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    Uncle RemusMonique Judge
    9/07/17 11:04pm

    So, an active shooter situation is “one of the most dangerous calls law enforcement officer can be assigned,” which I believe, but the civilian they are there theoretically to protect is seen as suspicious if, in response to a dangerous active shooter situation, hide behind a metal box, run away from the sounds of apparent gunfire and hide behind a concrete barrier.

    Department of Homeland Security’s published policy on how to handle active shooter situations literally says that the thing to do is 1. run (even if others don’t want to come with you) 2. hide (even if others want to go somewhere else).

    Caint truss it.

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      Monique JudgeUncle Remus
      9/07/17 11:10pm

      Man, listen.

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      burn-after-emailUncle Remus
      9/07/17 11:47pm

      Also, Bennett is listed on the seahawks roster as 6-4 274. His 40 isn’t great for a DE, but if he doesn’t want to be caught, they would have to shoot him.

      He didn’t just get tackled, he stopped for the police. And they still put a gun on him.

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    I am abused by 3 catsMonique Judge
    9/07/17 11:34pm

    The NFL shut them down cold. I’m conflicted about feeling good about the NFL but there is nothing I didn’t like about their response.

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      Monique JudgeI am abused by 3 cats
      9/07/17 11:39pm

      I meant in their initial response to the incident. I should have linked to it. Let me fix that.

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      I am abused by 3 catsMonique Judge
      9/07/17 11:54pm

      So I’m about to lose that good feeling when I realize that they said more than that, aren’t I? Damnit.

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    macoog95Monique Judge
    9/07/17 10:45pm

    That’s chickenshit of the cops to throw the flag comment in there.

    So apparently there was a shooting close by and this is the only action they took? You want to question somone then fine but you’re cuffing and threatening to kill based on nothing.

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      ArtistAtLargemacoog95
      9/07/17 11:53pm

      Except, get his, there was no shooting. It was a statue that fell over, loudly.

      It also seems the cops forgot about the surveillance video that pretty much shows that yes, they did just pick him out for being a random black guy.

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      cgistArtistAtLarge
      9/08/17 12:32am

      I wonder if the President took a vote on sending that letter. Can you imagine if this did go to trial? We thought it was shots, but the statue fell. I’m sure there is plenty of video evidence to make them look like fools. White people failing up are ruining America. As a white person, I apologize.

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    Vintage3000Monique Judge
    9/08/17 1:32am

    “Yeah we fucked up, so let’s pull at the fake patriotic heartstrings...” Bennett can afford a high powered attorney and this is the best strategy these thugs came up with.

    There was a story this week about a white photographer who was shot by a cop who thought the guy’s tripod was a gun. No warning shot, nada, just blasted the guy. The photographer is ok, and he actually feels bad and doesn’t want the cop to get fired because he said he understands how tough it is to be a cop. Until white america stops with their collective blind allegiance and genuflecting and getting on their knees every time they hear the word police, cops will continue to be gang members who get away with murder.

    Btw I have a specific visceral hatred for latinos/Asians/sometimes other blacks etc working for their honorary Caucasian status at the expense of Black Americans. We are seeing every faction of society, including butch white lesbians, victimizing black citizens with no accountability because they are thugs in blue.

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      PatriarchSmasherVintage3000
      9/08/17 6:18am

      That fucking woman is a scourge.

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      catty Not Today MotherfuckersVintage3000
      9/08/17 6:35am

      90% of police worship is American as apple pie racism but I think the other 10% comes from 9/11. We as white people never as a majority valued the safety of minorities over the feelings of cops but in the late 80's and 90's I feel like there was a little more sympathy and benefit of the doubt for minorities speaking about police abuse. By no means was it a “oh the good old days” thing but I feel like people were a little bit more sympathetic. I feel like it really went over the tipping point after 9/11 when we white Americans bestowed the hero worship status normally reserved for the troops onto police because of their role as first responders when the towers fell. It seems like since then police can do absolutely no wrong no matter how damning the evidence against them is. The Rodney King incident wasn’t a decisive win by any metric but if it happened today I doubt those cops would even stand trial. At this point I feel like a group of cops could be wearing klan hoods while they beat a PoC all the while being filmed and the white public would still claim they were not out of line.

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    Creflow DollarsMonique Judge
    9/07/17 10:57pm

    Cops arent even trying to hide what theyre about anymore, not that they ever did but this is a special level of arrogance. Also going to be interesting to see how sportswriters attempt to continue to find ways to criticize anthem protests after this bullshit.

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    greymanMonique Judge
    9/08/17 7:19am

    One day.

    That’s all I want. Just one day where I don’t find myself reading or hearing about something involving police and/or government in this country and thinking, “What the shit! Are you fucking kidding me with this bullshit?”

    That really shouldn’t be too much to ask.

    An active shooting situation is the most hazardous situation a police office can be involved with, and that stress can sometimes lead to bad split-second decision-making, but untrained civilians who run away from it are immediately suspicious and subject to arrest and fucking death threats from ‘frightened’ cops?

    And it’s extra bad because the bad man called us names and is somehow unpatriotic or something for non-violently, silently exercising his First Amendment rights in protest of police brutality of the motherfucking exact sort the entire world got to witness on Youtube (but we haven’t gotten around to looking into yet, because, fuck, let’s not kid ourselves, we were never intending to in the first place)...

    I can’t even anymore.

    Just one, damn, day.

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      STLOrcagreyman
      9/08/17 3:47pm

      I had some old fsck try to come at me with that at the ball game last week.

      Old fsck: “You don’t see any baseball players kneeling during the National Anthem. Does that mean they’re more patriotic than the NFL?”

      Me: “Nope.”

      OF: “Well, they’re disrespecting the flag and our soldiers, aren’t they?”

      Me: ::sigh:: “Kaepernick staged a quiet, non-violent protest over police brutality toward black people...which is what the other NFL players are doing. In MLB, players are doing it differently. Vernon Wells, for example, would stay in the clubhouse during the anthem and again if they sang ‘God Bless America’ to protest the war in Iraq.” (And while I’m at it, fsck Bud Selig for that bullshit. My seventh inning is for “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”, dammit.)

      OF: “Well, they need to choose a proper time and place for it.”

      Me: “And when and where is that?”

      OF: ...

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      PaulMooneysTonguegreyman
      9/08/17 11:11pm

      It’s usually when you die....IJS

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    MajorBurnMonique Judge
    9/07/17 10:50pm

    Well, I hope he conducts any and all business with the LV Metro PD and the Police Union via lawyer. And makes them come to him to have whatever discussions vs stepping into their Police Station.

    Good on the NFL in this one, singular instance.

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      Not Enough Day DrinkingMajorBurn
      9/07/17 11:24pm

      I felt the same way about the NFL, but then I had to stop myself. It’s not like they stepped in to help or released a statement in support of their employee...they just declined to get involved. They literally did the least amount possible, so I won’t jump on them, but they don’t get any cookies.

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      PaulMooneysTongueNot Enough Day Drinking
      9/08/17 11:09pm
      released a statement in support of their employee.

      Uhhhh, you mean “independent contractor”. The NFL is nothing but the very definition of “at will” work, IMO.

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    Not Enough Day DrinkingMonique Judge
    9/07/17 11:17pm

    In fairness to the LVPD, there’s no way they could’ve known that black guy could afford a lawyer...

    I am available to meet with you and will provide any other information you deem necessary

    Yeah, could you tell me why officer in question was wearing a body camera but there’s no footage of the event that would exonerate him?

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    Jane ErrorMonique Judge
    9/08/17 12:12am

    I love how the only thing they seem to care about is that their cops got called racist. Like, are they claiming it would be OK to treat people the way they treated him, as long as they’re not racially profiling? “Our cops are power-tripping thugs who shove guns in people’s faces after they’re on the ground and handcuffed ...but they’re not RACIST power-tripping thugs.”

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    BrwnskngurlMonique Judge
    9/08/17 12:09am

    I think the comment from the NFL was weak. It should have been stronger and saying they stand with Bennett and the videotape suggests the shzt was straight racial profiling! Period! Weak!

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