Breanna: since there’s so much discussion around charging a person involved in a crime, but not necessarily the main actor, disproportionate charges/overcharging, and references to the case where the man was charged with the death of his accomplice by police, AND since the Root is always addressing police use of force…

Yeah, our justice system is deeply flawed. The prosecutor overcharges because it’s a heinous conspiracy and two of the participants are minors and may not see justice, so they go after the adult, and of course overshoot and get no conviction. When they undercharge, we have the whole world whining about how violent…

I’m conflicted on that one, because driving the getaway car certainly seemed to have enabled the crime in this case. I also feel like, unless the evidence is pretty cut and dried to the contrary, that whenever an adult or adults are involved with minors in the commission of a crime, the adults would always bear some…

You missed the kidnapping part of his conviction.  That’s one crime that still allows for the death penalty, at least in states that still have capital punishment, so I’m pretty sure that added some years to the sentence, and probably will be the main issue in eligibility for parole...well, that and the previous…

Soo...were there shower facilities at this “venue” or did everybody head back to reality all limber and sweaty?

Morning tai chi in the park is the quintessentially most cliche ‘Frisco thing I’ve read about, seen depicted, but have never actually managed to witness in all my trips to the City by the Bay.  Thank you for yet another reference to this elusive scene.

My grandfather, who has lived almost double the average life expectancy of a male born in the 1920's, asked me recently why he should pay for somebody else’s healthcare. I didn’t have the heart to tell him, dear stubborn wonderful man, that he’s been “collecting welfare” as the pundits say, for nearly as long as I’ve…

I’m only passable at math, but a scaled down pentagon budget (“a peace economy”), curtailed corporate welfare and some wrinkles ironed out of our byzantine tax code would cover the vast majority of these things. The healthcare issue alone could be self-funding once costs adjust to a single payer model and productivity…

The View klatch poses such thoughtful questions to each other and then destroys it all just in time for commercial break via shouting and talking over each other and other petty non-communication forms. I know the melt-downs and zingers are easy to share and make for good viral clicks and whatnot, but man, if these…

Kind of a straw-car argument - if you looked up lawsuits filed against “yellow cab” in ever jurisdiction that has one, I’m willing to bet there are a whole lot out there, maybe even more per year than Uber.  Not to be an Uber apologist, and there are definitely issues with the way the company runs, but they suffer…

I’d try getting everybody to spam the “made a mistake” link since Miller is a public figure in the administration and the cellphone number in question is routinely used for White House and Trump Campaign business. I’ll bet a FOIA request reveals that We, The People, even pay his phone bill.

I think the commenters are barking up the wrong tree. It’s not the mental state of the people who claim to need an emotional support animal that’s the problem, it’s that they’re able to literally just pick a critter out of a zoo and call it an ESA. There needs to be a training and certifying protocol in place like for…

I don’t know if it’s tinfoil hat territory or what, but I was told by a colleague who has a family member in the scooter biz that the scooter companies are selling user data, and that revenue, at least in part, is subsidizing the business model. What kind of data and what value it could possibly have is another…

First of all...four officers? I count more than that, and not a single one of them on camera did anything to defuse the situation or render aid to a man who had just been violently attacked.

Trumplestiltskin’s botched rendition aside (goodness, how delicious his isolated audio must be!) can we discuss the very real probability that, based on the statement accompanying this performance, he likely thinks “God Bless America” actually *is* our national anthem?!?!

How does okra work out when brined and fermented?

I didn’t discover him, but I never sat in that chair again after that, nor did I let friends sit in that chair. Eventually, they got rid of it when they re-did the decor. I’m also always giving people second looks when they’re sleeping on the bus or the train to see if there are signs of life, like breathing or…

Any normal civilian kills a 15 year old child and society and the justice system pulls out all the stops and throws the book at the offender - but when a police officer, who’s trained, armed, armored, is supposed to know better, riding along with another police officer, straight up maims and kills a kid, it’s just…

The thing is, if you call 911, the DISPATCHER decides whether or not to send police, and PD decides whether it’s a priority call or not. She might be the Beckiest Becky in all of Beckydom, but Philly PD has clearly been enabling her.

Maybe the customers really didn’t like the kiosk? The Wendy’s near my home switched to kiosks, and the girl at the register was bellowing for anybody paying with a card to feel free to step over and use the kiosk instead of waiting in line. Well by the time I found all the menu options on the kiosk and completed my…