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The comparisons between the killing of Genivaldo de Jesus Santos this week and the killing of George Floyd two years ago this week are as uncanny as they are unavoidable. Here is how Sky News reported it on Friday: _________ Videos showing a Brazilian man dying while trapped in the boot of a police car… Read more.
Episode 30: On Race Matters, America Could Breathe, For a Minute… Related commentaries: George Floyd… Black Lives Matter… Listen.
America can breathe. But that first exhale of relief today was like collectively channeling the breath of life Officer Derek Chauvin denied George Floyd on May 25, 2020 – a day that will live in policing infamy. But I hasten to note that it wasn’t just Blacks who exhaled. Because many white Americans felt the… Read more.
Episode 29: There’s Police Brutality but also Resisting Arrest Listen.
Have you been keeping track of the prosecutors in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis cop who kneed George Floyd to death so infamously? You’d be forgiven the impression that they’re trying to emulate the “Dream Team” who defended O.J. Simpson … so infamously. I will stipulate that each prosecutor is performing well… Read more.
Capitalizing the B when referring to Black people might not seem like a big deal. However, when editors at The New York Times, USA Today, and the Columbia Journalism Review all make a big deal of their change in style, it’s certainly worthy of comment. Here is how the Times announced and rationalized its (belated)… Read more.
“Defund the Police!” has become the battle cry of George Floyd anti-racism protesters. Listening to them chant it, however, you’d be forgiven for recoiling in consternation and despair, bordering on fear. Never mind that they often come across like a mob of stonemasons, each with only one hand, hell-bent on building another Tower of Babel… Read more.
Simply put, these are the inevitable days of reckoning for the “Original Sin” that dares now speak its name … Related commentaries: anti-racism protests… Read more.
Images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of African-American George Floyd, who then died, have sparked protests from Amsterdam to Nairobi, but they also expose deeper grievances among demonstrators over strained race relations in their own countries. [For example,] peaceful protesters highlighted allegations of abuse of black prisoners by their jailers, social… Read more.
After another night of peaceful protests outside Lafayette Square, workers were seen putting up new fencing barriers around the White House complex Thursday morning, adding to the 8-foot fence that was erected around the entrance to Lafayette Square earlier this week. Reporters arriving at the White House as early as 5:30 a.m. ET Thursday described… Read more.
