Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
KTRKWhat is it with Texas cops and roadside vaginal searches? Last May I described three strikingly similar cases in which Texas troopers fruitlessly looked for marijuana in the private parts of women pulled over for minor traffic offenses. The incidents were outrageous enough to inspire a new law requiring a warrant for such searches, which…
The Jury by John MorganI spent a day last week immersed in Los Angeles County’s immense judicial system downtown after being summoned to jury duty. My experience was not quite as vividly terrible as Matt Welch’s in New York, partly because Los Angeles lets you complete your questionnaire and orientation videos online well in advance,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA researchers warned the Federal Aviation Administration nearly four years ago that air traffic controllers’ schedules lead to chronic fatigue and undermine safety. The FAA has kept the NASA study secret. Voluntary reports from a confidential aviation safety database run by NASA show that controllers are still complaining that they make dangerous…
<![endif] [if gt IE 9]>><![endif][if IE 9]>< ![endif][if IE 8]>< ![endif][if gt IE 8]>><![endif][if lt IE 9]>< ![endif][if lt IE 9]>< ![endif] A man was in a critical condition Monday after exchanging gunfire with police during protests marking the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. p402_premium class is utilized by Google Consumer…
WASHINGTON — A day after being interrupted by Black Lives Matters protesters at a campaign event in Seattle, Washington, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released a detailed platform on combating racial inequality. Sanders’ campaign posted the platform on his website on Sunday, and he addressed the issue of racial justice that evening in front…
Samuel DuBose, Freddie Gray, and Jessica Hernandez are just three of at least 1,091 people killed by police since August 9, 2014, the day of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Fatal Encounters, a nonprofit, has tracked these killings by collecting reports from the media, public, and law enforcement and verifying them through news…
Last night, a security company released surveillance footage purportedly showing some of the final minutes of Christian Taylor, the Angelo State football player shot and killed by police in Arlington, Texas on Friday.http://deadspin.com/angelo-state-f… The new video appears to largely corroborate the police account of the moments preceding Taylor’s death, showing a man wandering around a…
The video “Pantone Pixels,” published in 2011, was an independent art project that used a swath of colors to illustrate a picture of the creator’s parents. Last week, Vimeo took it down. Turns out it was too similar to “Pixels,” a 2015 movie starring Adam Sandler. A reasonable human being might wonder what a tiny…
content The Lineup During an Oct. 9 court hearing, Blazs denied Boyle’s request to toss the photo spreads. The judge also decided, Boyle said, that the state hadn’t violated any discovery rules or laws primarily because he didn’t find the discovery and document delays to be deliberate. But the defense’s ongoing complaints about discovery had…
Related Editor’s note: This post has been updated. A 49-year-old police trainee killed an unarmed teen burglary suspect who drove an SUV into the showroom of an Arlington car dealership early Friday. Officer Brad Miller shot 19-year-old Christian Taylor about 1 a.m. after officers responded to a burglar alarm at Classic Buick GMC near Interstate…