Better get that sarcasm detector into the shop. That place gets backed up before the holidays.

The only difference between this story and the hundreds of others is they don’t have a bullshit excuse like “reached for something” as you said or “had a toy gun”.

It would be a far, far better use of her time and brains. Law enforcement is both functioning exactly as designed (as commented on above, to maintain white supremacy), and broken beyond repair. There’s no “fixing” it unless you literally blow it up and start entirely from scratch.

Disagree. I think God is the conservative. In the Garden of Eden Satan tempted Eve to be curious and seek out knowledge by eating from the tree meanwhile God wanted humans to remain as dumb as animals. Once they had knowledge, instead of forgiving them this one time, God kicked them out while telling them to bootstrap…

I’ve been wrongfully imprisoned before...it was terrifying. I can’t inagine what it was like for her. I was an adult but because of a clerical error, literally someone just leaving a piece of paper on their desk instead of filing it, I answered a doorbell one night to find multiple cops fully kitted out asking for…

Those police officers should be in prison for endangering the welfare of a minor and for kidnapping.

Good Lord, this like the Dr. Bronner’s soap bottle of suicide notes.

Exactly. This was within the statute of limitations and it looked like there was a pretty decent case that could have been pursued. Now she’s left with no shot at any kind of legal justice (had she wanted that) and she’s going to have to deal with the horrible people who will blame her for this.

Maybe now she can grow up to be a civil rights lawyer, and win a bunch of ruinous judgments against stupid-ass municipalities that insist on hiring chickenshit, no-account fools for their police departments.

Dude, like, the first thing he does in the good book is hand out free fruit to a naive young woman and teach her about critical thinking. That doesn’t sound particularly Republican to me.

Yup, my first thought as well. When someone is going to be held to account, suicide is the last way they they can control the outcome. Now he can never be found guilty.

I am deeply, deeply angry on behalf of his victim, if he did this as a final act of control. It’s possible she may never get vindication or justice now and I firmly believe that was a big part of his motive.

The problem with churches: there are so many ways to unburden your sins so that you do not need carry the guilt. All you have to do is give God all the credit, and Satan all the blame. You can sin Sunday night through Saturday evening, so long as you repent every Sunday morn.

There’s a lot more going on with his suicide than just him being exposed as a rapist. I say this because there is going to be an avalanche of blame (and harassment and worse) directed at his victim. Before he blessedly relieved the Earth of his presence, a local public radio station was publishing an ongoing…

Could it be Satan?

Christians who blame Satan for anything are the worst. The devil did NOT make you do it. He didn’t possess your body and pilot you like a meat mecha and make you do bad things. YOU did the bad things. YOU rationalized what you were doing. YOU ARE A BAD PERSON! Satan A. Doesn’t exist and B. If he did exist he’d be…

Same. The racist policy stuff is just icing on the anti-choice cake.

I grew up in Alabama, and I agree. Abortion being THE issue at the ballots was preached from my family and from the pulpit, and it took moving out of the state to reverse the brainwashing. It was framed as, if you voted for a pro-choice candidate you were the problem. Nothing is more important in Southern politics…

I’m pretty sure the white woman GOP voters in my family (Alabamans) vote 100% only based on abortion. They will never vote for someone who admits to being pro-choice. For real. That and they are stealth racists who don’t care about equality. It’s like beating your head against a wall to convince them anything other…

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