“An East Pittsburgh police officer who killed an unarmed 17-year-old while he tried to run away during a traffic stop was only sworn into duty around 90 minutes before the shooting, according to reports.”
“There’s a category of story we call ‘Them Not Us’—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home.”
“We finally have enough evidence to establish a theory about why so many law enforcement departments rolled over so easily. They recognized that body cameras were valuable assets when prosecutors needed evidence and malfunctioning junk when law enforcers might be shown in a bad light.”
Read more: https://blog.christopherburg.com/2018/07/11/body-cameras-are-for-the-benefit-of-prosecutors-not-you/
“The ‘lesson’ Finley learned here is pretty clear. Power usually wins.”
“The law will now be sent for a full reconsideration and debate inside the parliament, during which activists will try and remove the controversial Article 11 and 13. Article 11 has been referred to by campaigners as instituting a ‘link tax’, by forcing tech companies like Google and Facebook to pay to use snippets of content on their own sites. Article 13 adds rules that make tech companies responsible for ensuring any copyrighted material is not spread over their platforms. Those rules could force technology companies to scan through everything their users post and check it doesn’t include copyrighted material.”
“Unused stamps accounted for more than $70 million in Post Office revenue during the three years Davidson’s image was used. The court awarded Davidson a five percent royalty for those unused stamps.”
“Taxpaying families are paying more for public school employees but getting less public education for their children in return.”
Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/06/22/growing-public-employee-benefits-to-force-school-cuts/
“It turns out that advertising to the world that you believe in racial segregation and obedience to the loudest common denominator turns out not to be good for business.”
Read more: https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/the-true-cost-of-the-stepford-student/
“Calling the police on nonviolent license offenses is the adult equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum on the playground, except the temper tantrum doesn’t have a chance of ending in shots fired.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/schools-have-created-a-generation-of-permit-pattys-and-bbq-beckys/
“It defies all reason that a man could go to prison for three decades for taking a sexy picture of a teenager who was deemed fully capable of consenting to sex. This is a travesty of justice, a violation of consenting adults’ sexual freedoms, an abuse of mandatory minimum sentencing, a blow to states’ rights, and an absurd waste of the FBI’s time.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/05/sexy-pictures-17-child-porn-arrest