Perhaps this is a good chance for Gawkerites to take the high road next time there’s a “bad cop” story, instead of condemning a whole group based on a minority. But you're right that the hard right will jump on this to discredit BLM. At the end of the day, both sides suck. They pick the issues they care about and pick…

This.Is.Gawker! Calling people racist is awesome and it's a fun term thrown around loosely.

To say the least, we should all take anything the SPLC says with a huge grain of salt (or two). They're not real credible.

Bold stuff! Let’s hear your take on ESPN’s Top 100 high school hoops player names.

I'm sure it was a cop who shot him. A big, bad white cop. Just kidding.

Then go less, way less. If they supported “traditional marriage” or Trump anything else Republican-flavored we all know Gawker would not endorse. It would...wait for it...offend them!

Definitely not hilarious, by any reasonable measure. But way, way funnier than the audience gave him credit for. Good reminder what a bunch of phonies liberal media types are. He was funny and deserved better.

I didn’t say they were uncommon, I said I suspect a higher percentage of non-professionals have tattoos than non-professionals. I knew it would be hard to quantify which is why I said it was guess — you said I was wrong, do you have data to show?

I love a healthy, respectful discussion. You have a some valid points to make for sure (show compassion, they were only 15, etc.) but you picked some really terrible analogies (a kid not wearing a bike helmet or a small child drinking antifreeze is nowhere close to 15 year olds stealing a car). I suspect you know that…

I think you’re saying that the cops assumed that because it was a stolen car the occupants must have been black or Hispanic (when you say minority, I suspect you don’t mean Asians too?)? Interesting.

Your response in paragraph 1 is supported by neither fact nor law. You're so far off. As for the second paragraph, I’m sure drowning is awful. I’m glad you made it.

I would venture to guess (and I admit I don’t know how you could ever prove this) that a greater percentage of non-professionals have tattoos than professionals.

Me too. But if they stole a car and ran from the cops, I would not be ok with it, and I'd expect to blame them for foreseeable consequences (crashing with lights off—> death) and not the police.

Oh boy. We’ll have to agree to disagree. Go talk to an agent*.

She is an analyst, not a special agent (or at least was hired as an analyst).

I re-read your post a few times. You’re still wrong (specifically how you misstate or imply that the process to enter SEALS or Rangers or Delta is anything like entering the FBI), but you're closer to being right about becoming an analyst first and then applying to become an agent. But you can go BUD/S out of high…

This conversation is insane. Read the FBI page, talk w an agent, or you what...don’t. You truly could only be more wrong about this process if you claimed a person needed to be left-handed to apply. It’s funny, but sad too.

Take a look at FBI site and the requirements for the special agent program. We are talking about agents here, not support staff.

Because a college degree and 3 yrs work experience, is, by definition, not right out of college. I think you’re kidding but I don't know.

FBI does not recruit out of college.