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History has created a culture of distrust between communities and cops. The response to the shooting revives the sentiments of almost 40 years ago, when the Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland to defend against police brutality. Many minorities—especially black males—are raised to be completely submissive to police officers, not out of respect for authority, but for fear of their lives. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates notes: “If you wonder why blacks seem particularly susceptible to ‘rumors’ and ‘conspiracy theories...
...animosities, partialities, influence and interest." Through years of tough-guy politics and bullying the legislature, Blagojevich had managed to stack all those factors against himself. And any whisper of sympathy he might have been able to squeeze from the senators a week ago, he strangled by first refusing to defend himself in Springfield, then swanning off to Manhattan to complain under the klieg lights about the unfairness...
...with the spotlight on, Schapiro is in the prickly position of having to defend her enforcement record. At her hearing, the soft-spoken Schapiro bristled at media reports that she "infrequently" pursued tough action against big Wall Street names, saying the stories painted an "unfair picture." While chief at FINRA, she countered, her team handled 15,000 enforcement cases, including big names like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Merrill-Lynch and Lehman. "I have never been afraid to go after people I thought who have violated the public trust...
...shake the lap dog reputation reporters covering Obama during the campaign had acquired. He fended off repeated questions about the second swearing-in of the President, which had only been open to a few journalists and no photographers or video or audio equipment. And he did his best to defend the new Administration against charges of violating its own tough new ethics guidelines by appointing two former lobbyists as high-ranking agency deputies, one at the Pentagon and another at Health and Human Services...
...other countries. Such legal options, Israel fears, may be used to bring politically motivated charges against its citizens. The daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday that Israel's Foreign and Justice ministries have begun drawing up lists of law firms in different European countries that could be enlisted to defend Israelis in any future cases...