I was in my nostalgia so hard. I cried.

So real talk. Kids look miserable ALL THE GODDAMN TIME. You have absolutely no clue why she looks upset. Maybe her mom told her she couldn’t get McDonald’s that night? My father smoked cigarettes in the car with my brother and me and we fucking hated it. Doesn’t mean he’s an awful parent anymore than your video here…

the “keeping it together so I don’t fall apart” response is pretty common.

you knew you were trying to slander diamond reynolds. you know what you’re doing and you are definitely one of those assholes. fuck off.

I remember watching her video and feeling very conscious of the fact that she had probably seen the same Alton Sterling-related video probably only a few hours before her boyfriend got shot, same as the rest of us.

This woman has a vagina of steel, managing to keep her cool and record the cop who shot her boyfriend dead for no reason while at the same time trying to keep her daughter calm, at the same time staying calm enough to call the officer sir. She is brave as fuck and fwiw has my personal respect and admiration.

And? What is the point of your shitty comment? She did our country a favor by bringing this horrific shooting and assholes are going to comb through looking for every little thing to discredit her. Good job helping them. We’re potentially electing a known rapist and this is your worry? This has nothing to do with why…

As someone who has gone through a traumatic (though not on a violent level such as this) experience I ended up surprising myself with the calmness that I felt. It was exactly like something had switched off, and a part of me that I did not know I had switched on and said “Do whatever you need to get through this time.…

Sadly, I’ve been seeing that interpreted on social media as “he was wanted by the police for robbery” and therefore was justified in shooting him. So much there will make your head explode (holy misinterpretation, Batman; even if it were accurate, is execution the penalty for robbery? I feel like that might be a…

The Mama Bear can be both fierce and silent. I am so sorry that you had this experience.

If I see one more middle-class white aunt/mom/college roommate spitting out platitudes like “What we need in this world is more LOVE” or “When will we learn that ALL HUMANITY is PRECIOUS” or “POSITIVE ENERGY is the only thing that can fight hate” (and yes, there are always capitalized words), I’m going to punch them…

Right. The people who “don’t get” her calm have either never been in a serious situation, or they’re the panickers. Remaining calm is deeply intuitive - how the fuck else are you going to extricate yourself from the situation?

When I was in high school, my mother slipped and fell on the ice and broke her leg badly in three places. I had to call 911, and I went into a sort of automatic detached mode, based on the scripts you say in lifeguard training. Despite her being in the middle of a parking lot in 10 degree weather it took them an hour…

Not only that, but given the number of times he had been pulled over in the past (I’ve heard numbers between 30 and 50), of course he knew exactly how to conduct himself. It was old hat.

As a mom i identified with the mother as soon as i saw the video. I know that calm. I was pulled over by a police officer who did not want to let me go. He kept coming back to my car asking more questions. I did not have nor was i on any drugs or alcohol. License, reg, insurance in check. I even had a gold card from…

To me, her “calmness” was very similar to the way a horse trainer speaks to a spooked and dangerous animal. She couldn’t risk setting Officer Triggerhappy off on herself or her daughter.

Also, the broken taillight reason was BS. Police scanner recordings revealed that the officer pulled them over because they might be suspects in a robbery because he saw a “wide nose.” They were straight up racially profiled (sadly unsurprising).

It doesn’t matter what she would have done. If she had been hysterical they would have said she was putting on a show for the cameras.

When you’ve got a preconceived notion of how something is supposed to play out, suddenly everything looks ‘fishy’.

I’ve seen some people on my FB news feed (those that I affectionately refer to as “the asshole contingent” of my family, mostly) questioning how calm she remained throughout the video, and how matter-of-fact her narration was. The upshot seemed to be that there was something fishy about it.

He always made like 30 extra outfits and accessories in is Project Runway days. He’s a darling overachiever.