Yes but if you are drunk and become victim of a crime, chances are the perpetrator won’t be let off the hook BECAUSE you were drunk. “Yeah, that guy mugged you, but uh oh, looks like he mugged you while you were drunk. Sorry, dude. It was your own fault. We won’t convict him.”

If you got so drunk that a mugger noticed and decided to take advantage of that, a lawyer wouldn’t attempt to use your drunkenness to get the mugger off charges.

One reason we get so annoyed about this is because we can follow all these dumb rules and still get raped. I’ve got friends who’ve been raped drunk. I’ve got friends who’ve been raped sober. I’ve got friends who’ve been raped by strangers. I’ve got friends who’ve been raped by friends. People want to set up all these…

Do you think young people haven’t heard before why they shouldn’t drink beyond their limits?

She goes on to add that if women want to be taken seriously in our quest for equality, we really should stop yawping “rape” every time we regret a lighthearted sexual caper.

This is exactly the problem in this country. The article is about Rosenberg brings up the corrupt mentality of police, and people would rather talk about Nicki Minaj. This is why there is no one taking to city halls about their police departments. Then theres the problem of denial in this thread. “I wont admit its odd…

Becoming even a cop of the lowest rank requires three years of training and the equivalent of an associate’s degree in my country. Consequently, American cops kill 38 times the amount of citizens per capita each year than our cops do.

My way: no bullets. You don’t get a firearm until you’re on the job for one year or 2500 hours. You can have a taser and your more seasoned partner can have a firearm. Rookies don’t get/need guns until they’ve proven themselves and have experience.

As my not-always-politically-correct mother used to say, “It’s a good thing so many black people are good Christians, because they sure have ample reason to kill white folks."

What just floors me- and it shouldn’t, I should be used to it, but it does, is that there are two instant reactions I see from a certain group of people whenever these tragedies happen:

What’s more interesting here is the fact that article is talking about Rosenburg, and yet y’all are going back and forth in the comments w/ Kara about Ebro.....which is an entirely different person to begin with.

The purpose was to contextualize that as an on-air personality he has a record for making opinion statements that people react strongly to.

What article would be more appropriate after this one? The tabloid rundown? The one about Taylor Swift? Seriously, have you noticed what website this is?

Ew. And your defenses down there are also gross. Doesn’t matter that there was one line about Minaj in the article - it was to contextualize the DJ for audience purposes, not to discuss the particular parenthetical - which was parenthetical for a reason. You jumped on less than a sentence and in doing so totally…

There are no good cops. There are plenty of good people who are cops. But on duty there are no good cops. They are built and designed to kill you if you are black/poor/POC. They do their job very well and like the radio guy says, they don’t speak up when their pals murder. There are no good cops.

One sentence about who this guy might be remembered for is not a tangent, it’s background.

Sigh.

Fascinating and oh so relevant.

The OP’s comment is not actually a tangent now is it? Let’s look at your definition. Hmm. Seems that the OP responded directly to the aside in the article (or tangent in the article given the questionable connection between the Minaj issue and whether Rosenberg is a sympathetic mouthpiece on this topic).

Can we get more of this please? Like Jessie last week, other celebs, known personalities actually saying something. Using their platform to say something? Rather than just nod about how tragic it is?