting? Because until now the police have held a special position in our society as a protected class. They could lie, cheat, steal, break the law and murder civilians and […]
By Brett McCabe The Hard Times MINNEAPOLIS — Rioters protesting the unlawful killing of another unarmed black man at the hands of police officers successfully burned Minneapolis’ Third Precinct police station to the ground, tragically leaving nearly 20,000 more stations standing. “We see this as a step in […]
I guess the drone wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen have been a test market for domestic drone wars. By Jason Koebler, Joseph Cox, and Jordan Pearson Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is flying a Predator drone, military technology used for surveilling and killing terrorists abroad, over Minneapolis […]
I generally agree with this on an abstract level though I have generally found it best to assess police officers and/or claims of police brutality on an individual or situational basis. It’s possible for a cop to become an ex-cop, and for an ex-cop to criticize many cop […]
Krystal Ball blasts Amy Klobuchar for her failure to prosecute two of the officers involved in the killing of George Floyd, who were reviewed for use of force during her tenure as County Attorney.
A German teenager runs afoul of the new blasphemy laws. I consider the tribal civil war between the Red Tribe and Blue Tribe to a low-intensity variation of the traditional Catholic/Protestant conflicts in Europe during the early modern period or the Sunni/Shia conflict in the Middle East today. […]
Former National Co-chair for the Sanders Campaign Nina Turner weighs in on the Minneapolis protests, Central Park ‘Karen’ Amy Cooper, and Biden’s “you ain’t black” comments.
I would generally be inclined to argue that the Neoliberal Party is now the furthest right party on foreign policy, economics, and civil liberties. The Trump Party is further to the right only on social/cultural issues. Krystal and Saagar discuss Nancy Pelosi’s decision to pull a vote scheduled […]
The news coverage in this is pretty good, but the commentary from Krystal and Saager, while no doubt sincere and well-intentioned, is still the usual statist-reformist bullshit. I’m definitely one of those “far-left” people Saager is referring to who “don’t believe in criminal justice.” Although you could be […]
Apparently, the protestors/rioters in Minneapolis smashed up a police precinct building. This is the kind of thing that needs to happen more often. Actions of these kinds represent an application of the anarchist principle of direct action. All bad days from here on out for the MPD.
I’m not someone who thinks that all claimed martyrs to police brutality are actual martyrs. I’ve come across some such cases that seemed to be more a matter of “suicide-by-cop” or where an actual criminal at the very least contributed significantly to their own demise. But there is […]
Regrettably, the “homo-for-a-man-in-uniform” types in the “gun rights” establishment have so far remained silent on this incident, as they usually do in these cases, mostly because they are merely representatives of the gun manufacturers (just another section of the right-wing of the capitalist class), and many of their […]
Now imagine if the police officer was a Hong Kong officer and the man being killed under the police officers knee was a pro-democracy protestor? Now imagine if the police officer was a South African officer and the man being killed under the police officers knee was a […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss the firing of Central Park ‘Karen’ and released video that shows a Minneapolis cop with his knee on the neck of a motionless, moaning, black man who later died.
At least in this case the cops involved were immediately fired rather than having the higher-ups cover for them. It remains to be seen if they will be criminally prosecuted. The first question I always ask about a case like this is “Would a civilian get away with […]
By Libor Jany Minneapolis Star Tribune Four Minneapolis police officers were fired Tuesday after the detention and death of 47-year-old George Floyd — a scene that unfolded in a Facebook video showing a white officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he pleaded with police, “I can’t breathe.” Floyd […]
A description of life under the military dictatorship in Argentina during the 1970s. By Uki Goni New York Review of Books The white supremacists chanting “blood and soil” as they marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 were probably unaware that the leading Nazi ideologue who […]
This interview with Chomsky is generally pretty good. He calls out the use of the pandemic as a pretext for expanding the surveillance state and the role of “big tech” in facilitating it. But there is one glaring contradiction. He criticizes the US inadequate response to the pandemic […]
Keep in mind that China is a permanent member of the US-created UN Security Council, the World Trade Organization (which manages the global capitalist empire), and the G-20, which the Asian Development Bank has characterized as the steering committee of global capitalism. In other words, China is just […]
I always said the “new fascism” would not be under the guise of national or racial chauvinism but would be wrapped in the banner of “progressive” causes like “safety,” “health,” or “equality.” Where have you been, Antifa? I originally introduced the concept of totalitarian humanism in this article […]
Kids die in these places. By Jesse Hyde Rolling Stone In the darkness of early morning, 16-year-old Bruce Staeger lay splayed across his mattress, sleeping soundly for once. Most nights, he would smoke a blunt and crash, but not this one. Lately, his mother had been watching him […]
Breonna Taylor, who was working as an EMT in Kentucky when the coronavirus pandemic started, was reportedly killed after being shot 8 times by police who mistakenly entered her apartment. Her family is filing a lawsuit accusing the officers of wrongful death, excessive force, and gross negligence. Back in March, […]
Notice that the majority of these 37 scumbags are Republicans (plus some corporate Democrats like Mark Warner and Tim Kaine), which shows how seriously they take their rhetoric about “limited government.” And the great man of the people, Bernie Sanders, didn’t even bother to vote on this. By […]
The Republicans once again remind us of why they’re total scumbags, and Bernie Sanders reminds us of why social democrats are useless.
Regrettably, a lot of our “progressives,” “civil libertarians,” and even “anarchists” will probably go along with this because he was such a fascist baddie n’all. By Lizzie Deardon The Independent The leader of far-right organisation Britain First has been convicted of a terror offence. Paul Golding refused to […]
BBC Court orders restricting the movements of suspected terrorists could be renewed indefinitely under new legislation unveiled by the government. The bill would lower the standard of proof to impose the orders, known as TPims, and remove the current two-year limit that applies to them. Suspects would also […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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