https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-minneapolis-police-chief-promised-change-george-floyds-death-shows-hurdles-11590971860

«Like Ms. Harteau before him, Chief Arradondo had a starkly different vision for the department than Lt. Robert Kroll, president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis since 2015. Like his union counterparts across the country, Lt. Kroll has been a fierce advocate for greater autonomy for officers.

Lt. Kroll has criticized the Black Lives Matter movement as a terrorist organization. In his racial discrimination lawsuit, Chief Arradondo, who was then a lieutenant, accused Mr. Kroll of calling former U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison a terrorist. Mr. Ellison, a Democrat who is now Minnesota’s attorney general, is both Muslim and black. In the same lawsuit Chief Arradondo accused Mr. Kroll of wearing a leather motorcycle jacket with a white power badge sewn on it.

Mr. Kroll couldn’t be reached for comment but in the past has publicly denied charges that he is racist.

The union chief also opposed a 2019 ban by Mayor Jacob Frey on aggressive “warrior-style” training for police, which doesn’t emphasize de-escalation during encounters with civilians. The ban went into effect, but controversy has continued over whether officers are following it, according to local media.

Ms. Harteau, the previous chief, said in an interview that the union was the biggest obstacle to making changes at the department.

“The police federation will have a greater impact on the police culture than a chief ever will,” said Ms. Harteau.

She criticized the union for standing up for officers in even the most egregious cases, and said that the union’s “silence is deafening” in the wake of Mr. Floyd’s killing.»

WSJ has some good articles if you stay off the editorial page.

Knowledge I hope never to need.

Beau of The Fifth Column (@BeauTFC) Tweeted: Twitter Exclusive: Let’s talk about journalist @KillerMartinis… https://t.co/aQ3yR4i4tU https://twitter.com/BeauTFC/status/1266943429801578496?s=20

I think she means “must not be”, and I agree.

Jeannette Ng 吳志麗 (@jeannette_ng) Tweeted: A scroll through Hong Kong’s protest art will tell you that stories & junk pop culture can inspire plenty.

But they’re not manifestos.

We can’t be the substitute teacher who puts on an episode of X-Men instead of teaching about civil rights movements https://t.co/RxtAcC8csY https://twitter.com/jeannette_ng/status/1267119819251503104?s=20

Finally looked this up.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/politics/north-carolina-governor-trump-convention-no-face-masks/index.html

Virtual Democratic convention will be the mother of all Zoom meetings.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/29/us-withdrawing-from-who-289799

Happy Friday, everyone. It’s gin o’clock here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23328856

Hacker News is kind of the opposite of Twitter and I love it.

«Diagnostic criteria for anxiety and depression are very broad because they are necessary as tools for practicing doctors seeing patients (as opposed to applying them to a random selection of people). If you turn the process back, and just ask how many people in the population fit under them, you’ll always, even in normal times, get an unexpectedly large number. That doesn’t imply that anything is wrong or that anything needs to be done about it, doctors don’t use them like that. This is approximately the same phenomenon that causes medical students to self-diagnose themselves with every disease they learn about: one of the fundamental factors missing from such a diagnosis is that they haven’t walked into a clinic. It’s not a bug in the diagnostic criteria, it’s just a misapplication of them.

One of the main ways of fighting over-diagnosis is to not apply diagnostic criteria for every known condition to random people who you have no a priori reason to suspect they might have those conditions.»