Breathing While Black

Breathing While Black

The radical conservative majority of the Supreme Court delivered yet another bizarre opinion the other week. It ruled that police and jail officials can strip search anyone arrested for anything, no matter how minor the violation or how upstanding the suspect. In...
Hate Groups Spread Lies and Kill Cops

Hate Groups Spread Lies and Kill Cops

Last November, the FBI accused four members of a Georgia militia of conspiring to attack cities with the deadly ricin toxin, blow up federal buildings, and murder federal law enforcement officials and IRS agents. In July, the leader of the neo-secessionist League of...
Police Can’t Raid Our Dreams

Police Can’t Raid Our Dreams

This past weekend, I stood in the rain at Occupy DC as police in riot gear trampled through the camp at McPherson Square. I ran as they charged the crowd with police horses. I watched as they grabbed clothing, books, tents, shoes, and other personal property, and...
The UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident

The UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident

The video sophomore Thomas Fowler shot of a campus cop attacking a group of about 20 University of California, Davis students with pepper spray at close range during a peaceful protest has gone viral. Although this outrageous incident has garnered widespread media...