Now? I’m pretty sure they’ve always required that when a black person accused a white person of a crime.

and Superstore is an awesome show that keeps getting better

Why not both? I’m happy to provide direction, but if my partner isn’t taking it, I probably am going to call things off before we get to the parts he’s looking forward to. If I’m not having fun and I’ve already decided that there’s not enough potential for improvement to see him again, I don’t see the point in letting…

We been telling them.

But it’d be great if heterosexual men would talk to each other about this, so their girlfriends don’t have to keep writing orgasm Sparknotes.

Never let him go.

I will never fault teenagers (who are constantly being shit on by adults for not caring about others, and for being asses) for sticking up for what’s right. Never. And no kids should worry that if they speak up about something that’s wrong, an adult is going to wave a fucking gun in their face and assault them. No.

“Should a kid “resist” being dragged away by an adult they don’t know? Probably!”

Thank you for your well thought out and informative perspective on this—it’s very helpful. But especially thank you for the above. I would absolutely want my kids to resist being taken by an unknown person, and I would absolutely hope…

Let’s not overlook the fact that, besides *claiming* to be a cop, this white guy with a gun dragging your friend into his house *HAD NO EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS ACTUALLY A COP*. Everything we’ve taught children for the last 50 years says “Don’t go with strangers”, “Protect your friends from bullies”... oh, what, unless he…

You don’t get to grab a kid that’s not yours just because you don’t like his attitude. Period.

White suburban fear may see a group of nonwhite tweens as a “mob,” but I’m pretty sure that the laws in California aren’t going to agree that discharging a firearm is the correct response to getting shoved by an eighth-grader.

He’s an off-duty officer out of his jurisdiction. He is detaining a minor for unclear reasons. He is choosing to escalate the situation rather than refer it to proper authorities. He is 100% responsible for everything that follows his decision to illegally detain a 13 year old child.

Respectability politics is dead. Thankfully, most of us black and brown people have realized that there’s no level of “showing respect” that will make racist blowhards see us as the full human beings we are.

Seriously, wtf are you saying? These kids should be commended for not letting an adult kidnap one of their friends. They didn’t know what that man was planning to do with him. One of the kids was the boy’s older brother. He’s not supposed to be disrespectful towards some strange man literally dragging his brother away…

Oh man, I LOVE when minorities fall back on the BS of respectability politics to give aggressive-ass white people a pass. Guess what, no matter how “respectful” you act, certain white folks will always hate you and use racist reasons to harm and attempt to kill you. GTFO with your scardey cat attitude and learn to…

They are KIDS and, no, they didn’t. He drags the kid from PUBLIC PROPERTY (the sidewalk) onto private property, meaning they had already de-escalated the situation by NO LONGER BEING ON HIS PROPERTY. Yelling at someone, screaming at them even, is not a crime. They didn’t know he was an officer and even if they did,…

Oh hell no. It wasn’t clear that this chingon was a cop. I mean i know he LOOKS like a pig but as far as the kids know he was just some insane white guy. If some stranger is manhandling a kid I would HOPE that the kids watching would intervene. Those kids did the right thing. They were brave and stood up against a…

1. Without video evidence, these two boys would get criminal records that could socially and economically cripple them for life. They still might.

Knitting is good for stress and they could produce something useful like scarfs and mittens and no dead kids.

So this guy fucked up in all kinds of ways. He created the entire situation, pulled his gun, then shot it, either accidentally or on purpose. I’m so sick of people with power thinking they can do whatever in the fuck they want to other people.