I honestly cannot understand why a Good Cop would ever need to unholster their gun on a suspect who doesn’t *gasp* also have a gun

The idea that police officers, whose job it is to keep the peace and deescalate difficult situations, and who get to go home to their families, live in their own countries with their own creature comforts, surrounded by people that speak their language and mostly share their culture, are doing anything like being in a…

No such thing as a good LEO anymore. Good LEO’s would smack down the bad LEO’s, investigate, arrest and speak out against bad LEO’s. Since no LEO ever does that, there is only various shades of bad LEO’s.

Something similar happened in my town (though only one person was killed). The shock of the cop being charged with something ... anything ... was nothing like the shock of the cop being found guilty of something.

I’m sure it is traumatic to kill someone, and if this cop was suing his employer (the police department) for not providing adequate mental health support in dealing with said trauma, or for some kind of bad work environment or lack of training that led to this situation, I think that could be understandable. But suing…

Sorry (not really) but screw you. Those who have fought in wars in defense of our country should get whatever they need when they return - whether that’s medical attention, mental health assistance, or education/training to transition to civilian life. What you term “complaining” I would term simply asking for the…

This appears to be the law enforcement communities response to “those people” wanting more oversight and justice when officer executes unarmed people. This will also make it much more likely that someone would not complain about police abuses if the officer then turns around and sues them for being the victim.

Risk is also a part of the job description. That’s why they feel they need to actively defend themselves instead of... you, know-the community.

In the Onion story the quote from the cop would be “See what you made me do!”

Uhhh, isn't emotional distress part of the job description when you decided to become a police officer? It is literally your job to handle distressing situations. It's also the defense apologetics use when explaining why it's okay for you to kill unarmed civilians. This is an extra step of awful.

If my words were misplaced.

First of all, have even ever been to the dentist, or read instructions on how to brush your teeth?!

First, I think you’re missing the point. It’s a small amount.

The motherfucker came for her child - she has a right to read him.

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Porn stars’ husbands shouldn’t make fun of strippers.

Lost it at “I think you dress cool/I wish I was skinny and tall”

That’s true, but grief is hardly an acceptable excuse to exploit their own daughter and drag her husband’s name through the mud for years on end.

“What the campaign video shows is that if he ever got his hands on the power of government again, he would do the same thing again, maybe next time to your family.”

Michael Schiavo was treated horribly and got the worst raw deal when the fucking congress intervened to collude with Terry’s parents’ denial and he was straight up demonized in the right wing press. It was monstrous how this whole thing was treated like a political football. I had to stop watching. There was something…