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Peer pressure. No one wants to be the first to call cops liars.

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It is nice if you are white and not poor.

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Since the media is all in on the reality TV show construct, I want to know what Tiffany's move is now that she's got her law degree.

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"They were terminated without due process, just like George Floyd but nobody's on the cops' side. BOO HOO!"

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Let's not forget that every Constitutional scholar in the nation will come out of the woodwork to explain how the unprecedented action of the Governor taking the case away from the County Prosecutor and assigning it to his guy violates every single one of the amendments in the Bill of Rights, especially the Second.

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No joke, I've actually wondered in a non-silly fashion whether Kroll Ontrack (a local legal-review vendor) sold itself and became KLDiscovery just to dodge the name.

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Holy crap. I just really noticed it .... Trump *does* have absurdly tiny hands.

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It's plagued him since childhood.... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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I'm not holding my breath for a trial with a guilty verdict from a jury. It's not just fearful jurors, but also just so many bootlickers who think "cops can never do no wrong, nosirree, they're perfect and amazing, and you shouldn't have committed the crime of existing while Black."

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Don't forget Rule 35. Do you have the time to fulfill your obligations if the test fails?

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Pica is an eating disorder that involves eating items that are not typically thought of as food and that do not contain significant nutritional value, such as hair, dirt, and paint chips.

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I have none, and would not sully my character by purchasing or eating them.

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Yes, it is. But still true. Look at the power of police union bosses. They know if they cross the rank and file, being out of a job is the least of it. So they ardently defend the worst abuses. Reform from within is a sick joke.

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Do those cops then whine that their lives were ruined because they happened to be "involved in a shooting leaving a black person dead" (wording from the tabs on how police talk minimizes that they actively did the murdering) and unfairly were forced to move to a smaller city?

Unlike you know, the person being murdered, who literally had their life ruined, and their families and friends.

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And Necco Wafers.

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White Americans, maybe, but I wouldn't put any bets on Black people taking that one lying down. And I think a lot of White people are finally having trouble avoiding the clue by four getting swung at them.

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