And make hymns that are insipid, cheesy bubblegum pop. As soon as I typed this I thought about this becoming a reality on the christian “rock” Jesus wears flannel station and threw up in my mouth a little.

I sure as heck do when this church is actively anti-gay. Butimean clearly they saw the issue of having name-dropping, lecherous, star-fucker ministers catering to celebs, so why not instead have a celeb minster? Especially a well-behaved, reformed one that provides a front for your disgraceful “ministry” to continue…

THIS. This was the exact same thought I had while reading this article. How many BIPOC properties have been straight up invaded with LESS evidence/hearsay? (Answer: Too many). Breonna's murder specifically came to mind.

I’ve yet to see any evidence this woman had a history of mental illness before started dating a bomber. And this doesn’t change the fact that the police have investigated and done worse to minorities based on less.

My hunch is that even if the boyfriend was named Mohammed, it would have taken about 26 other women to come forward for cops to take it seriously enough to ask a DA or judge for a search warrant. Then it would also have needed a female judge or DA to get interested enough for a warrant. Clearly, wimminfolk just…

Yeah, I imagine living with a man who was storing weapons in her house and was planning to commit a terrorist act might have had something to do with her distress. Just a guess.

The news did. CBS has determined within the first 3 hours of his name being identified that he had an Explosive user permit handler license from NOvember 2013 which expired in November of 2016. Right there.

She questioned a white man and TOOK HIS GUNS. That makes her crazy to southern cops.

If I found out my spouse was making bombs in the back yard, I would be having a mental health crisis as well...

you forgot to mention that said alleged bomb maker, also previously had a permit as a demolitions/bomb making... guy ...(no idea you can get a permit to deal with explosives as a civilian without working at a rock quarry or other line of work that uses those things.)

Guy who is known to have the skillset to make bombs,…

Yep. He's a QAnon conspiracy theorist and the whole "he wanted to minimize human casualties" is EXACTLY the narrative that right-wing conspiracy theorists WANT you to lead with, so it's good to see how well it's working out for them. Moderate Democrats are all too eager to help humanize him. So sweet! 

He used the IRA playbook from the 1980s, basically; car bomb, near a public building but at a time of day when it would be deserted, recorded warnings to evacuate. That was their MO for garnering attention without racheting up the body count at the time.

No matter what, the fact that he came into the city to do it means something, at least to me. He lived 10 miles out? Why drive downtown unless it was to make a bigger impact? And yeah, people on here have become awful. Not everyone, but enough to keep me away most of the time.

“all he wanted to do was destroy property not people”

I agree, but we can’t expect more women in law enforcement to actually change the culture.  After all, getting more minorities in law enforcement clearly hasn’t solved the racism problem.

Karens aren’t the type to become police officers.  Too much physical effort.

Girl Boss the criminal justice system.

Won’t solve it. The culture is rotten and internalized misogyny is only going to metastasize in that environment. Like all others who enter the force with the best intentions, the ones with scruples will get drummed out or corrupted and only the cool-girl/pick me-types will survive.

Damn straight - so many people could have been killed by a bomb of that size. I know I’m taking liberties in speculating, but....I can just picture these cops chuckling about the vindictive “crazy lady” trying to make her poor man’s life difficult as they call for the ambulance so she can get her head examined. “Unbeli…

This is absolutely disgraceful. The Nashville PD should be counting its lucky stars that all he wanted to do was destroy property, not kill people.