Author: mtc9393

USA Today wrote: “Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI.”   I thought that could not be correct since it sounded like a lot of killings….

Here’s a quote from the Los Angeles Times editorial about Ferguson Missouri “Even if it turns out that policy and procedure were scrupulously followed in the Ford shooting, it is hard to believe that police cannot refine their encounters with unarmed citizens to avoid the use of deadly force — “ The New York Times…

I watched some of the happenings in Ferguson last night. There were three large groups of people and one small one. The large were the police and the good citizens of Ferguson attempting to keep the peace. The other large group was the media hoping for trouble; the small group was the troublemakers. Around midnight…

125 years ago when electricity was in its infancy two young women, CeCe Cole and Nichola Souter, from prominent Boston families, decided to continue their rebellion against what they considered the stuffiness of the society in which they lived which had cause the suppression of opportunities for women. CeCe’s first shocked her family when she…

We should all be thinking of Ferguson, Missouri, and what has happened and is happening. THE KILLING: It began with a police officer killing a young black man Michael Brown. The circumstances of the killing are disputed. We know the policeman, Darrell Wilson, was a white man on a force that was about 90% white…

Michael Burggren, 53, a 20-year resident of South Boston is said to be handing out a flier that reads: “No to Bulger Library! … No! Bill Bulger used his office to protect a mass murderer.” He is an example of how the people of Boston have been bamboozled. I have no idea who Burggren is or…