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The city doesn't have that kind of money in the bank? Guess they shouldn't have had a trigger-happy cop who can't tell a child from an assailant on the payroll, then.

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NOTE: Any comments defending Aderrien's shooting will be deleted.

Until we can figure out a way to punch those commenters in the mouth* through the internets.

* Yeah, yeah... with votes.

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That's because it is. There is enough police brutality here without the grammar police piling on. I'm hoping to g-d this is snark and whoever this person is isn't actually taking umbrage at a word that has been used as slang for a human child since the 16th fucking century. Might as well take umbrage at English dropping the singular/familiar second person pronoun.

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Being a sociopath isn't a requirement for the job, but it helps.

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It doesn't matter that the City doesn't have that kind of money laying around.

That's why they have insurance.

I used to work for a municipal agency. It is utterly inconceivable (cue Wallace Shawn here) that the city does not have liability insurance, along with E & O, etc.

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No words, but one acronym- ACAB

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It needs to come out of their Police Unions...that would stop some of this shit really fast.

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8^(

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I don't know why but the fact that he included his teacher in the list of people he wanted his mom to say he's sorry to hit me a little hard. I guess because it appears that is a relationship he values...

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I looked up a pic of Officer Capers. He's black. He's fucked.

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He may wear the uniform, but he's not really one of them. He's fucked.

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Embarrass him all the way to the bank maybe.

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It's not snark. He's very particular about what word usages we present to him on this here mommyblog.

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Depends. Does he have to pay for his own ammo, or does the city cover that?

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They didn't pay for any of the military shit. The feds handed that out like beads at a Margi Gras parade.

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