This is probably a good time to just walk away from the internet

Well the internet’s going to be a raging mess for a while now. Which civil defamation case on balance of probabilities do you believe? The one in the jurisdiction where he had all the legal advantages that found he’s the liar who beat her a dozen times, or the one in the jurisdiction where she had all the legal…

“Benefit of hindsight?”

Somehow I fear victims, both male and female [this is for specificity, not trying to mis-gender anyone] will have an even harder time coming forward.

Jurors will have to decide whether or not Heard defamed Depp when she referred to herself as a “a public figure representing domestic abuse” in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed.

There seems to be this Twitter version where Amber is lying simply because her “story” doesn’t match other people’s experiences. Abuse comes in so many forms and no two are exactly alike. Maybe an individual who abuses women has a pattern, but even those victims experience their trauma differently.

Johnny: My career and reputation is ruined!

I’m going to be honest, there’s a lot going on in our country right now, so I can’t imagine she is a top priority. I understand that would be troubling to the family, but I’m not sure how quickly this could be resolved anyway, as Putin is busy attacking Ukraine. It’s not a matter of a phone call.

I kind of wish that this case was taken at case value so we could avoid the sticky particulars like this. If you say, ‘Oh they had a toxic relationship and abused each other-’

I can GUARANTEE her it's not. I'd frankly be concerned if it was in his top ten. 

When Philando Castile was shot, I started hearing-as a defense, “The cops just want to get home safely at night”, to which....I’m sorry, that’s not the job you signed up for.  You do have to risk your life, that’s part of your job.  I don’t mean to be cold-hearted, but I don’t know where or why we got the notion that…

You ever see a bunch of cops standing around not doing anything except directing their authority at the most powerless people they can reach?

It would take them about 1.5 seconds to shoot an unarmed black man in the back. But a kid with a gun? Better hold off for a couple of dozen reinforcements. Filthy cowards.

If kids have to regularly do armed shooter drills in school, the cops should as well. We all remember the cop at Parkland who drove away from the shooting in his golf cart.

If he says it was mutually abusive, isn’t that an admission that he abused her and she couldn’t possibly have defamed him when she talked about her abuse?

What if you don’t believe either one of them and have concluded they were mutually toxic? Or does that warrant yet another “think” piece. Whatever their situation was. She abused him. He abused her. I have no idea anymore.