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This is shocking.
I’m guessing the film is from a security camera.
I freaked out when the guy in front pulled his gun –
– and then he pointed it.
I did a quick Google and found she was fired from her job at the Florida Department of Health last May; she had been tracking COVID numbers.
Updating to add:
1. Politically motivated harassment of a scientist who refused to fudge the numbers.
2. Another excellent reason to defund the police.
“SEARCH WARRANT! SEARCH WARRANT! That means we get to point guns at kids!”
Utter cowards.
Guess it’s lucky she and her kids are white (though I don’t know for sure that her kids are white, since they aren’t in her profile photo, I am assuming they are by the fact that they are still alive).
We are in a weird, upside down world. And it is run by imbecilic clowns.
Ophelia, could you check my email address? Sometimes the wrong one pops up, and I go into moderation. My computer was doing weird things with my mouse. I hope I haven’t misgendered the mouse.
Without meaning to diminish BLM in any way, it is not remotely shocking to me that there are so many police shootings when the training of police leads them to enter the house, a house where they have been admitted peacefully with guns drawn, let alone pointed. They have escalated the situation into the extremely dangerous before it ever starts.
iknklast, that’s what happened; I corrected the address.
Chris Cuomo did indeed interview Jones yesterday evening. She was amazingly calm and steady. Cuomo reminded her (or probably mostly the audience) not to say anything her lawyer warned her not to say.
iknklast @4 (minor thread OT)
I think you’re referring to your browser’s form data auto-fill history, which is stored on your system not B&W. If you put your cursor in the field and then hit the down arrow you’ll get a list of entries associated with that field (though it may include entries from other sites not just B&W, further details are unimportant for now). You will probably see the wrong email address in that list, and arrowing down will highlight those entries. When the incorrect one is highlighted you can hit delete and it won’t auto-fill that entry any more.
That is how Firefox works, Chrome is similar but has more control of editing which is easier for you to see for yourself than it would be for me to explain. Also Macs might require ‘shift-delete’, I think Edge is chrome based so might behave like chrome. I don’t know about other browsers but my guess is the arrow-down technique is somewhat universal.
Also this is based on a computer, I don’t know how different a phone app handles auto-fill given the general lack of arrow-down.
Mike Kuebler, that is actually what I do, but for some reason, other email addresses (my work address and for some reason my son’s email address – weird) also show up, so if my mouse slips, it chooses the wrong address. That’s why I blamed the problem on misgendering my mouse, making the mouse angry, hurt, and suicidal.
Got ya, apologies for the assumption on my part.
As much as I loathe doing tech support, I sometimes can’t help myself. :)
It’s useful general information though.
Naif @5,
I wish I could remember where I saw it or who wrote it, but I read a piece this year by a former cop who explained in detail the way that cops are trained in the U.S., from the first day at academy, to believe that they are under constant threat of being shot. They have it drummed into them that they need to do more than just be alert, they need to treat every situation like it’s about to turn into a shootout out of a Hollywood film. By comparison, there is little to no emphasis on how to avoid overreacting or being trigger happy. Apparently a common motto among cops is “better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6,” meaning that if you have any doubt, start shooting and take your chances with a jury, because the alternative is to be dead.
I presume that it’s different in other countries, especially those where cops are not routinely equipped with firearms. But of course it’s absurd to suggest that America could learn something from how other countries do things. That kind of thinking leads to people getting decent health care….
And I’ve read some things about the training they get now that they have heavy military hardware. Everything is trigger-ready…and people get shot, even kids playing with toy plastic guns. Especially if they’re black. The paranoia is dangerous, and the training definitely needs to dial it down; they probably have more likelihood of getting hurt if they escalate a situation than if they use other methods. But a lot of the police officers I’ve known like the macho feeling of pointing their gun, and grew up on a steady diet of cop shows on TV, where the cops are always swinging their gun around as they enter any building. So when they get to academy, they are already primed.