{"id":25563,"date":"2016-12-24T07:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25563"},"modified":"2016-12-24T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:22:42","slug":"everyday-erinyes-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/24\/everyday-erinyes-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Erinyes #56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">As I have said, you may assume that I have cut the stories down; that there are more which seem to call for the efforts of the Greek Furies (Erinyes) to come and deal with them, but I can&#39;t feature all of them, even all of them which are underreported.&nbsp; Because it&#39;s going to continue to be true for the foreseeable future.&nbsp; As a reminder, though no one really knows how many there were supposed to be, the three names we have are <span style=\"color: rgb(178, 34, 34);\"><strong>Alecto<\/strong><\/span>, <strong><span style=\"color: rgb(178, 34, 34);\">Megaera<\/span><\/strong>, and <strong><span style=\"color: rgb(178, 34, 34);\">Tisiphone<\/span><\/strong>. These roughly translate as &quot;unceasing,&quot; &quot;grudging,&quot; and &quot;vengeful destruction.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Let&#39;s start with a little update.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/28\/everyday-erinyes-27\/\" target=\"_blank\">Back in May<\/a> I asked the Furies &#8211; all of them &#8211; to track down John R. K. Howard of Texas for an incident in Idaho.&nbsp; Well, the criminal charges have been resolved (no word that I am aware of on the civil suit), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/12\/19\/1612774\/-Looks-like-no-jail-time-for-white-teen-who-sexually-assaulted-black-disabled-student-with-coathanger\" target=\"_blank\">it appears that Mr. Howard will serve no prison time<\/a>.&nbsp; So, whatever counseling he received or is receiving from the Furies appears to be all he is going to get.&nbsp; Barf.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">There are, of course, plenty of new things going on.&nbsp; Just last Saturday, on Fox News, for example, &quot;Judge&quot; Jeanine Pirro blasted Michelle Obama.&nbsp; (BARF BAG AERT)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S9hUAcIPfHE\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">How she managed to get the education she has without learning anything &#8211; well, she is not the only one, and I don&#39;t understand any of them.&nbsp; Just one point, how she can say with a straight face &quot;America rejected you&quot; when (a) there was no one named Obama on the ballot in any state, and (b) Hillary Clinton received almost 3 million more votes than the Cheeto-faced ferret-wearing Not My President is appalling.&nbsp; Of course, it&#39;s Fox, so no one questioned a syllable.&nbsp; <span style=\"color: rgb(178, 34, 34);\"><strong>Megaera<\/strong><\/span>, you want this one?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Then in Little Rock, AR, there was a road rage story with a child getting shot.&nbsp; No, not the eight-year-old that was shot in the foot, this is a different one (I know it&#39;s hard to keep them straight.)&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/wreg.com\/2016\/12\/19\/3-year-old-killed-in-road-rage-shooting-was-out-shopping-with-grandma-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">This was a three year old boy, and he died of it.<\/a><\/span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25569\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/acen-king.png\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/acen-king.png 400w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/acen-king-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/acen-king-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Acen King and his one-year-old brother were in the back seat going shopping with Grandma when she stopped at a stop sign.&nbsp; Behind her, the driver of a 2003 Black Chevrolet Impala honked at her.&nbsp; Instead of gunning the engine for her life, she honked back.&nbsp; That&#39;s when the driver of the Impala got out of the car and opened fire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Grandma (Kim King-Macon, to be precise) did not immediately realize the child was hit, so drove the the shopping center and called police from there.&nbsp; Acen was taken to a hospital, where he died.&nbsp; Incidentally he was the second young child killed in a road rage incident just in Little Rock, just in the last few weeks.&nbsp; (The other one was not the girl who was shot in the foot either &#8211; she is still alive).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The police (who I must admit from the story sound very distressed about this) are still looking for the Impala and its driver.&nbsp; <span style=\"color: rgb(178, 34, 34);\"><strong>Tisiphone<\/strong><\/span>, I&#39;ll bet you can make some progress here.&nbsp; And if and when you do, you might consider, instead of tipping the police directly, instead giving the tip to someone who could really, really use the twenty grand reward which is being offered.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Unfortunately, not every community has police officers who are in the least concerned about children of color.&nbsp; In Fort Worth, Texas, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/12\/22\/1613677\/-TX-cop-investigates-white-man-choking-woman-s-7-year-old-black-son-Cop-tackles-arrests-mom-instead\" target=\"_blank\">this happened <\/a>&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Posted to numerous social media sites late yesterday was this video of a woman and her daughter being arrested by a Fort Worth, Texas police officer. Their crime? Being angry at police officer for not confronting the subject of the complaint: the white male adult who had allegedly choked the woman&rsquo;s seven-year-old son. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">(For an adult to choke a seven-year old is totally illegal, BTW)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Mom tells the officer that the white guy said the kid had &quot;defied him.&quot;&nbsp; (The choking is still illegal.)&nbsp; The guy says that &quot;the kid threw some paper on the ground&mdash;he littered&mdash;and when the man asked the kid to pick the paper up the kid didn&rsquo;t and so he choked him.&quot;&nbsp; Mom also explains that she and her kids have lived in the neighborhood for years, and the guy knows them and where they live, and he should have come and told her.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Then the cop says this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 128);\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;\">Why don&rsquo;t you teach your son not to litter.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Anyone besides me think this sounds a lot like &quot;Why don&#39;t you just dress modestly?&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25570\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/OffrRacist-210x300.png\" width=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/OffrRacist-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/OffrRacist-105x150.png 105w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/OffrRacist.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">At which point Mom stated to raise her voice.&nbsp; There is some escalation, all verbal.&nbsp; Eventually the kid&#39;s older sister steps in fron of Mom (not towards the officer), which he decides is justification to tackle and arrest them both.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">There is virtually no follow up available.&nbsp; The officer has been placed on &quot;restricted duty&quot; (=paid vacation).&nbsp; The department has this video as well as the officer&#39;s body cam, but that have a law there which &quot;limits the information that may be released, including the officer&#39;s body cam footage&quot; in an internal investigation.&nbsp; It would be nice to learn whether the Mom and daughter are still stuck in jail or even hospitalized.&nbsp; But no.&nbsp; That is not available.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Someone in the comments stated that this happens all the time.&nbsp; Someone else responded that it is not <strong>all<\/strong> the time but it is still too much.&nbsp; I submit that, even if this kind of thing does not happen in every single interaction between law enforcement and persons of color, if it happens at least once a day to someone somewhere in the U.S. (and it does), the use of the expression &quot;all the time&quot; is justified.&nbsp; What do you think, <span style=\"color: rgb(178, 34, 34);\"><strong>Alecto<\/strong><\/span>?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">The Furies and I will be back.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\">Cross posted to Care2 at <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/news\/member\/101612212\/4028048\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.care2.com\/news\/member\/101612212\/4028048<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have said, you may assume that I have cut the stories down; that there are more which seem to call for the efforts of the Greek Furies (Erinyes) to come and deal with them, but I can&#39;t feature all of them, even all of them which are underreported.&nbsp; 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