the aspect of that I’m questioning is whether there can be an escalation without going all the way up to using lethal force.

We’ll never know if the cops could have resolved this differently if they hadn’t returned fire.

Generally, protesting on a highway is pointless. Are the lawmakers driving on that highway that day?

well then don’t fixate on the word “laws” and let’s instead say “all for a change in culture that reduces shootings”. Still something you’d think cops would want, right? Fewer people shooting at them. Fewer homicides to investigate.  (even with more police on the job that’d still be something you’d think they’d want.)

Why is it so tough to get cops to join in these protests?

Mr Burke, best of luck in whatever you do next!

I kind of like that in a sense of completeness.

Isn’t the pitcher usually credited for inducing a bad hit?

27 up, 27 down is efficient. Maybe even properly call it an “efficient game”.

If the military is the path to citizenship, and it can be downsized, then the path to citizenship is actually the combination of military service and the acceptance into the limited availability of that service.

They started laying the groundwork for that with the birther myth.

Remind me about our this guy who ran on his talents as a businessman.

Why is teaching and medicine more valuable to you than military service?

But those two specific examples are collections of unions. Where’s the group that’s for everyone regardless of union status?

I wonder why no one’s founded a union version of Rocket Lawyer.

I think he might mean a national organization not specific to an industry.

Ah, I see.

It’s not a military tactic. It’s a currently in-progress competitive event.

so wrong but also so right.