police brutality

On the night of August 1, at a Whitehall, Ohio Walmart, Virginia Dodson could not remember why she was sitting alone in a car. Coming to grips with her enclosed environment, it dawned on her that she did not know how to unbuckle her seat belt either. Panic began to take hold.

Henry Louis GatesA Better Class of Guardian
by Saab Lofton

I got a story
That's harder than the hardcore
Cost of the holocaust
I'm talkin' 'bout the one still goin' on
--Public Enemy, from the rap, Can't Truss It

As I understand it, the royal guards at Buckingham Palace are instructed to withstand any insult -- so long as you don't actually, physically touch those guards, you can call them a bunch of Satan worshiping child molesters who drink rusty buckets of maggot-ridden diarrhea ...

US policeman cleared over beating

A former New Orleans police officer who was filmed beating a 64-year-old man in the street has been acquitted of battery and false imprisonment.

A judge dismissed the charges against Robert Evangelist, saying the victim had resisted arrest.

Robert Davis was beaten by police officers while being arrested in the French Quarter in October 2005.

Mr Evangelist was dismissed from the New Orleans Police Department for his part in the incident.