Outside the Beltway

The official campaign to oust Donald Trump is off to a good start.

The evidence is clear. Injustice feeds rage and rage sometimes boils over.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

As was the case a month ago, Vice-President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were the focus of last night’s debate. Things turned out very differently, though.

A Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder has been sentenced to seven years in prison, but could be out in as little as three-and-a-half.

Nearly four years after the fact, a Chicago Police Officer has been found guilty of murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

ESPN won’t air the National Anthem before regular season games this year, but that probably won’t stop the President from ranting about it.

The first night of games in the N.F.L. pre-season included some sporadic protests during the National Anthem, and prompted a predictable response from the President.

In the wake of a grievance filed by the union representing players, the N.F.L. has suspended the new National Anthem policy it announced earlier this year. This guarantees even more cynical political exploitation by the President.

Another incident involving what clearly seems to be the inappropriate use of force against an African-American man.

A Pittsburgh area police officer has been indicted on homicide charges after a video emerged that appears to show him shooting a fleeing suspect in the back

In a new interview, the President says that he doesn’t believe that N.F.L. players who kneel during the National Anthem have a real issue.

Most Americans disagree with Trump on the N.F.L. National Anthem protests, but Republicans are behind him.

A guilty plea in a particularly shocking case of police brutality.

There’s little doubt that Hillary Clinton will win today’s South Carolina Primary, the only question is how big a win she’s likely to score.

Bernie Sanders scored a big win in New Hampshire, as most people expected, but the look ahead still tells us that Hillary Clinton will eventually be the Democratic nominee for President.

A setback for prosecutors in the Freddie Gray case.

Blaming political opponents for criminal acts they clearly didn’t commit or advocate isn’t a political argument, it’s demagoguery.

Hillary Clinton’s two biggest challengers were ambushed at a progressive political convention over the weekend.

Removing the responsibility to investigate police misconduct from the prosecutors who have to work with those police on a daily basis is a good idea.

A few days late, but a story worth noting if it has escaped notice.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.

Big news out of Baltimore and, perhaps, the beginning of justice for Freddie Gray.

There is no excuse for last night’s rioting in Baltimore, but that should not deflect attention from the problems with that city’s police.

Thanks to one civilian with a camera, a police officer is facing charges in what appears to clearly be an improper shooting.

A new Justice Department report has found widespread racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, but it’s a problem that goes far beyond one Missouri suburb.

Not surprisingly, the Federal investigation of the Michael Brown shooting is ending much like the state investigation did.

New details in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raise more questions.

NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead while sitting in their patrol car In Brooklyn. And those suggesting that anyone other than the killer has “blood on their hands” are being absurd.

An Oberlin College student makes it clear just why she needs an education.

Apparently, law schools are in the business of coddling their special snowflake children now.

Even leaving aside the fact that it is far too early to be making such assessments, the idea that Rand Paul is the front runner for the Republican nomination in 2016 fails the logic test.

Many have suggested that prosecution of cases involving police misconduct should be handled by prosecutors who don’t work with local police departments on a regular basis. They’re right.

Thinking about that the state, law, violence, and the Garner incident (and contributing to the tl;dr phenomenon).

Not surprisingly a new poll finds that African-Americans perceive the American justice system far differently than whites.

But, hey, don’t worry, there’s nothing racial going on here. Nothing at all.

While conservatives have been generally as appalled as others with the news out of Staten Island, some of them are looking in the wrong place for blame.

A former RNC chair says a black man’s life isn’t worth a ham sandwich.

A New York City Grand Jury refuses to indict a cop who appears from all available evidence to choked a guy to death for no good reason.

Regardless of the outcome of the Michael Brown investigation, there are legitimate problems that need to be addressed.

The numbers don’t lie.

There is a good possibility that Darren Wilson could be acquitted in the shooting of Michael Brown.. Are the protesters ready to accept that reality?