I'm saying in no way shape or form this should have happened, and I'm amazed that the NRA hasn't already offered to pay for the family's lawyers and called for charges against the police officer involved.

Don't be gettin' all civilized!

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Shit that's less than I was thinking.

I figure there's probably 5% that are like that.

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That's exactly the opposite of what happens as this falls out.

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http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

I would say about 5 to 10% of all cops fit that profile. Probably a higher percentage of officers with less than 5 years on the job.

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GO BEARS!!!

Add to that those with no street smarts.

Maybe next time just say what you mean then. Being cute and clever aren't in your skillset at all, and your attempt at one or the other obscured a fair enough, if not exactly salient, point.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

In rural communities where cops were all high school buddies, it's probably more like 50%.

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This is excellent advice.

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Add to that those who don't know when to put the badge down, if you know what I mean. I have a friend that fits this description. Wears the gun on his hip even when he is off duty. He ran into a little trouble once when he had an off duty situation. Had to go through due process and nearly lost his job.

Police work is a difficult, often thankless job. I'm not anti cop. I've had both positive and negative experiences with the police. Sometimes they forget that they are there to uphold and not make the law. I think this situation is much more prevalent in impoverished areas also.

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Supposedly, two LEOs were shot in Dallas. It may not be true--has not been verified yet, but a few stations are reporting it. If it's true, this thing is getting uglier in a way I didn't think possible.

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so what do you guys think happened in Minny? Dude was just out looking to execute a random black guy?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Searched for Falcon Heights trending topics on FB and saw a clip of Spiegs and Goff talking about it today. They both made some good points. I got a little bit choked up listening to Jason talk about the different type of convo he will eventually have with his children regarding how to act around the police. My wife and I are hopefully going to have mixed race kids some time in the next year or so. I don't know if it will be the same type of convo Jason was talking about, but it really hit me that the conversation will be different than the one my dad had with me.

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Sounds like that guy (the cop) just freaked out and lost his composure.

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lost his composure over what?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

He heard a young black man say he had a gun and thought the worst.

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GO BEARS!!!

Apparently, he thought Castile was going for his gun--or he just got scared that he would take it out. Or he just assumed he would pull his gun out. I'm sure there's more to it....but....I don't get it.

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Well this just took an awful turn.

...And then I stumbled across this bullshit...

http://freedomdaily.com/black-hates-whites-blown-away-falcon-heights/

Some people look for the easiest way not to feel empathy for another human. To try and victim blame here is really disgusting.

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Before I get taken the wrong way, I hope the cops are ok and I hope Dallas PD turns these guys to hamburger

Oh fuck...
https://streamable.com/yd98

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The moment shots were fired.
https://streamable.com/0ljz

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What am I looking at here? That's a police officer down? Jesus.

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Live reddit thread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/4rsb4k/shots_fired_at_dallas_protests/

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I think most of us are like this, to an extent or in our worst moments, but you'd think that halfway through this guy's article, he'd feel at least the slightest twinge of guilt or, as you say, empathy. Or intellectual guilt at being dishonest. He's psycho or angry or both. What an asshole.

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Well on that we can certainly agree.

So I'm sitting here with http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/5318/web running in the background and I swear all the sudden someone's radio clicks on I presume and it's a steady rat-a-tata-tata and I start saying what the fu- and my damn power went out so I don't know what it was.

They're saying the suspect is in full body armor and he's heading into the Omni ... and now they're saying he's not there and they're redeploying elsewhere.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Someone with knowledge of guns able to guess what kind of caliber or type of weapon the suspect is using? Sounds pretty serious.
https://streamable.com/cy1w

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With respect to JBills, this is the live thread .... https://www.reddit.com/live/x7xfgo3k9jp7

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

My bad.

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We'll just deduct it from your pay packet.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George