I am sure there are elements going on: more video evidence, #metoo (i.e. others are speaking up, so I shall too), and greater media reporting of cases because it is now a national thing. Whatever the… (View Post)

I am sure it happens. I am sure part of the reason for the police's rapid escalation is that they are scared. But this approach of immediately drawing guns and shooting at first flimsily defensi… (View Post)

I despair of the US police at the moment. Another report of a black man fatally shot at a traffic stop in Minneapolis suburbs, as Virginia launches a probe into a traffic stop in which a black US Arm… (View Post)

More likely his image of self-worth is tied up with his being seen by others as 'important' - hard to feel important if you're doing nothing. Lobbying is the ultimate ego-stroker - it … (View Post)

A history of mandatory anthrax vaccines in the US military might be part of it. (View Post)