Fucking Cops

[Jackalope]

Hence the term "judicial theft." As the line in the Godfather goes, 'one man with a briefcase can steal more than 100 men with guns.'

Trying to figure a way to finish that line with a joke about one man with 100 guns in a briefcase.

That'd be one fucking heavy briefcase.

[Cato]

These cops are such pussies these days. One bunch is afraid of a water hose....this bunch of shits was afraid of a pen, wielded by a man in a wheelchair no less.

Keeping in mind this was a one armed man confined to a wheelchair:

As he advanced toward the officers, Claunch was "refusing to show his hands," the representative said.

I would love to know the reasoning behind the expectation that he could produce a second hand. The first was quite obviously involved in propulsion.

The idea that a pen wielding one armed, one legged, wheelchair bound man requires a response of lethal force is ridiculous enough. Reading that it was a felt tip pen and that it wasn't evened the cornered cop that drew his "duty weapon" would make this comical if it weren't tragic and today, seemingly routine.

[rexbeccarox]

This drives me crazy. The word is "moot". Please don't use words unless you understand them completely.

Please don't correct people's typos with unwarranted personal attacks. It was obvious the word "moot" was intended and its use would have be in the perfectly correct context. I'm not the best typist and I make lots of typos and I don't always catch everything, but that is not a call to act like I don't "understand" something with the implication that I'm uneducated. That was uncalled for.

Personal attack? I implied you didn't understand one word, which you misused, not that you are uneducated. It would have been perfectly correct if you had... I don't know... used the correct term?

Try not to take things so personally. I would have called anyone out for that "typo".

[ShaMan]

My own writing sucks and my grammar is atrocious. There, just in case I have any future challengers

[Minimalist]

Why not just tip the nutcase over?

Wouldn't it have been simpler for the second cop to grab the wheelchair by the handles and pull him away? Seems that it would have taken less time to do that than pull his gun and shoot the guy.

Maybe he just wanted to shoot somebody?

[FatAndFaithless]

Why not just tip the nutcase over?

Wouldn't it have been simpler for the second cop to grab the wheelchair by the handles and pull him away? Seems that it would have taken less time to do that than pull his gun and shoot the guy.

Maybe he just wanted to shoot somebody?

Or hell, just stand up a few stairs.

[Brakeman]

Please don't correct people's typos with unwarranted personal attacks. It was obvious the word "moot" was intended and its use would have be in the perfectly correct context. I'm not the best typist and I make lots of typos and I don't always catch everything, but that is not a call to act like I don't "understand" something with the implication that I'm uneducated. That was uncalled for.

Personal attack? I implied you didn't understand one word, which you misused, not that you are uneducated. It would have been perfectly correct if you had... I don't know... used the correct term?

Try not to take things so personally. I would have called anyone out for that "typo".

Really, you are going to lie to me by saying you thought I didn't know what the word "mute" means?? Do you think I put my phone or computer on "moot"? Mute is a common word, anyone with even close to a full working vocabulary of English would know it. Moot is a bit more rare, but when read in context, the line certainly only called for the word "moot" and only one who "UNDERSTOOD" it's meaning would have constructed the sentence thusly.

Of course it is my fault to take offense, not yours for making the snide comment. I apologize for my typo that you couldn't resist denigrating me for.

[Minimalist]

Ah, yes.... "Preserve and Protect......"

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/05/ba...on-nggers/

Baton Rouge cop resigns after he’s caught texting desire to ‘pull a Ferguson’ on ‘n*ggers’

Fifteen-year-veteran Michael Elsbury resigned on Thursday after text messages he sent to a female friend were brought to the attention of his superiors. In one message, Officer Elsbury — whose patrol included the area around the historically black Southern University — wrote that blacks are “nothing but a bunch of monkeys,” and that the “only reason they have this job is the nigger, nigger in them.” It is unclear what “job” he is referring to.

In another text, he wrote that “I wish someone would pull a Ferguson on them and take them out. I hate looking at those African monkeys at work…I enjoy arresting those thugs with their saggy pants.”

[JesusHChrist]

I'm just going to go moot on this and keep quiet.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Brakeman]

I'm just going to go moot on this and keep quiet.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

If a woman loses her vocal cords, is opting for her singing career a "mute" point or a "moot" point?

I just thought the snide correction by Rexbeccarox was poorly worded and too strong to fit the situation. I thought she might just apologize with a simple "Oops, I didn't really mean it as a putdown, sorry." Yeah, either that, or start comparing my university degrees with hers and get all fussy with her thesis or literary skills vs mine, but it didn't turn that way either. No, so far she just wants to reiterate the insult that I wouldn't know the meaning of mute vs moot.
I really like her a great deal and I have great respect for her sharp analytical mind that I see often on the board, but she's showing us just how stubborn she can be.