CONSOLIDATED - Police-related violence / shooting threads

[Sir Slash]

Right. The Japanese have always had a problem with sharp things haven't they? I say, "Arm the old people now". I mean beside crooked walking sticks. Good thing Japan has all those tough Gun Laws to protect people. 

[bayonetbrant]

C:-) C:-) C:-) MOD HAT ON  C:-) C:-) C:-)


Let's start a new thread for discussions of the Japanese knife attack, or drop it.


1 - it's not related to the current ongoing social violence affecting police in the US
2 - it doesn't need to be politicized into a quasi-gun control argument when we already have that thread in the other forum

MOD HAT OFF, BOWLER HAT BACK ON

[JasonPratt]

#AllPunksMatter

[bayonetbrant]

#AllPunksMatter

yes, but they can matter somewhere else

[JasonPratt]

One-Adam-Twelve where are you? (Reference is probably too old for most of you to get)  C:-)

We're not all snot-nosed punks.

we're all different kinds of punks!

Thought I should provide the context for my #AllPunksMatter, in hindsight. ;)

[steve58]

All charges dropped against three remaining officers in Freddie Gray case

[Sir Slash]

That's great news.

[Swatter]

All charges dropped against three remaining officers in Freddie Gray case

The day charges were announced I heard several legal analysts say the whole thing was rather flimsy. It was as we have found out. I hope Marilyn Mosby is disbarred. She bowed to the political pressure that the prosecutor in St. Louis resisted concerning the Michael Brown case. The county prosecutor, Bob McCullough, was hit with a firestorm for doing the right thing. Mosby went the opposite direction and is still receiving gushing praise from the media. We live in a crazy world.

[airboy]

All charges dropped against three remaining officers in Freddie Gray case

The day charges were announced I heard several legal analysts say the whole thing was rather flimsy. It was as we have found out. I hope Marilyn Mosby is disbarred. She bowed to the political pressure that the prosecutor in St. Louis resisted concerning the Michael Brown case. The county prosecutor, Bob McCullough, was hit with a firestorm for doing the right thing. Mosby went the opposite direction and is still receiving gushing praise from the media. We live in a crazy world.

No, the USA does not live in a crazy world - we live in a lawless world. 

Obama decides that the USA does not have to enforce immigration laws - Lawless.
The IRS goes after Obama's political opponents and nothing is done to those responsible - Lawless.
The Secretary of State knowingly fails to follow the most routine security procedures and official secrets are easy to steal.  Nothing done - Lawless.
Obama does not submit the C02 treaty to the Senate, but his regulators try to write rules to enforce this non-treaty - Lawless

I could go on, but I've never lived in a time in the USA where we have had the Federal Government fail to follow the law so routinely.

[Swatter]

Not lawless... more of coming right up to the line and putting one foot over. He was a law professor at Harvard after all, you can't be surprised when he skillfully pushes the envelope.

[OJsDad]

Not lawless... more of coming right up to the line and putting one foot over. He was a law professor at Harvard after all, you can't be surprised when he skillfully pushes the envelope.

No, he's blowing right past the line.  When you don't have an AG that's willing to stand up to the President, and Federal judges willing to rubber stamp those actions, then you have Lawlessness.

On a side note, I thought I heard that the DA is going to get sued by the police officers that were charged for defamation.   

[airboy]

Not lawless... more of coming right up to the line and putting one foot over. He was a law professor at Harvard after all, you can't be surprised when he skillfully pushes the envelope.

Obama was never a law professor.  He was an instructor for a short period of time.  The qualifications for an actual professor and an instructor are very different.

I just stepped down from academic management.  Differences between professors, tenure track, and instructors are something I know a lot about.

[Swatter]

Not lawless... more of coming right up to the line and putting one foot over. He was a law professor at Harvard after all, you can't be surprised when he skillfully pushes the envelope.

Obama was never a law professor.  He was an instructor for a short period of time.  The qualifications for an actual professor and an instructor are very different.

I just stepped down from academic management.  Differences between professors, tenure track, and instructors are something I know a lot about.

I put my foot in my mouth, apologies.

[bayonetbrant]

Swatter, not a lot of people know the difference.  Most people can tell the difference between graduate assistants that teach, and professors that teach.  But to most people that's the only distinction.  I'm a part-time instructor at Peace University, and I get called "professor" by the students all the time b/c they don't know the finer distinctions.

[mirth]

I thought they called you Professor because your skill constructing things from coconuts.