When the officer released her neck, Ms. Callaway gasped for air. She could not see because there was a bag over her head, but she felt the weight of a boot in the crook of her arm, which, along with the rest of her body, was still tied to the chair. Ms. Callaway was suspected of committing a misdemeanor.
Last week I mentioned that Mistress Matisse (who, BTB, provided the first video below) says the universe put her in my life to bring me more fun and silliness. So this week I’m repaying her a little with the second video. Everything above the first one is from Radley Balko, and the links between the videos are from Wendy Lyon (“Swedish”), Grace (“voluntary”), Angela Keaton (“6”), Brooke Magnanti (“marry”), and Skye (“police” and “random”).
- Cops beat grandfather for walking while Indian.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- The rise of the machines.
- The law is the law.
- The Swedish model.
- But it’s voluntary, really!
- Cops draw guns on a 6-year-old.
- I can think of worse reasons to marry.
- Some think this isn’t a police state yet.
- Yet another cop “accidentally” shoots a random person.
From the Archives
- Valentines, water, cops, maps, overcriminalization, politics, librarians, spiders, TSA, Mr. Rogers, the Incredible Hulk and Hello Kitty.
- Robots, puns, doors, police state, Twitter, surveillance, Prince and the Rolling Stones.
- Melissa Gira Grant on how the “gypsy whores” myth harms sex workers.
- When the absurdity of the idea of consensual crime is blatantly obvious.
- Considering it’s in an Irish newspaper, this is nothing short of amazing.
- A Chinese province has stopped sending prisoners to labor camps.
- Brooke Magnanti on the evangelical basis of “sex trafficking” myth.
- Queensland cops want fetal rights to trump those of the mother.
- A must-read profile of neofeminist anti-porn crusader Gail Dines.
- How the Irish government enables the awful Magdalene orders.
- Only “authorities” have the right to determine what’s harmless.
- A brief history of Monto, once Europe’s largest red-light district.
- The “Juju sex slaves” myth just keeps on going like a zombie.
- How a very experienced escort deals with a nasty competitor.
- In the press freedom index, US ranks with Romania and Haiti.
- Eric Berkowitz , author of Sex and Punishment, on Reason TV.
- Filipino sex worker rights advocates call for decriminalization.
- Time bravely denounces police violence against sex workers!
- Only 27% of articles on porn addiction contain actual data.
- The looking-glass world inhabited by Irish prohibitionists.
- Mark Bennett on teaching our daughters self-ownership.
- A Nigerian NGO’s cop-assisted crusade vs sex workers.
- The real effects of political crusades against sex work.
- Female lust has nothing to do with genital blood flow.
- Wendy McElroy asks, “Is America a Police State Yet?”
- Totalitarian laws always spread from place to place.
- Dutch close 19 prisons due to declining crime rates.
- An erotic video game with a very special controller.
- MSP Jean Urquhart did something extraordinary.
- For those who think legalization is a good idea.
- An imperfect attack on the “rescue” mentality.
- The Push to Decriminalise Sex Work in Kenya.
- Sex workers protest an “end demand” event.
- Underage Sex Worker Murdered in California.
- How can I get over being sexually stunted?
- My previous columns for Valentine’s Day.
- A protest against mass surveillance.
- Tracy Clark-Flory on “sex addiction”.
- Wisconsin expands its police state.
- New findings on Fredric Wertham.
- A short tale about perspective.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- CISPA is back again.
- Sperm competition.
- Soiled Doves.