And the investigation conveniently opened approximately three weeks after Bennett accused some police officers of threatening to blow his head off.

“... according to Acevedo, when a police officer confronted Bennett, he told them ‘Fuck you,’ and ‘You all must know who I am, and I could own this motherfucker. I’m going on the field whether you like it or not.’ The officer then walked away from Bennett.”

This story is so wild you could knock me over like I was a geriatric paraplegic security guard.

So let me get this straight. The officer witnessed this alleged felony assault and then did...nothing? And they decided to bring charges 14 months later?

Because these companies are literally evil. Near zero regulation, no oversight. Government backed loans the size of mortgages. Unforgivable debt (in most cases). It’s UN.REAL.

And fuck everybody that already went to college, right?

Ae you like 80? Because you clearly aren’t in touch with this millennia. A single semester of just tuition is about 8k. That’s excluding food, housing (YOU might be lucky enough to live near the University that accepts you and you can afford working a part time job (in the 70's), but I had to move towns and was to…

How about you keep that advice to yourself on an article about people who have student loans. Also, consider that it’s not as easy as you say it is. Finally, as someone who works in STEM, non-STEM majors are good too!

Feel better about yourself now, Captain Hindsight?

(The couple expected the bullet to be stopped by a book held up in front of Ruiz’s chest.)

How do these rule changes help me? Is it going to lower my cost of borrowing? Will I get better customer service? How can I convince myself that these changes mean I’m “winning?” /s

Both times he’s waiting for the door to close so he can strike her.

This is why these assholes often appear so “normal” to everyone else.
They are careful to hide it.

I’ve been in a couple. It IS beyond comprehension. I left them as fast as I could. Why not immediately? Same old story: not enough money.

Absolutely. Even if the girlfriend was too scared to testify or did not want to for some reason (the reason many of these cases do not proceed), they have a freakin’ video! That’s all the evidence they should need to go to trial and give him some real punishment.

Yep, she’s trying to keep things from escalating.

Maybe not so much nonchalance but fear. Fear is what I see. She’s trying to go on like things are okay to keep from provoking him again.

For me, the reactions of the girlfriend really stood out to me, not that anything about it wasn’t shocking. Rather just her non-chalant reactions made it clear that she was completely used to him doing stuff like that, which is just chilling.

I have no idea why, but something about the way he keeps putting the glasses he just punched off her face back on her is as deeply disturbing as the actual physical violence, like it’s some extension of a need for control or the like.

How anyone can treat someone they supposedly love with such violence is beyond my comprehension.