I was chatting with a friend who lives in the area, and she’s wondering if the police feel it’s an MS-13 related thing, as Torres is from El Salvador. (No idea if it’s true, just a thought.)

There has been a notable uptick of MS-13-related violence of late in the DC suburbs.

Every time I think I understand am beginning to get a glimpse of the full depths of the racist insecurity of conservatives - I have my father in which to observe it up close and personal (which requires a lot of booze and arguments) - they just dig that hole a little bit deeper.

I’m honestly not sure about that. I mean, I could be wrong, but the Ramsey County Attorney was quite sure Yanez used unreasonable force and he’s not happy with the verdict.

unless, we can get the juries to be less white.

I really don’t know anymore what it’s going to take to actually convict one of these officers. I did say I was doubtful going into this, but I thought they’d ding him on SOMETHING.

Aside from the total lunacy - I mean, it was MANSLAUGHTER, I would think this was a pretty clear cut case for that - I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around not even being guilty of dangerous discharge of a firearm.

I dinged Michael H, but if you didn’t see, Yanez was declared not-guilty on all counts. God. Fucking. Damnit.

Michael, I believe this needs your attention.

The Castile/Yanez jury is about to read a verdict.

I wanted to say I wonder what the dollar amount is on making Newt Gingrich going away, but the reality is, that won’t happen. He is in pathological need of media attention and won’t shut up until he gets it.

Somewhere, Samuel L. Jackson is digging up his Rev. Fred Sultan costumes, just in case they need some special promotional material.

They also ALWAYS have to be The Smartest Person/People In the Room.

And she’s young - she’d be on the court for yeeeeeears.

Have you been reading other message boards? Aside from the right-wing idiots saying she’s rude/attention-seeking/got-a-stupid/made-up-black-name (no, it’s an Indian name *headdesk*), there are plenty of people saying, “Well, she *was* pretty rude and aggressive.”

I could not believe McCain interrupted her AGAIN. The old, white, decrepit balls on that man...

Oh that smug little self-satisfied grin when they announced Senator Harris’ time was up. I wanted so badly to reach through the TV and slap it off his face.

Pretty much, yeah.

Yep. Buys you time to work out and hire personal trainers (and don’t let her fool you - I’m sure she has some personal cheffing services as well).

You have money to buy a lot of lean protein and high quality grains to have a healthy and balanced diet.

They need to get Mark Burnett to call and tell him, “No, seriously - this is not Reality TV, it’s reality. Congress is eventually gonna fuck your shit up because they are getting woefully tired of your show-man bullshit.”