I haven’t written anything about the Trayvon Martin murder, because I have nothing to say that hasn’t been said. TNC’s been powerful on this, and I found James Fallows‘ take exactly on point, and what’s been said here speaks for me as well. If I have any thought it is that if this isn’t our …
It Just Keeps Coming Back To This
I haven’t posted about the Trayvon Martin case because so many others are doing such a good job and I don’t really have anything to add. Plus, it is just so horribly depressing. But these new reports that Martin was talking on the phone with his girlfriend the entire time, telling her he was being …
Someone could do something
I saw mistermix’s post on the DOJ coming into Florida, but I don’t want to let Florida lawmakers and politicians off the hook. “Stand your ground” seems to be some radical new conservative legal interpretation of self-defense. Apparently the lock-step drones in the Florida legislature and governor’s office felt threatened by NRA lobbyists so rather …
DOJ Heads to Florida
The Department of Justice will be investigating the Trayvon Martin shooting, where an unarmed 17 year-old kid was shot by a 28 year-old white or Hispanic guy with a gun. There’s a lot of discussion about Florida’s “Shoot First” or “Stand Your Ground” law in that piece, but this guy pursued and confronted Trayvon. And, …
Screaming in the background, and another shot and then silence
Trayvon Martin was killed in Sanford, Florida last week three weeks ago. He was killed by a Neighborhood Watch member, who followed him for several minutes, and called Sanford 911 to report a person acting suspiciously. That person was a 140lb African American teenager who was in the gated community visiting his father and step …
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Probable Cause
Some good news on the Tamir Rice front: Cleveland Municipal Court judge has found probable cause that police officer Timothy Loehmann should face murder and other charges in the slaying of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Judge Ronald B. Adrine released the opinion Thursday afternoon, days after a group of local clergy and activists filed affidavits asking …
Today in Family Values
Serial asshole and former SC GOP head is exactly the man you thought he was: Todd Kincannon, a Columbia attorney and former executive director of the S.C. Republican Party, has been accused of threatening his wife and refusing to let her out of his car Thursday night, according to a report from the Lexington County …