Being a police officer in most places in America is an extremely safe profession. I’m not especially concerned with their current level of risk. As for the risk to passers-by, I’m not convinced that was a risk in this case, and in general I have little confidence in our police force to determine when someone poses…

I find it interesting that so many people read “pulled gun out of waistband” and read that as “pointed weapon at police”. Not to mention how many white guys have we seen get disarmed without fatality when they were shooting people with real guns?

I don’t have family in law enforcement, so you might be correct that I’d see it differently, but that wouldn’t make it the right way to see it.

It does look real and dangerous. But I’m sorry to say that’s only half the point, if that much of it.

Black kids look bigger and more dangerous to police officers. By “look” I mean “are perceived to be”. I will bet if this kid was white and the same age, he’d be alive and in custody.

Why should we expect men and women empowered to kill citizens in the line of duty to be only as dedicated to their jobs as the average American? I want cops to be better qualified for their jobs than I am for mine, and that should include being willing to take risks we wouldn’t expect of a random person.

I think we set the bar too low for what constitutes an action requiring lethal force. Even if this young man pulled the fake weapon on police, I would prefer officers risk their own safety in an effort to confirm the weapon in question is real before opening fire. That’s literally the entire reason the police force…

Remember this is an open carry state.

“Inability to fulfill debt obligations as they come due” is pretty much the legal definition of “insolvent.”

Such a cynical argument. These brave football players staked out a very non-traditional pro-freedom, pro-justice position. I’m sure somebody, somewhere possibly opposes this; I mean, it’s at least theoretically possible, anyway. So I’m glad somebody said it. Or represented it, or whatever.

Maybe, but “Virtue Signalling” typically occurs in spaces where making whatever statement or taking whatever action you take has no real risk.

All I know is I’ve never paid this much attention to football before. Thank you, Colin, and whatever team you play for.

A bye would apply in a complete single- or double-elimination tournament, assuming the number of competitors is not a power of 2. This would make perfect sense, if the whole tournament was set up that way! They aren’t. They start with a group-stage double-elimination model, or “pools.” The tournament only becomes a…

When I stand for the anthem I start mentally checking off the various ballpark foods I want to eat that day.

Awwww, you're so full of shit.

Freedoms that make white people uncomfortable aren’t real freedoms. Study it out.

Yea I kinda doubt you are “foremost a civil rights activist” if you're trying to downplay the discrimination LGBT folk have dealt with in this country.

What in the world does “I am a foremost civil rights activist” mean?

So you want professional sports players to take flags onto the field and burn them during the anthem?

The first thing civil rights activists don't do is compare atrocities among the oppressed.