My tweets

[lsanderson]

• Thu, 12:13: RT @Bipartisanism: Deaths from police shootings: America 458 Germany 8 Britain 0 Japan 0 #BaltimoreRiots #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/J…
• Thu, 12:13: RT @LanguageLog: R.I.P. Jack Ely: Evidence that coherence is overrated — Sam Roberts, "Jack Ely, Who Sang the Kingsmen’s ‘Louie... http://t…
• Thu, 12:18: RT @lucidbrewing: Join us and @midwestbrewing to celebrate Homebrewing on Big Brew Day Saturday May 2nd at noon. #BFD2015 #mncraftbeer htt…
• Thu, 13:02: RT @StephenAtWar: Where were you when Worf shut GamerGate down? http://t.co/cls3gnGH7N
• Thu, 13:03: RT @scottedelman: My first short story collection is FINALLY out in paperback! https://t.co/wrltJjDNci
• Thu, 13:07: RT @tweetsoutloud: Goodbye, @MESSENGER2011. A life well spent via @13pt & @nytimes: http://t.co/vuNKUN4i5d <3 your robots. http://t.co/JBl…
• Thu, 20:00: RT @alex_macdonald: I will fight to support the Oxford comma until I draw my last breath. http://t.co/Y0T6c3F4iI
• Thu, 20:01: RT @TammyforIL: When Members of Congress debate women in combat, I look down at the stumps of my legs & wonder, where do they think I was -…
• Thu, 21:32: RT @TeaPartyCat: On this day in 1975 Saigon fell to the communists, but don’t feel bad, Ronald Reagan got America’s revenge on Vietnam by i…
• Fri, 06:05: Biologists discover the key mechanism that triggers human ageing http://t.co/wLuxzlUUcT #via @ScienceAlert

• Fri, 06:13: http://t.co/WkYxxI3Avs On codpieces
• Fri, 07:05: NYT Critics’ Picks Plus some Avengers Movie http://t.co/Kx5bvqBQAn
• Fri, 07:06: RT @LOLGOP: I'm not a socialist, except when it comes to military, police, libraries, roads, Medicare...But the idea that it's worse than B…
• Fri, 07:23: You & me: Picking Up the Tab for Low Wages http://t.co/w4F5cmGfm3
• Fri, 08:31: Ideology and Integrity http://t.co/J5hhuNmNR2
• Fri, 08:33: Who to Vote For http://t.co/YJJEr9Vdac

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

" Deaths from police shootings: America 458 Germany 8 Britain 0 Japan 0 #BaltimoreRiots #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/J…"

I think that needs to be revised to "police killings" (perhaps a much larger number) -- the Freddy Gray case was (IMHO) clearly some kind of murder, though not actually a shooting -- and, in my opinion, every one of these should be investigated by way of a Public Trial. I suppose that in at least half the cases the police action will be found justified, (and cactually be so) but I seriously think that we really need the transparency of serious & public consideration of _every_ such incident. The alternative, I suspect, would be a really violent Revolution with thousands (or maybe hundreds of thousands) of people dead. What we've been doing for years is Wrong, and if we don't shape up, we'll be shaped-up, violently.
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