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Sara Padilla
sarapadilla

Because an unarmed teen was murdered in cold blood for playing his music too loud and the man who murdered him was found not guilty of doing so.

As long as you're white/pass as white and he's a minority.

Seriously. How could he not be convicted of murder?

I had to re-read the article and the link to see if I was missing something bc how can you not convict someone of murder when you legally recognize Dunn's 'attempts' to murder were indeed successful? Because Florida, that's why.

Where you can kill a <i>child</>.

At least he's going to jail for (effectively) the rest of his life but yes, you're right. I don't get how he didn't get convicted of murder here.

Florida: where you can kill a man and yet only be convicted of attempted murder.

Alternate translation: *sad trombone*

Nice to see a US shoot out that doesn't involve a school.

And now the South Koreans know not to put officials in hotels with acid coming out of the faucets at the next Winter Olympics.

Do you believe in miniscule technicalities?!?!

Can someone say Real Housewives of Sochi??

Definitely thought this was Portia and Ellen at first glance

These two are the most Russian Russians to ever Russia. I love them. #neverchange

They could always incorporate fitness metrics in addition to weight loss to determine who gets the prize. But they won't.

Britney always lip-synchs. This is not new. She did it at 17 and she's still at it in Vegas—we aren't paying to see her sing live, we're paying to see a living symbol of the millennial generation's insatiable thirst to project sexual desire, fear of death and the hope of second chances dance on stage and flap a wig

Agreed. I didn't realize this until I saw the Rachel Maddow segment discussing the Air Force Academy and their friendship with Focus on the Family

The Marines also are the most honor-bound and take their oaths and their duties towards other Marines deadly seriously.

Who Would Jesus Assault?

Part of this, very likely, is the weird aggressiveness of cultural conservatism in the Air Force. There is a very patriarchal/paternalistic strain of Protestantism which tries to aggressively convert people in the AF. It veers over the church-state divide often.