Totally. I do think it becomes a bit pointless to keep focusing on the officers who do this, because it is obviously a systemic problem. If it wasn’t this man being shot, it would have been another somewhere else. Officers need to be trained to de escalate situations like this, the processes and procedures need to…

I believe that even if a cop is declared innocent, they should lose their ability to work with the public.

The statute allows use of force to protect officers from “apparent death or great bodily harm.” The law needs to change, because as it is every police shooting will end with the officer stating they feared for their lives and getting acquitted. Actually it’s almost as if pulling the trigger against a civilian becomes…

The Second Amendment doesn’t apply to Black people. For the majority of our time here the Constitution didn’t apply to us because we weren’t considered citizens or even human beings. That systematic evil doesn’t just go away when the official laws change.

Not too much, apparently.

I find this reply insanely hypocritical. Black Americans are never, EVER considered “innocent until proven guilty.” George Zimmerman MURDERED, in racially motivated COLD BLOOD, a INNOCENT teenager because he was black. Yanez emptied his clip into Philando Castile IN FRONT OF HIS GIRLFRIEND’S DAUGHTER because he was…

I just can not understand how can someone can vote for a person who thinks that we do not need enough money to live.

Great job, Georgia. Smart choice!

This is probably the most egregious of the videos of a police shooting that I have watched—holy shit. To me, the footage the girlfriend shot didn’t tell us anything because it was taken after the shooting, but I don’t get how you could see this dashcam footage and not go manslaughter. This was really really bad and…

Why aren’t the NRA folks rioting over this? A responsible gun owner did everything you’re supposed to do but was killed.

No. It is not valid for me to understand the opposition.

For quoting MLK a lot in their anguished letters, I think some of those Seattle parents forgot this passage from the Birmingham County Jail letter-- replace moderate with liberal, because that’s just the shifting goalposts since the Reagan Years:

I will never cease to be impressed by the amount of racist white people who truly seem to believe that Martin Luthor King Jr., were he still alive, would be on their side.

I get that no one can be 100% right on every issue, and I’m sure I have blind spots of my own. But enthusiastic support for Black Lives Matter needs to be one of the core precepts of American liberalism. Anything less is contrary to basic human rights and decency.

Seriously. If, as a white person, you look at the slogan “Black Lives Matter” and think “Wait a minute! Why aren’t they talking about how much I matter!” Then you need to rethink a lot of things, starting with ways you benefit from white supremacy and ending somewhere around the “the world doesn’t revolve around you”…

Folks: If the sentiment “Black Lives Matter” gives you pause -if you think for some reason that those three words, in that order, are problematic -then you don’t get to call yourself a liberal anymore. I don’t care where you stand on any other issue, you need to go sit with the Trumpicans and KKK members (but I repeat…

No respect for black lives. They will keep doing because they know white people in a jury will never convict them. The same PD in the same city took this knife wielding white man alive, after three hours but she was shot on sight. Amerikkka indeed.

The ACLU has filed a FOIA as to the tax returns in order to check it against the Emoluments Clause in the Constitution. They are doing amazing work, right now, and sending them a donation is high on my list, today. It’s a selfish thing. Someone out there is protecting my rights.

This is ludicrous.. It’s also financial incentive to arrest more people during a protest, and/or to use more expensive and unnecessary means in response. In addition to, you know, violating constitutional rights and effectively threatening people against protesting.

Anyone who says this isn’t straight up fascism, is a straight up fascist themselves. Our right to peacefully assemble, which means anything short of actually smashing shit up, is guaranteed by our 1st amendment constitutional rights. Don’t think for a second that this law will not be used by a federal agency at some…