This one is very interesting. Massively more complex than the moron “pundits” are yakking about on TV. It’s not what it appears, trust me. They are painting with black and white paint, racist cops attacking innocent black man for no good reason. Seriously? My...
Police Brutality
Killer Robo-Cops? Or life-saving Tech? You decide.
You would think that someone like me, a defender of underdogs and the falsely accused (not to mention the United States Constitution), would be appalled by the proposed use of robots, capable of inflicting great bodily harm or death, by the San Francisco Police...
Ignorance of the Law is… Chaos
My point in writing these ditties, in addition to shameless self-promotion, is to try to demonstrate how various issues in the news would play out in the world of lawyers. I try to give equal time to cops shooting fleeing felons and the Nunes memo. The cop piece was...
“Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?”
That has to be one of the World’s most Ironic Quotes Ever. It came from Rodney King, who was in the middle of two of the most notorious violent episodes in the 90’s. First, his own videotaped beating at the hands of some of LAPD’s finest. Second, the riots caused when...
Cops Gone Wild! …Again!!
I’ve had it. For some reason that video, the one with idiot cops screaming about blowing a hole in the poor guy’s head, got to me. No, the victim wasn’t black. And no, he was not actually shot and killed. But maybe that’s the issue. There was nothing else going on...
ISIS THWARTED BY POLICE! …or Maybe Not.
Although it is never a happy event when someone is gunned down, at first I was almost pleased when I heard the news about the Boston Police ‘taking out’ what appeared to be a dangerous terrorist about to commit some heinous violent crime. But then I did some research....
Jury or Judge: Can You Kill a Corpse?
When I first heard the news that there was a verdict in Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo’s shooting case I was pleased. I thought it would give me a great opportunity to demonstrate what I had been talking about in prior posts regarding these types of cases: Let...
BALTIMORE IS BURNING
I’ve been watching the events in Baltimore over the past two weeks with fascination. And Horror. It’s like watching a Shakespearean drama unfold, only it’s real. When I first heard the news about Freddie Gray dying in police custody I groaned out loud for several...
Tampering with Evidence Makes You Guilty…
Tampering with Evidence Makes You Guilty… of Tampering with Evidence, not Murder. This is, for now, the final installment of the sad saga of Officer Slager’s shooting of poor Mr. Walter Scott. People are talking about how Slager must be guilty because he apparently...
COPS GONE WILD
It’s a giant flood of bad cops, raining down from the internet skies. A veritable avalanche of bad behavior, much of it caught on tape. Bad cops on tape. By bad I don’t necessarily mean dishonest. Just bad. Take the case of the Tulsa, Oklahoma reserve deputy, Robert...