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Tag: George Floyd

  • Do black lives matter only when taken by blue lives?

    BLM protests prevented 300 police shootings  but caused up to 6,000 other homicides! Another take on the George Floyd/Derek Chauvin trial: Did you detect any evidence, testimony, or even postulation that suggested racial animus? An epithet uttered? The defendant’s past membership in the Klan, perhaps? No basis for an arrest? The suspect complying fully with…

  • How long will Madison ‘progressives’ resist body cameras?

    After the Chauvin conviction. Former Madison WI mayor Dave Cieslewicz: “George Floyd’s brother, Philonise … talked about bans on choke holds, the curtailing of qualified immunity and requiring that police officers have their body cameras on at all times. Yet … Madison city government has itself tied up in knots with committees studying the issue to death…

  • Derek Chauvin gets the death sentence

    Bad cop, coerced verdicts We cannot say the verdict of guilty on all three counts in the George Floyd trial today is unwarranted. It’s certainly not surprising. But it may be as political as it is judicial.  Every state writes its own criminal statutes. Conviction on second-degree murder feels like a stretch. Officer Derek Chauvin…

  • If Althea Bernstein led a march …

    … did it really happen? Seriously? Althea Bernstein led a march against racism? (Old-timers will remember when they were called “civil rights marches.”) There she is on the front page of our favorite Madison WI morning newspaper. Leading a “unity” march Sunday 04-18-21. With her own bullhorn! Jussie Smollett wasn’t available? (Maybe he went out…

  • Our Question of the Day

    You have the right to remain silent We remember when The Capital Times would do its man on the street questions. Five unwitting citizens proffer their answers off the top of their heads. Each answer was accompanied by their “mug shot,” as we journalists called those face-only photos. Might be a good time to resume…

  • Did George Floyd die of Covid?

    Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin has been convicted! In the news media! They’re competing with each other as to who can wring the most salty tears out of a most preventable tragedy. Mr. George Floyd, please get in the squad car! Has any recent trial (outside the U.S. Senate) been more politically charged than that of police…