As they tried to approach the suspect, there was an incident that happened. An officer involved shooting took place. – Jenny Virden
Regular readers may recall that Vangelis is one of my favorite musicians; this is one of my favorites of his albums (the others being China, Opera Sauvage and Soil Festivities, with Albedo 0.39 and Heaven and Hell not far behind). It makes me wonder if people in their teens & twenties today feel about this music as many people my age might feel about, say, Count Basie. The links above the video were provided by Whores of Yore, Scott Shackford, Scott Greenfield, Franklin Harris, Tushy Galore, and Tim Cushing, in that order.
- Sounds legit.
- Just a few bad apples.
- Just protecting & serving.
- Florida man, Florida man…
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Cops shoot toddlers they were “afraid” of.
From the Archives
- Why is everyone so willing to believe “fake news” about “sex trafficking”?
- Encouraging prosecutors to file more charges for non-criminal behavior.
- A teen girl riding in a car now constitutes “evidence” of “sex trafficking”.
- Glorification of New York’s prohibitionist shitshow “sex trafficking court”.
- Assume any strange man who fucks you will try to remove the condom.
- The war on whores has brought disgusting creeps out of the woodwork.
- They realized they could expand the panic by adding male “sex slaves”.
- Cops, Lovecraft, viral media, classic Hollywood Avengers & much more.
- Two piles of filth want to cut sex workers off from the banking system.
- Deeply underestimating the emotional contact men want from whores.
- US rulers believe they have right to disrupt lives of millions worldwide.
- PA politicians define women as imbeciles whose consent is immaterial.
- I won’t answer controversial questions about groups I don’t belong to.
- In which sex workers’ desire for individual rights is called “surprising”.
- Cops, Loki, amateurs, Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans & more.
- In which a partisan jackass chases his own “human trafficking” tale.
- The heating up of the war on whores made for an exhausting week.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
- Mark Bennett kills Texas’ mindlessly-draconian “revenge porn” law.
- This licks prohibitionist arseholes so hard it nearly made me vomit.
- Korean men are more honest about buying sex than Western men.
- Pig tricks desperate woman so as to expose her to public ridicule.
- Despite all the Dutch anti-whore campaigns, it’s nice to see this.
- Now you can be a useful idiot without even using a special app!
- A Truthout article echoes what I said in the original of this title.
- Serial rapist tries to reframe himself as a protector of children.
- If you don’t understand this, try looking up “Napoleonic Code”.
- A petition against politicians who want to destroy the internet.
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- Rashida Jones & company are even worse than we thought.
- Neurological disorders cannot be cured by happy thoughts.
- Because one moral panic at a time isn’t enough any more.
- The profound stupidity of lawheads is a marvel to behold.
- A week full of sexual violence committed by state agents.
- Another bullshit story touting bullshit “safe harbor” laws.
- This procedure has come a long way in only three years.
- Who Gay, Inc chooses to side with against sex workers.
- Anyone surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention.
- Naturally she’s doing this; she’s an intelligent woman.
- The hypocrisy of politicians sometimes defies belief.
- The tendency toward such penalties is increasing.
- It’s good to see this getting more attention lately.
- A high-tech version of the “barcode tattoo” myth.
- Authoritarians say self-employment is immoral.
- Evil people use moral panics to cover their evil.
- The rescue industry is nasty from every angle.
- Lewis & her friends are naive fools.
- “Johns” are the new “faggots”.
- Booze, benzos and airplanes.
In the last link, actually the cops shot the truck the toddlers (and one very stupid adult) were riding in because they were afraid of the moving truck. However, whenever I hear about a cop shooting at a moving vehicle, allegedly because he is afraid of being run over, I want to subject him to some questioning to find out whether he is lying or too stupid to carry live ammo. E.g.:
Q. How did you expect to stop the truck?
A: Shooting out a tire.
Q: With only a handgun to penetrate several inches of rubber and a steel belt?
Q: If you were shooting at the tire, how did your rounds wind up hitting kids in the back seat? When was the last time you practiced at a shooting range? Is that the gun you practiced with? Do your scores show that you can even hit the tire?
Q: Do you expect a flat tire to stop a truck from moving at low speeds? (This is a trick question: No means your shooting was NOT to protect yourself or other cops, and Yes means you have no idea how the world works.)
B: To wound or kill the driver.
Q: How would that stop the truck? Did you ever notice how you can take your feet and hands off the pedals and the vehicle keeps on moving?
Q: When was the last time you practiced at a shooting range, Etc?
B: To crack the block on the engine.
Q: On this model of the truck, show the angle at which you were firing. From that angle, where would you shoot to hit the block? Do you know how little of the space under the hood is occupied by the block?
Q: What gun were you using that you imagine could crack the block?
Q: When was the last time you practiced at a shooting range, Etc?
Q: Do you know that a truck can coast with a dead engine?
B: To puncture the radiator.
Q: At least you’ve picked something you could probably hit and penetrate. But do you know how long a truck can run with a 9mm hole in the radiator? (I once put two buckets of water in a car with a much larger hole and a couple of buckets of water, and drove 3 miles to the garage before it all ran out or boiled.)
And finally,
Q: If you were scared, why didn’t you concentrate on what might actually save you, that is getting out of the way and behind something the perp can’t drive through?
“Too scared to think straight” might be a good enough answer for an ordinary citizen, but if a cop uses it, he’s been drawing his salary under false pretenses.