I know. It’s madness that we have a different, lower threshold for self-defense for trained police officers than the rest of us.

Agree. If it hadn’t been this boy, it would have been someone else before too long. I’m just glad there were so many videos of the crime or he would likely have faced no charges at all.

Of course Yatim didn’t know and regardless, you’re not supposed to get shot for calling someone a pussy! I hope you don’t think I was implying that Yatim was in any was responsible for what happened.

Ya know, I hate slave narrative movies as much as the next person, but there are some stories that need to be told and Nat Turner’s rebellion has always been one of those for me. Also, Harriet Tubman, but Viola’s got that one on lock, and I’m also excited for that. And I’m also soooo glad that a Black filmmaker is…

12 times? Jesus. I’ve lived in Toronto and that seems out of whack. Ya, probably a coward. A poorly trained, egotistical, trigger-happy coward.

Yatim was calling Forcillo a pussy. I believe the cop lost his temper and fired without believing there was any threat to his or any others safety.

I appreciate the contextual information and detail.

This case is bonkers. The circumstance was a drugged-up teenager with a small knife on an abandoned streetcar. He was contained. He was not a threat.

“Police officers do not get paid to get stabbed or shot,” Forcillo argued. “They are paid to go home in one piece.”

“Police officers do not get paid to get stabbed or shot,” Forcillo argued. “They are paid to go home in one piece.”

oh fuck off. Not every animal should be helpful to humans. Koalas, pandas, and sloths are obviously needed because nature fucking created them. No animal or human being should ever be round up and gassed.

If we are using that criteria to kill things off lets start with you.

If we’re talking about purposefully ending a species, can we please start with mosquitos? The ones you mentioned don’t actually /actively/ harm humans, and can be cute sometimes.

Calm down there, Satan.

The sad part is he may be right.

I think that depends on who he shoots. He’d probably get more donations for shooting brown people, but lose some for white people. Triple points for Hillary, double for Bern, negative points for Putin. Deeply negative points for shooting a fetus, neutral for killing an infant, positive for a teenager.

Ignoring the politics between NARAL and Sanders because both democratic candidates are committed to getting rid of the amendment; this is awesome!

*Should

ok, on this one there’s dickery from both sides. The little boy on the bike who thinks public roads are his own personal race track should have had his license suspended at most.

I have respect for law enforcement, but what happened here does not paint cops in a good light.