The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating some of its thugs for suspected membership in racist gangs. State encroachment, TN Tennessee has prohibited cities from operating review boards to curb the violence of thug departments.

If cities cannot exert control over thugs, they may still be able to cut the funds to make the thug department smaller, and set up new non-police departments to handle traffic enforcement and dealing with people who are going nuts. That will do a lot of the same good.

I appreciate Wilhoit's law:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

In 1970, Richard Nixon turned white-color workers against antiwar students and civil rights and used them to destroy government support for workers.

Today's Republicans are trying to do it again.

*A [thug]'s first words to a Black driver signal how the car stop will go. A Black driver is more likely to face being searched, handcuffed, or arrested when a police officer's first words are commands rather than a greeting or an explanation.*

The study shows that cruel actions of the thugs are not a response to anything that the black driver does. They flow from prejudice.

The article linked to above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles give important information about racism. That article is one of the exceptions.

*British Museum ends BP sponsorship deal after 27 years.*

I hope this will let it begin presenting the dangers of fossil fuels without pulling its punches.

YouTube has decided to permit posting trumpery about election fraud. Systematic liars are planning to make use of this immediately.