What they did was dumb. Would I have done that as a teenager? Yes.

on the one hand, my kid’s a hit man. on the other, he says please and thank you and “we don’t kill women and children.”

This is one of those amazing true stories that I would criticize for being too far fetched if I had seen it in a fictional movie first.

You are one of my favorites. There’s a lot of this type of information I am unaware of as well and you are always succinct and polite in your responses. (Also you are a wizard hat and I have mad respect for that. I imagine you as a Carmen SanDiego/Merlin mix.)

It’s not just better training required for police officers. We need to stop hiring sociopaths for the job.

In one damning moment from the trial, Melendez and his partner were also revealed to have exchanged racist text messages a few months after attacking Dent. “At least give me the satisfaction of knowing you’re out there beating up niggers right now,” Melendez texted Zieleniewski in March, the Guardian reports.

Michigan apparently has a form of indeterminate sentencing where the legislature sets a maximum sentence and a judge sets a minimum sentence. When the convicted person reaches the minimum sentence he’s allowed to go in front of a parole board to ask for release on parole, but must serve at least the minimum.

At least give me the satisfaction of knowing you’re out there beating up niggers right now

I think the article here does a pretty good job of explaining, even without clicking through to the links.

Did you read this article? Because this is in there:

Agreed. To a frighteningly large proportion of Americans, racism means calling attention to the fact that people are treated differently according to their race.

Wow, this whole thing makes me sick to my stomach. I’m so incredibly grateful for this absolutely righteous judge, but when I think about how many more of these guys are out there acting with impunity...it’s totally beyond frightening.

I’ve encountered a lot more push-back against perceived gayness among African-American men that among Anglo men. I still hear “Nohomo” added to sentences regularly by the brothers in my program when, like others have said, that kind of thing is pretty out-dated in the population at large.

It definitely isn’t for everyone (I’m a “that’s an exit only” kinda girl myself), but it also is in no way weird or unusual.

I read it as taking pictures and videos of themselves. Made all the more likely by the extreme narcissism that lives in that union.

I believe she’s a credible witness.

I don’t think people are trying to avoid that part, I think you’re trying really hard to make Amber Rose take credit for Kanye’s homophobia. Just because she knew he’d have a homophobic response doesn’t mean her comment is homophobic. Gay people do things all the time that freak out homophobes, sometimes they even do…

Wait till he gets on twitter and sees that #KanyeAnalPlaylist has been trending for over 24 hours now. Twitter has no chill.

She might be (I don’t know and don’t care), but that’s not the funny part. The funny part is that out of all the reactions Kanye could have had to the whole mess, he decided the important point to clarify was OH NOES NO FINGERS IN MY BUTT. She got to him with it, and that’s funny.

I took this statement to mean the following: