Everyone: call on New York City to fire the thug that killed Eric Garner.

Pregnant women and mothers of babies are now under impossible pressure to avoid many activities, most of them based on little evidence.

This general tendency continues as children get older, with pressure not to let them play alone, walk on the street alone, or just be home alone.

People with cancer felt a similar pressure during the years when many people believed that a positive attitude was crucial to survival: it led, in effect, to blaming the sick person for not getting well.

Two thugs in Texas that banged a prisoner's head into a table then dragged her across the floor by her feet escaped criminal charges.

However, the root of this scandal is that she was jailed for an unpaid parking ticket. In today's US, the system that fines the poor is a pipeline to jail (and opportunities to be beaten up, maimed or killed).

San Jose, California, has a shantytown where 300 poor people live. The city now plans to evict them, which will make them homeless.

Renting space has become so expensive that even people with jobs are homeless.

Heating of the Southern Ocean seems likely to start melting Antarctic ice sheets and raising sea level.