The audio transcript shows that Lane ordered Floyd to show his hands multiple times before drawing his gun. Floyd responded, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I didn’t do nothing! What did I do though? What did we do, Mr. Officer?”

I think that seeking consistency in how the law is applied is a bit of a fool’s errand because I’m very cynical about courts. But I admire the clarity of your thinking and hope we can someday build a court system that lives up to your vision of what it should be.

Exactly — thank you. That clarifies what I was trying to say. Not every case will go viral, and society won’t punish every person like Amy Cooper. So we need to do nationally what a city in CA is doing with their CAREN Law and create equitable punishment for these nuisance calls and then apply them consistently so…

As I was reading your response, I paused on this:

I think a fine commensurate with the cost to NYC of dealing with this case, (IDK $10k?) and she can’t use a cellphone for 5 years.

I’m sorry, Stephen, but there’s no way Duckworth would have called Carlson “bitch”. I believe she would have said “bitch-ass bitch”.

This is the part that made me get up:

I’m a Gary, Indiana native. I spent the summer before starting high school visiting family in Detroit, as I did most summers while growing up. The trip back ended up being rather traumatic. I was 13 at the time.  My mother and I left from Detroit by car later in the afternoon, around 6 p.m. or so. We headed down I-94,…

Funny you ask. He was placed in one cop’s car who asked him why he got so mad over cake and they started talking and it turned out the cop used to go the Caribbean spot all the time, Derrick said he worked there and the cop pulled over and let him go. He told him he was lucky and we assumed that meant he was either…

There needs to be a whole separate category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) for Black men’s mental health issues.

“Who’s against equality and healing”

I am West Indian my family is from Trinidad. Throughout the West Indies our histories are stories of competing European nations that fought to steal our land (I am Native from both my mom’s and dad’s side), take the benefits of our soil sugar, cocoa, rum, whatever else they could monetize from the labors of the…

I’m so over the NFL and Kaep.

I work in publishing, and this got the week off to a rousing start! Jonathan Karp is good people (used to work with him) and I look forward to working with Dana Canedy. Though she won’t know (or care) it’s lil ole me...

Or a disinformation campaign. Elon Musk has a lot to gain from 4 more years of Trump. It’s not about running against Trump it’s about using Kanye and Kim, Jared’s good friends, platform to depress the vote. Trump has given up on expanding his base so he’s going to pull out all of the stops. It’s 2020 nothing surprises…

LOL I ain’t forget, the newest version is a literal continuation of the 2000 character (and I referenced it when the newer one came out), I was making sure people wouldn’t assume they were adding the latest one.

... Not gonna lie I’d watch the hell out of that.

I can see the ESPN programming schedule for this pampered nonsense;