Category: George Floyd riots
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No peace, no justice
You want the Wild West? Run the sheriff out of town! The word is out on the street: defunding police is a boon to criminal activity. The Chicago Sun-Times is doing some real journalism: 18 murders in 24 hours; Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago While Chicago was roiled by another day…
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Journalism takes a knee
Whatever happened to courageous journalism! Profiles in courage submission We’ll have to wait another day before our favorite morning Madison newspaper ventures to put in a good word for the city’s police officers and policing in general. Even the mayor will not do so publicly. Relevant, one might think, given the local Black Lives Matter…
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Teachers union wants cops out of Madison public schools … if
Virtue signaling? Madison Teachers Inc. issued this statement this afternoon (06-07-2020): We call for the removal of all school resource officers from the four comprehensive high schools with the caveat that this only occurs when all four high schools are properly staffed with counselors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and mental health specialists according to the…
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Madison moves step closer to abolishing police
It’s on the agenda! We see that the boy mayor of Minneapolis has been booed off the stage. Jacob Frey was elected two years ago on promises to fix the police. That was so two years ago. Not Good Enough Any More. Mayor Frey retreated on Saturday [06-06-2020] through a sea of protesters yelling, “Go home,…
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What do we want? Unity! When do we want it? Sunday!
and ‘Real Change’ (whatever that is)! It almost hurts, how wet-puppy-dog, eager to please are our guilty Madison liberals acquaintances. For they are legion. If the average Madisonian picks one hill upon which to die it is to abjure their implicit bias and vow forever more to think nothing but good thoughts. In the Meadowood neighborhood here on…