{"id":391480,"date":"2019-01-03T16:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/of-color-crime-and-punishment\/"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:59:39","slug":"of-color-crime-and-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/of-color-crime-and-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Color, Crime and Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you\u2019re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over? Like, don\u2019t hit their head and they\u2019ve just killed somebody\u2014don\u2019t hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, O.K.?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Donald Trump on police brutality<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to shoot him, you got to shoot to kill. And that requires an overwhelming majority of a bipartisan kind. Otherwise, you&#8217;re just going to nick the guy and make him feel empowered and vindicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u00a0Lawrence Tribe\u00a0on a Trump impeachment<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seventeen investigations in and an undissipated miasma of suspicion continues to envelop Donald J. Trump. And yet, if his defenders are to be believed, the actions which prompted those investigations are neither technically crimes nor even impeachable offenses. Meanwhile, a U.S. district judge has condemned Michael Flynn\u2019s behavior as \u201ctreasonous\u201d and Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison, but their boss remains free to stalk the halls of power unimpeded, as America hurtles from one \u201cconstitutional crisis\u201d to another.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders what fruit, if any, Robert Mueller\u2019s much-vaunted investigation will eventually bear. Like most investigations of the powerful, its conclusions may prove edifying if not sufficiently punitive. If the Snowden case taught us anything, it is that the power elite lie with impunity: the fact a poker-faced James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, could deny under&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/03\/of-color-crime-and-punishment\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you\u2019re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over? Like, don\u2019t hit their head and they\u2019ve just killed somebody\u2014don\u2019t hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, O.K.? \u2013 Donald Trump on police brutality If you&#8217;re going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}