Stephen Maing’s Crime + Punishment asks is there such a thing as a "Good Cop ?" Meet 12 NYC police officers who prove yes ..despite their union and the Brass on Top and a Mayor who is all talk and......
Meet the 12 Brave cops still on duty who came forward and said NO, we will not follow the demands of the BRASS make an arrest to fulfill a quota demand,,, and hear what happened to them as a result. We need more cops that see themselves as peacemakers and community protectors rather than "shoot-to-kill" "soldiers" trained in militia tactics. The Police Union and the Police Academy should be demanding training in peacekeeping and defending cops who see them sleeves as peacemakers and community protectors,
Go to the IFC where over the weekend the officers and the filmmakers will be doing Q&A's,,,,, citizens have to support these cops by speaking up I stand with the New York 12... go ..remember these are not actors playing cops ..these 12 men and a woman are REAL COPS, Trust me ...no matter what experiences you have had with police officers (and i have many negative ones ) this film will introduce you to "good cops"
Meet the cops and the director in this Times Talk..... and please repost.
If you have HULU this is a HULU original documentary and premiered on HULU on August 24 (note you can get a FREE HULU trial subscription online)
I fell in love with Brandi Carlile the very first time I saw her perform .. maybe 14 years ago .. she is one of my go-to listens ....when I feel down and need a shot of folk joy and authentic emotion and a reality check on life. I grew up in RI and started going To the Newport Jazz and Folk festival when I was a teenager...high points included waiting with my mom 3 hours in the rain to see Judy Garland..it only took about six minutes for all of us to forgive her ...again waiting in the rain to Mahalia Jackson play her first secular concert (thank you George Wein) she waited until midnight to make a Sat become a Sunday..and brought Church to the festival...her first song was "Oh Lord did it not Rain."..and being part of the majority present who cheered Dylan when went electic...when Billie walked on Stage during a Lester Young set and began to sing... they had had a falling out a few years previously ..it was an unforgettable moment ..and cemented in me the power of music to heal ..both were dead with the year..or when the Indigo Girls brought out Farron,, and left the stage and the rest of their set to her, but this post is about Brandi. I want you to listen to this very,very special set .. and please please pay attention to the song The Mothers and the introduction.....please listen to the audio of her set and read FUV''s Rita Houston's pitch-perfect description of Brandi Carlilie. (I am including the actual link in case the audio button does not work'..... and Carlile can ROCK,,,there is a Zepplin rip in the set.
The family spirit of the Newport Folk Festival is solid in Brandi Carlile's hands. She formed her own musical family with Phil and Tim Hanseroth years ago, and now they all tour together with their wives and children (they even make an appearance on the Newport stage). Stemming out from there, Carlile has fostered a living, breathing collaborative network of artists, walking the walk by showing up early and staying late to perform with her friends. Carlile was all over the festival, performing with Margo Price, Lucius,The Lone Bellow, Mumford and Sons and more.
Brandi Carlile performs at the 2018 Newport Folk Festival.
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It's all part of a great year, as By the Way, I Forgive You has brought even more fans into the Bramily. Her Sunday evening Newport set was pure celebration, as if she soaked up all that sunshine and love and poured it back over the crowd. The dynamic song list included several new tunes, older faves, and a couple nods to past inspiration, with covers of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" and a Led-Zep-fierce rendition of Joan Baez's "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You."
The crowd at a Make America Great Again rally in Pennsylvania on Thursday, stoked by President Trump’s statements, was particularly hostile to the press.CreditAl Drago for The New York Times
The voice, if I had to guess, belongs to that of a white American male in late middle age. The accent is faintly Southern, the manner taunting but relaxed. It’s also familiar: I’m pretty sure he’s left a message on my office number before. But the last voicemail left almost no impression. Not this time.
“Hey Bret, what do you think? Do you think the pen is mightier than the sword, or that the AR is mightier than the pen?”
He continues: “I don’t carry an AR but once we start shooting you f—ers you aren’t going to pop off like you do now. You’re worthless, the press is the enemy of the United States people and, you know what, rather than me shoot you, I hope a Mexican and, even better yet, I hope an— shoots you in the head, dead.”
He repeats the racial slur 10 times in a staccato rhythm, concluding with the send-off: “Have a nice day, n— lover.”
The call dates from the end of May, right after I had published a column defending ABC’s firing of Roseanne Barr for a racist tweet. “Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature,” I wrote, “is that they so frequently conform to type.”
Four weeks later, a gunman storms into a newsroom in Annapolis, Md., and murders five employees of the Capital Gazette.
The alleged killer in the Annapolis shooting does not appear to have acted from a political motive. But the message I got in May was the third time I’ve been expressly or implicitly threatened with violence by someone whose views clearly align with Donald Trump’s. Otherwise, the only equivalent threat I’ve dealt with in my career involved a Staten Island man who later went to prison for his ties to Hezbollah.
Which brings me to the July 20 meeting between Trump and two senior leaders of The Times, publisher A.G. Sulzberger and editorial page editor James Bennet. As Sulzberger later described the encounter, he warned the president that “his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous,” and that characterizations of the news media as “the enemy of the people” are “contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.”
Sulzberger’s warning had no effect. Nine days after what was supposed to be an off-the-record meeting, the president tweeted that he and Sulzberger “spent much time talking about vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase ‘Enemy of the People.’ Sad!”
By now, it almost passes without comment that the president of the United States not only violates the ground rules of his own meetings with the press, but also misrepresents the substance of the conversation.
Also nearly past comment was the president’s remark, in a follow-on tweet, that the media were “very unpatriotic” for revealing “internal deliberations of our government” that could put people’s lives at risk. That’s almost funny considering that no media organ has revealed more such deliberations, with less regard for consequences, than his beloved WikiLeaks.
What can’t be ignored is presidential behavior that might best be described as incitement. Maybe Trump supposes that the worst he’s doing is inciting the people who come to his rallies to give reporters like CNN’s Jim Acosta the finger. And maybe he thinks that most journalists, with their relentless hostility to his personality and policies, richly deserve public scorn.
Yet for every 1,000 or so Trump supporters whose contempt for the press rises only as far as their middle fingers, a few will be people like my caller. Of that few, how many are ready to take the next fatal step? In the age of the active shooter, the number isn’t zero.
Should that happen — when that happens — and journalists are dead because some nut thinks he’s doing the president’s bidding against the fifth column that is the media, what will Trump’s supporters say? No, the president is not coyly urging his supporters to murder reporters, like Henry II trying to rid himself of a turbulent priest. But neither is he the child who played with a loaded gun and knew not what he did.
Donald Trump’s more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says. But not all of the president’s defenders are quite as sophisticated. Some of them didn’t get the memo about taking Trump seriously but not literally. A few hear the phrase “enemy of the people” and are prepared to take the words to their logical conclusion.
Is my caller one of them? I can’t say. But what should be clear is this: We are approaching a day when blood on the newsroom floor will be blood on the president’s hands.
Bret L. Stephens joined The Times as an Op-Ed columnist in 2017 after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was deputy editorial page editor and a foreign affairs columnist. Before that he was the editor in chief of The Jerusalem Post. @BretStephensNYT•Facebook
