“An overwhelming desire to see what Tucker Carlson would say about it.” I am deceased (no pun intended)
As has been pointed out, the same people who loudly proclaim none of these police killings would happen if suspects would only comply with police orders are the same people whining that requiring them to wear a mask during a pandemic is Hitler, Communism, Socialism, and leftwing totalitarianism all rolled into one.
The Slenderman excuse is dead-on. There should be more urban legend defenses: "The perp looked like Slenderman playing the knock-out game while driving without headlights just after putting our family's toothbrushes up his anus."
"I've been playing a lot of GTA on rampage mode with my virtual headset recently," said Lieutenant Blurt Cumshot. "It's so real that sometimes I don't remember I'm not wearing it, like when I killed that hooker." Lieutenant Cumshot also teaches segregation classes for the Noose County Police Department in Kentucky.
Personally, I wonder about the politicians who embrace Tasers with pistol grip handles as somehow being more humane than guns. Who vote to militarize our police equipping them like stormtroopers.
Over the years I lived in the Twin Cities mostly working as a resume writer, I worked out of three office buildings and my home. The first office building was a couple of miles from where Daunte Wright was shot. The home office was on a side street adjacent to where Philando Castile was murdered.
The "establishment" that runs the Twin Cities gets its money from healthcare monopolies (United Health Group, Medtronic, the nearby Mayo Clinic, Hazelden), the food industry (Cargill, General Mills, Land O'Lakes), big box retailers (Target, Best Buy), and big science (Ecolab, 3M, H.B. Fuller). Minnesota is a wealthy state and the Twin Cities is one of the wealthiest metropolitan areas in fly-over country.
Yet über-liberal Minnesota has incredible wealth inequality, and the Twin Cities has a militarized police force and heavy overall security presence to protect all that money. The two office buildings I worked out of not near any of the police shootings were in downtown Minneapolis and the St Paul side of Midway, the business corridor that runs through the heart of the metro area but which is adjacent to much of the poverty and which suffered a lot of damage to ethnic businesses during the George Floyd demonstrations. The business districts are well policed (also well lit with heavy traffic and lots of witnesses).
There is virtually zero rightwing political presence in the Twin Cities (other than in the ranks of the police who mostly do not live in either major city).
I don't think of Tucker Carlson when I think of this problem. I think about liberal Democrats who have tunnel vision: they can see corporate contributions but they cannot see the daily pain their constituents endure.
These are sadly brilliant. Anyone remember this one:
- 73 year-old insurance company owner serves as chairman of the "Re-Elect the Tulsa County Sheriff committee" and is a donor to the campaign. He also donates thousands of dollars in cash, vehicles and equipment to the sheriff's office.
- Coincidentally, Sheriff's office makes him a "reserve deputy."
- One night, while "working undercover" with the Violent Crimes Task Force, he mistakes his gun for a Taser and shoots and kills an unarmed fleeing suspect.
- And all he wanted to do was "try to give something back to the community."
I'd say you can't make this stuff up but Roy just completely invalidated that theory.
As amusing as something like this can be. That said:
•"An overwhelming desire to see what Tucker Carlson would say about it." Almost laughed. I mean, really, really close.
•The problem with the story of Monday's Minnesota shit show is that, I dunno, not saying it didn't happen per the official version, but, you know, seriously? That's a huge streak of fucking up slathered with, of course, systemic, institutional racism. But who can say, or I should say, who that literally can say but won't?
Some headcase on Twitter (I realize that does not narrow it down) said this killing is the fault of liberals. See because libs have all these initiatives to get nicer cops, which means we're forcing departments to hire unqualified people instead of cool badasses, which is how you get a cop who can't tell a taser from a glock. Eesh. Anyway, be on the lookout, that's sure to become an official excuse too, alongside "I thought it was Slenderman."
Someday this will all wind up on a "novelty" coffee mug, like one covered with fishing excuses. Slipped on booby trap! Looked like an illegal! Thought gun was donut! Scary face! along with doodles of puzzled cops trying to figure out what the heck just happened.
“An overwhelming desire to see what Tucker Carlson would say about it.” I am deceased (no pun intended)
As has been pointed out, the same people who loudly proclaim none of these police killings would happen if suspects would only comply with police orders are the same people whining that requiring them to wear a mask during a pandemic is Hitler, Communism, Socialism, and leftwing totalitarianism all rolled into one.
This is the first time since I retired close to a year ago that I wish I were still teaching. Folks, I bring you satire.
This sounds uncannily like any number of Police statements I’ve heard in the small police states that too many jurisdictions are...almost too close.
“I thought I was finger shooting at him in fun, pwui, pwui! Did seem kinda loud, though.”
The Slenderman excuse is dead-on. There should be more urban legend defenses: "The perp looked like Slenderman playing the knock-out game while driving without headlights just after putting our family's toothbrushes up his anus."
"I've been playing a lot of GTA on rampage mode with my virtual headset recently," said Lieutenant Blurt Cumshot. "It's so real that sometimes I don't remember I'm not wearing it, like when I killed that hooker." Lieutenant Cumshot also teaches segregation classes for the Noose County Police Department in Kentucky.
Personally, I wonder about the politicians who embrace Tasers with pistol grip handles as somehow being more humane than guns. Who vote to militarize our police equipping them like stormtroopers.
Over the years I lived in the Twin Cities mostly working as a resume writer, I worked out of three office buildings and my home. The first office building was a couple of miles from where Daunte Wright was shot. The home office was on a side street adjacent to where Philando Castile was murdered.
The "establishment" that runs the Twin Cities gets its money from healthcare monopolies (United Health Group, Medtronic, the nearby Mayo Clinic, Hazelden), the food industry (Cargill, General Mills, Land O'Lakes), big box retailers (Target, Best Buy), and big science (Ecolab, 3M, H.B. Fuller). Minnesota is a wealthy state and the Twin Cities is one of the wealthiest metropolitan areas in fly-over country.
Yet über-liberal Minnesota has incredible wealth inequality, and the Twin Cities has a militarized police force and heavy overall security presence to protect all that money. The two office buildings I worked out of not near any of the police shootings were in downtown Minneapolis and the St Paul side of Midway, the business corridor that runs through the heart of the metro area but which is adjacent to much of the poverty and which suffered a lot of damage to ethnic businesses during the George Floyd demonstrations. The business districts are well policed (also well lit with heavy traffic and lots of witnesses).
There is virtually zero rightwing political presence in the Twin Cities (other than in the ranks of the police who mostly do not live in either major city).
I don't think of Tucker Carlson when I think of this problem. I think about liberal Democrats who have tunnel vision: they can see corporate contributions but they cannot see the daily pain their constituents endure.
Just my 2¢.
Ouch. Speaking of "dark as fuck". You might want to open this one up to the general public.
These are sadly brilliant. Anyone remember this one:
- 73 year-old insurance company owner serves as chairman of the "Re-Elect the Tulsa County Sheriff committee" and is a donor to the campaign. He also donates thousands of dollars in cash, vehicles and equipment to the sheriff's office.
- Coincidentally, Sheriff's office makes him a "reserve deputy."
- One night, while "working undercover" with the Violent Crimes Task Force, he mistakes his gun for a Taser and shoots and kills an unarmed fleeing suspect.
- And all he wanted to do was "try to give something back to the community."
I'd say you can't make this stuff up but Roy just completely invalidated that theory.
As amusing as something like this can be. That said:
•"An overwhelming desire to see what Tucker Carlson would say about it." Almost laughed. I mean, really, really close.
•The problem with the story of Monday's Minnesota shit show is that, I dunno, not saying it didn't happen per the official version, but, you know, seriously? That's a huge streak of fucking up slathered with, of course, systemic, institutional racism. But who can say, or I should say, who that literally can say but won't?
•From The Credit Where It's Due Dept.: The Times did a lovely job addressing the Q: How does one fail to know one's gun from one's taser? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/13/us/daunte-wright-taser-gun.html
👏🏻, Times.
I'm starting to think it may not be just a few bad apples...
Trigger happy policemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ykv1D0qEE
hey you know what, mr. roso? i am paying for original content, not for you to just glean through the weeklies and pick out stories.
Too soon and too close to the truth.
Some headcase on Twitter (I realize that does not narrow it down) said this killing is the fault of liberals. See because libs have all these initiatives to get nicer cops, which means we're forcing departments to hire unqualified people instead of cool badasses, which is how you get a cop who can't tell a taser from a glock. Eesh. Anyway, be on the lookout, that's sure to become an official excuse too, alongside "I thought it was Slenderman."
Someday this will all wind up on a "novelty" coffee mug, like one covered with fishing excuses. Slipped on booby trap! Looked like an illegal! Thought gun was donut! Scary face! along with doodles of puzzled cops trying to figure out what the heck just happened.