[lbo-talk] Police brutality

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 16 13:07:14 PDT 2007


On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> Doug:
>
> I can't imagine anyone objecting to cops shooting a guy who'd killed
> 21 people and would probably have killed some more. Could you
> actually name someone who might?
>
> [WS:] I do not know most people on this list personally, so it is
> hard to
> tell, but judging from the internet vitriol I can think of a few -
> Carrol
> Cox, Louis Proyect (ok, he is an ex member,) Travis Fast, Yoshie
> Furuhashi,
> "Bitch," maybe Dennis Claxton. Or to be more precise, I think
> these people
> would NOT object to it if it were happening in some distant foreign
> land of
> which they have no priors, but they would object to it in this country
> because of their ideological perspective on social relations and
> causes of
> criminal behavior.
>
> Again, this is just my impression based on the tone of their
> posting. I
> have no way of knowing how indicative that is.

Well, they can all speak for themselves. Anyone?

Doug



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