No. That’s a reductive and shameful straw man fallacy.
I can’t imagine how terrified she must have been. No matter how rich you are or whatever, this is a really fucked up thing to have happen to you. The jewelry is insured/can be replaced/is just stuff, but her peace of mind is surely shattered for a long time if not forever.
I totally thought she would get caught on Craigslist... In Chicago, bike stealing is a big thing, and many people have come after the thieves on Craigslist pretending to want to buy the bike - then meet the thieves and run away with it. ... which in Chicago now isn’t the safest thing since the kids who steal bikes…
The ONLY reason I don’t mind it is because you see this fucked-up mentality in poor communities a lot. Where maybe one member of an entire family manages to make it but then has to basically move away from the family and old neighborhood to keep from falling or being pushed into failure again.
I can’t stand her either. The entire baby storyline pissed me off.
Because their bias is largely supported by the public that they serve. We’re talking about Alabama, here.
This. I grew up in Chicago and only moved out about six years ago after more than 40 years. Chicago on film/tv is usually portrayed one of two ways: as it is in Easy or as the center of crime, usually the only time the cameras move to a black community. There’s a great intersection that movies miss, i.e. my old…
I also watched Easy in a weekend and enjoyed seeing my local spots on display (“Hey, that’s local celebrity Paul McGee!”). Swanberg’s Chicago is the Chicago of the upwardly-mobile and educated with some capital to pay $12 for tiki cocktails.
Cue people who don’t see that some don’t have because of the cost of childcare. It must really suck to want kids and realize you can’t provide for them.
It took me a long time to shrug off the religious trappings of my childhood and culture. Even when I’d be publicly declaring my atheism I’d sometimes temper or adjust it to agnosticism, out of that ingrained fear that the whole idea might be true.
An acquaintance from college has a degree in elementary education and worked as a teacher for about a year until she and her husband started having a kids and is now a stay at home mom--with the costs of childcare and a teacher’s salary, she can’t afford to NOT be a stay at home mom. And this is in a more rural area,…
Kids are way too expensive. I can barely take care of myself and my petty wants.
This is why I have no idea how people in my income bracket (which should absolutely be enough to live comfortably) have kids. It’s also the tipping point on my decision to have kids or not. I’m in Canada, but the prices seem pretty similar based on what my friends pay.
So many Americans are proud of being absolute pieces of shit. I truly hope this incident follows the fuckhead around forever and for fuck’s sake get him out of Public Safety. He clearly doesn’t give a fuck.
So this asshole is studying for a career in Law Enforcement?
I lived in El Cajon for a year, & it has a large population of people with mental health histories and/or with developmental disabilities. This is something that should not be new to them and they need to have more resources.
This reaction is exactly why they released a still frame instead of the entire video.
That isn’t a photo. It’s a still from a video, which means it does not tell you whether he was in a stance or moving his hands together up above his head. It does not tell you why one officer shot him as another tased him. It does not show if any efforts were made to deesculate the situation or why a police officer…
So how come cops always seems to shot and kill the black man without a weapon but the white guy who shot up an elementary school is taken into custody without incidence? Cops seems to inherently see black men as constant threats. I guess maybe they identify with angry white men so they feel more comfortable handling…