A Few Days of Riots Can Echo for Many Years
America has survived worse in terms of urban unrest. But that's not necessarily reason for optimism.
America has survived worse in terms of urban unrest. But that's not necessarily reason for optimism.
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Gun opponents would leave predatory cops armed and their victims helpless.
The likely unintentional result if the City of Los Angeles implements its plans to reduce the proposed police department budget (now $1.8B) by $100-150M.
Thirty-one years ago, an unidentified man held off Chinese military tanks in Tiananmen Square. Protesters facing down state violence today have big shoes to fill.
The presidential candidate deserves praise for retreating from his tough-on-crime stance. But let's not forget that his policies contributed to mass incarceration and the police misconduct that people are protesting today.
From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
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Police brutality brought Americans into the streets. What would military force do?
The president has said he's willing to deploy active-duty military personnel to cities and states that aren't doing enough to crackdown on street violence.
Princeton political scientist Omar Wasow says violent protests helped Richard Nixon win the presidency in 1968.
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Americans are simultaneously joining marches and hunkering down for a long, hot summer of discontent.
There is still injustice. But there is also progress.
The president promises penalties he has no power to impose, while the company promises moderation it cannot deliver.
A heavy but hands-off militarized police presence squared off with demonstrators in the nation's capital tonight.
Bill de Blasio and Phil Murphy evince little sympathy for nail salon owners or Jewish mourners.
Also for the FCC to police supposed "blatant falsity."
I debated Prof. F.E. Guerra-Pujol. Prominent takings lawyer Robert Thomas moderated.
Millions of people out of a job and stuck at home for months is a recipe for civil unrest.
The right to peacefully protest is sacrosanct: Government curfews and press conferences are not.
"The mere fact a person may suffer embarrassment or damage to his reputation as a result of allegations in a pleading does not justify sealing the court file."
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Technological—not political—solutions will secure true freedom of speech online
It depends, whether as to looting or other threats to property.
"The people of Polk County like guns, they have guns."
Tonight's anti-police protests in the nation's capital saw fewer incidents of fires and vandalism, but also a heavy dose of aggressive police tactics.
The U.S. already has a major problem with overcriminalization.
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"Rioting is a form of tyranny," Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News show. He's wrong.
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The radical left is an occasionally violent nuisance, not an existential threat.
Fortunately, the Michigan Court of Appeals has just reversed that injunction.
Much can and must be done to curb police brutality. The task is difficult, but far from hopeless. But riots and looting are both wrong in themselves, and likely to have counterproductive results.
They still were a lot better-behaved than officers elsewhere.
Mayors are imposing curfews and governors are deploying the National Guard in response to anti-police-abuse protests.
The available evidence suggests that police unions are a major obstacle to holding rogue police officers accountable.
They're using their Second Amendment rights to protect local businesses from riots and looting.
The Supreme Court could announce as early as Monday that it's revisiting qualified immunity, a doctrine that shields rotten cops from civil rights lawsuits.
Several courts have invalidated elements of state shelter-in-place orders. Constitutional law Professor Josh Blackman says that the longer they continue, the less legal they become.
So much for the First Amendment.