Last time I checked, the punishment for pointing a pipe at people wasn’t summary execution on the streets.
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Third try: A Black man holding anything gives them permission to shoot and simply *say* they thought it was a gun. Do we really believe in 2018 when we know nearly every adolescent and adult is holding a phone cops really think everything in hand is a gun? They are flat out lying to avoid being charged. They take…
I looked at stats for that once and being a cop has never been a particularly dangerous job even when they weren’t trigger happy. The problem has always been the sort of person that’s usually drawn to this profession-bullies.
It isn’t that cops think that anything looks like a gun. It is just that cops think that anything a black man is holding looks like a gun.
I should add that any black male carrying any object in his hand appears to fall into the “extremely threatening” category, even though it’s white men who kill police at a rate grossly disproportionate to the rate with which they have police encounters.
At some point we’re going to need to make cops choose between valuing their own lives above anyone else’s, and getting paid hazard pay. The job isn’t actually dangerous if the default response is to kill anyone who looks remotely threatening, and so perhaps cops should be paid like private security guards.
I just need a quick reminder, they took Dylan Roof, James Holmes, and Aaron Cruz alive right? I can’t really remember if these 3 mass shooters were taken alive.
My wife is an adoptee and had her DNA tested. She had perviously identified her birth mother; they do not have a relationship.
Crossing my fingers that a rogue yearbook staffer puts her photo back in the yearbook right before the pages go to the publisher (as a former yearbook staffer in high school, sticking it to the administration is a cause near and dear to my heart).
It’s totally his fault.
I never wanted to meet him! I just wanted a picture! YOU CAN’T DISAPPOINT A PICTURE!
People of color in this country, in this culture, tend to not matter as much as those who are white; that is the truth of America. In the Black Lives Matter movement, young black people have been shouting from the rooftops until their voices are raw and hoarse, and America hasn’t listened. But now that it’s white kids…
I just wish he had said he loved it. It would be so nice to have Matt Damon be wrong about a low-stakes thing. It would be like a little vacation.
I mean sure you can keep your card, I guess I just don’t see the point in being ugly about the looks of other women but I can see it’s important to you, have at it! Wouldn’t dream of depriving you of that.
I don’t give a shit if she got work done. She looks amazing and works hard for that figure, I’m sure. Get it, Britney. Get. It.
And let’s see how the gun nuts react to their “good guy with a gun” being yet again revealed to be more a dipshit with a gun.
They really are! She had her own little bed for daytime naps (pictured) but at night she felt like a part of me :).
I love sleeping in bed with pets! My current kitty will occasionally sleep in the bed with me and my husband, but she goes through phases (one week it will be in bed, the next on a nightstand, etc.)
Cuteness, for reference.