Category: Racism

Yesterday I published Milwaukee Common Council Statement: MPD Misconduct? which contained the complete joint resolution from the Milwaukee Common Council about an officer involved incident in Milwaukee around the police brutality protests. I didn’t do a head count on the number of alderpersons signing on to the resolution. It was…

Joint statement on video of officer restraining protester with knee. From Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs, Alderman Russell W. Stamper, II, Alderwoman Chantia Lewis, Alderman Khalif J. Rainey, Alderwoman Nikiya Dodd, Alderman Ashanti Hamilton, Alderwoman Marina Dimitrijevic, Alderman Robert J. Bauman, Alderman Cavalier Johnson, Alderman Mark A. Borkowski, Alderman Nik Kovac,…

Additional security personnel has been brought to Washington…some National Guard troops…and some Military Police…and these guys…who are supposedly from the Bureau of Prisons and summoned to Washington by Attorney General William Barr. If I am a protester, how do I know these guys are law enforcement and I should comply…

In the next 24 hours, who will be the biggest target of the President Donald Trump Tweet storm? It looks like Mattis has an early lead tonight.

This is tonight…I don’t see any identifying badges or images on most of these people…so who do we hold responsible?. If these are troops the lack of identifying markings is in defiance of the Geneva Convention (and they look too sloppy to be military). If these are contractors…who are they…

Particularly not now…and this seems like an appropriate article to get out there. Here’s the headline (linked): Black professionals want to see Milwaukee move forward. Here’s how it happens. Here’s all I can see…hope many of you can see more: Well-known black business executives Nicole Robbins, Clifton Phelps and Kevin…

Rob Fisher, Jane Milliken Hague, William Morris, and Savannah Ponder. for taking their name in vain and the Episcopal Church should sue him for criminal trespass. And all of us need to hold him accountable for violating the separation of church and state…this was clearly a photo op and not…

Their video…hopefully it will play for you. As you come out to protest, here’s notes to keep in mind: The right to protest is a fundamental human right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment. If you get stopped, ask if you are free to go. If the…

How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change. [reprinted here in its entirety] As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached…

This is why Colin Kaepernick took a knee. Two knees. One protesting in the grass, one pressing on the back of a man’s neck. Choose. You have to choose which knee you will defend. There are no half choices; there is no room for indifference. There is only the knee…