I waited specifically for the 2016 models to come out and bought a new Passat the other day ... CarPlay is a fantastic feature.

“... and I do think the SAO overcharged in the instance.” That reminds me, where has Marilyn Mosby been? She certainly didn’t actually try this case.

The case against this officer has problems. From an NYT article:

Actually his defense doesn’t really rest on that. Porter testified that he didn’t see the directive that came out a few days before making seat belting mandatory (I don’t believe that that testimony was ever contradicted); the general practice in the department wasn’t to seatbelt people in vans because of safety…

You might be right, but the local law professor who is covering the case thinks it’s going to be complicated.

Porter testified that he didn’t see the directive that came out a few days before making seat belting mandatory (and I don’t believe that that testimony was ever contradicted); the general practice in the department wasn’t to seatbelt people in vans because of safety concerns; Porter knew that Gray had tried to escape…

Actually his defense doesn’t really rest on that. Porter testified that he didn’t see the directive that came out a few days before making seat belting mandatory (I don’t believe that that testimony was ever contradicted); the general practice in the department wasn’t to seatbelt people in vans because of safety…

In other news, anonymous internet commenter passionately stands up for right of blog to intentionally and actively mislead readership on senstive social justice issues.

So, is Jezebel ever going to follow up down the line on this story to let us know how the allegations panned out? Or is it just list the allegations and move on ...

The entire 1st two paragraphs and title continue to misstate what happened, giving the reader the thought that these are opinions that Scalia came up with. He’s was addressing arguments in an amicus curiae brief. If you had any integrity, the article should be re-written to correctly state what actually happened and…

Sure, and since there’s absolutely zero objective criteria listed by Gawker (or anyone else) as to when to use the dismiss button, it’s really just become the “delete opinions I don’t like “ button.

Do they also pull guns out of waistbands and start to point them at officers who have their guns drawn in Toledo?

The rate for police might be a result of the police expertly diffusing dangerous situations on a regular basis ...

Accidents aren’t strict liability in the United States, that is to say that you need to show some form of negligence. Apparently, Bruce at the time was doing pretty much everything he should have been doing and so it was going to be harder case to prove than had he been texting while at the wheel, for example.

Was any investigation performed to determine whether this design was, in fact, “original” or whether it borrowed from other designs that were common at the time?

Was any investigation done ...like any at all .. to look into whether the Inuit garment was truly “original” or whether it borrowed from other pre-existing designs?

Right, let's not blame the victim here!!!1,

I never said that people only hide behind the internet or that people don’t protest in person these days. People do choose to remain entirely anonymous on the internet for a specific reason and it’s not just because they like to make up zany handles: because they can lob stones from behind a brick wall without anyone…

Sure, except that those people voiced their opinions on issues, stood behind them and were ultimately accountable by being visible. Today, it’s a bunch of completely unaccountable internet commenters, who have intentionally remained entirely anonymous by choice, with handles like m9105826, and whose lives we know…

That’s about 10 percent of the value of making a weird looking clock in a suitcase and then having someone think it’s a bomb.