As a professional who deals with de-escalating people occasionally, there are certain standards you have even behind closed doors. One is never say anything you wouldn’t say in public.

Those same conservative outlets will bitch about socialist labor but take anything the police unions say at face value.

Right from the horse’s(ass) mouth.

Even worse, she could be Rachel Dolezal.

Can someone name me any other profession where this man wouldn’t have been fired immediately? To any cop who bitches about how hard their job is please feel free to go fuck yourselves. Please tell me about Kaepernick taking a fucking knee upsets your sensitivities since none of you mouth breathers seem to give a fuck…

Industry don’t need no big gubmint telling them what to do........

And all those places are totally well regulated and regularly inspected and everything, right? Right? Of course they are, they must be! Texas has such a great history of following chemical safety regulations.

So, just left-fielding it here, but if someone’s afraid of police to that extent because of what they’ve seen in the news, wouldn’t declaring yourself to be exactly the kind of person they’re afraid of be kind of the worst idea in the world?

For those of you unfamiliar with Houston, much of the area between Houston and Galveston is literally miles and miles of nothing but oil refineries, chemical plants and other industrial facilities.

Lance LoRusso, the officer’s attorney, told WSB-TV that Abbott’s remarks “must be observed in their totality to understand their context.”

“He was attempting to de-escalate a situation involving an uncooperative passenger,” LoRusso said in a statement to the station. “In context, his comments were clearly aimed at attempting to gain compliance by using the passenger’s own statements and reasoning to avoid making an arrest.”

The information on what toxic stuff was contained where used to be a matter of public record.

Trudeau on Trump: He’s as handsome as he is smart.

Hell, for all we know the woman’s spouse/partner could be black. And that was supposed to calm her down?

Remember, we only shoot black people

Given that it’s Texas, there was a high likelihood that it would have exploded regardless of extraordinary weather events.

“Yes, we’re often irrationally violent, but only in a RACIST way” might be the worst de-escalation technique ever.

Shit, Spicer’s like MRSA. It takes forever to get rid of him.

That explosion at the plant was anticipated. They’ve been expecting it to blow up since Saturday.