This is a really good explanation of why cops (see also: people generally) cannot be trusted to make good judgements under duress while wielding deadly force.

The trained use of a fire arm is to fire until the subject no longer moves. She fired a single shot.

If American cops had to dress like this again instead of cosplaying soldiers and Robocop, I wager they would attract less trigger-happy assholes to their ranks.

Here’s what I want:

High Fives. Well said. Even losing them as grown, you still wonder about the now they never had in the intervening years since the loss.

The worst of blows, the deepest of grief, the rivers of forever tears. I lost my son to cancer but he was an adult, it’s a hurt that softens with time, but never goes away. There are days when the pain of loss comes crashing down and the last days are renewed...My heart goes out to them.

No parent should have to bury their child. For the rest of Alyssa & Nick’s lives they’ll see him in the faces of others & wonder how their child would have grown up, what his voice would sound like, what his hands would feel like, what his hair would smell like when they hugged him close, how wide his smile would be.…

If due diligence was done, than the union would not have had standing to cause a fuss. Unless it was a cop union, then all bets are off.

In fairness to Florida, https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-imprisons-1-36-black-adults-no-state-has-higher-rate

WHAT?

Unions do not protect their members*. Unions ensure their members get due process from their employer. This often looks like protection because their employers are lazy fucks who can’t abide by the rules they themselves set, so the due process falls in favor of the employee at review. Union members are not…

I see a lot of “autism is no excuse!” comments on here, and a lot of parental blame. These people have obviously never been exposed to someone with autism, particularly some of the more severe forms.  I know autism is a common excuse that terrible people use for their actions, but the reason this is common is because…

Likely sensory overload re: the mask.  It’s difficult for autistic and sensory children.  Thankfully our daughter is accepting of it but there are some things she can’t wear or touch.

Ah man, tell us other ways we can tell you don’t have kids

Most schools do “inclusive education” which puts all children into the same classes, so everyone gets the same opportunity for learning. The “special needs” classes of the past were often just warehousing classes for the worst students and the worst teachers. Special education now generally means higher paid specially…

No kid deserves to be hit by an adult. However, a kid that hits others is a kid whose parents failed them. We should be holding parents responsible for their kids’ behavior until the kid turns 18.

What happened after he inserted himself into that protest might legally fit the requirements for self defense in the state of Wisconsin, but my point still stands that he set that chain of events in motion by deciding, in his own words, that he was going to being a gun to a protest to protect property that did not…

I wouldn’t be so sure. Not everybody is wired to respond to punishment in the way it is intended.

We have to somehow end this belief among white people that they have the autonomy to police Black people in any way that seems fit, whether they have evidence or not. Remember, that’s what happened in the Trayvon Martin case and the recent Rittenhouse case.

as someone with autism I do feel for her(even though I never had an urge to do something like that myself) I went to a school for special needs kids and there was this one black kid in my class who had a more severe form of autism then my own and would sometimes try to get violent(he tried to stab someone with a…