How is he going to make this about Islamic terrorism when none of the people involved were muslim, and the victims were brown men?

I think he said that as explanation for why he decided to attempt to intervene.

He just means his reaction. He’s saying he would have helped anybody in a similar situation.

I’ve asked this before, but when did it become no longer a thing where Nazis are the definitive bad buys? I mean I grew up watching Indiana Jones & Captain America punch Nazis in the face and everyone cheered. How is this a thing?

That article is god damn gold.

Yeah, if only minorities would bow and scrape to white men in deference and abject acquiesce of the social ladder — even when said white men are acting like violent shitheads then everything would be hunky dory, amirite??? GTFOOHWTBH.

That’s like saying a child has a “role” in their statutory rape. A child never EVER has more responsibility than an adult in any given situation and if the adult can’t handle not escalating his own damn self, why should the child have any responsibility to prevent him from doing so? Jesus fuck. This is some of the…

1. Without video evidence, these two boys would get criminal records that could socially and economically cripple them for life. They still might.

I can’t help but roll my eyes at the OP prefacing the comment with mentioning being Latino, like that would somehow make it a-okay to place some blame on these kids.

As an American of Mexican heritage who’s lived in LA, I didn’t see the kids as being disrespectful. They were careful, scared and doing exactly what they should’ve done-getting involved with recording this incident and following their friend to make sure they witnessed him walk away with his life.

So those kids were just supposed to left officer fuckhead grab a kid, drag him across property lines against his will, and hope it turned out okay?

I read the KTLA story where the parents are interviewed, and apparently they live on the same street. His mom is afraid of retaliation :(

Absolutely. He’s a grown up. He’s a trained professional. This did not need to escalate. In fact, the moment the kid said “hey don’t talk to that girl like that!” all he had to fucking do is roll his eyes and go back in his house. His wannabe alpha macho ego is what made him lunge at the kid.

Ex cop here.

These are kids, for crying out loud. KIDS. He, as a fucking police officer who has had significant training for these types of situations, should know how to handle it without having to pull out his gun and shoot it. It was not the child’s responsibility to de-escalate shit.

What these people need is some sort of program to help them deal with their anger and find more productive uses of their free time so they are not menaces to society.

“it is me bending to social norms”

I almost never remove hair from my body, in part as a womanist statement. Why should I have to shave my pits when my boyfriend doesn’t and I have less hair than him? Why should I wax my puss in the fucking winter when I’m not going swimming? I do the minimum amount of waxing so I can wear a bathing suit and not have…

I feel this way about bikini/Brazilian waxing. Do it, it’s cool. But don’t act like a lot of guys don’t expect it and that is one of the driving forces behind it.