Posted by
Bill Crawford on Sunday, July 11, 2010 9:12:44 PM
They're suing one of their own states, for a law that hasn't taken effect yet. The complaints of potential racial profiling, at the center of their concerns publicly, aren't in the suit, just added as an observational rider on the end of it.
They want to jump all over a cop in California, convicted by a jury for mere involuntary manslaughter.
But if you get filmed standing in front of a polling booth on Election Day, waving a nightstick at people, that's nothing for us to worry about.
I don't have anything to add to that. I'm still trying to digest the notion that one set of standards could create those three scenarios.