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The Problem With “When They See Us”
The Netflix four-part miniseries When They See Us, a dramatization of the story of the Central Park Five—the black and Hispanic teenagers convicted in the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York and later exonerated by a confession and DNA...
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Scott Greenfield
A deep dive into the Central Park Five case based on facts and context rather than a fiction through identity politics by @CathyYoung63.
Be outraged based on facts rather than fabrication.
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Short Take: The Wrinkly World of Stephen Gillers
The floundering social justice organization known as the ABA, desperate to pretend that its model ethical rule 8.4(g) has been adopted by a state other than Vermont, writes that a second state, Mai…
What Happened At Oberlin
Too often, a young black man will be accused of an offense by the misguided assumption that he’s more prone to crime, more prone to violence, and when this happens, it demands redress. But so…
A Tow Truck Driver Arrested — After Repossessing an NYPD Officer's Car
The driver said an officer took his surveillance cameras.
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Scott Greenfield
Another side benefit to being NYPD: when the repo man comes for your car, just arrest him for auto theft.
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The Beach Boys- In My Room (1964)
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Scott Greenfield
If you find spaces "unsafe" because you aren't allowed to personally dictate the norms everyone else must follow to respect your intersectionality, there is a solution, but you might get lonely.
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Dramatic License: Is Fairstein Fair Game?
There’s a bit of a trick lurking beneath the surface that you might miss if you’re unfamiliar with how such things happen when someone, say Ava DuVernay, produces a Netflix show about a…
Kopf: The Luck Of The Draw
A legion of lawyers, judges and law professors hate the Sentencing Guidelines. I am not one of them. From the beginning, I thought that the Guidelines made sense because they held out the hope that…
These Rape Victims Had to Sue to Get the Police to Investigate
As more women come forward to report sexual assault, some say law enforcement has failed them. ‘There was no collection of evidence,’ one victim said. ‘Except off my body.’
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Scott Greenfield
A waste for such an important issue, untested rape kits, to be squandered by NYT fashionably insipid reporting, including the debunked false rape stats.
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Big Brother remembers your face
As someone known for striking up earnest and meaningful conversations with people we’ve mistaken for someone else, we loved the idea of Facial Recognition Technology. You too can learn to lov…
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Scott Greenfield
How I learned to stop worrying and love facial recognition technology (via Appellate Squawk)
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New York State Senate introduces bill to make texting while walking illegal
A new bill introduced by the State Senate would make it illegal for people to cross streets in the state with your eyes glued to your smartphone.
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Scott Greenfield
NY Senate bill introduced to make "texting while walking" a crime.
Seems to be the sort of offense that already carries its own punishment.
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See Something, Say Something, Get Arrested For It
Grand Rapids claims it has a problem. Grand Rapids could soon have an ordinance that would make it a criminal misdemeanor to racially profile people of color for “participating in their lives.” The…
The raging controversy over Ronald Sullivan, Harvey Weinstein, and Harvard, explained
A college dorm getting a new top administrator managed to touch on practically every hot-button issue in the world.
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Scott Greenfield
Vox 'splainer on Sullivan/Harvard by @mattyglesias demonstrating no grasp of facts, law or issues, but otherwise devoid of reason, principle or intellectual honesty.
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Rep. Shalala Tells Colleges Not To Change
When dreaded Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos withdrew the “Dear Colleague Letter” and its ensuing “guidance,” then issued new regs which were put through the rigors of No…
Weekend Update: Jane, You Ignorant Slut - SNL
On this edition of "Point/Counterpoint," Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin debate Lee Marvin and Michelle Triola's relationship. [Season 04, 1979] Weekend Update S...
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Scott Greenfield
Just heard that twitter suspended am account for using the old Saturday Night Live line, "you ignorant slut," on Brit Hume. You can't be this clueless, @jack.
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Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues To HR For Expressing Political Opinions That Make Them Feel Unsafe
In Today’s Newsletter -Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues To HR For Expressing Political Opinions That Make Them Feel Unsafe (short feature) -Book Giveaway: Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade (short) -My Podcast,...
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Scott Greenfield
"I feel unsafe" is the magic phrase, even though it's utter nonsense and everyone knows it.
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Have Gun, Will Travel To New York
New York has never been a gun-friendly place, which makes it a good venue to take the chance of sucking in Ohio gun seller, Charles Brown, when a gun he sold lawfully ended up being illegally sold …
When Defense Lawyers Become “Those People”
He may only be woke lite, but South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg asked the question (at ~the 9 minute mark) to “what extent do you invite those people, or appear to be conferring honor on them?” By &#…
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Scott Greenfield
When Defense Lawyers Become “Those People” blog.simplejustice.us/2019/05/13/whe… pic.twitter.com/7GQLEPRlkM
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A reporter declined to reveal his source. Then police showed up at his front door with guns.
Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, said police showed up at his house with a sledge hammer and a search warrant on Friday morning.
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Scott Greenfield
“I’m smart enough not to talk to federal agents, ever,” Carmody said. “I just kept saying ‘lawyer, lawyer, lawyer.'”
Smart. Very smart.
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Preening At The Vermont Coffeehouse
Tom Nichols, who has curmudgeon potential should he seek to work a little harder on it, revisits the (thus far) ineffective calls to fire Camille Paglia from Philly’s University of the Arts a…
Title IX Rights and The Innocent John (Update)
Andrew Miltenberg won another big decision against Syracuse University. His client was John Doe. They’re always John Doe, and the accuser is Jane Doe, no relation. There are two things about …