You just identified what happened.  They initiated a car chase with an armed man, and engaged in a shootout with him when he fired back, all while knowing the very person they were meant to protect was there.  And now that person is dead because she got shot.  Whatever else may have happened, there were plenty of…

Cops lie about everything. Wait for the bodycam footage. Assuming it wasn’t “temporarily disabled.”

If you take a step back and ask “What, exactly, do we need the police for and want them to do,” this sort of situation would seem to be exactly it. Armed and dangerous guy with a hostage. And yet, the police’s actions (which don’t seem to me, to display a whole lot of dexterity and skill in crisis management, at least…

ACAB and defund (or more appropriately, abolish them entirely now) the police because what the fuck.

saying instead that the teen “may have been also involved in some of the fire exchange,” possibly “firing back at the deputies.”

I’ve never played the game so I’m excited to experience the story for the first time. This has a demographic and while I think there’s an impetus to make it good for people who have played the game and adapt that story, it is also a medium to get the story out to people who haven’t played it.

Please, you give them too much credit. The login for the global admin account was probably still "admin"/"admin".

As much as the whole idea of a young hacker doing some techno gobbly guck to get in sounds fun, what do you want to bet this hack was done because someone clicked on an email scam or some idiot made their password “Passw0rd”

“HACK THE PLANET!”

Police photo of the accused with accomplices.

We’re here for snark - not self reflection. How dare you!

They got rid of the dildo bat, ‘nuff said. 

I was amused reading the text and imagining him singing it in his weird, high-pitched human synthesizer voice. 

You came to a gossip site to complain about gossip? You’re really fuckin dumb, aren’t you?

I would genuinely be curious to see what a majority of people would consider quality, pants-wetting-level sexting. Not pics, not snaps, I mean just words you send to a person you’re flirting with. Because shit, I know my sexts are just as awkward and stupid (although I did wince at the “so am I hahahah” bit - come on…

“You are fifty times hotter in person...And so am I hahahah”

Earth was a mistake.

Why do the idiots in your state not get reusable bags? (Or reuse the ones they’ve been buying for a whopping ten fucking cents?)

Do people in your state not go for option 3 of buying quality reusable bags (not the plastic bags the store has for 10 cents)? It’s not hard.