Commentary By James Bovard | April 21, 2021 | 5:47pm EDT
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Was the torrent of media editorials and exposes denouncing police violence earlier this year all a sham?
Thirty-six years ago, Bernie Goetz pulled a pistol and shot four youths who were shaking him down on the New York subway. This was front-page news for weeks and spurred a deluge of anti-gun denunciations as well as condemnations of routine subway violence. Goetz was later acquitted by a jury on criminal assault and attempted murder charges.
Last Tuesday, an FBI agent pulled out his gun and repeatedly shot a passenger on the Washington subway. At the bottom of B6 in Saturday’s
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One of the very first men canonized by the high priests of the church of BLM was Michael Brown. Described in media reports as a “gentle giant,” and hailed as a promising young man and valuable member of his community, Brown died while assaulting a police officer and trying to take his gun. George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police is being adjudicated as we speak, died while resisting arrest and high on a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. His rap sheet included the home invasion armed robbery of a woman. Another canonized (though still living) saint, Jacob Blake a man who received ceremonial visits from Joe Biden and other Democratic dignitaries while in the hospital allegedly broke into a woman’s house and raped her in her bedroom before stealing her debit card and vehicle. On the day of the shooting, Blake had returned to the home of his alleged v
From left: Josh Singer, Shaka King, Will Berson and Kenny and Keith Lucas Spotlight writer Josh Singer sits down (virtually) with the Judas and the Black Messiah scribes Shaka King, the Lucas Brothers and Will Berson to examine the life of the late Black Panther leader.
It took 10 years and the fortuitous meeting of four writers to tell the story of how Fred Hampton, the inspiring leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers, was murdered by the FBI with the help of William O Neal, an informant who infiltrated the Illinois chapter of the party.
Kenny and Keith Lucas, twin brothers known for their comedy work as the Lucas Brothers, had been working on a script about Hampton when they brought it up to director Shaka King, who signed on to co-write and direct. Fred is just one of those figures that we never understood why he wasn t more known, says Keith Lucas of the late Black Panther leader. Then, Will Berson, who had his own Fred Hampton scrip
From anti-Asian attacks to subway mayhem, de Blasio to blame for NYC bloodshed (opinion)
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It was the latest in a serious of heinous attacks on Asian people in our city.
But the mayor should look in the mirror when it comes to crime. It’s his policies that have encouraged criminals and have fostered a Wild West environment on city streets and subways.
Speaking to the press last week, de Blasio said he wished that some do-good citizen had intervened to help the woman in that Midtown attack. Or at least had called 911.
Is he kidding?
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