I think that’s a nice piece of fiction we often tell ourselves.

Also:

Christ, the police are disgusting.

Thanks for saying this, exactly.

Jesus, think you for this.

If you think her music is the issue here, I think you've read the wrong article. 

Yes, fine, but let’s not pretend what a disgusting double standard this is compared to the hundreds of black male artists that openly talk about their past such as being in gangs, selling drugs and guns, chopping cars, etc.

You’re off your rocker.

There certainly are a lot of people in the comments who have never been that poor, and that desperate enough to turn to crime, even once.

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Exactly.

I do not live or work on the USA, and I hear numerous complaints from men who wish they had not been circumcised, that the choice hadn’t been taken away from them as unconsenting infants.

This is the best comment I have ever read on this group of sites.

This, exactly, is what makes me the angriest.

This.

You’re absolutely right, it’s a shell game of who can con the others the fastest, and get away with the most cash. All while taking advantage of those with few means, and even less agency.

This is amazing.

I agree.

I wish I could do this,it so I applaud you for it.

I won’t go as far to say she was entirely blameless in the altercation, but her life was threatened by her neighbour, and then she was violently apprehended and abused by police while the instigator remained a free man.