Category Archives: police brutality

History, Rhyming

Posted on February 22, 2026 by Ampersand

The title is a reference to an aphorism that’s often mistakenly attributed to Mark Twain: “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” Like many people, I found myself reading a lot of analysis, and squinting at blurry videos, after … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, police brutality, Race, racism and related issues | 20 Comments

Wanted

Posted on January 27, 2026 by Ampersand

ICE agents are the worst people in the world. If you’re a good person and you’re working for ICE, you don’t really exist, because all the good people have resigned by now. In Maine, an ICE agent told a woman … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc, police brutality, Prisons and Justice and Police | 2 Comments

ICE’s Get Out of Jail Free Card

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Ampersand

This was not a fun cartoon to write or draw. On January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Good was shot to death in her car by Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent who has been with the agency a decade. (Wait, January … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Honest Miranda Warnings

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Ampersand

The U.S. justice system is completely awful, and most Americans have no idea. And it’s not just the cops. Our entire justice system is unfairly skewed in a myriad of ways, and it feels like there’s always some new terrible … Continue reading →

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Cartoon – Civil Asset Forfeiture

Posted on July 10, 2022 by Ampersand

The subject no one was asking for a cartoon about! And the cartoon, by me and Kevin Moore! If you like these cartoons, then statistically you’re probably a mobile home designer from Akron whose name starts with a “C.” And … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, cops, police brutality | 15 Comments

How City Budgets Work

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Ampersand

If you like these cartoons, help us make more by supporting the Patreon! Getting lots of $1 and $2 pledges is our business model. Also, I just used the term “business model” in a sentence. Life is weird. For at … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Ghost of Rehnquist

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Ampersand

If you enjoy these cartoons, please support them on Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge makes a big difference to me. It seems like it happens every few weeks – a policeman shoots an unarmed civilian (more often than not … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Contemporary Racism, cops, Institutionalized Racism, police brutality, Race, racism and related issues | 23 Comments

Cartoon: Police Shootings, or Oh The Tragedy!

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Ampersand

Transcript of cartoon Each panel of this cartoon shows the same white dude in an armchair, from the same angle, watching the news on TV. Small details change throughout the cartoon – his hairline recedes, his drink changes, he switches … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, police brutality, Prisons and Justice and Police, Race, racism and related issues | 46 Comments

Police Racism Isn’t Disproven By Black Cops

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Ampersand

In the National Review/Oberlin thread, RonF wrote: ((In comments, Ron objected that I was responding to an argument he hadn’t actually made, hence the cross-out.)) The anti-racist-policing movement hasn’t had much to say in Freddie Gray’s case given that of … Continue reading →

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Baltimore

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Ampersand

I really don’t have anything to say. But I can quote. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Nonviolence as Compliance“: Now, tonight, I turn on the news and I see politicians calling for young people in Baltimore to remain peaceful and “nonviolent.” These well-intended … Continue reading →

Posted in In the news, police brutality, Prisons and Justice and Police, Race, racism and related issues | 158 Comments