If you’re going to shoot you’re SUPPOSED to shoot and kill. I read an article about this a while ago, and there were reasons I remembered as being “oh. That’s actually not COMPLETELY unreasonable, though I also recall not being wholly convinced of the policy.” I’ll see if I can find it.
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It’s not that simple. I feel like you’re thinking of addiction more like, say, dominant and recessive genes when, really, it’s more like the myriad factors that go in to determining eye color. It’s not a question of one gene being stronger than the others, it’s a combination of a lot of different things happening at…
Very much on your side of the pond!
I will bet if this kid was white and the same age, he’d be alive and in custody.
Us.
We should also recall that, in similar circumstances, a young white man might have been given the benefit of the doubt.
You’re talking about the kind of caregivers they are NOW (addicted ones) not WHAT THEY WOULD BE managing sobriety. No one would argue they’re anything but shit caregivers at this point.
I remain highly skeptical yet open-minded regarding this case, because if the kid pulled a gun on the officer that thing looks real and dangerous.
I’d caution anyone not to go out on limbs with which they aren’t all that familiar, since some limbs don’t really hold up and you could wind up falling on your ass.
That’s kind of besides the point though, right? Their feelings and sympathy for them aside: a) you still have the child to consider, and I think sympathy for him can take the form of not publicizing his unblurred face in a traumatizing situation and b) this tactic doesn’t serve anyone except the sense of moral…
Thanks, and thank you for doing this important work.
It’s REALLY fucking scary.
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My brother died of a heroin overdose last year: you can imagine how seeing this image plastered all over the place has been the past couple weeks has felt (literally, I know there are a million people in my shoes). And the reasoning is SUCH bullshit. Because you know what? 9 times out of 10 heroin users already…
When I was pregnant with my first I had to catch a bus. It was the hottest week in NYC in 100 years. I was VERY pregnant and huge. A middle-aged woman and her two granddaughters had occupied the bench to wait. This bus took FOREVER. Eventually I started swaying. At this point, an older Greek grandma type comes up to…
If Trump has taught me one thing, it’s that if it’s not the long-form document we really don’t know anything and therefore cannot accept it.
Just like her cohort, she doesn’t have an excuse. They’re both worthless pieces of shit.
What I love most about living in America is that I don’t have to choose between confirmation of pro-athlete rapist stereotypes and finance bro rapist stereotypes.