TimeLord supplied it above.

I suggest we all send O’Keefe postcards to this school, with nothing but the word “vagina” written on them.

Yeah, but that would have meant that you slept with Jay Z. Don’t accept that label.

Yeah. I admit that it rarely happens. But I am happy to see the prosecutor got voted out. And in the age of social media where the government can’t cover this shit up as much, I still hold out some hope.

It’s not naivete. I fully recognize that the criminal system is failing these people. I am also not arguing that the criminal system is not racist or that the officers involved and city management is not. My point is simply that the civil system provides some recourse against that. For example, here, it provided the…

Not all of them are. The county prosecutor who essentially told the grand jury to not prosecute the cops was voted out of office. I’m not saying it qualifies as the justice that Rice and his family deserve, but people are apparently starting to pay attention.

I’m not going to argue that there should have been criminal charges here. But I am a huge advocate of the civil system when the criminal system fails you. And, here, people are going to care when they have to keep paying for the costs of these large settlements. They are going to vote the racist assholes out of office…

You’re right that it comes out of taxpayer’s pockets. But that’s why taxpayers get to vote, and for example, why they voted the county prosecutor here out of office. It doesn’t seem like much, but it is something. And unfortunately, many times people do not care until it hits their own pocketbooks.

Yeah, I’m not sure the cops “could” have saved them. I won’t disagree that they could have tried harder, but I have a hard time predicting the outcome if they had. I don’t even know if they had, for example, the equipment to save them (i.e. something to break the glass with if they got to the car given that the…

I get that. I was just wondering what you meant by “they should have survived to be held accountable.” I didn’t know if you meant the cops should have saved them or that the cosmos in general should not have allowed them to die. Sounds like it was the latter.

Well shit. I replied to the wrong person. Meant to reply to the originator of the comment.

Are you certain the cops even knew the color of the people they were chasing? I didn’t see any indication that they knew the high-speed vehicle was driven by black kids as opposed to white kids. But I could be missing something.

You’re either old or just out of touch. Tattoos are quite common right now, even among 16 year olds. Two of the valedictorians in my high school class (2003) had tattoos. They are doing just fine at this moment in life. I’m fine with your other issues, but I think listing tattoos as some indication of deviant behavior…

I’m all about cops needing to take more responsibility in this nation when they don’t do their job, but I cannot watch this video and think the police were wrong. Just because they are cops doesn’t mean they are required to risk their lives for stupid teenagers who got themselves into a life-threatening situation.…

See I look at it as he exposed a vile mob of angry racists that have lived too long as an accepted part of society. I agree that obviously we don’t want people dying. But I think it’s long past time for society to recognize how many racist assholes we have in this country and stop pretending like we’re all…

Yes he could. He could come out and say it was all a big joke to show how awful the republican party is. How he could literally say anything horrible and still be a front runner. And that the cameras following him around were all for his new documentary on the hate-filled GOP. I would forgive him if he said those…

No. Because I barely have boobs and it would just drape over my chest like a poorly made doily. Which it essentially is.

Would have never happened in San Francisco.

Yeah, that’s what got me too. It literally makes no difference under the law what gender the person was. It’s legal either way. I could kind of sympathize with the officers if the law said women cannot be topless, and maybe they truly have a difficult time determining whether the law is applicable to that person, but…

Yeah, you did have a choice. My parents didn’t pay for college. I went where I wanted. Choice made. I understand that you obviously don’t want to do that when you can get free money (particularly with the student loan debt most people have), but it is still an option.