Entries Tagged as 'Police misbehavior'

The cop was wrong

July 29th, 2009 · No Comments

And this on Fox News, even.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYo6dR0tf_I

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Tags: Gates incident · Police misbehavior

Rights not race

July 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Colleague asks, “Why  is everyone covering the Gates thing from the racial angle? Why aren’t they covering it from the rights angle?” Which, coincidentally, we will get into in the vid later today/tomorrow…
But I’m amused here, by Limbaugh - we don’t know what went on inside the Gates house, he keeps saying. Right. We don’t. But whatever […]

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What if Gates had a gun?

July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Good call from the Rude Pundit:
Instead, think like a gun-owning white guy who thinks that the government is trying to take away his guns and that a revolution is coming  … That ain’t a fantasy person. It’s the godd*mned audience for much of the right-wing rhetoric these days. Now, think, if Gates had been armed, […]

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Tags: Police misbehavior · Racism · crime

Respect my authoriteh

July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Ah, I see Drudge is milking the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates for all it’s worth - black and white! How dare anyone suggest white cops sometimes unfairly target blacks!
OUTRAGE!!!
You know what, it does indeed seem as if Gates if milking this. But Gates is standing in his own home when the cop […]

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Tags: Drudge · Police misbehavior · Race

Then and now

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Then:

Now:

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