Five Miami Beach thugs chased Daltona Crudup into a hotel (they claim he hit one of them), handcuffed him, then started kicking him and slamming his head into the ground. Then they grabbed a videographer and beat him up too, then charged him with some invented crime. But then some good news: the thugs face criminal charges for these attacks. The charges against videographer have been dropped.

I have a feeling that thug departments are coming to understand that they can no longer tolerate brutal behavior by their employees. That's an important step on the road to changing the brutal behavior.

We must also systematically punish thugs for making bogus accusations. As my button says, "Jail cops for frame-ups."

*Biden to announce new 60-day eviction ban protecting most of US population.*

*U.S. diplomat Sherman backs moves to end 'forever war' authorizations.*

Members of the UK Parliament continually accept gifts which are tantamount to bribes.

Members of Congress in the US are not allowed to accept, and do not accept, gifts of nonzero value. Barnie Frank did accept the zero-dollar bill I gave him, but then he voted for the DMCA anyway.

Bolsonaro claims there was election fraud in recent Brazilian elections and threatens to cancel the next election if Brazil does not switch to paper ballots.

Brazil should switch to paper ballots, because the current system cannot be properly audited. I have not seen any plausible claims that there has been election fraud, but there could be, and it would be well to eliminate that risk. However, I would not trust Bolsonaro to attempt to make elections honest, and his threat would imply an autogolpe.