Five years, not months. And porn doesn’t involve an actual relationship.

...or drunk...

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that LW1 will remember what she’d been angry about.

Um, no. She doesn’t “need” to communicate anything to this woman. She needs to take care of herself and her baby, and that’s it.

Yeah, everything you need to do right now sucks, but you have two months to get it done before the hardest work of your life kicks in. It won’t be hard forever — in fact, it’ll get easier every single day — but taking care of a newborn is no small feat and you deserve people on Team You that you can count on.

Yes, you’re absolutely right. That would’ve been the magic phrase that would’ve calmed down the insane cop. And it would’ve been totally legal and appropriate for her to say that. And the blood sample, despite what several other knowledgeable commenters have explained, would have been completely admissible as evidence…

The shotgun approach? I only wrote two things!

Maybe you just *think* it’s their imaginations at work. As a thought experiment (not a real-life activity) try imagining that the accused were guilty until proven innocent. If you look at it that way, you start to see how possible it is that they committed a crime.

The child was switched to a different bus

That school statement about learning to be kind makes me so happy. Schools keep getting better.

Do NOT explain it to her. Don’t make some heartfelt declaration that the only way to survive your love for her is to move out. Just move out.

Move out.

Here’s what will happen if you don’t move out:

A burn unit nurse ON DUTY, no less! If I had a relative who was a patient in that ward that day, I’d be lawyered up and suing that police department six ways from Sunday for interfering with patient care.

Did she speak out against abusive cops? Did she ever turn a cop in? Did she ever stop a cop from abusing someone? Did she ever talk with people she knew about how her disgust with criminal cops? Did she ever talk with her department about how covering for thug cops erodes public trust? About how racism affects…

Honey, on the day when even just one single cop speaks out against the thousands of abusive cops in our nation, you can curse the rest of us all you like. But as long as they protect criminal cops, they’re just accomplices.

One guy actually did try to intervene. Of course, that one guy wasn’t a fellow cop. It’s weird that there’s never a single good cop around when one of these super rare bad apples starts acting out. Huh.

Your comment is awesome but PSA time. To spell “lose” you need “lose the extra ‘o’.” Think of it as: The ‘o’ comes loose and then you lose it.

I mean, I think she did that. No statement on earth could have as much impact as telling the police to fucking police themselves if they ever want anyone to trust them ever again.

Of course, even with all that information, he had options. He could’ve chosen to accept that the law prevented him from getting the blood sample. Instead, he chose the Rage Monster option.

And yes, the sexism is strong in this one.

That’s not why the dude went full Gestapo. He did that because he’s an abusive ass. That’s just why a warrant would be denied.