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DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 24, 2021

Maryland To Review Cases Handled By Ex-Medical Examiner Who Testified For Chauvin’s Defense.  Including this case:

In 2018, a 19-year-old college student named Anton Black died after interacting with a Greensboro officer responding to a call of a possible kidnapping on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

“Anton Black died because police employed excessive force, laying him out prone on his stomach, lying on top of him for approximately six minutes and approximately five minutes after he was handcuffed, and folding his legs toward the sky in a manner that further compromised his ability to breathe,” asserts a lawsuit the Black family has filed against several public officials in the case including Fowler.

A report signed by Fowler and an assistant medical examiner ruled Black’s death as accidental, saying that it was “likely that the stress of his struggle” with police contributed to his death, as did bipolar disorder and underlying heart issues.

The ruling said “no evidence was found that restraint by law enforcement directly caused or significantly caused or significantly contributed” to Black’s death.

Does that sound familiar?

Deadbeat Donald’s Debts Head To Collection Agencies.  Cities seek reimbursements for expenses from the Trump campaign.  Albuquerque, El Paso, and Minneapolis. Betcha there are others.

Did Marijuana Industry Ply Gaetz With Prostitutes In Exchange For His Support?  Hey, it’s Saturday, why not speculate?

Wall Street Headed For Another ‘Big Short’?  Could be, led by many of the same malefactors as last time.  This time, though:

… the issue is not a bubble in the housing market, but apparent widespread inflation of the value of commercial businesses, on which loans are based.

…this industry-wide scheme is colliding with a collapse of the commercial real estate market amid the pandemic, which has business tenants across the country unable to make their payments.

They’ll never learn.

Columbus (OH) Cops Are Out Of Control.  They use force, over and over, and never get sanctioned.

Remember That Covid Suicide Spike? It never happened:

According to Tyler Black, a suicidologist and the medical director of emergency psychiatry at British Columbia Children’s Hospital, 2020 was, for all its many horrors, likely just an average year when it comes to suicide in both children and adults. “There was no wave from March to August—like, none—and we’re quite certain about that,” he told me. In fact, the preliminary data from the CDC show that deaths by suicide dropped by 5.6 percent in 2020 from the year before, reaching their lowest total since 2015.

This is what happens when we allow the anecdotal to become the empirical.

Portland Cops Killed Homeless Man. My wife and daughter were nearby when it happened.  In Portland, this is a ‘dog bites man’ story.  The Feds need to investigate this police agency.  It’s a rogue force.

In Virginiaand North Carolina.  C’mon, there’s a real problem, and it’s happening everywhere.

Delaware Police Chiefs Propose Laughable ‘Reform’ Agenda.  It’s basically support for the so-called ‘Police Bill Of Rights’, along with some limited support for body cams.  They needn’t worry. They’ve got the so-called Accountability Task Force wired. I’m glad that Sherry Dorsey Walker has introduced HB 185.  There is no point, none, in waiting for any report from that compromised Task Force. Tizzy, take note.

What do you want to talk about?

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