To be fair, most Gawker commenters needed that memo.

Yeah well some us of had no decent family and so we tried to make our own to feel safe and loved. But stupid teenagers amirite?

I don't know why you are coming on here to write a quite mean comment under a burner. Yes, we save a lot of money a month. We also budget every fucking dollar coming in and out, buy everything a thrift stores, coupon, make our own everything, eat out only 1-2x a month, and make huge crockpot meals, cloth diaper, etc.

I find it quite hilarious that the answer to this show of violence and aggression is not "disarm the cops into the role of peace-keepers, not military" but instead it's "OMG THEY NEED BETTER TRAINING". When you have individuals belonging to a very, very large organization that functions on the pretense that…

I don't agree with you, but you've your freedom of assembly. Just don't be surprised as those assembled decrease in number over time.

When you define it as a sexual orientation, and compare paedophilia to homosexuality as many people have done in this thread (from the perspective that homosexuality used to be seen as a mental disorder and isn't any more, and that the same may be true of paedophiles) then it is at the expense of the LGBTQ community.

Meanwhile, if she was a white cop who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, everyone would be protecting the shit out of her identity.

This entire case is such bullshit. Debra Harrell deserves a public apology from everyone involved.

That said, this isn't the first time I've heard things described like this, and this idea that you can simply ignore even an unjust order from police, rather than stating your objection and being willing to be taken into custody and force your lawyer to sort things out, is simply out of touch with reality.

You're walking in front of your parent's quaint suburban cottage and a cop rolls up to you and says anything so you what interlock your fingers and lie face down on the pavement so you can be taken into custody? No. You're a human being so you use your words and explain to this nudnik that you're about to go…

I don't know what nation you're referring to, but here in the US, it is absolutely your right to ignore an unlawful order of the police. The police are not magical demigods who have control over your every action, they are people who are tasked with enforcing a set of laws with a set of legal tactics. Anything outside…

My point was more that non-cooperation and cooperation are both likely to have negative consequences, so saying "just cooperate and everything will be ok!" is incredibly short-sighted.

That's a bullshit argument.

Hahahaahahahahahahahahahaha - I can't wait to you get pulled up by your short hairs when a cop is feeling half-drunk on power and you encounter him. The cops work for the state, they work for the badge. The last thing they work for is the people.

No, you're still not getting it. In a magical world in which police also follow the law and are held accountable when they don't, yes, that would be the way to do it. In a world in which they can freely kill people of color, cooperation is neither a desirable nor wise course of action. It takes a special kind of…

"That said, this isn't the first time I've heard things described like this, and this idea that you can simply ignore even an unjust order from police, rather than stating your objection and being willing to be taken into custody and force your lawyer to sort things out, is simply out of touch with reality."

Greg Howard,

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black. In my experience, no place embodies this division more than St. Louis, where I've lived the past few years. You can drive north from a…

I just woke up to see this (Japan time):

Late last night, this morning really, I broke down. I cried for so hard and so long that I had to take my asthma medication and I scared my dog. I feel an overwhelming, obtrusive pain.