Cop-killing 'socially acceptable'
Someone's not taking to heart the plea of the late police violence victim Rodney King: "Can we all get along?"
In Las Vegas, a man was selling T-shirts with the message "shoot cops" stitched across the front, while in Nashville, someone spray-painted the words "Save a life. Kill a cop" across a parked trailer.
Francisco Carbajal says his T-shirts are just misunderstood. He says an indistinguishable object in the lower part of the image on the front of the shirt is a camera, and he just wants people to pull out their phones and record their interaction with the police.
Las Vegas Police Lt. Randy Sutton had a different take.
"He's playing word games and, as far as I'm concerned, what he's advocating is violence towards the police," he said. "Somehow, it became socially acceptable within the last year or so to be disrespectful to a police officer. It's beyond disturbing; it's insulting. It's camouflage. His message isn't about shoot the police with a camera. It's lies. It's garbage. It's trash. It's a lie. You can't fight violence with violence. It doesn't make any sense."
In the graffiti case, Nashville police said they took photos of the trailer and found paint cans nearby that they believe are related to the incident. A police spokeswoman said she did not know who owned the property on which the trailer sat. The investigation is ongoing.
In a gesture of neighborliness, workers from a nearby pressure washing company offered to remove the graffiti for free.
Changing dividers
The city council of Riviera Beach, Fla., is changing the name of an area highway from one it believes divides people to a name many others believe is as divisive.
The body voted 4-1 to change Old Dixie Highway to Barack Obama Highway.
"Each member will vote Yea or Nay to rid this city of a street name that still invokes memories of racism and slavery in the Old South," Mayor Thomas Masters said before the vote, according to WPTV News.
WPTV reported the mayor, curiously, asked council members to "rise above any divisive thoughts about President Obama and get rid of the Old Dixie name."
The Palm Beach Post breathlessly pointed out, assuming readers understand the newspaper is talking about road names, that somewhere "there might soon be a place where Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. meet - and it won't be just in the hearts of Americans who revere both men."
In another story, a CNN/ORC poll found 47 percent of people approve of how the president is handling his job, while 51 percent disapprove. And 52 percent said the president's policies are moving the country in the wrong direction, while 45 percent thought his policies were moving it in the right direction.
King falls off throne
What's up with the obsession of white people trying to pass for black in order to lead black organizations?
The latest one caught doing so was Shaun King, the leader of the Black Lives Matter organization. Earlier this year, Rachel Dolezal, former head of the Spokane, Wash., NAACP and adjunct professor of African-American studies at Eastern Washington, was revealed to be a white woman.
CNN and Breitbart said last week King's family members confirmed the black activist has misled the world about his racial identity.
Further, childhood acquaintances of King's said he was never considered anything other than white. Indeed, they said a racially motivated "hate crime" King claims was perpetrated on him didn't happen because King was black but because he was a white man dating a black girl.
The activist, after an initial silence on the issue, called the allegations "all lies" but could not offer proof of his race. He said the white man listed on his birth certificate is not his real father, referred to himself as biracial and compared himself to President Obama, who is also biracial.
The black conservative group Black Conservatives Fund PAC, according to the Daily Caller, offered $25,000 to Black Lives Matter if King can prove his father is black or if he agrees to a DNA test.
Wipe-out
Remington has just the product for Hillary Clinton.
The gun manufacturer sent out a tweet last week, mocking the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate over her recent comment about whether she "wiped" her private computer server before turning it over to federal investigators.
Clinton, offering a feeble attempt at humor, said, "Like with a cloth or something?"
Remington, one of the largest gunmakers in the world, tweeted a photo of its Rem Oil Wipes for cleaning firearms and the message: "Works on firearms, not email servers. In stores now. #clean #fun."
Clinton's lawyer confirmed to a Senate committee in a letter made public last week that emails and all other data on the server were erased before the device was turned over to the FBI.