Officer Involved Shootings

As the Department of Justice declines to intervene.

The Court joins the game of acting powerless to stop law enforcement from killing children.

Of all the black men who have been killed by American police, Philando Castile's death affected me the most.

* Donald Trump has said that he is willing to testify, under oath, to dispute James Comey’s Senate testimony. The progressive stages of grief go something like this…
Denial: He’ll never do it.
Anger: He SHOULD, lying orange f**k.
Bargaining: ‘Course, he’s crazy enough that he just might do it.
Depression: Like any of these spineless Republicans would prosecute him for the perjury he’d certainly commit anyway.
Acceptance: Donald Trump is going to be president for the rest of my life. [CNN]

* Deutsche Bank is standing by their man, and their man is Donald Trump [Levin Report]

* ACLU is suing Missouri to stop implementation of Voter ID law. [Election Law Blog]

* Uh oh, the police mistakenly left their latest young black shooting victim alive to tell his side of the story. [The Root]

* This week in white people. [CNN]

* Trump’s social media director violated the Hatch Act. If Obama’s social media director did that, it’d lead the news. If Hillary’s social media director did that, there’d be Senate hearings. But it’s Trump’s so… people will treat it like the minor story it is. [Huffington Post]

* White victimization media is very concerned about bad language. Yeah, the same people who elected the most openly foul-mouthed president since recording devices were invented are very concerned that Senator Kristen Gillibrand has been dropping some F-bombs at events. And they seem giddy that Reza Aslan has been dropped from CNN after some Tweets where he called President Trump a “piece of s**t.” I gotta agree with CNN here: insulting fecal matter is unprofessional. Most decent people would rather have a steaming turd representing America than the orange embarrassment we’re currently stuck with, so Aslan seems way out of line. [Breitbart]

Lawyer calls killing black teens 'business as usual' for Chicago police

What we deem reasonable from the police has become absurd.

Clearly, asking white juries to be decent is a waste of time.

South Carolina will drop murder charges.

We apparently no longer hold cops to any kind of "reasonableness" standard: an entirely unreasonable fear will suffice.

The 9th Circuit has held that if the cops provoke a violent confrontation, and then deal with you, violently, they can be held liable.

It's not illegal for cops to kill black people.

What you are looking at is a picture of a black man who is not holding a gun who is about to die.

He withstood tear gas to try to keep people from being arrested.

Don't tell me to be calm. Calm is off the table.

This issue isn't about "sensitivity" training or "political correctness," it's about getting police officers to follow the law.

Eventually, the cops and attorneys in Wisconsin will get their stories straight and come out with a plausible explanation for gunning down an African-American.

The story the cops want you to believe makes them sound worse than I actually believe them to be.