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...
