“The State Patrol reports that Chyna Thomas was not wearing her seat belt.”

I don’t know what you think. I do know that in a story about a man getting brutalized for a misdeameanor where the legal punishment is less than you would get for picking the wrong flowers you chose to point out how much of big deal him driving with a revoked license was.

I got a ticket for it, and my passenger had to drive us home.

Dylan Roof walked into a church and calmy murdered nine people and when they picked him up they gave a him a kevlar vest and a meal from Macdonalds. This guy drove without a license and got dragged from his car and curb stomped because I guess one of those things is a big deal.

this would result in a (WHITE) person being questioned discreetly on the side of the road,

I can and do feel deep sorrow for them.

The thing that really grinds my corn is that, inevitably, some gun worshipping wingnut will blame the kid/family for not having “proper education in gun safety”, even though they never owned one. Yet, when actual NRA staffers blow holes in themselves at sanctioned safety events, the gun “just went off”.

Another gun that just went off, all on its own. This epidemic of spontaneously discharging weapons needs some investigation. Maybe we need some for of control on these guns to ensure that they stop just going off. Keep them away from people so that they don’t go off on their own and kill any more people.

They haven’t even figured out whose gun it was.

You didn’t read the article. It was not the family’s gun.

“It is still not clear to the family how Malachi got his hands on the dangerous weapon. Stephens said that he got the gun from a friend who got it from someone else.”

It is still not clear to the family how Malachi got his hands on the dangerous weapon. Stephens said that he got the gun from a friend who got it from someone else. Investigators are looking into finding out who originally had the gun and passed it to the friend, the news station notes.

So, I once had three police SUVs roll up onto the sidewalk around me. One in front, one behind one on the side. They all the proceeded to hop out, hands on their guns. Cop 1 claimed they had a report of a suspicious person, loitering in front of a store and what am i doing out here so late.

1. It was 8:30pm. Also late…

until I can do further research.

He was not trying to flee, he was standing there in the middle of the street because he was stopped for jaywalking. Safe to assume he said something like, “Are you fucking kidding me? You’re stopping me for jaywalking in the middle of my neighborhood?” The cop approached him, the man did not resist, the cop grabbed…

It’s almost like they should be held to the highest standard of conduct or something.

Being “bodily seized” for trying to “escape detention” for the crime of jaywalking, is the equivalent of getting the absolute shit beaten out of you and then being dragged like roadkill down the isle of an airplane for not giving up a seat you paid for. Gimme a break.

Stop. Your ignorance is showing.

Cue the braying apologists who have never had to deal with being targeted by officers....”Well, if you just do what you’re told, none of this happens!”, as if anything less than complete cowering is deserving of whatever the officers feel like dishing out.

People wonder why we have issues with the police, but fail to see that we can get beaten for “illegally” crossing the fucking street. “Beaten” doesn’t even describe half of it—abused, brutalized, criminalized, and dehumanized, with what little sense of security we can scrape together torn from us.