This was the exhale, but there’s sentencing and I still believe Chauvin’s defense was purposely shit to aid in an appeal: I’m not going to breath easy just yet. True justice is repair (if not dissolution and rebuilding) of the system that allowed Chauvin to get and keep a badge despite a record of dangerous mediocrity …

Already done. Still: if a barometer for the fuck-shit this week will be fun.

Part of why there’s the push to murder learning critical thinking skills went hard in the primary and secondary education space: you can feed people all types of bullshit, but the ability to read and listen and think and empathize... that can transcend amazing things.

There’s no contortion if the main goal is power over everything.

Apropos of nothing, but your stalker is losing his goddamned mind.

I genuinely wonder if the point of the defense is to be declared criminally incompetent and thereby invalidate the conviction. That is the only reason I can think of for their strategy decisions: everyone under the law deserves a good defense, even when everything points to guilt, but this was just... not good.

That past-due motherfucker needs to sit his ass down in Upperco and ruminate on his late-in-life failures. Gah! Did he absorb nothing from that photo op he did as Trump’s black friend at the NMAAH? Sigh, too much energy... cool it down....

Nah, about the right age. Also looks a bit too botox’d

Hit dogs...

Different when it’s a certain kid over another

IDK, Denzel Washington feels like a better example of being able to have God and the bag. This guy had been making semi-fundamentalist demands before he even became a name.

If you don’t say it like in a Lonely Island song...

Maybe talking about Klasick? Though I thought she was as old if not a bit older than Owens but more Fox News friendly...

Oh now... that's just mean to rotten potatoes. You can salvage what you can for vodka

It’s easier to over police the poor with the poor and pay off the families when you kill the black and brown ones than it is to have responsive state income taxes that serve the needs of everyone, like well-trained competent law enforcement and social working officers who can solve 80% of fuck-shit without a weapon.

So much passion in your defense and praise over its courage with some fair and some eh (people who despise this aren’t exactly praising jello salads as salad)... but your final point ‘if this was served at a Michelin restaurant...’ creates a voluminous hole: beyond the grits (which might be another conversation…

Feel like knowing her/liking her as a person should be grounds for recusal in salad and personality defense. I am with you - she’s probably an awesome person and that salad probably doesn’t suck - but Food Network’s use of her and the way the salad is presented feels Uncanny Valley

The part about his mentor giving him a laced blunt when he was but a baby... gah. Sincerely hoping he’s at peace and am thinking of the people he loved who loved him and the impact he made in his short time on Earth.

Feels like a horrible cocktail of crap that cost a lot of lives. Hoping that a CDC and NIH that’s well-funded/gives a crap, can dive deeper into the whys/hows/what-fors within our systems where intervention is needed. As it stands if CTE even has a percentage of a chance of being a factor more needs to be done to find…

...what excuse? The Root reported on what might have been the motive, portion of which won’t really be known until an autopsy. Different tone than “he had a bad day”.