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Today in History
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Baton Rouge's grief is why it's so
Unsurprisingly, as the all-too-famil-
iar scene unfolded Sunday morning,
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Dallas Police Chief David Brown:
"Our thoughts and prayers are with
Baton Rouge police."
Today in History
Today is Tuesday, July 19, the 201st
day of 2016. There are 165 days left in
the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On July 19, 1941, Britain launched
its "V for Victory" campaign during
World War II with Prime Minister
Winston Churchill calling the V-sign
hand gesture "the symbol of the uncon-
querable will of the people of the occu-
pied territories and a portent of the fate
awaiting the Nazi tyranny."
On this date:
In 1553, King Henry VIII's daugh-
Somoza fled the country.
In 1980, the Moscow Summer
Olympics began, minus dozens of
nations that were boycotting the games
because of the Soviet military interven-
tion in Afghanistan.
In 1986, Caroline Kennedy, daugh-
ter of President John F. Kennedy, mar-
ried Edwin A. Schlossberg in
Centerville, Massachusetts.
In 1989, 111 people were killed
when United Air Lines Flight 232, a
DC-10 which suffered the uncontained
failure of its tail engine and the loss of
hydraulic systems, crashed while mak-
ing an emergency landing at Sioux
City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
In 1990, President George H.W
Bush joined former presidents Ronald
Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard
M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the
Nixon Library and Birthplace (since re-
designated the Richard Nixon
Presidential Library and Museum) in
Yorba Linda, California.
In 1996, opening ceremonies were
held in Atlanta for the 26th Summer
Olympic Games.
Ten years ago: President George W.
Bush issued his first presidential veto,
rejecting a bill that could have multi-
plied federal money for embryonic
stem cell research; a few hours later,
the House voted 235-193 to overturn
Bush's veto, 51 short of the required
two-thirds majority. Actor Jack Warden
died in New York at age 85.
Five years ago: Summoned by
British lawmakers to answer for a
phone hacking and bribery scandal at
one of his tabloids, media mogul
Rupert Murdoch told a parliamentary
committee hearing he was humbled
and ashamed, but accepted no respon-
sibility for wrongdoing.
One year ago: Saying they felt a
"deep sense of ethical responsibility for
a past tragedy," executives from
Japan's Mitsubishi Materials Corp,
offered an unprecedented apology to a
94-year-old former U.S. prisoner of
war for using American POWs as
forced labor during World War II;
James Murphy of Santa Maria,
California, accepted the apology dur-
ing a solemn ceremony hosted by the
Museum of Tolerance at the Simon
Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Helen
Gallagher is 90. Country singer Sue
Thompson is 90. Singer Vikki Carr is
76. Blues singer-musician Little
Freddie King is 76. Country singer-
musician Commander Cody is 72.
Actor George Dzundza is 71. Rock
singer-musician Alan Gorrie (Average
White Band) is 70. International Tennis
Hall of Famer Hie Nastase is 70. Rock
musician Brian May is 69. Rock musi-
cian Bernie Leadon is 69. Actress
Beverly Archer is 68. Movie director
Abel Ferrara is 65. Actor Peter Barton
is 60. Rock musician Kevin Haskins
(Love and Rockets; Bauhaus) is 56.
Movie director Atom Egoyan is 56.
Actor Campbell Scott is 55.
TJo.
hearts are with you
About 400 miles separates Dallas
from Baton Rouge. Today violence and
grief bind us.
Anti-police sentiments appear to
have led gunmen to confront law
enforcement in the two cities for one
purpose: to inflict as much horror as important that we let its residents and
possible. its leaders know that our city stands in
Less than two weeks after assailant solidarity with our neighbor to the east.
Micah Johnson killed five officers in In the same way that other cities
downtown Dallas, Gavin Long gunned reached out and said the same to us.
down three officers Sunday near Baton May Baton Rouge feel that same
Rouge police headquarters and left at deep sense of support, underpinned by
least one more clinging to life. compassion and understanding, and be
The two cases, while confusing and able to lean on grace in the days ahead,
complex, include eerie similarities:
Both killers were African-American
men with military backgrounds. Details among the early tweets was one from
have emerged about their mental sta-
bility. And both seemed fixated on tar-
geting police officers.
We are still in painful mourning for
can recall. Dallas, early reports suggest Long was-
We are tired. It's difficult to find n't part of the local community.
This most recent heinous attack
reminds all of us that we must raise our
voices to bring the country together.
Just as we stand with Baton Rouge,
we are reminded of the need to stand
with the vast number of law enforce-
ment officers who do incredibly diffi-
cult jobs the right way.
Consider this excerpt from a recent
Facebook post by black Baton Rouge
police Officer Montrell Jackson after
the July 5 shooting:
"The city must and will get better.
I'm working in these streets so any pro-
testers, officers, friends, family or who-
ever, if you see me and need a hug or
want to say a prayer. I got you."
Jackson, 32, was one of the officers
The landscape has been brittle and w^° died Sunday.
Dallas' fallen heroes. Questions of angry in Louisiana's capital since Baton Rouge, we feel your pain and
police fatally shot an African-American we send our thoughts and prayers of
weigh on us. We've been grim witness man there July 5, sparking protests and healing.
to more deadly tragedies across the a heavy law enforcement response. Yet — Reprinted from the Dallas
nation and world this month than we just as was the case with Johnson in Morning News.
Anew study by a Harvard economist, who happens to be black,
finds cops less likely to use deadly force on black suspects vs.
white.
Angered by the deaths of Freddie Gray and Michael Brown,
black men in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri,
respectively, who died at the hands of the police, professor Roland
Fryer Jr. said, "You know, protesting is not my thing. But data is my
thing." So he sought to answer the question. Do the police, in fact,
use lethal force against black suspects more than they do against
whites?
Fryer examined 1,332 police shootings — including fatal and
non-fatal shootings — in the police departments of 10 laige cities
in Texas, California and Florida. He said his findings surprised him.
In an article about the study, The New York Times wrote:
"In shootings in these 10 cities involving officers, officers were
more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked
when the suspects were white. Black and white civilians involved
in police shootings were equally likely to have been carrying a
weapon. Both results undercut the idea of racial bias in police use
of lethal force."
But the question remained, when the suspect is black, are offi-
cers more likely to use deadly force? The Times wrote:
' 'What about situations in which an officer might be expected to
fire, but doesn't? To answer this, Mr. Fryer focused on one city,
Houston. The police department there let the researchers look at
reports not only for shootings but also for arrests when lethal force
might have been justified. Mr. Fryer defined this group to include
encounters with suspects the police subsequently charged with seri-
ous offenses like attempting to murder an officer, or evading or
resisting arrest. He also considered suspects shocked with Tasers.
"Mr. Fryer found that in such situations, officers in Houston
were about 20 percent less likely to shoot if the suspects were black.
This estimate was not precise, and firmer conclusions would
require more data. But in various models controlling for different
factors and using different definitions of tense situations, Mr. Fryer
found that blacks were either less likely to be shot or there was no
difference between blacks and whites."
Yes, the study found cops were more likely to put their hands
on a black suspect vs. a white suspect — also to cuff, push to the
ground or pepper-spray — but probably because cops don't want
the encounter to escalate to a shooting. This use-of-deadly-force
study proves that Black Lives Matter, Obama's sympathy with the
group and media's obsession with white-cop-black-suspect stories
are built on lies. And Fryer's study confirms similar findings in' 'The
Reverse Racism Effect," a study by researchers at Washington
State University.
Recall actor Jesse Williams, who in a rant during a BET awards
ceremony said, "What we've been doing is looking at the data and
we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and
not kill white people everyday." Will Mr. Williams now man up
and apologize for helping to perpetuate this phony narrative that
cops are out to get blacks? Will Time magazine — one among
many media outlets that slobbered over Jesse Williams' rant —
apologize for calling it "powerful"?
After the shooting deaths of black suspects at the hands of the
police in Minnesota and Louisiana, Hillary Clinton said, "White
people... have to start listening to the legitimate cries" of black peo-
ple. This is the usual kind of condescending pap we always hear
from Democrats. But in their case, the reason is votes. In order for
the Democratic Party to maintain the 95 percent monolithic hold
they have with black voters, they need to create scenarios of anger
and fear against so-called "structural" or "institutional" or "sys-
temic" racism. We know their motive.
As to the media, one can only conclude that it's about ratings.
When a black officer shoots a black suspect, it does not generate the
same level of outrage as when a white officer shoots a black sus- ter Mary was proclaimed Queen of
pect, especially when he is unarmed. But of the nearly 1,000 peo- England after pretender Lady Jane
pie killed by cops last year — according The Washington Post's Grey was deposed.
own tally — the Post reported that less than 4 percent were Tn 1848, a pioneering women's
instances ofwhite cops shooting and killing an unarmed black man. rights convention convened in Seneca
And there's this. What's hard about complying with a cop's order Falls, New York.
so you don't get shot? There is no right to defy a lawful order. That Tn 1903, the first Tour de France
a cop may be rude does not make an order any less lawful. Hillary was won by Maurice Garin.
Clinton, showing how she feels blacks'pain, says black parents tell In 1944, the Democratic national
her that they have what is called "the talk" with their children on convention convened in Chicago with
howto comport themselves when engaged man encounter with the the nomination of President Franklin
police. But in almost every recent case of an officer shooting a D. Roosevelt considered a certainty,
black person, the black person resisted arrest. So much for "the In 1952, the Summer Olympics
talk." opened in Helsinki, Finland.
How about, "Comply — you won't die"? In 1961, TWA became the first air-
—Larry Elder is a best-selling author and nationally syndicat- line to begin showing regularly sched-
ed radio talk-show host. uled in-flight movies as it presented
"By Love Possessed" to first-class pas-
sengers on a flight from New York to
Los Angeles.
In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of
Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas,
two days after President Anastasio
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