“Continuing to call for Border Patrol assistance, the Marines proceeded to track Hernández for twenty minutes, until Bañuelos, the Marine fire-team leader, shot and killed Hernandez.”

(Ugh, subjective!)

Mmm, bath salts are tasty.

Oh, Florida...

I assume you are an intelligent person and you understand an assumption is not automatically invalid. Based on experience and observation, I am confident enough to that, in future, others will find you intelligent.

The EMALS system is a question of engineering, not science. The kinks will be worked out at some point — though that point should likely have been prior to implementation.

I think there might be some case law about purchased goods (in this case bundled) unknowingly transferred. Not sure, as my legal expertise amounts to watching many episodes of Law & Order and the University of Google, but it seems there is some wiggle room — undoubtedly which would be heavily contested by Blizzard’s…

“How was it not his property? He legally acquired the disk, did he not?”

“...it’s just an ungainly, ill-fitting, and ignorant way of saying, “Wow, they really fucking ripped that guy off!” even though they didn’t rip him off at all. Also, I’m pretending my definition of hyperbole makes this crappy metaphor seem legit, which it isn’t.”

I could only skim through those articles because a ton of work just landed on my desk but it was still a depressing read. And that’s coming from a non-white who can still ‘pass’ and who lives comfortably in the biggest city of Canada.

To be totally selfish, as a Canadian, I hope it doesn’t come to a Reservoir Dogs ending for your country because it’ll (a) affect us and (b) ruin all that great nerdtainment y’all put out.

“I didn’t mean to minimize the existence of righteous police officers, because that’s not fair to them.”

“In this situation the kids, mainly the driver, is probably thinking “get out of here as fast as possible” while the cops are thinking “gunshots?! Shoot to kill!””

Nowhere in my comment is there an objection to yours. I haven’t ‘come for you’. Can you please look at my first paragraph again. I’ve added some bold for emphasis.

You’ve jumped to a conclusion and I resent the implication it carries. If it helps you, here’s the summary of my comment:

I live in Toronto. And I’m not only grateful for our comparatively more professional cops (exceptions notwithstanding) but I’m also a big advocate of civilian oversight of police incidents. Here, we have the SIU and, as far as I’m concerned, the concept works in everyone’s favour.

So, the willing community servant trying to make difference no longer exists in American policing? If true, that’s very sad. And sadly, I think it’s more true than not.

I mean, I wasn’t there so I’m hesitant to presume but let’s go so far as to assume the cop was not a racist and not trying to murder anyone. Let’s say there were indeed gunshots prior to the incident. Let’s pretend it was an honest mistake. Even so...

What? Did we just witness an unadorned and sincere mea culpa from one internet stranger to another?

Spirit of the law: Of course it’s fine to secretly record the conversations surrounding your own health when people are putting you under the knife.