Baltimore: Nonviolence as Compliance, Ta-Nehisi Coates

[ellenrr]

The case against the Baltimore police, and the society that superintends them, is easily made:

Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil rights violations. Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson ....

And in almost every case, prosecutors or judges dismissed the charges against the victims—if charges were filed at all. In an incident that drew headlines recently, charges against a South Baltimore man were dropped after a video showed an officer repeatedly punching him—a beating that led the police commissioner to say he was “shocked.”


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/

[gollygee]

2. I'll kick this

"Name Removed" shouldn't have the only reply here.

[ellenrr]

3. thanks! what does "auto-removed" mean anyway?

[caraher]

4. It means the person got kicked off the site rather unceremoniously

Some folks get banned after a decent number of posts. People who do drive-by posts of something offensive, spammy or obviously antithetical to the values of the site are more emphatically erased

[ellenrr]

6. so it's not "auto", it is by a person?

[caraher]

7. I think a person or persons judges that the poster needs to be gone

but once they make that call, they'll sometimes automatically remove all their posts (rather than just selectively hiding some).

[gollygee]

5. If someone with a small number of posts gets banned

the stuff they posted is automatically removed.

[bemildred]

8. Totally. nt

[marym625]

9. K&R

[A Little Weird]

10. Good read

I noticed on the news last night that anytime anyone began to express any similar sentiments the newscaster would interrupt or talk over them. And this was on AlJazeera, I would hate to think what the other media outlets are saying. When the narrative is being so controlled, it's no wonder that nothing changes.