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phoenix00's avatar

Don't forget rap music, baseball players, football players, basketball players....

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phoenix00's avatar

"anything short of porcelain white skin would be grounds for deadly force"

FTFY

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nightmoth's avatar

Oh, good grief! Wow.

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Cat Cafe's avatar

How about "I'll start taking care of ISIS" when Obama's been systematically driving them back, extremely effectively, for two years? Or "I'll build a wall," when under Obama, immigration is at a net zero? Have to stop because I can feel my blood pressure rising and Nurse says I have to be careful now.

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Zyxomma's avatar

That's one of the reasons I'm so proud of the cops in Linden NJ during Rahami's arrest. They were in a damned *gun battle* yet managed to shoot to wound, not kill, despite being fired upon. I can't really call it my old home town, since we only lived there for a year when I was five, but that was fine police work.

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Zyxomma's avatar

If you want to know more, Radley Balko's 'The Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces' is excellently written history. He writes for magazines like Reason, too.

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Zyxomma's avatar

And dick jokes, as we say in the Shire.

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SullivanSt's avatar

There's a much more familiar word for that stuff: bullshit. Trump's full of enough of it to turn the whole of California's agricultural sector organic.

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Frank Underboob's avatar

They're better with vodka.

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Tosca's avatar

Now that she's been charged, can stories be illustrated by her mugshot instead of that damn oh-so-wholesome cop graduation photo?

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nightmoth's avatar

Well, THAT'S disappointing!

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Daniel_Oriordan's avatar

Did the Charlotte cops remember to press the gun into Scott's hand so it would have his fingerprints on it? It's the little details that trip you up.

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Cat Cafe's avatar

Very nicely put!!

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guest1331now's avatar

Um, please don't look at any pictures of me ... (or be kind...)

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SullivanSt's avatar

Interestingly its main competition seems to be South Carolina.

It's as if police violence isn't quite the partisan issue you might imagine when comparing and contrasting the conservative and liberal blogospheres.

Sure as shit isn't any room for liberal complacency on the issue, what with Officer Pantaleo getting first a no-bill and then a pay raise.

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