Nora, I can't find anything about the autopsy report other than he died of gunshot wounds. Do you have a link?

NY Times: [link]

Shot six times, no powder burns.

God. I just can't with this.

Christ almighty. What do they even think they can gain with this? I don't understand! What's the POINT?

The pre-curfew abrupt shift to tear gassing without warning is suspiciously close to the time the autopsy report was released. Changing the narrative.

Y'all know that the cops who shot the unarmed black folks fleeing Katrina levee floods on the Danziger Bridge just had their convictions overturned a few months ago, right?

The point is preserving their power.

OK, I'm going to bed. But will leave you with this local news tidbit: Man shot in head during traffic stop Monday; NOPD never publicly disclosed shooting

Stopping now. Hoping to wake up tomorrow in a decent society. Preparing to be disappointed.

Damn, shit is depressing. And so entrenched and widespread that it just feels so hopeless. Ugh.

Mr. Peabody killed a mouse in the middle of the night last week. He tore the sheetrock to get to it.

That is hardcore, Mr. Peabody! Get it!

Mr. Peabody killed a mouse in the middle of the night last week. He tore the sheetrock to get to it. He lets nothing get between him and the rodent he smells. I've seen him trying to chew through landscape timbers. Now I have your traditional mouse hole, and Mr Peabody has spent every night since watching it.

He hates meeses to pieces!

Still not able to spend much time on computer. As to police, yes systematic, but goes back much further. Policing of non-whites in America has always been an occupying army. Increased militarization simply makes it worse and spreads to more neighborhoods. Not hopeless, just not a matter of tinkering around the edges. Need to fundamentally change what police are. I know there are police who are not bad people individually, but there is not much they can from inside their system. Police as occupying army has been a problem from the beginning. Robert Peel who essentially invented the modern police force has been quoted a great deal by some bloggers to show what is wrong with occupation army policing. But if you look at history, even under Peel, police in certain neighborhoods in London, (for example Whitechapel) did act like an occupying army, even not carrying guns.

And for that matter militarization of the police reflects militarization of just about every nation in the world. It is a global problem. For example, most populated counties in the U.S. have had "anti-terrorism" training from Israel. In essence, they are being trained to treat US citizens the way Israel treats Palestinians in the West Bank. That does not make what is happening here the fault of Israel. That particular training is sought by the US; Israel is not forcing it on anyone or even going out of its way to sell it. But it does show how different kinds of oppression feed on one another. (Incidentally, I've heard a lot of comparisons to Gaza and Ferguson. I may even have retweeted a few. But on reflection, I think the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank is a better comparison.)