Links #232 - Paperblog

For every action there’s a reaction. – Javier Ortiz

Here we are mid-month, and still few Christmas links worth repeating despite the fact that decorations have been up since before Thanksgiving. So to counterbalance the first video (in which a cop stupidly admits on record that he’s going to file false charges against a cop’s daughter who was uploading the whole incident to the internet as it transpired), I present more heavy metal Christmas music from Christopher Lee (courtesy of Michael Whiteacre). Nobody contributed more than one link, so I’ve collected the unattributed ones above the first video; those between the videos were provided by Cliterati, Jillian Keenan, Mike Siegel, Eric Barry, Rick Horowitz, Radley Balko, and Clarissa (in that order).

The crime: street art. The penalty: run down by police car.
We’re not at peak hysteria yet, but we’re getting close.
What’s the DSM-V term for this particular psychosis?
“Curses are laws that enforce themselves.”

Sounds legit.
In the footsteps of casinos.
Couldn’t she just get her own?
Another day in the police state.
Another cop, another unarmed man, another murder.
Ferguson orders its cops to increase predatory ticketing.
Woman has an abominably poor grasp of how to do BDSM.

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