“But as data scientists and policing experts often note, comparing how many or how often white people are killed by police to how many or how often black people are killed by the police is statistically dubious unless you first adjust for population.”

The husband is also a Scientologist and they are probably behind this lawsuit. In their minds it’s to “save face” a person on one of their abusive “rundowns” killed herself with meds.

Apparently Burton is too - aaaand suddenly the case makes more sense...

Because of your name, I’m assuming you’re being intentionally ironic.

JC’s ex-gf was a Scientologist. They are strongly against psychology and psychiatry. That would make getting help for depression pretty difficult I’d wager.

For what it is worth, Jordan in Tulsa is one of a handful of police chiefs nationwide (Acevedo in Austin is an even better example) who have made conspicuous efforts to be respectful to minority communities during times when a lot of other departments have doubled down on the racist, adversarial bullshit.

That’s really not true and neither Shelby nor Holtzclaw mentioned in a comment threaded below have been targeted unfairly; all police officers should be treated the way they have (carefully--in order to lessen the chance of a successful appeal after conviction--but with an eye towards actual justice). Here are some…

Am I the only one shocked but not really shocked that the one time we actually have a police chief decrying the shooting and saying justice will be served it’s when it was a female officer doing the shooting?

So once Sophia Richie was “legal” Bieber lost interest.

They separated in 2014, divorced in 2015, and now Mariah is engaged to billionaire James Packer, and Nick is wearing turbans and making terrible music.

Life Time was likely more willing to finance the movie since domestic violence is one of the themes they have successfully covered in a number of films.

Lifetime?! I would pay a regular priced ticket to see this in the theatre, where it should be playing (even if if it’s not in wide release). I’m disappointed I won’t get to watch it on the big screen.

....Except Ice Cube, who’s debut album AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted chronicled the tension of a pre-Rodney King Los Angeles boiling over into a full-on riot.

This is really important and deserves to be somewhere better than Lifetime.

Glitter was better than Titanic.

And Captain Planet villain-come-to-life.

It’s Florida, so it’s probably mutated sea bass.

I read not too long ago that sharks are basically the ocean’s toddlers--always sticking stuff in their mouth to learn about it. If they wanted to eat you, they’d eat you (Tangentially, I also recently learned that human blood does not set off shark feeding frenzies, because we don’t smell like shark food. Fish blood…

I was in 7th grade when this movie/soundtrack came out. And I LOVED IT. I loved the movie I loved the soundtrack. So when people trash it, I always get super confused. And I rewatched it the other day with better older eyes and I’m still confused. It’s basically a 80s version of A Star is Born, with trail offs. Like I…

Looking back, Virgin’s decision to cut their losses after one flop from a singer who trailed only Elvis Presley and the Beatles in Number One songs seems short-sighted to say the least. In 2016, it’s difficult to imagine thinking of Mariah Goddamn Carey as that much of a liability