MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 Hot on the heels of last week's parade of flubbed justice and national protest comes this week's parade of flubbed justice and national protest, commencing with the pronouncement made by President Barack Obama, who today pledged to devote the final two years of his presidency to addressing the "simmering distrust" between minority communities and the police. In an attempt to put money where his mouth is, Obama "requested $263 million for the federal response to the civil rights upheaval triggered in Ferguson, Missouri," reports Reuters.

•• In other elliptically portentous news from Reuters: Today the head of the Chicago Police Department announced that his officers will start wearing body cameras. "We have a lot of work to do in the post-Ferguson world," said Superintendent Garry McCarthy at a news conference.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 The week continues with another new milestone in the saga of Bill Cosby, the formerly beloved comedian who's been named in an ever-growing collection of rape allegations. Today's development: a lawsuit filed by a woman alleging Cosby molested her in 1974, when she was 15 years old. Details on the complaint, filed today in Los Angeles County Superior Court, come from Reuters, which reports the alleged victim, Judy Huth, met Cosby at a tennis club, after which he allegedly took her to the Playboy mansion, told her to lie about her age, and assaulted her. "The suit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages," reports Reuters. On Thursday, Bill Cosby will break his allegation-related stoicism to countersue: "In documents obtained by ABC News, Cosby alleges that not only is Huth lying but that she filed the lawsuit after failing to extort money from him," ABC will report. "Cosby is asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuit and is seeking monetary damages from Huth and her attorney."

•• Whatever the case, on Wednesday, three more women will come forward with allegations of being drugged and raped by Bill Cosby. ("One of the women, Beth Ferrier, was one of the 12 'Jane Does' included as a witness in a 2005 lawsuit against Cosby brought by Andrea Constand, which was settled out of court before Ferrier and the other witnesses could testify," reports Salon.) And on Friday, a former Playboy Bunny who claims Cosby assaulted her told CNN about the many other Bunnies who could make the same claim. "[There are] 12 former Bunnies that I know of that are ashamed to come forward, frightened to come forward, married with families [and] don't want to come forward," said P.J. Masten to CNN. "But they were also drugged and raped by Bill Cosby." For more on this topic, see this week's "Dear God" column.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 In worse news, the week continues in New York City, where today a grand jury ruled that the police officers who fatally strangled an unarmed man on a Staten Island street this summer should face no criminal charges. As Reuters reminds us, "Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, was illegally selling cigarettes on July 17 when police officers tackled him and put him in a chokehold. Police said he had been resisting arrest. The city's medical examiner ruled the death a homicide." In addition to the medical examiner's homicide ruling, the entire fatal choking was captured on video, and yet, no indictment, just another unarmed black man killed by police officers who were apparently doing their jobs perfectly.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 The week continues in New York City, with the second night of protests over the non-indictment of the cops who fatally strangled Eric Garner. "The protesters gathered in downtown Manhattan's Foley Square and chanted 'I can't breathe' and 'No justice, no peace' before marching across the Brooklyn Bridge, carrying replicas of coffins," reports ABC. "Another group started in Harlem. The marchers also disrupted traffic near the Holland Tunnel, the Manhattan Bridge, and on the West Side Highway." By tomorrow morning, 223 people will have been arrested, with many of them charged with disorderly conduct and/or refusal to clear the streets.

•• Meanwhile in Phoenix, tonight nearly 200 demonstrators marched through the streets to police headquarters to protest the killing of Rumain Brisbon, the 34-year-old unarmed black man fatally shot by a Phoenix cop on Tuesday evening.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 Speaking of unarmed Americans fatally shot by police, today brings an update on Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy fatally shot last month in Cleveland, after cops allegedly mistook his pellet gun for a real gun. Today, the family of Rice filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Cleveland and the two cops involved in their son's death, claiming the officers acted recklessly when they fatally shot the boy. "Surveillance video released by police shows Tamir being shot within 2 seconds of a patrol car stopping within a few feet of him," the Associated Press reminds us, before this unpromising addendum: "A grand jury will consider whether charges are merited." In closing, an eminently sensible sentence from the Rice family's federal complaint: "Young boys playing with replica guns are commonplace in America and police are expected to approach them safely if an investigation is warranted, not shoot them dead within two seconds." The Rices are seeking unspecified monetary damages.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 Meanwhile in Seattle, today more than 1,000 protesters marched from the Central District to the downtown police station to protest America's epidemic of deadly police violence. Thank you, protesters.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 In lighter news, the week ends in the QFC grocery store on Rainier Avenue, where today Last Days had the pleasure of witnessing a fortysomething man do an extended dance in the cheese aisle for his middle-school-aged son. More specifically, the man did the vaudeville-y dance popularly known as "the most entertaining thing a human can do," wherein the dancer stands in profile, then leans forward to kick their legs backward while simultaneously waving their arms forward and making a huge, goofy, "Can you believe how entertaining this is?" openmouthed smile. And while the duration of the man's dance suggested a lost bet, the passion of his performance—which only grew as all in the cheese aisle turned to watch—expressed exceptional parenting. Thank you, hilarious dancing dad. recommended

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