leh-nerd skin-erd

I watched the NBC coverage of the riots this morning. It’s hard to figure exactly what they are reporting, seems to focus quite a bit on police action. Got a video of a police officer with his knee on a guy’s neck for about 30 seconds, chaos all around him, watching the crowd while another officer cuffs the guy. He realizes the cop surveilling the crowd has his knee on the guy and hits his leg and the officer moves it. I saw stunning video of two police cars daring to try and push through a line of rioters, presumably the plan should be to stand down and allow themselves to be assaulted or killed. The lead anchor questioned Santa Monica police chief about a news report that police presence was greater with the peaceful protestors than with the rioters. Apparently they were unable to find footage of the physical assaults on citizens, the shop owner beaten nearly to death, the older lady beaten savage by three or four protestors etc etc. Awesome.

Failure to respond to the Wu-Flu...bullsh$t. No need to review the many ways he’s responded, the projections for potential deaths, and his daily and relentless accessibility. Regardless, it certainly does not reflect a lack of toughness. As for the riots, I’m not certain what you mean. I know you felt he displayed a lack of toughness when the secret service apparently moved him to a bunker. That’s silly. As for visiting riot effected areas, sure, good call. Makes perfect sense.

That would be horrible and it should never come to that. Let’s hope they don’t test the limits of common sense.

Come on, you’re a better poster than this. “Big tough guy”? He’s slugged through more $#@& than any President in recent memory, fighting Rs, Ds, the upper echelon of the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, he’s presided over a nation beset by a friggin virus developed in a lab by an enemy nation, and now it’s a free for all in major cities across the country. He’s still standing, still swinging with his enemies and if there’s one thing you can say about him, he’s as tough as anyone who has ever sat in the Oval Office. I have no idea about bunkers and whatnot, let’s just hope if the lines are breached the secret service cab do their job and end it quickly. .

Good luck.

AR 15 probably solves the problem on behalf of the store owner. Maybe ends badly for the murderous horde but this is a quick reminder for those who say no one is coming for you.

Just by a few years. You have about 8 years on me old timer. ?

Jeez, you give the kid life and he won’t spot you an AR-15? ? My brother was out driving around Roch last night, called me and I told him about the problems I read about here. He said he had just seen several police cars speeding past and thought there was an accident ahead. His next reply was “Frig....I don’t have my gun with me.” Late 50s, tough enough guy, never thought I’d ever hear my brother utter those words in Suburban Rochester. Btw he didn’t say “Frig”....

That first video, thank God he had a friend to confront the cowards who attacked him. The first scumbag hits him from behind and knocks him out, the second tries to kill him with a kick to the head. I pray someday they are treated in kind. The guy who confronts the scumbags, friend or Good Samaritan saved the poor guy a viscous beating.

Ah, you have history. I couldn’t quite square what amounts to “follow an organized process” with you being a bad cop. But if you’re constantly winning, well that could be Patriots territory and I may have to rethink everything.

Bull#@$&. I read your posts and enjoy many. You’re direct, don’t mince words and have a strong belief system. What does “I hope you’re made afraid to go to work” mean to you?

My son was interested in law enforcement and had an opportunity to visit a training facility out near Utica a few years back. They simulated a live shooter situation using a mall setting, with law enforcement officers clearing out the store. They hit them with some curves, pregnant lady was a shooter, that sort of thing. My son was amazed at how stressful the trainees found it just to simulate the danger, and was told how frequently the trainees make mistakes that would be life-threatening in a real life encounter. i was never interested in that sort of profession, and cannot imagine how difficult it can be. To see massive amounts of people turn on the hundreds of thousands of officers like this is heartbreaking.

You misunderstood. I was referring to the idea(s) you shared from Lee Merritt. Even if you are Lee Merritt—and I don’t think you are—-I still didn’t say that, though I definitely implied his idea had a Salem Witch Trial vibe to it. Community Relations panel? Yes. Independent review by another law enforcement agency? Sure. Community review board to determine if, in the calm light of day, 2 school teachers, 1 part-time attorney, a stay at home dad with a man bun and the obligatory psychologist performing the post-mortem on use of force to subdue an armed assailant in a dark alley after a string of sexual assaults, where the assailant “only“ had a 5” blade? I think it’s unfair and unreasonable.

Sure, makes perfect sense. Let’s have the officer wait to be sure the bullet has pierced his skull before he seeks to protect himself. And sure, I can’t think of any reason why a separate tribunal can’t be set up at this time to review whatever they want. They can call it a Title 10 Board, 9 is already taken. One caveat, the members of the board must be immune from criticism or rules that apply to anyone else. You know what would be cool too? A community review board that has the right to kick the nuts in of any scumbag who burns down someone’s house, car or place of employment. In fact any vandalism at all should result in a good nut mashin’.

I say this sincerely. Newsome and Feinstein could not give a &$#@ about a guy murdered if he’s not the right type of victim. While they are quick to paint all police with a broad brush, you get the obligatory “don’t conflate” protests with heinous act. Suddenly, we’re rational. &$#@ing disgraceful.

It’s going to get even uglier when officers start calling in sick.

I was thinking that the other night. 480 yards of foul smelling stench doesn't sound as bad as 500 yards, and then Red has to say 4.8 football fields, or 4 kickoff returns and one where the return man got it back to the 20.

I tried, but the stupidity of believing that these riots impact only a portion of the population as determined by skin color pulled me in. It was like watching a person holding a an extension chord about to jump into a pool while screaming “LIGHT SHOW!”. I felt like if I just mentioned that it makes sense to think just a bit, I could make a difference. “If we can save just one moron...“. I was wrong. Onward.

That’s not surprising, most bigots are pretty set in their ways. It would be ironic if the hot dog place was looted and burned to the ground, wouldn’t it? Where would the wisdom be dispensed moving forward, if not for your precious Werners Circle? I’m sure they would gladly sacrifice for the greater good, and keep their employees on the payroll as they struggled to rebuild. And while I’m at it, conflating a man who was a victim of police brutality, and a young man confronted by a couple rednecks looking for trouble and a DA intent on allowing it.....to a multi-millionaire who was sacked for protesting at work (on an artificial football field that cost millions to produce, was the exclusive and protected enclave of a group of elites, sponsored by Corporate America, and received an endorsement deal for his suffering), and an incident where a whack job overreacted to a guy who doesn’t understand why said whack job would ever be upset that he tried to lure her dog away with “treats” is a absurd.

I understand, and I was calling it as I see it as well.

You implied condescendingly that another posters greatest concern was inconvenienced white people. The reality is agitators are taking advantage of unrest, they are roaming the streets like it’s Thunderdome and enablers are writing it off. Everyone loses. **everyone loses except the agitators and if I may be so bold, the people profiting off the death of the poor man this is all about. You see a man walking out of a target with a 40” tv, a woman walking out of a liquor store with bottles of gin...one man’s tragedy is another’s good fortune.

Your language is divisive, your rhetoric non-inclusive. I’m watching the news and they are showing a vandalized and looted TMobile store In Minneapolis. In a separate shot, a couple women are seen loading boxed wine into a car lifted from a looted liquor store. Nothing says “Honor the memory” like a stolen celly and a glass of Franzia.

But, absent fingers in my example, epic fail? ?

Identifying phony money takes a glorified magic marker and fingers to use it. If you lack fingers, you can hold the marker with your teeth. I’ve been on the receiving end of that scenario, mine was a hundo discovered at a bank. Irritating as crap, but a cost of doing business. In the grand scheme of things...you shouldn’t steal from people by passing bad checks or forged $$$, that causes them to call the police, the police come to check things out, and it should go smoothly from there.

If you think the victims of looting, vandalism, shootings and assaults are exclusively white, you’re part of the problem, not the solution. If you think watching what typically represents a lifetime of work, sweat, blood and sacrifice burn to the ground represents a mere “inconvenience”, you’re a fool. If you’re simple enough to not consider the ramifications of widespread looting, violence and destruction on a community, of the jobs lost, buildings abandoned, major retailers deciding it’s not worth the effort to rebuild there...ah, whatever. Keep on with your silliness. People of depth, character and consideration for their fellow man will do the best they can to go around you.