At least in the case of Michael Brown, you omitted the small, but important word: “allegedly” since the sole eyewitness account directly contradicts the murderer’s responding officer’s testimony.

no. Larger departments may have a longer break-in period, where rookies are attached to a training officer during their shifts, but any meaningful training is over when they swear their oath and get a badge number. If you believe even half the stories, that ride-along period is at best indoctrination into whatever…

Of that meager training time U.S. cops get, a sizeable chunk is squandered on firearms techniques and tactics.

This family is surrounded with handlers, publicists, stylists, personal assistants and domestic staff already, and presumably Caitlynn has at least a barebones campaign staff, and yet nobody is proofreading or focus-grouping (or even reading) any of her statements or talking points before she goes live??

The internet doesn’t deserve the details, that’s for sure, but it would be nice to get some reassurance that tipsters didn’t just return this girl to an abusive home situation. I mean, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time an influencer manipulated their followers or exploited their reach for skeevy purposes.

For appliances and fixtures just be extra careful checking the specs...sometimes commercial equipment uses plumbing or electrical hookups that are not residential standard (e.g. a commercial warewasher will need a water hookup of a specific size and psi, and a commercial oven or microwave may need to be hard-wired,…

Typically only if a) there are sales tax issues or b) there are liquor issues.

Police killed about 1,100 people in 2020 alone (just over 1,000 shot, the rest via other means)...there were only 18 days of the year where a cop didn’t kill somebody, which means most days of the year cops killed a couple people. Only about half the states even have a death penalty any more, so we’re talking about…

There’s got to be ways to revamp routine traffic stops so the cop doesn’t have to get out of their car, at least not right away. Telepresence that connects the officer to the driver via the dashboard or smart phone, a “walk up window” where the cop can process the license, registration, insurance from behind…

One thing that troubles me about this is that they don’t know, or haven’t stated, why the kid was pulled over. The cop calls that in - that’s procedure. They read the license plate to dispatch or put it in the computer, that’s almost the first thing they do, so if the stopped car runs, somebody jumps out and kills the…

Really, a cult is like MLM, and the closer you are to the tip of the pyramid, the more you’re an abuser, and less an abused.

This is one step of a multi-pronged attack that has all been planned out by conservative think tanks and their dark-money backers. They’re shopping for legislation sponsors and then handing over pre-written bills and a roadmap to passage in exchange for political and financial support.

We don’t vote for president. We vote for electors who’ve said (promised?) to cast THEIR vote for a specific presidential candidate in December. Federal law mainly pertains to the electoral college part of the election, and the Federal Election Commission and Commission on Presidential Debates actually have very little…

You’re not wrong in asking.

My pal Mr. Observation Man addressed the Canada Goose hubbub a while back...as peeps were getting relieved of their parkas at gunpoint here in The City of Big Shoulders.  In this economy, I can think of alot of better ways to spend a grand, and still stay toasty warm when the next polar vortex inevitably descends.

My pal Mr. Observation Man addressed the Canada Goose hubbub a while back...as peeps were getting relieved of their…

Not for nothing:  one of the CARES Act provisions allows for shopping the marketplace plans if your job-provided healthcare was lost or changed due to COVID, regardless of the open enrollment window.

I’ll go out on a limb and posit that vaccine work did not start in the US the same time as the UK, and I’m also gonna venture that the UK vaccine efforts weren’t encumbered or outright obstructed by imbeciles in government like they were/are here in the US, or at least not to the same extent.  Constant blabber about…

Is the (guarded) statement that the side effects “might be a little more severe” based on anything in particular? Is it just that there are two doses, so potentially double the chance for showing a side effect, any side effect? Or has info been released as to what sort of adjuvants, buffers and/or preservatives to…

Before I clicked the headline, I *KNEW* the gist and tone of the inevitable quote from the police union rep, and I was not disappointed.

I think (hope) an argument could be made that the “except in cases of impeachment” part of the clause should be interpreted to mean that if the President has been impeached, then issuing pardons is no longer within his power. That’s a longshot, I know, particularly given the current complexion of the Supremes, but I’m…