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Police in Buffalo shove a 75-year-old man to the ground and blood pours from his ear. Police in Brooklyn knock down a young woman and call her a bitch because she asked why she had to leave the street. Federal authorities in Washington fire tear gas at peaceful demonstrators, then lie about it.
Get the feeling law enforcement in this country is being run by a middle-school bully?
If so, you are not wrong.
Childhood bullies have a predisposition to become adult bullies, research shows, and, sure enough, it seems Attorney General William Barr was a teenage bully more than 50 years ago.
Back in 1991, during Barrs confirmation to be George H.W. Bushs attorney general, lawyer Jimmy Lohman, who overlapped with Barr at New Yorks Horace Mann School and later Columbia University, wrote a piece for the little-known Florida Flambeau newspaper about Barr being my very own high-school tormentor a classic bully and power abuser in the 1960s who put the crunch on me every chance [he] got.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/09/so-this-is-why-bill-barr-is-such-bully/?utm_campaign=wp_follow_dana_milbank&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_danamilbank
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)the police force and the military.
And in too many cases, on women.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)EARLY
LATE and
OFTEN ...
... must be the consistent disclosures of Bully-Barr's constant dissembling and gas-lighting as to what the truth and the facts REALLY are!
And to Jimmy Lohman .... KUDOS to the millionth power.