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    Herpes in the MistMarina Galperina
    7/29/16 2:33pm

    Although all of this is straight awful, I commend the officer for having the balls to come out and speak the truth when I’m sure there was zero incentive to do so. If the law enforcement community wants actual change, telling the truth (next time, immediately) to the public is a good place to start.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHerpes in the Mist
      7/29/16 2:41pm

      I mean, I don’t know that there is nothing to gain, here. Or rather, with his current situation, he probably feels he has nothing to lose. I seriously doubt were he not in trouble, himself, if even on an unrelated matter, that’d he’d have come out with this.

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      Herpes in the MistGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      7/29/16 2:46pm

      I don’t disagree. I just think it’s great, regardless of intention, that we are actually getting honesty out of one of these recent situations. To me, the biggest driving force behind all the protests and outcry is the fact that police officers refuse to say when one of them did something wrong or lied about it. It’s hard to say “not all cops are bad” (which is 100% true) when the good ones won’t call out the bad ones.

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    Dave Marina Galperina
    7/29/16 2:58pm

    Can we find ONE decent cop to come forward on these things instead of other scumbags? This guy shows all the marks of being just as bad as the one that stopped Bland. His balls get in a sling and all the sudden he is willing to talk?

    Just ONE is all I am asking.

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      skefflesDave
      7/29/16 3:34pm

      It is the way whistleblowing works. A potential whistleblower comes forth and does the “right” thing by trying to go through official channels (like right wing trolls always demand whistleblowers do) then the employer first transfers the employee while they “investigate” then they start finding ways to fire them and/or prosecute them without raising suspiscion. It muddies the water on whatever they were blowing the whistle on by making their testimony and motives suspect and has the trolls and idiots overshadow whatever they were blowing the whistle on with condemnation of the person. Never tell your employer you are going to be a whistleblower, his problems were inevitable as soon as he said he wasn’t happy with the party line on this.

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      Cadwallerskeffles
      7/29/16 3:43pm

      Exactly. All big business does this; including the cops and the government.

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    TheRainInSpain'sTherapistMarina Galperina
    7/29/16 2:36pm

    Interesting. The Autopsy says nothing about head injuries.

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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      hntergrenTheRainInSpain'sTherapist
      7/29/16 3:26pm

      The guy is saying that there was a conspiracy to cover up the actual circumstances of her death—if that’s the case, if that is true, who the fuck cares what the autopsy from the county says? Wouldn’t it be expected that the county medical examiner was part of that conspiracy? Use your brain...

      ***I’m not saying this is necessarily the case, what I’m saying is that if someone is alleging that the official record was falsified, and that there was a cover-up, pointing to the official record to contradict that accusation is a pretty weak argument, isn’t it?

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      TheRainInSpain'sTherapisthntergren
      7/29/16 3:34pm

      Don’t be an asshole. I was posting this to show the possibility of a cover up from the examiner. Why do you assume the opposite from a single sentence?

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    Sparky PolastryMarina Galperina
    7/29/16 2:11pm

    That officer is a cockjuggling thundercunt and he deserves to burn.

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      ThrillHouSparky Polastry
      7/29/16 2:31pm

      too bad he probably wont :(

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      GDSmithSparky Polastry
      7/29/16 2:39pm

      Okay, I’m going to +1 you on the weight of “cockjuggling thundercunt” alone. That’s some potent stuff right there!

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    RobertMadooMarina Galperina
    7/29/16 2:34pm

    These incidents (not sure how to refer to a systemic problem of government agents murdering Americans) are just so fucking sad.

    Then it gets sadder to watch people turn it into a pissing match where they find some supposed nuance that makes it not that bad or not that big a deal.

    Conservatives get outraged when government tries to regulate multi billion dollar international corporations, but will rush to the defense of government as long as its murder victim doesn’t look like them.

    It’s pathetic that this is a partisan issue.

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      Schmoopie'sGhostRobertMadoo
      7/29/16 2:42pm

      People love to hate each other.

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      MBCockRobertMadoo
      7/29/16 2:44pm

      BUT, BUT, BUT...ALL LIVES MATTER!! #GOP2016

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    Jacob HMarina Galperina
    7/29/16 2:32pm

    “He told me it wouldn’t be good for my career,” Kelley said. “Then I told him I was going to talk to Sandra Bland’s mother’s attorney, and he told me I was going to be beneath the jail.”

    What the F*** does “he told me I was going to be beneath the jail” mean? Did he mean that to be a threat that he was going to kill and bury him under the jail...?

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      J-NoJacob H
      7/29/16 2:42pm

      Yes, that is exactly what it means, they would bury him.

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      Sid and FinancyJacob H
      7/29/16 2:45pm

      Yes.

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    RoRoTheGreatMarina Galperina
    7/29/16 2:46pm

    I think the biggest problem with police tactics today is the failure to deescalate situations.

    Every victim above was being stopped or cited for a very minor offense (Martin not withstanding). The police just had to cite the person and move on and everybody would have walked away. Yet the police are offended by people who are upset about being stopped by them. As if the civilian should be happy to be delayed from whatever they were doing with the prospect of having to pay some sort of fine. The police are supposed to be the trained professionals. Act like it. Defuse the situation.

    I look at Eric Garner and think, why try to arrest that man? Just give him a summons to appear in court. If he does not, then issue a warrant. Garner would know of the warrant and be given the chance to turn himself in or be confronted by officers and be given the chance to surrender.

    However, how things went down he was ambushed from behind. He had every right to protect himself from being assaulted the way he was. Did he “resist” arrest? It looked that way when he pushed the officer’s hand away a few times. However, the one cop jumped the gun and decided to take things into his own hands, instead of the police deescalating and working professionally as a team.

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      therealdealjohnnyscarecrowRoRoTheGreat
      7/29/16 5:16pm

      I couldn't agree with you more.

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    Eve SchmittMarina Galperina
    7/29/16 3:08pm

    I’ll bet a dollar he’s dead within two weeks.

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      TexasDevinMarina Galperina
      7/29/16 4:18pm

      EDIT: Redacted

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        The Shape of Punk to ComeMarina Galperina
        7/29/16 2:33pm

        BREAKING NEWS; Sandra Bland has been posthumously charged with suicide while black. Taking its lead from Israel, Texas has decided to burn her family’s house down. Justice has been served. Please return to your regularly scheduled America.

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