NEWS FROM THE CIVILIZED WORLD: South Carolina police chief charged in death of unarmed man. “A white man who was the police chief in a small South Carolina town was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man nearly four years ago. . . . A grand jury in Orangeburg County indicted Combs on Wednesday, the same day a New York grand jury refused to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man. And it was been more than a week since a grand jury similarly refused to indict a white officer in the death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.” Meanwhile, I should note that in my own hometown, when a deputy was videoed choking an unresisting student until he passed out, my local sheriff, J.J. Jones, fired him immediately.

Perhaps they need to send some folks from the NYPD down south for training in responsible policing.