Bail is everyone's right. And bail for people protesting injustice would seem to be an imperitive in a just society.
There SHOULD have been massive police reform after the Rodney King riots. Instead, the behavior of the cops got worse, not better.
It's not about George Floyd being a model citizen... it was that the thing he was accused of doing (passing a fake $20) did not merit the use of lethal force against him. And the same could be said of most of the other victims of police misconduct. Tamir Rice was playing with a toy on a playground. Laquan McDonald was trying to break into a truck to keep warm. Mike Brown grabbed some cheap cigars and pushed a store clerk.
It's that excessive force was used that would not have been used against a white person in the same circumstances.
President Reagan on Friday signed landmark anti-drug legislation, calling it a "new sword and shield" in the nation's battle against the illegal drug epidemic.
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In these days of uncertainty—days of terrorist threats, foreign-policy challenges, and controversial military action—the death of Ronald Reagan was...
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Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, do some fucking research. Reagan's draconian War on Drugs was more than just sending his wrinkled old lady out to blurt "Just Say No." It involved massive punishments that doubled the prison population.