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 ******* 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.