I read 2 articles and heard from one living, human, retired cop: the Psychological Evaluation phase of police application process doesn’t do what many people think it does... apparently most departments ACTIVELY screen OUT anyone with high IQ and average-to-high Empathy. Extra credit if the candidate low-key has ties…

I didn’t take it as a joke at all. I once saw them shooting at a guy for over five minutes, over 200 rounds, in a surrounded public area.
Only a numbskull would believe “that’s just about the right kind of problem solving needed!”

“Sorry I got caught trying to protect my daughter from a physically abusive partner?” The fuck are you on about?

No it isn’t. Stop being a fucking cunt, you fucking cunt.

How do you de-escalate when someone have a gun? I don’t know the whole issues because I was not in that restroom, so I am not going to say who is right and wrong. However, if its true that teen had a gun, I believe the mom did the right thing, because there are two - three negative outcome to this, one the teen with…

Every school restroom I’ve ever seen has exactly one way and one way out. There’s never accessible windows because they don’t want to give unsupervised kids a chance to sneak off and ditch school. So if you truly think that you’ve got someone cornered and they have a gun, why the fuck do you run in there? He’s not…

My uncle was a cop in Newark, NJ for 24 years. He was a patrolman during the worst of the crack epidemic in the 80's. He discharged his weapon twice and only wounded a suspect. Every police officer I have ever spoken to on this topic has said use force is a last result and that you only fire when absolutely no other…

The video seems to show why you want an experienced and trained officer, he clearly shot center mass and protected someone in urgent danger. This is why police train, to make the right decisions, not pull out a taser that turns out to be a gun and kill someone. Your average person could never make that shot.

I’ve avoided that story as much as I can because I’ve had the unfortunate experience of having a knife pointed at me by my schizophrenic sibling when I was younger. I’m not interested in the various takes on the “right” way to handle that. Also, I have a friend active in politics in Columbus and she says there’s a lot…

I agree it’s important to celebrate the victories, and this is absolutely one of them. It was stirring to see the images of people hugging and crying yesterday.

Thank you for this. Ever since the verdict it’s been like a contest, among people, including many on this site, to crush any bit of satisfaction we might let ourselves feel. The red flag for me is the “this victory isn’t justice” folks. There’s literally no reason to try and minimize this victory except need to be…

That sentiment among the “ultra woke” on Twitter last night got on my last nerve. Then when called out about that attitude they had they nerve to insult people that were taking a break to celebrate the 24 hour 7 days a week, 365 day a year job it is being black in this country. Damn it’s these people that would’ve…

Between Coondace, Tomi The UNLV Basketball teams practice chick & bitch turd Tucker Carlson I cannot decide who I want to bury up to their neck and run over with a lawn mower more. Anyone ripping me for these feelings, please feel free to eat a dick and die. Tomi is upset there was no rioting last night, I guess she…

The past several years have been an education for this sheltered white borderline-boomer on why Black Americans are so justifiably afraid of the police. Seeing Derek Chauvin led away in cuffs was cathartic for me; I can only imagine how it felt to so many Black people.

Black lives matter, including the life of the person in pink who looked surprised as hell she was about to be killed by a knife. Let’s find out why the decedent was fighting and try to prevent people from trying to stab people. That’s why it looks like she tragically died, was she having a mental breakdown. Also, why…

Are you kidding ?

Nearly every initial press account of this incident- which was based on the secondhand accounts of family members- was completely contradicted by the bodycam footage. Heres a picture of the dead girl about to plunge a six inch knife into the woman in pink

Damn. Some of you really don’t want to let the least little bit of light come in. Chauvin was found guilty unanimously on all three charges. We’re allowed to be happy about that. We’re allowed to be happy that Floyd’s family didn’t need to endure another heartbreak.

I have some hope. I don’t think we would’ve seen the same verdict had Trump still been in office. 

I cannot believe it actually happened. Sentencing is where it’s actually going to matter, though. Hopefully there’s a mandatory minimum sentence for each of those charges, and they get served consecutively rather than concurrently. I’m honestly still not optimistic that he’ll get what he deserves.