Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I was immediately triggered. Germany. I was back in the park. A few weeks ago. It was the final day of shooting and I was glad because I’m not a model and only agreed to help out a friend, and while I was grateful to wear cool vintage clothes and feel “pretty”, after three long…
On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with. That’s a theory from…
Justice Police Said They Shot A Man Because He Pointed A Gun At Them. Video Shows He Had His Hands Up. by Aviva Shen Jul 10, 2016 10:33 am CREDIT: Facebook, Alva Braziel Another black man was shot and killed by police in Texas early Saturday morning. Houston Police said Alva Braziel was waving…
Protests past and present Tess Apslund, 42, stands with a raised fist in front of uniformed neo-Nazis during a Nordic Resistance Movement demonstration in Borlange, Sweden, on Sunday, May 1. Click through the gallery to see memorable images from other protests throughout history. Protests past and present On March 12, 1930, Indian nationalist leader Mahatma…
While thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of major U.S. cities again Saturday night — protesting the recent killings by police of black men Philando Castile in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — a demonstration in St. Paul took a particularly violent turn, with participants hurling Molotov cocktails, fireworks,…
New video footage of a police shooting of an unarmed California teenager shows the final moments of the deadly encounter and, according to the family of the 19-year-old, offers further evidence that this was a case of excessive force and “murder”. The witness video of the 25 June shooting of Dylan Noble by a gas…
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson may be the highest-profile woman to accuse Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, but she is not the first. In my 2014 biography of the Fox News chief, I included interviews with four women who told me Ailes had used his position of power to make either unwanted sexual advances or…
(Mark Mellone) New video has surfaced showing the moment an off-duty police officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man in an apparent road rage incident in Brooklyn this week. Officer Wayne Isaacs, a three-year veteran of the force, fired two shots at Delrawn Small in East New York early Monday morning. Small, who was…
Charles M. Blow This was yet another week that tore at the very fiber of our nation. After two videos emerged showing the gruesome killings of two black men by police officers, one in Baton Rouge, La., and the other in Falcon Heights, Minn., a black man shot and killed five officers in a cowardly…
cxenseparse_start PROTESTORS MARCH IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX AFTER POLICE SHOOTINGSPolice Chief and Jarrett Maupin argue over protestor’s path | 0:32 Police Chief Joseph Yahner and protest organizer Jarrett Maupin argue over the safety and routes of a protest in downtown Phoenix Friday night. 1 of 5 PROTESTORS MARCH IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX AFTER POLICE SHOOTINGSPolice shoot pepper…