Sandra Bland was pulled over in Texas for a traffic violation, arrested for allegedly assaulting a state trooper, and three days later, found dead in her jail cell. An autopsy ruled her death a suicide, but her friends and family don't believe that, and there have been too many mysterious deaths of black people at the hands of police for this not to look suspicious. And now that Texas officials have released the dashcam video of Bland's arrest, absolutely nothing is settled.
Aha I get it now. Yeah, I was speeding around at 1 am out of cigs. Got stopped...got 'be careful out here''. No nothing. I feel pretty lucky right now. Knock wood.
"bikers-at-the-boobie-bar incident"...not the one in Waco where a lot of us think the cops shot mostly everybody in an out of control orgasm of lead and are covering something up? Not the Waco biker massacre? You aren't giving cops credit for that, unless you mean the body count, right?
All I know in this past year is, that that odd, guilty, gut feeling I've always had whenever I see a police car was absolutely justified, even if I was doing nothing wrong. Trying to train myself not to care was a mistake. It would be twice the mistake if I were brown.
Too infuriating for snark. This fucker went fishing, and Bland wasn't gonna be reeled in like a dead flounder. Hey, black helicopter types--looking for a conspiracy? Might wanna look over here.
I've thought this too. I think having back-up is important in this, meaning, because people are online and making their opinions known, they're finding other people who agree with them, even if their opinions are shit and totally wrong. In the past they'd get deflated by those around them pretty quickly. But they have a 'community' backing them up now, so they are thinking they actually must be right, since someone, somewhere, agrees with them. Hence the proliferation of hate on places like reddit, and the MRA BS.
When my car broke down, the cops in my college town were nice enough to drive me to a hotel, since I couldn't get home and it was bitterly cold. He sailed right through a red light and laughed. "What they gonna do? Pull me over?"
Taking that whole max IQ thing off the table -- you know, the one where they won't hire people for some police forces if they are too smart -- would help also too.
Hell, I don't even book flights over that hellhole, in case my plane crashes.
Aha I get it now. Yeah, I was speeding around at 1 am out of cigs. Got stopped...got 'be careful out here''. No nothing. I feel pretty lucky right now. Knock wood.
"bikers-at-the-boobie-bar incident"...not the one in Waco where a lot of us think the cops shot mostly everybody in an out of control orgasm of lead and are covering something up? Not the Waco biker massacre? You aren't giving cops credit for that, unless you mean the body count, right?
All I know in this past year is, that that odd, guilty, gut feeling I've always had whenever I see a police car was absolutely justified, even if I was doing nothing wrong. Trying to train myself not to care was a mistake. It would be twice the mistake if I were brown.
Too infuriating for snark. This fucker went fishing, and Bland wasn't gonna be reeled in like a dead flounder. Hey, black helicopter types--looking for a conspiracy? Might wanna look over here.
Gawd, Florida especially. And for gawd's sake don't get caught actually trying to WALK anywhere.
I've thought this too. I think having back-up is important in this, meaning, because people are online and making their opinions known, they're finding other people who agree with them, even if their opinions are shit and totally wrong. In the past they'd get deflated by those around them pretty quickly. But they have a 'community' backing them up now, so they are thinking they actually must be right, since someone, somewhere, agrees with them. Hence the proliferation of hate on places like reddit, and the MRA BS.
Exactamundo.
Shit, in South Dakota the damn cops pass on the right. At least in Pierre they do.
When my car broke down, the cops in my college town were nice enough to drive me to a hotel, since I couldn't get home and it was bitterly cold. He sailed right through a red light and laughed. "What they gonna do? Pull me over?"
I suspect that the suicide will turn out to be "restraint gone wrong". They were probably choking her and later "arranged" a belt around her neck.
Yes, that incident. It was a mess, but the cops were pro-active an no non-combatants seem to have been harmed.
Abbott is still spying on the military and making plans to invade Arkansas. He'd much rather invade liberal Illinois but darn it, that's just too far.
Trawling for tickets. It's a classic dick move.
Taking that whole max IQ thing off the table -- you know, the one where they won't hire people for some police forces if they are too smart -- would help also too.
It's a mystery. We will probably never know.