> Starting with the President and working your way down is equivalent to taking a gorgeous mahogany coffee table with details carved into the legs, and tossing it into an industrial wood chipper

The weird thing is that police officer isn’t even the most dangerous job out there. There’s a whole list of jobs with higher death or injury rates.

I think the “My candidate didn’t win the bid so I’m going show them who’s boss by voting 3rd party or not voting at all” attitude is kind of a myth, though. The only evidence I’ve ever heard for it is the ~10% of Bernie primary voters who voted for Trump, but put in context with the fact that the 2008 Hillary/Obama…

I was just thinking the same thing. Police always claim that they fear for their lives. But how often are police officers’ lives actually in danger? I’m talking about beat cops like these who are catching neighborhood prowlers and solving petty crimes. How often do they actually get guns pulled on them? Are the…

I don’t think this article really said anything at all about a far left agenda.

Radical idea: People who react that way shouldn’t be cops.

Radical idea: That’s actually a good reason not to shoot everyone who looks like they’re carrying a gun.

They don’t shoot *everyone*, though. They manage to bring in armed people all the time...somehow. I’m sure the differences in those decisions are also related to implicit (and not-so-implicit) bias, but another…

It just occurred to me. The prosecutors that actually DO charge these guys NEED some expert witnesses on the statistics of police deaths in the line of duty.

Valid alternative:

Yep. If you can’t perform the basic tasks of being a police officer on an overnight boat without pumping 20 rounds into the darkness with no probable cause, then maybe you shouldn’t be a fucking police officer.

When I read the story, I was horrorstruck but not surprised to discover that the cops assumed he was the perp without assessing the situation at all. And that’s just one of the many things that are wrong with what they did. and even if he was the perp, murdering him over the crime of breaking and entering some cars…

It’s his yard. His castle. If it had been a gun this is exactly the sort of self-defense situation that gun ownership is supposed to provide. The duplicity on the part of white gun owners in disallowing self defense for a black gun owner is astounding.

It’s almost trite to keep reiterating this point, but until America’s police forces repudiate the ideology that these streets are a warzone and that suspects are the enemy combatants things like this will continue to happen. Likewise, it’s absurd to expect that community relations between the police and the most…

That one line “where is his right to fear for his life?”

Exactly- that ‘why didn’t he comply’ regardless of the circumstances has become their go to mantra for all of these tragedies. The willingness to accept that Stephon was the suspect is telling. One white guy on social media was arguing with someone about the # of shots fired, blathering on about how Stephon was “only…

You’re nicer than I am. The people who say “well he should have just complied” can just shut the entire fuck up. I’m tired of their idiotic excuses as to why these cops just had to murder this man.

Through millions of years of evolution, we have developed a fight or flight instinct. Instinct being physical actions our body will take to survive a dangerous situation without having to stop and consider or delay, which could mean death.

Preach. This. Word.

It’s the very same people who say ‘why didn’t he just comply’ that are the first to say the ‘cops feared for their lives.’