Media attention devoted to the latest mass shooting in front of the Empire State building is telling when contrasted with the nonexistent coverage of gun violence ravaging America’s inner cities. The following are some of the latest examples of shootings regularly overlooked by the media and politicians alike. Last night, 19 people were shot in […]
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Updated below. While I’m all for the well-deserved shaming of Republican Missouri Senate Candidate Todd Akin for his #LegitimateRape comments, I’m disturbed by the lack of coverage and outrage at the offensive remarks of another Republican official. Last week, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted restricted early voting in all 88 Ohio counties to […]
Two weeks ago, the shooting rampage at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado dominated headlines, ‘round the clock news coverage and the twitter-verse for a week straight. Politicians fell all over themselves in a competition over who could pray the hardest for the victims and their families. President Obama traveled to Aurora to speak with […]
UPDATE: The Associated Press reports, “Marvin Wilson, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m., 14 minutes after his lethal injection began at the state prison in Huntsville.” What does this mean for Atkins? I suppose time will tell… The US Supreme Court has determined that Texas can move forward with this evening’s scheduled execution of […]
Yesterday, July 31, Oakland police drew their guns on two black teenage boys, forced them to the ground, and detained them for twenty minutes before releasing them. Bystanders involved with Occupy Oakland, who happened to be hanging out at a nearby café, captured the incident on video, which you can watch at the bottom of […]
Last night, I was on Thom Hartman discussing police brutality in Anaheim, California over the weekend. I tried to point out that these types of militarized police actions are largely limited to communities of color and political demonstrations (i.e. Occupy Wall Street, Chicago #NoNATO protests, upcoming RNC and DNC conventions). [youtube=http://youtu.be/29s2KIs-Qn0&w=640&h=385] The racialized aspect of […]
Anaheim police shot and killed another man yesterday, marking the weekend’s second police shooting in just two days. Family and friends have identified the man as Joel Acevedo. Details surrounding the Acevedo’s are still murky to say the least, but here is the police version of what took place, from CBS News: That shooting climaxed […]
Residents in Anaheim, California who witnessed a police shooting that left a man dead Saturday afternoon were brutally retaliated against following an angry confrontation with the officers involved. The Orange County Register reports that the man, identified by family as Manuel Diaz, 24, ran when he and two others were approached by three Anaheim police […]
Over the last couple weeks, North Carolina’s GOP has successfully passed a bill that essentially repeals the state’s landmark Racial Justice Act (RJA). Orginally passed in 2009, the RJA allows death row inmates to present evidence, most importantly statistical patterns, that prove racial bias played a major role in their trial and sentencing. Nearly all of […]
Over the last 23 years more than 2,000 wrongfully convicted individuals in the United States have been exonerated, according to a new study by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of law. The schools also launched the National Registry of Exonerations, an incredible website where a […]
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