Exactly how I expected him to look. Soulless.

My thoughts:

This will definitely be going to the Supreme Court and getting a new trial because there’s no fucking way you can let the defense call the victims “looters” and “arsonists” when there’s no evidence they were looting or committing arson, but you won’t let the prosecutors call the victims “victims,” because we…

The police union must die to reform the police. Doing so will, unquestionably, bare the jugular of every other union to our corporate bastards. You are correct about that part. I'm just willing to take that risk given that unions are already on deaths door anyway.

Admittedly unions in other sectors probably don’t have the same sorts of liability, but if you make it so that unions that defend people who steal money or embezzle are liable to repay that money, it would have a chilling effect on the power of unions to protect people from wrongful terminations.

The biggest fascist grift is being a police officer.

Again, until the cost of defending these ‘officers’ comes out of *UNION* coffers, the incentive structure is completely misaligned with good public service. Fired officers don’t pay union dues anymore. Hired ones do. The incentive is to keep every officer working, no matter how awful they are, because the awful ones…

Mental illness caused by racism? What?!?! Let me see if I can think of any instances of that. Hmmmm...I can only come up with about 75 million of them.  And one big, fat orange one. 

Sadly, it might not have made a difference if his ex had spoken out about his rants. The Nashville bomber’s girlfriend went to police and filed a report a year before he did the deed literally saying that he was building bombs in his RV. Nashville police weren’t sufficiently motivated to pay him a visit or even have…

I’ve told this story before on here, but it’s worth repeating. One of my mother’s friends had an abusive and unstable boyfriend, and he ended up in a psych ward for a few months. When he got out, his dad picked him up and drove him home. On the way, he said he was gonna kill his brother and his ex-gf. The dad didn’t…

I saw this article, and it inspired me to research racism caused by mental illness. So I Googled it. All I saw on the first page was mental illness caused by racism.

“Boys being boys!” and “locker room talk!” and “letting off steam!” and “just economic anxiety!” and “heat of the moment!” and

I’ve been around here long enough that this isn’t the first pass at this story I’ve read ... but this is the best effort to date.

While heinous and a completely perfect example of white privilege and abuse of authority, I am more shocked at how unsurprised I am. The depths of depravity are something that one would see in a movie or TV sserialized show but I still cannot get it out of my consciousness that this is a feature instead of a bug in…

This definitely goes against the bullshit “bad apple” defense for cops.  It’s not just a few bad apples; it’s the whole fucking system.  Rotten from the inside out. 

There is a cop like this in every town in the South. I can tell you an incident in which I reported my former partner, a white man in his 50's, for requesting oral sex from an offender in order to get a longer curfew. I can tell you of an incident in which an officer granted early parole releases for those that would…

Seriously, if they don’t believe they’re sick, they shouldn’t get the resources.

I’ve had cancer; trust and believe, you don’t want it.

Actually it’s just more likely he’s lying about not being contagious.