During his long career with the LAPD, Gates became known as the guiding mind behind many things I hate, including SWAT and DARE. And while he certainly didn't invent the "War on Drugs" or the concept of the vicious, racist cop, he did what he could to institutionalize them. And he didn't care who he had to kill to get it done. Money quote from here:
''It seems to me that we may be finding that in some blacks when [a choke hold] is applied, the veins or the arteries do not open as fast as they do on normal people.''
It doesn't happen often, but days like this do make me at least momentarily hope there's a hell.
H/T to Claire. Good damn riddance, indeed.
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