I’ve said it a million times, these cops are seldom “one hit wonders” they have a pattern of bad actions (that go progressively bad to worse). None of this surprises in the slightest.. (which is VERY sad)

Break the unions. When they can’t impose what amounts to immunity for misconduct, things will improve.

It always struck me as funny that the bad cop apologists settled on bad apple as their favorite term to deflect criticism on the system of police.  They’re telling on themselves whether they understand it or not.

Oh man I really hope they do all call in sick and then nothing happens, making it clear it was the police that were escalating most of the time. 

When I came to DC in 1999, a friend of mine worked there as an unpaid intern.

That second one has made my night, thank you.

Newt Gingrich does this too. Motherfucker has a PhD from Emory, but he's always bitching about the educated elite. 

“the lawful evil My Buddy doll”

arguing that this mass grassroots uprising against police brutality and white supremacy is actually some sort of top-down conspiracy coordinated by wealthy elites

It’s been kind of amazing to watch pundits like Carlson et al - in addition to regular workaday Karens - and see genuine fear. Not just the performative shorts filling they typically work in, but real, honest to god terror.

You left out a key element of this. The official report first stated that the man “tripped and fell”... that Is, until the video emerged.

“Two officers have been suspended”

I feel like it was pretty clear that Ellen’s question was rhetorical...

The media has a fetish for Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski’s guileless republican women act. Journalists love to invent a conscience for these women despite all evidence to the contrary. 

“I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time,”

I take direct offense to the fact that someone’s bright idea of respectability politics is to dress up like the 60's.

Thank you. I get so sick and tired of people talking that shit about “dress code” as if it’s bullet proof or a racial profiling prevention outfit. I’m not marching anywhere in my Stacy Adams with them slippery bottoms. I only get dressed up to go to work.

Those white women using the stars & stripes as bikini bottoms literally flossing their asses with the flags? A-OK!