Hope he heals fast and that you are soon reunited!

I really wish people would take the time to read the rest of the thread before responding. I am fucking exhausted by people who think that, three hours later, they are the first person to make this point.

Her concern isn’t for the suspect - it’s for innocent people who look like and are sometimes dangerously conflated with the suspect by angry, ignorant assholes who have been emboldened over this past year to express their feelings in ways that actually hurt, and have killed, innocents.

This is a good articulation of what was bothering me, so thank you. Also: I am a “she”.

I think I make it pretty clear that I’m working through my feelings here about the shocking and emotional event that happened less than a mile from where I am right now. At no point do I try to represent anything I am feeling as fact. And Jezebel is in a community where many of us do so on any given day, and are often…

*hugs*

I totally understand, and I’m so sorry that this hits close to home for you. In its own way, it hits close to home for me too. The guy sitting to my right, his dad commutes to work on a bike down that very street, and he often travels at all times of day, and for a good hour he couldn’t get him on the phone and we…

Thank you, that’s so sweet. Not trying to make this about me, just trying to reach out, I guess, to others here who know what I’m feeling. My parents and turbaned, bearded grandfather are right on the VA/NC border, and he regularly gets verbal abuse and threats of worse after events like this, and so my heart is just…

It’s not a competition. People can be feeling lots of things at once. I know we’re all upset and angry, but let’s not turn it on each other while we’re all still just trying to sort things out.

Yup, everyone and their mother is making it a point to tell me, even though others have already told me, so thanks for weighing in on my confused recounting of my thoughts and feelings, and assuming it was somehow meant as a slight to the families of those victims.

As I said, I don’t know what that would be, it just didn’t feel like it.

As I said, I don’t know what that would be, it just didn’t feel like it.

I really wish he would have killed himself.

Yeah, that’s the only reason I could possibly think of. I was thinking “why wouldn’t he just kill himself” but you’re right - he wanted to go for as long as he could before they took him down. I will say this - I am proud of the NYPD for taking him out of play but not killing him so at the very least we can pump him…

What is the point of carrying around “imitation firearms”?

STYE’-vuh-scent

This was so true to genre though, which is why all the ridiculous stuff that is unrealistic doesn’t matter

The forethought it took to GET A KEY TO HER ROOM and then just walk in? After all that pounding and rejection?

OH SNAP