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Participantanybody ever try just old used carpet on the ground for weed control?
ParticipantI think it’s not uncommon for police to see potential suspects as not fully human equals.
That is bad.
That video of the police taking down and paralyzing the 57 y.o. Indian gramps is actually pretty freaky. Are these “bad cops” acting outrageously?
Sure seems so to me and probably any normal person on the planet, but I doubt the cops thought so because they had their dash cam on the whole time.
Cops there were trying initially to blame the victim for failing to instantly submit. Without the camera of course the narrative from the police absolutely would be different.
Land of the free…
if that were my grampa, I would not be satisfied with anything less than a 10 year prison sentence for those cops…yet I’m confident those police officers thought at the time they were acting completely reasonably. Am I being hysterical? Perhaps. Perhaps these cops are part of a vanishingly small subset of police who would consider acting this way.
Participantso, in the news today, trek recalls one million bikes because one rider was paralyzed due to a faulty quick release. is that hysteria? Only one died. Is the quick release really all that dangerous? Are there ways the user could mitigate the risk by correctly closing the quick release?
is there anything we could do to make police work safer? is it all the users fault? Or do we just say, that is the nature of police work, a few people are gonna get caught in the wheels of justice…
Participant“not the norm” reminded me a little of the closing in this article on how law schools are failing. Some researcher did not find evidence of law school graduate “homelessness”. phew. not homeless yet, people who had enough social capital to get into law school and make it through college. really setting the old bar high.
probably will be seeing more of that soon, though…though i doubt it will be the norm. just one not superunlikely outcome…
April 22, 2015 at 7:03 AM in reply to: The cost of an Ivy League undergrad degree next year…. #785131ParticipantLIST OF THINGS THAT GIVE REAL MEANING TO MY LIFE
1. having children.
2. supporting them.
3. access to reading what I want to read.
4. having a wife who loves me.shoot. not much of it has to do with lots of cash now that i think about it. just provides a better setting.
Participant[quote=Blogstar][quote=spdrun]Trials are already public.
Teachers aren’t typically armed and don’t have the power to kill someone essentially at will.
As far as hospitals, most surgery requires the patient’s informed consent. A bunch of cops jumping on someone, not so much.
Police need special oversight. If they don’t like it, they’re free to find another job. Over the top? Maybe. But we’ll have to agree to disagree.[/quote]
I can agree to disagree, However, a bunch of cops NOT jumping someone is the norm. A bunch of cops even when arresting a black man do not jump him or do anything violent if at all possible, that is the norm. Also unfortunately, too often when a mob sees something between a black man and a cop , or cops, they are hysterically mental and ready to go ballistic in favor of the black man when they don’t know a damn thing . It has been proven , when asked after the fact , that large numbers in these mobs lie about what has occurred. No justification for hordes on the backs of crime fighters.[/quote]
“Not the norm” is a pretty low bar to meet. I’ll give you that one …
I know that 20 years ago, if you described some of the things in the tapes here, and asked a random pool of jurors if such a thing were plausible, jurors would say “no way”, or perhaps “possible but EXTREMELY unlikely”. Normal people really believe in the police. Trust can get eroded pretty quick as the official narrative of what a “police officer” is like changes…
think about what the odds were of catching the walter scott killing on tape, or that horesback beatdown . think about how probably it is that many other such situations are not taped. seems like that there are many many many others.
Not the norm. But jeez, if it were the norm, no one would ever run or surrender. they’d just stand and prepare to fight or die.
Participant[quote=CA renter][quote=scaredyclassic]http://thefreethoughtproject.com/armed-officer-charges-woman-filming-police-smashes-phone/
You can try to film the cops but I think as this becomes more common they are going to kick the shit out of cameramen. Personally I think it’s way risky. Here a cop assaults an l.a. woman for trying to record them.[/quote]
As much as I understand the frustration that cops feel when people crowd around them (often shouting insults), and stick cameras in their faces, I agree that it needs to be done. There are definitely abuses out there, and those cops need to be held accountable.[/quote]
cops don’t like being filmed because it’s new and it changes everything. It makes them very vulnerable to exposure where before they could do anything. It’s not frustration. It’s fear. It’s not a few cops feeling it. It’s many.
Participant[quote=Hobie]Doesn’t golf courses fulfill some part of a cities open space requirement?[/quote]
Ugh. Open private closed fenced space.
Participanthttp://thefreethoughtproject.com/armed-officer-charges-woman-filming-police-smashes-phone/
You can try to film the cops but I think as this becomes more common they are going to kick the shit out of cameramen. Personally I think it’s way risky. Here a cop assaults an l.a. woman for trying to record them.
ParticipantHere’s a much more manly sport involving moving an object a long distance. Low water requirement.
Olympic hammer throw.
Awesome to watch…
Imagine a nation where men could routinely do the hammer throw …. we would be feared around the globe
ParticipantGolf is a superior sport because it is generally agreed that it is superior.
ParticipantConsidering how much room they take up, it just feels wrong particularly since so few people per acre are getting so pitifully low an amount of exercise. Imagine if these were wildush parks where hordes of free range kids could be outside frolicking. As opposed to four old white dudes drinking beer smoking and driving in a damp cart. .
Participanti dont know. i think we may have already killed the planet. I feel bad. its been a few months since i ate any meat cause i feel so bad about killing the planet. i feel bad even eating a fish. we are disgusting. how we can decalre a “water emergency” and allow golf courses to remain open is in my mind insane. and indicative of how we simply have to destroy everything sooner or later.
Participantgolf courses prbably should be phased out of california. or we could move to some form of wild desert golf with native brush and maybe astroturf for the green?. there is no way we should be dumping all that water on green playing fields, right? it cannot be sustainable. go on a junket and play golf in the pacific northwaest or someothing.
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