Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Coates writes: "When the law shoots down 12-year-old children, or beats down old women on traffic islands, or chokes people to death over cigarettes; when the law shoots people over compact discs, traffic stops, drivers' licenses, loud conversation, or car trouble; when much of this is recorded, uploaded, live-streamed, tweeted, and broadcast; and when government seems powerless, or unwilling, to stop any of it, then it ceases, in the eyes of citizens, to be any sort of respectable law at all. It simply becomes 'force.'"
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Coates writes: "When the law shoots down 12-year-old children, or beats down old women on traffic islands, or chokes people to death over cigarettes; when the law shoots people over compact discs, traffic stops, drivers' licenses, loud conversation, or car trouble; when much of this is recorded, uploaded, live-streamed, tweeted, and broadcast; and when government seems powerless, or unwilling, to stop any of it, then it ceases, in the eyes of citizens, to be any sort of respectable law at all. It simply becomes 'force.'"
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Freddie Gray Death: Highest-Ranking Officer Acquitted on All Charges
Baynard Woods, Guardian UK
Woods writes: "The highest-ranking Baltimore officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray was acquitted on Monday, dealing yet another blow to those who hoped the Gray case would be at the forefront of national police reform."
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Baynard Woods, Guardian UK
Woods writes: "The highest-ranking Baltimore officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray was acquitted on Monday, dealing yet another blow to those who hoped the Gray case would be at the forefront of national police reform."
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Two Delegates Propose Banning Corporate Lobbyists From the RNC, Get Crushed
Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
Jilani writes: "Donald Trump has denounced his opponents as being controlled by 'special interests, the lobbyists, and the donors,' but a number of pro-Trump delegates helped crush an effort by two members of the Republican Party's rules committee last week to ban for-profit lobbyists from the Republican National Committee."
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Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
Jilani writes: "Donald Trump has denounced his opponents as being controlled by 'special interests, the lobbyists, and the donors,' but a number of pro-Trump delegates helped crush an effort by two members of the Republican Party's rules committee last week to ban for-profit lobbyists from the Republican National Committee."
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City Bordering Ferguson Will Pay Millions to People It Jailed Because They Were Poor
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Covert writes: "Jennings, Missouri, which borders the city of Ferguson, where Michael Brown was shot by police, has agreed to pay $4.75 million to nearly 2,000 people who were put in jail because they couldn't afford to pay the court fines and fees that they owed."
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Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Covert writes: "Jennings, Missouri, which borders the city of Ferguson, where Michael Brown was shot by police, has agreed to pay $4.75 million to nearly 2,000 people who were put in jail because they couldn't afford to pay the court fines and fees that they owed."
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A Playboy Playmate Found This Normal Woman's Naked Body Gross. So She Posted It Online.
Rachel Premack, The Washington Post
Premack writes: "Dani Mathers, Playboy's 2015 Playmate of the Year, was at L.A. Fitness on Wednesday when the body of a fellow gym-goer offended her. The 29-year-old took to Snapchat to post the woman's body - naked, on her story."
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Rachel Premack, The Washington Post
Premack writes: "Dani Mathers, Playboy's 2015 Playmate of the Year, was at L.A. Fitness on Wednesday when the body of a fellow gym-goer offended her. The 29-year-old took to Snapchat to post the woman's body - naked, on her story."
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Six Richest Countries Host Just 9 Percent of World's Refugees: Oxfam
Middle East Eye
Excerpt: "The world's six wealthiest countries - which together make up more than half the global economy - host fewer than nine percent of the total refugee population, Oxfam has found."
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Middle East Eye
Excerpt: "The world's six wealthiest countries - which together make up more than half the global economy - host fewer than nine percent of the total refugee population, Oxfam has found."
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Tanzania's Maasai Facing Impacts of Climate Change
Emma Hutchinson, Climate Central
Hutchinson writes: "Africa is predicted to endure 50 percent more warming from climate change than the rest of the world, which will make conditions more unpredictable in Tanzania."
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Emma Hutchinson, Climate Central
Hutchinson writes: "Africa is predicted to endure 50 percent more warming from climate change than the rest of the world, which will make conditions more unpredictable in Tanzania."
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