But she had a few issues with being too smart for her own good.

It still was the right thing for her to do. She’ll get a payout now and helps bring awareness to police overreach on top of the inherent value in standing up for herself. Cops don’t know or care about the law. Their job and goal is to control the interaction and look for a reason to charge you with something. Don’t…

Thing is on.  They’re just being silent until this news cycle is over. Then it’s back to business as usual.

At 36:06, when one cop wants to cite her and let her go and the other convinces him to process her instead so that they “get her photo on file” and get her into the system...….What a blatant and succinct expression of this aspect of law enforcement mentality - that institutionalization of ‘criminal types’ is more…

These kinds of videos are almost worse to watch than the ones of just violence. People who are in the right completely who still get brutalized and humiliated simply for standing up for their rights.

HE HAD THE BOOK . I wish I could see his eyes widen ever so slightly when he passed over the statute that proved her correct.

It is Oregon.

 If they don't know the actual law and are only marginally better than laypeople at threat assessment, what the hell is even the point? 

but she refused to “comply” with the officer and show her license, which is her right as a citizen in Oregon.

Ignorance of the law is not an excuse for people, but is an excuse for cops, whose job it is to enforce the law.

Being a cop is hard and dangerous, and it’s a very important role that society depends on. Which is why we have to let cops constantly fuck up, make terrible judgement calls and fail at even the basic parameters of their jobs with no consequences! Otherwise, something, something, crime wins. 

1. There is no excuse.

So at my job I have key responsibilities, things my employer expects me to be able to do correctly. If I mess those up, I face disciplinary action. That could be a write-up, or retraining, or potentially even termination.

Recycling should be the option of last resort. Buy less single use items and reduced packaging, when possible.

Ikr?  And the ONLY scandal they can dig up is the native american thing?  That’s nothing.

Also, my friend seems to forget that her Beloved Cheeto promised a better insurance plan than Obamacare.  When he failed to do that, he simply tried to abolish Obamacare.  How is that any kind of progress??

If someone thought even for a second that the Pocahontas bullshit was funny, they’d very quickly be an ex-friend.

Or the “why won’t she just say your taxes are going to go up” fit the media is throwing at the moment. Why yes, thank you “liberal media” for constantly framing the Medicare-for-all question in Republican terms. And when she responds in a thoughtful manner regarding how the cost for average Americans will go down, the…

Yeah, nobody seems to bring up condescension when it’s Joe Biden listing all of the GOP senators he’s friends with as evidence that he’s the only one who knows how things work. 

I love Elizabeth Warren. I hope she gets the nomination. I have a Republican friend who trashes Warren over the whole Pocahontas thing, claiming that “she’s already lost,” yet she embraces Trump, and sees nothing wrong with him.