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    Jeopardy! Is A Harsh Mistress

    Nick Spicher was embroiled in the Jeopardy! equivalent of an NFL replay review when he gave an incorrect response to…

    I came here to say the same thing. The police and the caller are both criminally liable. If a man answers the door peacefully and is then exexuted, that is terrible police recruiting / training / practice. We now know from the Daniel Shaver case that police are eager to open fire, and treat civilian lives as…

    All true. I grew up in a law enforcement family.

    There are rules, regulations, and training programs that pertain to trigger discipline.

    They fail more often than they should.

    That said, if the dipshit who made the call hadn’t been butthurt over a fucking game, this particular instance of awfulness wouldn’t have…

    Bull.

    The SWAT officer who pulled the trigger is to blame. The person who called the fake incident into the police is to blame. The person who passed along the victim’s address is to blame.

    And I’m specifically talking about the part where he says Trump voters can be won over.

    “ Many of the people in fading, poor, forgotten counties who voted for Trump could just as easily be persuaded to vote for a left-wing candidate if that candidate were able to demonstrate a real understanding of their problems”