What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Family members said Bettie Jones — a mother of five — had hosted Christmas for relatives just hours before she was tragically killed.
Chicago police kill emotionally disturbed college student, 55-year-old woman – The Washington Post
Can’t we just hire cops to police the cops? Then they could kill the murderous ones with the mess, expense, and intrigue of a trial.
…Just like, the regular cops do, except these badge wearing gang members would only pick on their own kind.
Nearly 400 days after a white police officer fatally shot a black 12-year-old carrying a pellet gun in an encounter captured on surveillance video, the boy’s disillusioned family believes it’s unlikely anyone will be indicted.
Family: Charges unlikely in killing of Tamir Rice by police – The Washington Post
Grrrrrrrr
When did douchebag killers become more important than unarmed, innocent children? When did we start to refuse that the police are capable of mistakes?
Crystal Patterson didn’t have the cash or assets to post $150,000 bail and get out of jail after her arrest for assault in October.
Lawsuits seek to abolish country’s bail bond system | Miami Herald
hmmm
When a 12-year-old Idaho girl told a school lunch worker she was hungry but didn’t have any money, the woman gave her a free meal. She was later fired.
School lunch lady feeds hungry kid, gets fired
Sigh…
No medical or mental health care. No subsidized college or work training. For many who leave the U.S. military with less-than-honorable discharges, including thousands who suffered injuries and anguish in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, standard veterans benefits are off limits.
Some military discharges mean no benefits after service ends – The Washington Post
hmmm
Hero security guard defuses hostage situation only to be fatally shot by late arriving cops
If cops faced serious, life impacting consequences for their mistakes, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to make them.
A judge has ordered court officials to investigate whether a former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the killing of an unarmed driver is poor enough to receive taxpayer money to help with his defense.
South Carolina officer wants public money for murder defense – The Washington Post
Tough shit, fuckwad. Need a better lawyer than most of the people you harass? Have your fascist, lying union pay for it. Loser. Piggie. Loser.
#IWillProtectYou is spreading, and veterans are responding with heartwarming messages of support.
When Donald Trump’s words scared this Muslim girl, these Army vets responded perfectly.
This.
Source: On 1-year anniversary, family still seeks answers in Charli Scot – Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL
A baby is not a fucking baby until it is born. I fucking hate her family. I’m not saying they or their supporters deserved any of this but I am saying they have pushed an egregious wrong forward in self-serving focus on their grief.
A fetus is not a baby. Period. It is a part of a woman’s body. Don’t fucking name it. Don’t say it would have been so and so old, you don’t know it would have made it through the delivery fucktards. A baby breathes, a fetus does not. This thing never took a breath and never became a baby. …Which is sad but doesn’t give this trashy asshole family the right to change the legal standing of every other pregnant woman on the planet because something bad happened to someone they love. I hate them. I hate them. They are trashy, trashy scum.
Holtzclaw, who broke out in tears as the guilty verdicts were read aloud, has a detention officer sitting outside his jail cell.
Daniel Holtzclaw on suicide watch after conviction – NY Daily News
Former cop in prison? Don’t drop the soap, you teary little bitch.
The last moments of 23-year-old Texas student Cameron Redus’ life were filled with shouts and his fears he was about to be shot.
Audio released of Texas student Cameron Redus’ last moments – NY Daily News
murder.
cold blooded murder is not a crime and disrespect is license to kill when you have a badge
Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government’s prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.
Congress quietly ends federal government’s ban on medical marijuana – LA Times
hmmm
The Navy secretary took issue with the Marine Corps’ controversial gender integration study released Thursday, saying that he questioned some of its findings and still believes the military would be best with all jobs open to women.
Navy secretary criticizes controversial Marine Corps gender integration study
hmmm
Nonmedical use of prescription opioids (a.k.a.: pain-killers, narcotics) such as Vicodin, Percocet, and Oxycontin has become increasingly problematic in recent years with increases nation-wide in overdoses, hospital treatment admissions, and deaths. Use also appears to be contributing to heroin initiation, which has increased in recent years, as the demographics of users are shifting. Those previously at low risk — women, whites, and individuals of higher income — are now using at unprecedented rates.
NYU Study Finds 3/4 of High School Heroin Users Started with Prescription Opioids – ScienceNewsline
No shit, Sherlock? Connect the dots people!!!
People still think that abuse of opioid painkillers is something that criminals do, a study of news media coverage finds. Options like expanded access to treatment are rarely mentioned.
Is Prescription Opioid Abuse A Crime Problem Or A Health Problem? : Shots – Health News : NPR
hmmmm
Hillary Clinton said marijuana should be reclassified from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 by the federal government to make research with the drug easier to conduct.
Hillary Clinton calls for marijuana to be reclassified – UPI.com
hmmm
Lawyers for Ronald Johnson’s family say the video is similar to the footage of Laquan McDonald’s killing.
Chicago Agrees To Release Video Of Another Black Man Being Killed By Police
Rahm is such a douche. I hope this snowballs so big he is crushed and never heard from again.
A day after Hillary Clinton called for a Justice Department investigation into Chicago police’s handling of the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, Mayor Rahm Emanuel reversed course to support one.
Chicago Mayor Emanuel Now Says He Welcomes Federal Investigation : NPR
Well you better be open to it, you douchebag. You’re complicit in a murder otherwise.
The US defence secretary Ash Carter announces that all combat roles will be opened to women, making them eligible for some 220,000 jobs.
US to open all combat roles to women, defence secretary says – BBC News
Nice! It should be about the ability to perform a job, not the package you come in.
Controversy about fresco — which depicts slaves in a tobacco field and Native Americans threatening white settlers — emerges as schools nationwide debate racial history.
U. of Kentucky shrouds a 1934 mural that depicts African American slaves – The Washington Post
Sigh… The student make valid points.
Covering up the facts of our history o avoid making people uncomfortable makes me uncomfortable. If our country’s mistakes are better known and understood, we can better avoid repeating them.
The bill would largely shift authority from the federal government to states and districts.
House Speaker Paul Ryan accused of failing to address real factors behind violence after urging mental health reforms.
Mass shooting in US revives debate on mental illness – Al Jazeera English
How un-Reagan of him.
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