Cops And Guns, Rights And Frights

One miscellany and another...

Cops do stops (some permanent); Islamophobia:

• Shaun King at Kos: The shocking truth about the two Chicago Police officers posing in this horrendous photo
• Jen Hayden at Kos: Woman calls police seeking help for boyfriend who threatened suicide, police arrive and shoot him
• Shaun King at Kos: Police wanted to charge 12-year-old Tamir Rice with 'aggravated menacing' and 'inducing panic'
• Scout Finch at Kos: Minnesota woman pulls gun on Muslim couple who were picking their son up from a friend's house

Civil liberties or their absence; PATRIOT Act sunset:

• NYT Editorial Board: Let Patriot Act Provisions Expire
• Seattle Times editorial board: Congress should sunset part of Patriot Act to prevent domestic spying
• Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, writing at Forbes: A Sunset Is A Beautiful Thing
• emptywheel (Marcy Wheeler): DOJ IG Issues Yet Another Classified Report that Should Be Public Before Congress Votes on PATRIOT Act
• Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept: On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer

Fans of the PATRIOT Act are applying enough pressure to burst a bicycle tire; I wish I could say with certainty that the Act, or at least its most egregiously anticonstitutional provisions like Section 215, would expire tomorrow, but certainty won't join me in saying that...