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Because this is America, and we have determined that we will conduct our public business like the Davis Cup in that the winner gets to be the winner for about 11 seconds before the next competition starts people are running for things, and talking about running for things, so constantly that the whole business just turns into white noise that serves no function except giving pundits an excuse to avoid covering those messy…how you say?…
issues. Which is not to say that the activity is not signifying.
Take, for example, the Democratic primary for district attorney in Philadelphia. Incumbent Larry Krasner is a dedicated champion of police reform. This has made him no friends among the local cops. One of the reforms he implemented was firing a prosecutor named Carlos Vega. In addition to suing Krasner’s office, Vega decided to challenge Krasner in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. The local police union, to the surprise of approximately nobody, lined up he
Val Demings for U.S. Senate? Former Senator wants to make it so
U.S. Rep.
Joe Biden, then-Democratic nominee for President, considered for his running mate.
She wasn’t chosen, but she hasn’t been forgotten, either.
That much became clear Wednesday on the “Morning Joe” talk show on MSNBC. Demings, a former Police Chief in Orlando, gave her opinion about the murder conviction of disgraced ex-cop
Derek Chauvin of Minneapolis.
the shouting match she had on the House floor the day before with Republican U.S. Rep.
Jim Jordan, who is from Ohio and consistently embarrasses the state where I grew up.
goes back and gets the taser and appears to drop it there as if to say he was carrying it. this officer you know, he s in big legal troubles. the first attorney is gone now. he s going to have a real hard time. cold-blooded murder on video. plus, mr. scott shot in the back. unlike chief demings, it s a bad day for mr. scott s family and for every american to watch this and a super bad day for law enforcement. if this guy did this in a no shoot training, we would have thrown him out the back door. let me go to chief demings. back to you in a minute, jim. it seems to me, we ve been covering these cases white cop or white individual, a vigilante in one case shooting an african-american guy, younger
he s an msnbc contributor. chief demings, give me the rules on shooting a fleeing felon. what are the rules in police discipline? what are you supposed to do if a guy runs away from you? whatever the reason that caused it? what are your rules? chris, thank you so much for having me. this is an unbelievable case but prior to 1985, police had the authority to stop a fleeing felon by using any force necessary, up to and including death. but after 1985, the court decided that giving law enforcement the ability to use deadly force to stop all felons was constitutionally inappropriate or unreasonable. therefore, wrong. and the laws changed and therefore the policies changed. when i look at that video, i
ground, that legislation gives a license for people to be vigilantes. they are the ones that are drawing up all of these so-called voter i.d. laws. they are the ones that have been drawing up these unfair redistricting plans. these people are a cancer eating at the inners of our society. and it s time for our elected officials to start speaking out about this because the climate that s being created is not a good climate. and that s why you have these rogue police officers feeling they have a license to do what they want to do and there will be no consequences pay it forward. and i think that s the mindset of this police officer. thank you very much. u.s. congressman james clyburn, a lot of respect for you. thank you for coming on tonight. i m joined by chief val demings and jim cavanaugh.