Category Archives: Cops Behaving Badly

Cops Behaving Badly: What’s up with those bricks, officers?

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Sabina Becker

Sam Seder and Nomiki Konst break down a weird phenomenon: Bricks appearing in the middle of various cities during protests, with no construction sites nearby. The mystery was apparently solved by an anonymous videographer who happened to catch something going … Continue reading →

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What’s happening in BC, and why the trains aren’t moving

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Sabina Becker

First, a little item from CBC: Marc Garneau says “the system is working”, but anyone who’s living alongside a railway where the trains are stalled on the rails (and there are two of those trains out behind my own house … Continue reading →

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Compare and contrast: What a difference two days make!

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Case in point: The Man Who Would Be (but isn’t and never will be) President of Venezuela: October 23: “While president Sebastian Piñera works to maintain and strengthen the economy of Chile, a group financed by [Venezuelan president Nicolás] Maduro … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: Reality check on Aisle 1!

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Sabina Becker

I love how this city council member is all like “Thank you for your service…thank you for your service…thank you for your service…BUT NOT YOU, RACIST COP WHO WRONGFULLY ARRESTED ME!” If that’s not sweet karma, I don’t know what … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: When FUX Snooze fux up

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Sabina Becker

“Oh, here’s Gerard”…who probably wishes he hadn’t raised his hand, because now he’s got to stand up in front of the whole room for the most pathetic show-and-tell time ever. And because the cool kids are gonna make fun of … Continue reading →

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Sandra Bland’s racist arrest, exposed at long last (no thanks to the media)

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Hey! Remember this story? Where a racist cop claimed he “feared for his safety” when he arrested a harmless woman for driving while black? And he got off easy for it? Well, the video from her cellphone has finally come … Continue reading →

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Right-wing thugs run amuck, NYPD looks the other way

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Sabina Becker

…and of course, FUX Snooze — which never met a fascist it couldn’t hug — deliberately misreports it all: Sam Seder provides some helpful context and backgrounder to last weekend’s peebee swarm-attack on random people in New York. And makes … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: The smearing of Botham Jean

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Bad enough that Amber Guyger — a white police officer — shot an unarmed man to death in his own apartment, which was one floor up from hers. Worse that her story keeps changing. But this is surely the lowest, … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: Toronto Police’s Nazi Nürnberg moment

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Pedant alert: Should read “Die Übermenschen”. The definite article in German is not only singular/plural, but also gendered — masculine, feminine or neuter — and also subject to declension. This concludes today’s free German lesson. (Also, these are not actual … Continue reading →

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DC Metro wastes taxpayer dollars to coddle white supremacists

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Ahem. Before we get on with this story, let Sister Rosetta remind you of glory: Ah, that was great. And now, the not-so-great: WASHINGTON — Metro closed down a gate at the Vienna station to the general public on Sunday … Continue reading →