Okay, a martian with a knife is running at a toddler who is laying on the grass crying and you can shoot the martian and not hit the toddler. What do you do hotshot, what... do... you... do?

That's what happened in LA with the race riots after Rodney King. They contained the area but did not move in.

Police are trained to shoot to kill, not main & disable.

Why didn't the group of peaceful protestors separate from and shame/point out the looters in the community?

I know you're referring to this specific instance but what if you shoot a perpetrator in the back while they're chasing a victim with a gun or a knife?

I know you're referring to this specific instance but what if you shoot a perpetrator in the back while they're chasing a victim with a gun or a knife?

Would Brown's "best friend" tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

Why would they get banned? Express an opinion you don't like? We're allowed to do that, you know, disagree with you.

I don't honestly believe militarizing the police force was the start of seeing the public as the enemy. It escalates it, though.

All your seeing is what photographers want you to see. Keep that in mind at all times, no matter the situation.

Also, I understand. I've been starred on multiple Gawker sites (except this one) and am followed by a couple of authors on other sites from when we had the greys.

Sometimes a thread gets deep before it's gone and I've replied to many a comments after they disappeared. I think it is to give an illusion of being noticed when you really aren't.

If you think one 4chan idiot is bad, just imagine the entire /b/ nation.

No, I don't think we do. We're all juvenile at heart, only our hatred and bitterness age.

So, if I was a crazy lunatic and I hated your opinion that you're expressing right here, right now, you feel I should be able to find out where you live and "do something about it?"

Sadly that's what people want.

Also, being paid to moderate might help prevent echo chambers forming. Usually volunteers feel they have more at stake and help "cultivate" the community to the point their BFFs message them and say "So and so is an asshole, can you please ban them?" and bam, it's done without any review.

Someone may not like what I'm saying, but Jezebel pre-kinja was very much mean girl territory. And then that continued even into Kinja with their petty sub-blogs about how ugly people and the like simply because they felt the person was an asshole.

Part of the issue is there is no notice that your comment has been "vanished" off a page. So people keep spouting drivel thinking its getting attention even if it is gone. That's a double-edged sword.

You may agree or disagree, but I'm a burner account and I get plenty of recommendations and always attempt to provide though-provoking content.