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#CultOfCompliance: Tasing and Handcuffing Fails to Stop Meltdown

May 19, 2017February 7, 2019

Yosio Lopez is a 7 year old boy with ADHD and other emotional disabilities in a Dallas school. Sometimes he has behavioral meltdowns when overstimulated and an aide helps him through the process. As reported on CNN: Yosio Lopez was handcuffed, Tased and bruised by Dallas Independent School District (DISD) Police after the boy started … Continue Reading#CultOfCompliance: Tasing and Handcuffing Fails to Stop Meltdown

History: Fear, Racism, and Guns

July 9, 2016February 7, 2019

On Friday afternoon, one of Playboy’s editors asked me to write about the gun violence and policing we’d seen over the past few days. My piece is here (Warning – it’s Playboy, so while there’s no nudity, there’s plenty of reference to sex on the site): In the piece, I tried to lay out some of … Continue ReadingHistory: Fear, Racism, and Guns