Fatal Shootings of Police are Up, and it’s White Men Pulling the Trigger

Seven out of eight officers killed this year had been killed by white men.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
A military honor guard stands by the casket of 33-year-old slain police officer Jason Moszer during his funeral services Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, at Scheels Arena in Fargo. Moszer was shot and killed Feb. 11 while responding to a domestic disturbance.

Fatal shootings of police are up in 2016, and the culprits are overwhelmingly white men. The facts behind these tragic killings stand in sharp contrast to the claims of some police and right-wing political pundits that have tried to attribute the deaths of officers to the Black Lives Matter movement or the music of pop star Beyoncé. Of 35

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Support For Neoliberalism Is Killing Working-Class Whites

Despair and a lack of belief in the future sown by neoliberalism led to increased suicide and drug use, with the trend most pronounced among poorer middle-aged whites.

Dan Wright
By Dan Wright

Published in partnership with ShadowProof. A new study from Princeton University [PDF] shows an extraordinary increase in the mortality rate among middle-aged white non-Hispanic Americans since 1999. Mortality rates declined for other racial groups in the US during the same period and there is no equivalent trend anywhere else in the developed

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