It boggles my mind that we allow women (or fat or handicapped men) to work in fields that primarily involve physical exertion. You're a cop, your job is security. Why are we hiring people who by their very composition are more likely to become another victim than to provide security?

That happened already over the weekend. They've gone home now to wait for restocking before the Chauvin verdict comes out.

Something very similar to this has happened multiple times across the country over the years. Like every other instance of violence in this country 99.99% of people will never hear about it unless there's a preferred narrative advanced by it.

Hope the cities set aside the money they defunded from cops. They are going to be paying that much and more in settlements to families of people killed by the dregs left on their force after they chased all the good cops out.

This is a known potential issue, which is why Axon goes out of their way to make them look, feel, and weigh different than a service weapon. Its why police departments train officers not to holster a tazer on the same side or near their weapon. Its why officers are trained to use their weapon sights on every shot (a tazer looks a lot different than a glock when you look down the sights) and not to wing shots from the hip.

The dirtbag shouldn't have resisted, but this wasn't just an oops by that officer. It was multiple instances of gross negligence. She very easily could have (and very nearly did) shoot her partner. Taser or not you can't have that behavior from an officer.

There was a white man standing on the right. It was clearly his fault for not stopping the two diversity hires from killing that wanted felon through their incompetence. Silence is violence or something like that.

The real winner here is whatever scumbag plaintiff lawyer lands the family. They'll take 40% of the settlement and go back to their mansion.

It was incompetence all around.

First, the black cop just walked straight up to the door. This was a wanted felon who was known to be armed. If the guy had wanted to kill that black cop he'd have been dead before he knew what hit him. Then they had 3 officers but only one hand trying to restrain the suspect. 2 cops standing around and the black officer was holding something in one hand instead of using two hands to get the cuffs on. And they were trying to cuff him in the open doorway of his car. There's a reason cops move people away from their car when arresting them.

Then the lady cop muzzled the black cop a handful of times and damn near shot him too.

Just egregious police work all around.

Its nice that blacks are getting some new hope. Before, the only way most kids from the Hood could dream of making it was shooting hoops or rapping. That's unobtainable for most people. Now they can hope one of their kids gets shot by the police too.

Defunding the police is really going well for liberal cities. Why bother investing in quality officers when you can have rent-a-cop barbie blow away gangbangers and shell out 20 million for the privilege.

I've seen a white gangbanger shot in similar circumstances when resisting arrest. Regardless of your opinion on racism or police, its never a good idea to put your life in the hands of someone else's competence if you can help it. Fucking around with people holding guns seems like a Darwin Award waiting to happen.

I doubt it. Sadly incompetence is rarely punished. This woman murdered that dude far more than anything Chauvin did to George Floyd, but at most this is manslaughter (negligent homicide) and she's a woman so the justice system will already be looking to cut her a break.

My guess is she is charged with man 1, takes a plea deal for man 2 (or maybe even aggravated assault), gets sentenced for 5-10 years and serves 1-2 before she's out.

The real loser here is going to be the taxpayer as this lifelong dirtbag is worth far more to his family dead than he ever was alive. The city is far more on the hook for this death than Floyd. This woman was clearly incompetent and poorly trained. The blame for her being on patrol lies with the city. I wouldn't be surprised if they get more than Floyd's family did in the civil suit.

Maybe someday blue cities will learn its better to be loyal to your good cops rather than demonizing them and replacing the good ones who leave with morons like this woman who will end up killing more blacks and costing you more money.

I've never even seen a cop wear their tazer on the same side as their service weapon. How the fuck do you not realize you drew from the wrong side and are holding your tazer in the opposite hand?

This was a bad shoot, but by the same token it wasn't some megalomaniac cop out looking for blood. If this dude didn't try and resist arrest and run he'd be alive right now.

There are retards in every field (far more these days with diversity quotas replacing merit). If I was this dude I wouldn't want to bet my life on the cops being reasonable and competent. Same reason I don't drive next to another car longer than I need to or get surgeries I don't absolutely need. Placing your life in someone else's hands is never a good idea.

Not quite true. Communists are like weeds. As long as you keep them concentrated somewhere you don't care about they aren't a huge problem. But, you have to be vigilant to quickly pull any weeds that take root in your lawn.

That's what we did in the 60's and 70's. But, once the USSR collapsed and China became "capitalist" we let our guard down. We stopped trying to contain communism to a few countries where they mostly murdered their own people and we stopped acting aggressively to stamp out communist footholds outside those nations.

Now we've got a full blown infestation and there's more weeds than grass in some areas of the US.

When it gets this bad, often all you can do is till it all under and start again next season.

This makes a lot more sense than the vaccine killing everyone. Covid was designed to cull undesirables but it wasn’t lethal enough to make a big dent. So they made a vaccine that ups the lethality of another variant.

Most of their money comes from communist foundations like the Rockefeller and Ford foundation or from corporate America. For them those donations are money well spent with far greater returns. Their goal is the destruction of the white middle class and to replace it with an ignorant mass of uneducated brown migrants who will work for nothing and question nothing.

Secession isn't a realistic option. The main US wouldn't allow a state to secede. Even the idea of it would collapse the US dollar as a reserve currency, which would bankrupt the country overnight. They'd act quickly to remove the heads of a secession movement if it gained traction.

Even worse, if a sizable secession was about to happen and a civil war was going to happen, China and probably Europe and maybe even Russia would intervene on behalf of the legacy US government because they'd be scared of nukes falling into the "wrong" hands.

The only way "forward" is exactly what we're doing now. Letting Democrats make things so bad that even the normies stand up and demand change. Right now everyone is putting it on the table. The stacks are being counted. Democrats are betting there aren't enough brave and patriotic people left to stop them. We here are betting there are. Within the next year or so, I think we'll have our answer. The future of freedom and individual liberty in America (and therefore the world) is hanging by a thread right now. Not since 1776 has there been such a risk of liberty ceasing to exist.

This is actually a common tactic of communist regimes. Stalin and the heads of the KGB were well known for blaming atrocities and evil on the rank and file members of the KGB.

If you need to put up a sacrificial lamb its easy to do so. It also gives you an easy justification for taking even more power for the party leadership (low-level commanders can't keep their troops in line or don't screen for anti-communists well enough so the top brass should have unlimited power because they can do it right).

These high-tech models and "audits" are smoke and mirror shows. The real fraud was in configuring machines to send almost every ballot to adjudication and then poll workers bulk adjudicating ballots to Biden. The other sources of fraud (counting late ballots, dead people, submitting ballots for other people, etc.) are small by comparison (and are present in every election as that's been the Democrat MO for a century). The theory that votes were swapped electronically over a network by someone is almost certainly not true. It would be too risky. If you had a connection issue in a key county you could lose the entire race.

The adjudication fraud is the main culprit and it is something you can only quantify if you do hand inspections of paper ballots side by side with their adjudication records. Except every single suspect county, Maricopa included, has already shredded tens or hundreds of thousands of ballots (most in violation of state laws). You don't need to be a rocket scientist to guess what ballots were shredded.

The evidence was already destroyed months ago. This wasn't set up by a bunch of morons. The CIA has 60 years of election rigging experience. An audit done in one county six months after the election will do nothing but lend more credibility to the theory that the election was honest and accurate.

Trump had his chance. He could have deployed the US Marshalls and National Guard to impound every ballot and voting machine in battleground states on November 4. He could have created a bipartisan commission to examine the ballots and machines transparently by the end of November. He let the swamp rats in his admin talk him out of it like everything else of consequence he tried to do.

The time for peaceful reclamation of a free America died in November 2020 when Trump and his team bungled the investigation and allowed the coverup. All we're doing now is waiting for things to get so bad they can't be tolerated by anyone who loves America. Then its just a question of whether enough people still love America or not. Right now, certainly looks like no.

Every time you see a progressive activist or journalist (but I repeat myself) talk shit about Chauvin's lawyers keep in mind that these are the same people who screamed and demanded the very best legal defense for Al Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo. They wanted literal terrorist prisoners of war to have a better legal defense than an American police officer.

That's where we were 20 years ago and its gotten far worse since.

People are finally moving on. I live in a DEEP blue city in a DEEP blue state. We have a mask order here even when you're outside, but we've gone from 95% of people I see outside wearing masks 2 months ago to less than 50% now. I've even seen a few people go into businesses without one.

We still have a way to go (was in Florida over Easter and hardly saw a mask at all), but if even a liberal shithole like this is starting to see people ditch the diaper, it means something.

That's not what they said. Thomas and Alito said in full:

In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction. I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.

Here Alito is saying, we don't have the power to refuse to take original jurisdiction cases. We must take it. However, I would not grant any relief at this time if we did take the case. I've seen some people say they wanted to hear the case first and weren't deciding the merits here. That may be true in the strict sense, but looking more carefully its clear they did not think Texas could win.

That is because Texas' petition was asking for preliminary injunctive relief (SCOTUS to order the election halted). If the case was taken up by SCOTUS they would have needed to also rule at that time on Texas' motion for an injunction. One of the things you need to show to win an injunction is a likelihood to prevail on the merits. Alito and Thomas said even fi they took the case they wouldn't have granted any relief. That means they would have denied the injunction, which is a strong signal they do not think Texas has a likelihood to prevail on the merits.

The situation at every top 50 law school in the country is more or less the same. I know people who graduated from every top 20 law school in the last decade and all are either raging leftists or had to hide their non-leftism. And the problem has gotten MARKEDLY worse since 2016.

They have enough working knowledge to read the papers, sure. That's a far cry from being able to understand how the vaccine actually works. A child can understand the concept of an mRNA vaccine. That doesn't mean an epidemiologist knows specifically what the COVID vaccine is. It doesn't mean they know what the clinical trials mean. I work on FDA drug approvals (not COVID vaccines). The FDA requires a bit more rigor than someone not in that field will understand.

The real key here is that nobody, not Pfizer, not Moderna, not the FDA, nobody knows what the long-term effects of these vaccines will be. Anybody, epidemiologist or otherwise, who says these vaccines are unequivocally safe is not giving you a scientific opinion. They are giving you propaganda. These vaccines have been in patients for less than a year.

We've seen as many adverse vaccine events in 2021 as we did the previous 10 years combined. The vaccines were developed in 3 days. No complete genome for COVID-19 has ever been published publicly. Clinical trials lasted 4 months (normally take 10 years). There is so much reason to be cautious and so little certainty of long-term effects and safety. Run, don't walk, away from anyone that is sure these vaccines are safe.