Tag: brutality

• Baltimore: Really, Who Didn’t See This Coming?

  I feel bad for Baltimore, just as I felt bad for Ferguson–because of the innocents who get caught up in the mayhem, because of setbacks the violence and thievery of a few selfish punks who inevitably appear to take advantage of the frustration, grief, and despair which always lay behind these incidents. I feel bad…

  JunkChuck

  April 30, 2015

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  abuse, baltimore, black, brutality, cops, freddie gray, misconduct, of color, police, rebellion, riots, violence

• That Was Then, This Is Now.

  With apologies to the band Soft Cell, and the writer S. E. Hinton, who ruined reading for roughly half the middle-school aged children in America with her nausea-inducing drivel, but still doesn’t deserve this. Sometimes I feel I’ve got to run away I’ve got to get away From the pain you drive into the heart…

  JunkChuck

  December 4, 2014

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  brown, brutality, execution, ferguson, militarization, misconduct, mistrust, murder, new your city, police, s.e. hinton, soft cell, that was then this is now

• Ferguson: When The Pot Inevitably Boils Over, We’re All Going to Burn

  http://aattp.org/op-ed-seven-simple-steps-to-end-police-brutality-and-restore-justice-to-america/ Not being privy to the facts, I can’t begin to comment on the specific events in Ferguson, beyond that it fails the “stink test” though not as badly as the do many other police-related acts of violence.  The sad truth is that Ferguson, as painful as it has been to so many, is just…

  JunkChuck

  November 25, 2014

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  abuse, authoritarianism, brutality, ferguson, gun, missouri, police, racism, shot, usa, violence

• Some Late Thoughts on Ferguson, Missouri

  I have been as appalled as anyone by the events in Ferguson, Missouri–from the killing that precipitated it, through the (literally) jack-booted thuggery of the local bureaucracy’s bumbling, violent attempts to suppress the inevitable reactions, the stumbling efforts to hide their conduct from the media, to the equally inept machinations to spin the story into…

  JunkChuck

  August 27, 2014

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  brutality, cops, due process, ferguson, missouri, officers, police, tea party, violence