Do you think that the protesters will honor the curfew? I feel like this will be looked at as another opportunity for the police and the protesters to antagonize each other and drum up more press for themselves.

All that social security number stuff violates the Privacy Act of 1974. Among other things.

I've been wondering the same thing. I'm from Canada, so the laws surely differ, but as a child of the 80s/90s I'm feeling like it's far too soon to be pulling out "back in my day, we were all free range children!"-type anecdotes. Yet here I am, an old and still in my 20's.

My parents live in Augusta (the Georgia half of this city) and I've watched the news when I'm down there visiting. If North Augusta's evening headlines look anything like Augusta's (and I suspect they do) then there's PLENTY more pressing matters for police to concern themselves with. Like, actual crimes and stuff.

This is rediculous. We live in a tiny, tiny town. Population 535. We have almost zero crime and no local police force bc we are so tiny and safe.

a. at 9 a kid can be left alone at the fucken park.
b. that is asshole thinking.

Pretty much. Abandoning implies that she was leaving her there with no intention of picking her up or meeting her somewhere else. The kid is 9. The world is actually SAFER now than it was 30 years ago, but kids used to ride their bikes all over and walk by themselves when they were even younger than this woman's…

Yup! Guess you are!

I'm not sure the police have time to investigate the break-in, what with them being so busy patrolling the streets for abandoned children and arresting their parents.

I wouldn't either, but in this case, with the options she had available to her, this may have seemed safer than leaving her child home alone, considering the fact that her home had just been broken into.

I'm not saying the park is unsafe. I'm saying that police could be providing community service, patrolling and keeping people safe, and actually serving the population-at-large.

Dude. That is so crazy. It's like, I dunno, you think the police should provide community service in the communities they serve. So strange. Are you taking LSD?

This entire case is such bullshit. Debra Harrell deserves a public apology from everyone involved.

I hate it when cops start lecturing people.

You know, I had this crazy thought.

"since their home had been broken into and there's no TV. Sounds like there's some other crime going on in North Augusta that the police should look into."

I mentioned this somewhere else yesterday, but it should be here, too, even if it's just a technical clarification: most of these trolls weren't using our non-IP-tracked, anonymous "Burner" accounts. They were logging in using throwaway Twitter accounts as verification. So while the overall comment/groupchat system…

I'm not certain you can separate them entirely. Some would say that black men, being the most marginalized and demonized class of people in the country, are simply the canaries in the coal mine of our new and improved police state.

While I agree that the militarization of police is a major problem here in addition to an underlying race issue, we prosecute and sentence men of color at far higher rates and with more severe sentencing than we do white men for the same crimes. We stop and arrest men of color at far higher rates, even though there…

Being from ABQ I feel comfortable saying that this is a POLICE ISSUE. Not a race issue. Militarization of police forces is getting out of hand.