Even if the cops were not showing blatent racism in evaluating threats, the root of the problem is the law that allows an officers memory of his feelings to be considered overriding evidence. You can’t cross examine a memory, and even actions caught on film are considered less important than the memory of the event.

Did they ever actually tell Sam not to make any noise? I mean, I remember the whole “pretend you aren’t there, and that you are someone brave . . . “ speech but did “be completely quiet” get mentioned? I mean, sure he should have figured it out but the kid is clearly twenty seconds from catatonic.

“...demonizing a messenger because you don’t agree with the message.”

IIRC animal abuse overlaps with not just violence against humans but also property crimes like arson. It really needs to be taken more seriously — at least in terms of triggering some significant tracking and counseling.

Only if he was convicted, and only if it was a conviction in the same state as the gun purchase (thus showing up immediately), and only if he was purchasing at a gun store rather than a gun show, or from a private individual. I think it may be more difficult to purchase a gun in a way that triggers an effective…

There has been an ongoing argument for an animal abusers list at a federal level. It tends to overlap with other violent crimes. The idea was that rescues could prevent adoptions to abusers and cops could watch for a pattern of abusive behavior.

Poor kids. I took ceramics in college and couldn’t get adult-ish stuff reliably. Expecting that from a ten year old, let alone a seven year old . . . I guess that just means that the parents have no respect for the art form.

As a former student of a slightly ridiculous number of art classes (in and out of school) I had quite a few teachers that couldn’t find the line between guiding and interfering. My husband quit taking art classes because of a teacher who insisted on thick black lines around objects in paintings — and added them to all…

I don’t understand how that meshes with the common violence-apologists claim that if only some woman had agreed to sex then Jackass wouldn’t have had to rape-terrorize-shoot-blow up-join MRA etc.

If the expired card does really belong to the person using it then they’ve passed all the checks to be working, and there’s nothing mentioned in ICE documentation (that I could find anyway) about penalties for working with an expired card. It seems to be up to individual auditors and employers. The worry is people…

Someone better than me at finding pictures should post the Bush/Merkle shoulder rub or any of the Joe Biden series.

The people working in immigration seem to be universally overworked and tired, and the related laws seem to change faster than the weather — any small mistake could be drastic and terrifying. (I’m always slightly worried that I missed a form, or a line on a form, and I’m going to be deported in the middle of the night…

I swear it wasn’t that pricey the first time I renewed. Somebody found a nifty way to make being poor illegal.

Discrimination isn’t something one group does to another, it’s something society does to individuals. Just because the oppressed group also participates in the discrimination doesn’t make it better.

My college bent over backward to keep women in the major too. They made it very clear that they were doing everything they could to keep women in the major, because obviously we couldn’t compete on our own merit and needed special treatment. Women get offended so easily that all the explanations and metaphors needed…

“I only intended to horrify those closest to me, not all the people touched by a viral video.”

Wondering if this is one of the parasites that passes to babies from mother? It would make sense for the worm to want as many new hosts as possible.

Don’t think it matters if the audience of the film believes or not. It’s only illegal if she, herself, knows it’s false AND says it with the sole purpose of causing harm to him.

I think there may be a difference between doing an audit of all employees (checking both green cards holders and citizens) and penalizing individual employees for expired green cards (when legal status of expired green card holders is essentially unchanged and one has 180 days to renew).

My green card renewal was last year. It includes a $450 fee, in addition to finger printing and new pictures. I don’t know how an McD’s employee could afford it, which I would be is part of the reason that some were late getting their renewals.