It lifts some of it, yes. I know the basic difference between civil and criminal cases, but I was under the impression that a settlement is a way to end a civil case before trial while a plea bargain is a way to end a criminal case before trial. I could be wrong on that.

“The terms of the settlement do not stipulate that the University of Cincinnati claim liability for the shooting.”

I think they don’t need them; they use them to protect their interests. Urban universities like UC use them to make white suburban families feel safe sending their kids to campus. UCPD spent a lot of time patrolling near campus rather than on it, and the university insisted on real police officers trained at an…

UC student here. They’re trained at the same police academy as CPD officers, so they’re fully trained police. However, there’s a big difference in their responsibility to the community.

I felt like they were trending in that direction with “drunk ladies with boob jobs better stay away from Roethlisberger” schtick. It took the spot from being a misguided-but-somewhat-acceptable shaming attempt to another “haha only drunk ‘hot’ women get raped” trope to play off for laughs.

Noooooooobody! I actually passed on going to my neighborhood bar tonight because I don’t want to be that emotionally volatile in public. I live in Gaslight Clifton, so the bars are mainly populated by grad students and professors and I have a professional reputation that requires I not be a tipsy, teary mess (which I…

Yes, that Bill Cunningham. He’s pretty much the worst. When I moved here I was surprised they let him say what he says on the air, because a lot of his rants boiled down to “don’t go to the city center because there are black people there and they will kill you.” The fact that his show was popular enough that he…

I didn’t know that about WLW overnight because I generally try to avoid giving them the time of day. It’s cool that they have better content at night than most other stations, though.

Totally not surprising for 700 WLW. I live in Cincinnati, and that station is basically most well known for two things: (1) having a talk radio host (Bill Cunningham) who makes Rush Limbaugh look liberal and (2) being an absolute fear-mongering garbage station. They frequently try to spin even the safest neighborhoods…

I think gun access is a major piece of the problem but there are other issues, too. I don’t have the answers, at all, but here are some of the things I’ve been thinking about recently. I think a lot of these also reflect what other people are saying, too.

I’m currently attending the University of Cincinnati, and we’re working to disarm our police after one of them shot and killed Samuel Dubose in a routine traffic stop for being unarmed and black while in a car. We also had to take their tasers away because they killed an Upward Bound (also black, unarmed) student with…

Thank you so much for mentioning the center mass training. Officers shoot to disable. This “I aimed for XXXXX” bullshit should never fly, but they use it all the time. If you did aim for the gun/foot/wrist then you weren’t following your training. If you didn’t, you wounded or killed someone and are trying to cover it…

“I think we’re getting to the point where people just find facts and reality itself offensive.” <—— All the stars for this.

I think that’s a possibility, but I also think it’s possible to live in a social environment that encourages violent action against perceived enemies. Germany in the 1920s-1940s had a lot of normal, sane people committing some of the most atrocious acts in human history. The USA had the same trend regarding anti-black…

How does she know how the kayak tastes? The kayak could be delicious.

“I want to have a military that’s so strong, so powerful, so modern, has the greatest equipment in the world, and that everybody says ‘We’re not gonna mess with them.’ And we don’t have that now.”

I saw a friend post about this on Facebook, with this beautiful gem to add:

“I am all for raising the minimum wage, but I think it should go to $10. If we pay retail and fast food workers $15 an hour that would be unfair to teachers and other people who make essentially $15 an hour for much more skilled labor! What…

I’ve literally seen the argument “He was clearly reaching for something” over and over again. That seems to be one of the lines that justifies the shooting. Tensing told him to take off his seatbelt, he reached for his seatbelt; people say he shouldn’t have reached for his seatbelt.

So basically, don’t only be super…

There is a large contingent of people who saw that video and somehow believe that Tensing was “clearly dragged for about 30 feet” before he shot Dubose. They dominated the discussion in the comments on a Slate article last night and on nearly every news article I’ve read as well.

It’s incredible, in the literal sense…

We’re still a long shot from recognizing marital rape in a lot of the US.