These officers responded to everything these kids did with violence:

The mother of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by police after he was seen playing with a plastic gun on a Cleveland playground has spoken for the first time since burying her son.

Samaria Rice told ABC News in an exclusive interview that her 14-year-old daughter was tackled by police when she arrived at the scene of the shooting.

“I couldn’t believe they tackled her and put her in handcuffs and in the back of the same police car that was on the grass that the officer got out of and shot her brother so my daughter is sitting there looking at her brother on the ground,” Rice said this morning.

via Mother of Cleveland Boy Shot by Police Says She’s ‘Looking for a Conviction’ – Yahoo

YouTube/Reality subject who posted pranks simulating sexual assault is accused of being a rapist. 2 million+ followers.

The World Cup is going on. It’s the middle of baseball season. Wimbledon just finished and there will be a large amount of tournaments leading to the US Open. All those things generate genuine sports news. The NBA has no news to report and yet every SportsCenter is full of people making claims about what they can see and can’t see happening based upon their own guesses. No news happened. It’s a no news cycle. Not too depressing until you realize that you get the same thing on all of the cable news channels.

From A Conversation with Jamelle Bouie at The Hairpin.

When did you start getting trolled?

I think I’ve always had trolls of some sort. I think the phenomenon of getting attention from the right-wing blogosphere, right-wing Twitter—the very hyper-specific racist trolls that seek out people of color to harass them—that started after the 2012 election. And, that was a good year for me. The great thing about election years for political writers is that, if you write well, you can increase your visibility. Which then of course means trolls.

What did a good year look and feel like to you?

A good year is when I think I’m writing a lot, writing well, when everything’s trafficking very well—traffic patterns where you can notice that you actually have an audience, and people aren’t just stumbling across your writing, but actively trying to read what you do.

I think I started doing a bit more media that year—radio and TV, I mean—and around all of that is when the number of trolls took a sharp uptick. Then, in 2013, I did way more media, I switched jobs, and the Daily Beast gets much more traffic than the Prospect, so it’s a much more public platform. Last summer is when the quantity of racist trolls quintupled.