Jose Padua: An Existential Traffic Update for the I-81 Corridor
The Burger King down the block
is open during renovations
and the man who
got shot several times
at his house a few streets away
on Saturday night
survived
September 1, 2022 · Leave a comment
Adam Johnson: 6 Elements of Police Spin — An Object Lesson in Copspeak
. The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder. Officers don’t shoot, they are merely “involved” … Continue reading
February 5, 2018 · Leave a comment
Abby Zimet: Too Many Getting Shooted, Still
Sorry, but the bleak news keeps coming. Friday, another white cop got away with another murder of a black man, the third such travesty in about a month. Ray Tensing’s … Continue reading
June 27, 2017 · Leave a comment
Chris Hedges: Legalized Murder and the Politics of Terror
Police officers carry out random acts of legalized murder against poor people of color not because they are racist, although they may be, or even because they are rogue cops, … Continue reading
July 12, 2016 · 1 Comment
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