I am so sick of the “let’s just reassign the woman” ‘solution’ to sexual harassment incidents. It’s happened to me and so many other professional women I know. “Hm, this senior person acted inappropriately? I know, we’ll give him a slap on the wrist and totally alter the trajectory of the victim’s career. Seems fair…

She wouldn’t have been great or maybe even good, but I can think of very few public names that would be as bad or worse than what we have. Everyone says Pence would be as bad but I doubt he’d start shit with North Korea just to prove a point.

Also (as someone who is currently in)....ALL your Soldiers regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ect are going to test your patience. They are 18 and you are their surrogate mommy/daddy. They are going to drive you nuts, be disrespectful, do REALLY stupid things, get in trouble, make you tear your hair out,…

She read as mixed-race Asian to me, but I didn’t hunt down her background because to me it read a little beside the point to me at the time (and, unless you can verify the subject’s race, it’s also the easiest way to make an unnecessary mistake). Her rant was clearly anti-black, and anti-blackness runs rampant in all…

I know all that, and in my opinion “detention short of probably cause to arrest” ie a Terry Stop, is a violation  of our Constitutional rights, though Unreasonable Search and Seizure is sadly not very clearly defined.

I couldn’t agree more. There really needs to be a cleansing in the way police operate with the public and their overall power structure. A lot of the mess starts with the all too powerful unions they have. They literally can commit murder and their batshit crazy union chief backs them up wholeheartedly

Yes, of course. The FBI is out to get Donald Trump. Is that where you’re going with this idiotic and unrelated statement.

Nor will there be restitution for the families of people killed by police who “feared for their lives” when they “saw” a person holding a gun.

That was my first thought, you gotta be six kinds of stupid to do this IN UNIFORM! (Just doing it in general is at least five kinds of stupid)

You know what gets me? That whole “A Few Bad Apples” defense? It forgets the next like “A few bad apples... spoil the whole bunch.”. These departments, a LOT of departments, need to have a whole house cleaning, down to the fucking floor boards. Rip out all the training material. Rip out the senior officers. Start it…

But it was the revelation that the supervisor of the unit instructed officers to carry a toy gun just in case they found themselves “in a jam” and needed to plant one.

Yeah, you aren’t supposed to pose for unofficial photos* or make statements in uniform, since it generally either appears to be an endorsement by the Armed forces or it falls under conduct unbecoming of an Officer. You are also certainly not (while Enlisted) allowed to make public, defamatory statements about the US…

This is infuriating. I’m going to guess that even if a federal judge rules that there is a clear cut case of corruption that everyone these officers arrested in their career history won’t get their cases reexamined.

She looks mixed-raced herself - a la Meghan Markle - which makes the whole thing even more confusing and a bit sad.

I bet they do! I wish they were plastered everywhere. I live in LA and have never sen one! I was a teacher and we ALWAYS taught the kids to do it. I just wish more people knew about it.

Gay dude here who has seen FAR too many Internet comments about Topher like:

Bless. Your. Heart.

The student body’s “USA night”

That’s why they’re trying so hard to suppress the vote. Majority rule by the minority is literal apartheid, and don’t think they won’t try it if they think they can get away with it.

That is SHIT! Any decent Coach or Educator would have shit that down on grounds of poor sportsmanship and forfeited.