I do disagree that 5 and 13 year olds are the same (at least legally speaking). 13 year olds are generally swearable, for example. 5 year olds are not. And most 13 year olds do know that pointing a gun at a cop is generally a bad idea. The law has long acknowledged an increasing scale of responsibility for children.…

He would’ve known. I think the people he was hanging with, older possible gang members or just hoods in the making, made him feel he had to have a gun or something that at least looked like one, so he could hang out and look hard. I’ve seen way too many social media photos of young hoodlums, holding up their shirts…

And he was tough enough to try and pull it out on the cops. Doesn’t matter if you’re 8 or 80 don’t pull anything that looks like a fucking gun on police and not expect the consequences.

This is how stupid the orange tip thing is.

Yeah, this is a damn shame but, come on. THAT looks like a gun. And with the young man and the police running, and the young man then having it in his hand, not throwing it away, what else could the police think but that it was real?

Like we don’t need tons of guns anyway, but why the hell are they making BB guns that look like real guns in the first place? I actually understand the officer: how was he supposed to know it was fake? Have like eagle-vision and be able to spot that the barrel was smaller? In the like 1 second between it being pointed…

The drift in the meaning of the world “troll” was begun by Lindy West and pressed a little farther every day by this site.

I just fundamentally disagree with your first statement. A university or employer does not have any capability to determine whether sexual misconduct occurred between two private individuals (particularly w/r/t a complex issue like consent). If you think it can, you simply don’t understand something, either what a…

While I certainly appreciate her efforts, and agree with the intent, the plain fact is that legislation introduced at this point in the session is a publicity and re-election ploy. A third of the Senate and all of the House is spending as little time in Washington as possible, in order to be in their home districts…

Is this headline trolling also? Because none of this is meant to combat trolling as I know it. It is meant to combat crimes. Me taking an outrageous stance to destroy a comment thread is trolling. Calling a swat team to kick in your door is criminal.

I like my comedy blue, so it worked for me.

What I wanna know is, how bad are the PARENTS, if the grandparents were deemed the better prospect for custody?

Everyone, please do not respond to the racist trolls. Click the three dots on the right and flag them as hate speech. Don’t give them any more attention than that. I’m seeing some ignorant, inaccurate things being posted that aren’t even worth responding to.

It’s called 9-1-1. Let’s just teach young women in college orientation classes that you dial 9-1-1 when a violent crime has been committed.

If you’re facing harassment or assault on campus, just know that Title IX is not your friend or ally and has zero reason to respond adequately to your claims. If anything, you should see them as being wholly against you.

Suicide gif in an article about a suicide. Apt.

Shouldn’t rape fall under “automatic reporting?”

This is what always confuses me.

Again, why are they told to address campus police and not the regular police department?

that’s not the mother, that’s the child’s grandmother and the grandmother’s boyfriend. Presumably the mother is out of the picture and that’s why there was a custody fight.