“After deliberation and consideration of the evidence available, the cops were found to not be liable, and the dude was found to be liable.”

Except almost none of what you said was correct.

So then I’m assuming that you think we should stop worrying about whether the kids know not to play in traffic (odds of dying as a pedestrian - 1 in 50,952) or whether people wear helmets (odds of dying on a motorcycle - 1 in 77,656). We can also quit worrying about whether the kids are playing with matches (odds of…

And I’m sure it’s a coincidence that if he’d made a trip just for a fundraiser, that’s a political trip that would result in a bill for him, while meeting with the Santa Fe parents makes this a presidential trip that can be entirely on the taxpayer’s dime.

If the best you can see is that “they’re almost certainly” safe and living with relatives, then yes, those children are lost. Either you know where someone is or you don’t.

Her. Not him, and sure as hell not “it” as someone said further up this thread. Her.

“Well, yeah, I’m stopped for no reason whatsoever more often than my white friends but being profiled is totally cool.”

I have to say, I’m impressed. You chose two things out of a list to whine about as though their possible presence automatically turns the gathering into something designed by Caligula. For the life of me, I’m not quite sure what weed and sex have to do with insecurity, but if there’s some sort of cause/effect…

Mayo is magically transformed into not-mayo when introduced to potatoes or cabbage. It’s similar to the process that makes spaghetti or pizza sauce not-tomatoes.

Call me silly, but it seems to me that our self-appointed park patrol is the person who decided that people she doesn’t like are “the enemy”.

Feel free to forgive her. Me, I want some of that potato salad without raisins.

There are a lot of reasons to give the stink eye to law enforcement in general and ICE in particular, but practicality in footwear isn’t the hill I’d choose to die on.

They wouldn’t be able to give you information on bogus calls as such, because there are actually very few calls that are false reports in a legal sense - that can be a fairly high bar to meet. What most departments know, even if they don’t really publicize it much, is how many of the calls they receive are cleared as…

These are the moments that truly make law enforcement a worthwhile career.

Wait just a minute here- raisins in potato salad? What is this abomination of which you speak?

As a middle-aged white woman, I can verify - individually, some of us are delightful, but as a collective? Fucking gawdawful. I avoid my kind as much as possible.

One of my all-time favorites is still a regular that used to call because the kids were sitting with their butts on the picnic table tops and putting their feet on the bench. That’s how you get syphilis, you know.

They are if you’re from the south. Doesn’t matter what you’re actually doing, if it involves going outside and setting something on fire, it’s a BBQ.

After 20 years as a dispatcher, I think I can safely say that it’s impossible to over-estimate just how amazingly petty people can be.

Wonder what it says about our culture that Americans get so wildly excited to see someone simply doing the job properly?