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Oh. It’s the Onion. Phew.
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Police do not react well to domestic violence, and (rightfully) don’t want to get involved in it because it tends to be very messy. Often both sides, yes including the victim, are against the police intervention. Been there, it was awkward and not fun.
I heard it next door some months ago, I stood outside armed with a sturdy stick, and a backup knife, just to keep it from spilling over to my house. I wasn’t going to call the cops or get involved. Someone else did, and it eventually quieted down.
The time I mentioned where I’d been there, that was many years ago, before cell phones (BCP?) and I went running down the street pounding on doors and shouting for someone to call the police. I lucked out in that someone just happened to be pulling into their driveway as I was at their door, so I got to tell someone we needed help. They said they’d call but I should put the baseball bat away because I scared the crap out of them and looked like I might be the attacker. (I apologized, but hadn’t had time for niceties or formality)
The cops did come eventually, but it was a bit too late. It was judicious allocation of that louisville slugger that quieted things down and ended the dispute that night. When the cops did arrive, they didn’t do anything, despite the blood spatters on the furniture and the walls, the obviously bruised and bleeding victim, and the attacker (now suffering a concussion and bleeding quite a bit - bleeding all over my shirt that he had borrowed without my permission dammit!). Both attacker and victim said they’d just had a little argument and everything was fine now officer. And the cops just left. Afterward, calmed down, both victim and attacker thanked me and said that my intervention had probably saved someone’s life that night. The next day I moved out.
But - funniest part - before I left the next day, a door-to-door salesman arrived, pitching some miracle cleaning product. Jokingly, I pointed toward the bloodstains on one of the outside walls and asked if it could clean bloodstains. Poor guy had a brief weird look before enthusiastically saying it sure could and started trying to show it off leaving me to awkwardly tell him I had no money and couldn’t buy that. I felt kinda bad about that afterward, but I have never been good at dealing with salespeople.
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The premeditation and cynicism required for this is just… argh.
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Seriously. Who gets told that they can’t keep shooting so many unarmed people, and responds with, “Well, if we make it look like they were armed…” rather than looking for ways to, you know, not shoot unarmed people?
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Ones trying to make this month’s quota?
It’s sickening, even worse than their planting evidence (caught on tape).
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And to think they had the gall to complain about David Simon and The Wire.
Turns out he was painting them in a good light.
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David Simon’s Baltimore cops could analyze a crime scene using only the word “fuck”.
These Baltimore cops are just blatant thugs.
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Okay…now that she is temporarily not a member of Law enforcement, can we get her convicted?
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For some unfathomable reason, I feel like it could go either way on this one.
Normally, I’d be extremely skeptical of seeing any real consequences imposed. Usually, the phrase “I feared for my life” is sufficient to justify almost any action, and it’s the perfect defense because there’s legitimately no way to prove that you didn’t.
On the other hand, the circumstances of this particular incident seem pretty hard to spin: there was no 911 call or other priming event – dude was literally in his own home just minding his own business. And we did just see a murder conviction for an on-duty officer, in Texas no less. The real wild card, though, is the fact that she’s a woman. Even (maybe especially?) among die-hard supporters of law enforcement, I think that might be enough for some to find enough fault in her judgment to hold her at least somewhat accountable.
We might as well just ask the magic eight ball.
Either way though, Dallas has a police union, so it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that she could be reinstated if she’s not convicted. And even if she’s not, it seems like there’s always some other department willing to hire these people.
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Serial killers and arsonists… CPB is quite the organisation.
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Really the best people
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If you didn’t hate “gender reveals” before…
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This video is actually pretty hilarious.
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Reading the article was sufficient. I prefer cat videos. But what a prat.
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No, seriously, the video is gold. At one point she is screaming “I make $125,000. I will still be making $125,000 on Monday.” It’s just 
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It’s sad. Everything about it (and her) is sad.
Apparently not. Her employer sacked her after that video.
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