“The first leak case of the Trump era, the first head on a pike.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/03/reality-winner-nsa-paul-manafort/
“An investigation showed he intentionally ran down and hit a fleeing suspect with his police cruiser.”
“For long stretches of American history, it was commonplace for children to be snatched from their families.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/opinion/children-border.html
“The proposed legislation would offer hate crime protections to police officers, making police officers an even more protected class.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/government-police-are-latest-persecuted-victim-group
“A confidential informant claimed to have bought pot from him for a total of $100. On April 16, 2015, the task force battered Betton’s door open with a ram, then almost immediately opened fire, releasing at least 29 bullets, nine of which hit Betton. An expert hired by Betton’s legal team estimates that over the course of his lifetime, his medical bills will run between $6 million and $17 million.”
Echoes from the past in modern-day Amerika:
“They call it ‘divesting’ from police. The church is part of a tiny but growing movement among liberal houses of worship around the nation making similar vows.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-dont-call-police-church-20180530-story.html
“Sessions’s new ‘zero tolerance’ plan seems distant and theoretical. On the border itself, however, the new policy feels close and horribly real.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/29/zero-tolerance-border-policy-immigration-mass-trials-children/
“The watchlist would seem less perilous if the TSA were not one of the most incompetent agencies on Earth.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bovard-tsa-watchlist-20180528-story.html
“Posada Carriles would later boast that ‘the CIA taught us everything… they taught us explosives, how to kill, bomb, trained us in sabotage.’“
“The ACLU has sued over the practice of separating families at the border, though by the time that gets through the process, there will be much damage done to the children themselves, many if not most of whom came here seeking protection from violence in Central America. There’s also a strong argument that the policy violates international law and norms.”