Tag: police violence

Though Pete Buttigieg has made a dramatic rise in the Democratic Presidential primary — hauling in $24.8 million in second quarter fundraising, making an impressive showing in the first TV debate and even beating Trump in a general election poll — he still has a sore spot on his mayoral record that could undermine his candidacy unless he pays serious attention to it: His handling of racialized police violence in his hometown of South Bend, Indiana. We’re not just talking...

On the cusp of commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall Inn riots, which many historians cite as a spark for the modern movement for LGBTQ equality, New York police commissioner James P. O’Neill offered a long overdue apology on behalf of the force. “I think it would be irresponsible to go through World Pride month and not to speak of the events at the Stonewall Inn in June of 1969,” O’Neill said. “I do know what happened...

On November 27, 1978, Dan White walked into San Francisco City Hall with a loaded gun. Moments later, Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, a politician and gay rights activist, had been murdered. White was convicted six months later, not of first degree murder, but of voluntary manslaughter. He received a sentence of seven years and eight months in prison. His lawyers argued that Whites’ mental state had been impaired due to depression and excessive fast food consumption. The trial of...