Every single US state fails to comply with global standards for police use of lethal force, according to an Amnesty International USA report that was released late last week. Several states allow the use of lethal force in order to "suppress opposition to arrest," to "suppress a riot or mutiny," and even to prevent an escape from prison. In some states, the report notes, deadly force can be used in cases of less serious crimes, like burglary. Only eight states require a verbal warning before law enforcement can start firing. And nine states have no laws dealing with the issue at all. All of which, Amnesty says, is out step with international standards established by the United Nations. [...] In a recent analysis, Vocativ, an investigative and deep web news outlet, found that fatal police shootings in the United States outnumber all criminal gun homicides in 30 other developed nations:
In a recent analysis, Vocativ, an investigative and deep web news outlet, found that fatal police shootings in the United States outnumber all criminal gun homicides in 30 other developed nations:
In the first quarter of 2015, the average adult under 25 watched 16 percent less television than the same demographic watched a year earlier. For people between 25 and 34, television dropped by 9.2 percent in a year. And that comes after several years of smaller declines in the hours spent watching TV. So television is dying. But it's important to distinguish between "dying" and dead. Young people watch less TV than they did a few years ago, but they still watch a lot of TV. In 2015, the 93 hours per month of television the average 18- to 25-year-old watched is still more than the 23 hours they spent playing console video games, 31 hours spent browsing the web on a PC, and 52 hours using apps or the web on a smartphone.
So television is dying. But it's important to distinguish between "dying" and dead. Young people watch less TV than they did a few years ago, but they still watch a lot of TV. In 2015, the 93 hours per month of television the average 18- to 25-year-old watched is still more than the 23 hours they spent playing console video games, 31 hours spent browsing the web on a PC, and 52 hours using apps or the web on a smartphone.
Black Church in Charlotte, NC Deliberately Set Ablaze, by ericlewis0 Strom Thurmond's Son: I am not proud of this heritage. These practices were inhumane and wrong., by We Shall Overcome Bernie on Republican "Family values", by jamess
Strom Thurmond's Son: I am not proud of this heritage. These practices were inhumane and wrong., by We Shall Overcome
Bernie on Republican "Family values", by jamess
The destruction of General Custer and his command is pronounced a massacre by some of these journals. The term thus used precludes extenuation; for a massacre is a slaughter with undiscriminating violence, without authority or necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations. No one could raise his voice in behalf of Indians who have committed such an act. But what are the facts in this case? General Custer, at the head of three hundred cavalry, rode into an Indian encampment, men, women, and children, and killed all who resisted without hesitation and without remorse. Unfortunately for General Custer and his men, they encountered the bravest and most determined Indians now living in America. They were surrounded and defeated, so that not a man escaped. They experienced the precise fate they intended for the Indians. We admire the gallantry of General Custer and his men; we mourn their loss; but who shall blame the Sioux for defending themselves, their wives and children, when attacked in their own encampment and threatened with destruction? This calamity is simply a chance of war—of a war waged by our Government upon these Indians, nothing more and nothing less.