Gilead
Abortion, reproductive freedom and health
Fig. 1. Sign at demonstration in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, May 3, 2022. Janni Rye, via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Erin Marquis, “California Cops Are Sending License Plate Data To Anti-Abortion States,” Jalopnik, July 7, 2023, https://jalopnik.com/california-sends-license-plate-data-anti-abortion-state-1850614610
Natalie Schachar, “Idaho Disbands Maternal Mortality Review Committee Amid National Surge in Deaths,” Truthout, July 8, 2023, https://truthout.org/articles/idaho-disbands-maternal-mortality-review-committee-amid-national-surge-in-deaths/
Andrew Silow Carroll, “A legal scholar sizes up the religious argument against abortion bans,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 9, 2023, https://www.jta.org/2023/07/09/ideas/a-legal-scholar-sizes-up-the-religious-argument-against-abortion-bans
Right-wing militias
Police White supremacist gangs
Fig. 1. Photograph by Lorie Shaull, April 1, 2021, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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We see it with ‘testilying,’ lying under oath.[1] We saw again it when an ordinance forbade Pittsburgh white supremacist gangsters from traffic stops for “secondary” violations,[2] that the gangsters just decided to ignore.[3] Now we’re seeing it yet again with California white supremacist gangsters sharing license plate information with other states—in express violation of state law.[4] Gangsters follow the law they choose to follow. And not any others, like in Texas:
“The sheriff and his inner circle do whatever they want, regardless of law, with no consequence,” said Michael Voytko, who spent nearly five years as a San Jacinto County deputy before leaving in 2020 for another law enforcement job. “There was no accountability there for any of the deputies.”[5]
The major mistake with the latter is a presumption that unaccountable so-called “law enforcement” is only a rural problem.[6] It’s obviously not.
Erin Marquis, “California Cops Are Sending License Plate Data To Anti-Abortion States,” Jalopnik, July 7, 2023, https://jalopnik.com/california-sends-license-plate-data-anti-abortion-state-1850614610
Jake Bleiberg, “Deputies accused a Texas sheriff of corruption and dysfunction. Then came the mass shooting,” Associated Press, July 9, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/texas-neighbors-shooting-sheriff-3fc5e6d5c0dc004b67d3e94a76812732
- [1]Mark Joseph Stern, “The Police Lie. All the Time. Can Anything Stop Them?” Slate, August 4, 2020, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/police-testilying.html↩
- [2]Julia Felton, “Pittsburgh bans traffic stops for minor violations,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, December 28, 2021, https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-bans-traffic-stops-for-minor-violations/; Julia Felton, “Pittsburgh activists, officials hope legislation will end ‘systemic racism’ in traffic stops,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 16, 2022, https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-activists-officials-hope-legislation-will-end-systemic-racism-in-traffic-stops/↩
- [3]Kiley Koscinski, “Pittsburgh Police resume secondary traffic stops despite city ordinance against them,” WESA, January 12, 2023, https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2023-01-12/pittsburgh-police-resume-secondary-traffic-stops-despite-city-ordinance-against-them↩
- [4]Erin Marquis, “California Cops Are Sending License Plate Data To Anti-Abortion States,” Jalopnik, July 7, 2023, https://jalopnik.com/california-sends-license-plate-data-anti-abortion-state-1850614610; Andrew Sheeler, “California cops illegally share data with anti-abortion states, civil rights groups say,” Sacramento Bee, May 26, 2023, https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article275795726.html↩
- [5]Jake Bleiberg, “Deputies accused a Texas sheriff of corruption and dysfunction. Then came the mass shooting,” Associated Press, July 9, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/texas-neighbors-shooting-sheriff-3fc5e6d5c0dc004b67d3e94a76812732↩
- [6]Jake Bleiberg, “Deputies accused a Texas sheriff of corruption and dysfunction. Then came the mass shooting,” Associated Press, July 9, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/texas-neighbors-shooting-sheriff-3fc5e6d5c0dc004b67d3e94a76812732↩