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I support it. It would free up a spot on my very full speed dial list. I have 911 in as #743.

No offense taken, like you, I just believe what I believe. A number of years ago a friend had a son who ended up on the police force. I really didn't know the young man, but I knew his dad on a personal level through work (and quite a few beers over the years). The son was a nice boy, good athlete, well-rounded young man and ended up being a police officer in central NY. He was shot responding to a robbery, caught the bullet just above the vest he was wearing, and died at the scene. Apparently, the guy who robbed the store just decided to fire over his shoulder, not all that concerned with what might happen. It was a tragic situation, and I tend to view things from the perspective of "How the %$$@ was he supposed to know???". You're right though, the officer has the greater degree of responsibility, and I would bet most agree. I just see this one as a series of unfortunate events, and certainly feel badly for the guy with the head trauma, and certainly feel badly that the office is about to be sacrificed to the masses.

I agree, the officer could have de-escalated as well. He could have simply ignored the man, walked past, and hoped for the best, I don't know that that is going to happen all that often in these situations, but it certainly was an option. I admire your commitment to rationalizing that the officer should have known there was no threat to him, but given what's happening in the country to people who look like him, I don't pretend to think I know what was going through his head. Then again, I wouldn't think an Ivy league educated lawyer would fire bomb the police, be bailed out by a major political player, that the mayor of a city as large as NY would have a daughter participating in the same thing, that people of all ages would throw bricks, urine or acid at another humane being, or that 'protestors' would assassinate police officers guarding city hall. As far as my posting history, on these issues, I felt that the officers should be charged for that horrific event involving George Floyd, on the young man in Georgia I felt the video tape showed a couple rednecks murdering a guy in broad daylight. Do we disagree there?

I already said that. The guy should not have escalated the situation.

Bill, the answer seems to me to be that every incident must be judged as if every party involved knows with certainty how it will turn out, protestor included. It feeds the narrative, it conflates a series of unfortunate events with police brutality, and completely ignores context. The officer is charged with a job that sucks across the board. Gear up, form a line, enforce a curfew. Follow protocol, if you defend yourself with any sort of force your $#!@ing life better be in danger, and we'll let the politicians decide what you should have done after the fact and be ready to be offered up to the masses. The injured guy should not have approached and confronted the officer, and when he did, he escalated what was already a tense situation. He may not have seen it that way, he may think he's the nicest guy in the world and would never stab an officer in the throat. Interestingly, he was the only protester doing what he did. With fellow officers being shot, stabbed, hit by cars, beaten etc, the officer has no idea at all what comes next. It appears he viewed the guy as nuisance and pushed him. It appears the man lost his balance and fell. It's a shame across the board. The solution for law enforcement is to stop enforcing the laws, call in sick or revolt against the order. The easy solution is for people to respect the impossible situation the officer is in, but that's not going to happen.

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Excellent question. I'd love to hear Joe work through this all.

32,800,000 to 48,000,000 bad people in the country according to the hero to the left. Presumably his sex assault victims are in that basket. Nothing to see here at all.

I responded last night but deleted the post. I find it difficult to share my thoughts without sounding like I think i have any great solutions here, because I do not. Roles reversed: I've spent some time in NYC, though I'm no expert on the culture. I think if the roles are reversed, there is a high likelihood that the man with the dog off the leash wonders if the lady telling him to leash his dog is from the dog police, he likely tells her to mind her own business, and gets irritated when she tries to lure the dog over with treats. I think when the video goes viral, more than half the people responding think she targeted him because of his skin color, more than half think she's the dog leash nazi, and the others think he was wrong and should have his dog on a leash. Again, I think this was an odd encounter on both parts, and I remain convinced he was wrong to offer the dog a treat to come over to him. I'm actually surprised I'm the only one who feels that way. She's nuts, we agree. I walk my dog off leash at a local park from time to time, play fetch with him at a local soccer field when no one is around, and always keep an eye out for other dogs or people. He's a big, friendly lab but I understand that not everyone feels the same way about dogs as I do. I don't see that as being an ass as much as I see it as a guy trying to give his dog a good life. Certainly if someone asked me to put a leash on him I would comply.

I'm not sure if she's your sister, if so, I apologize. Yes, he approached her rapidly and 30 seconds later she was on her knees on a sidewalk singing the show tunes from his favorite Broadway musical. That was my point about survival instincts. I have a daughter, mid-20s. I would be devastated to learn I did such a sh*tty job as a father that an unknown male could approach her on a sidewalk, suggest she assume a submissive and defenseless position and have her comply all inside 15 seconds. While simply walking away would have worked here, I encouraged my daughter to target weak points (consider the weapons you have (8 or 9 if unarmed) pop his eardrums, smash his nose with her forehead, grab his hair with force and bring his face to her knee, bite everything and anything necessary, scream like hell and fight like her life depended on it. I also told her not to be ashamed to walk/run aggressively away from a situation where an unknown person approaches you anywhere, and not to be embarrassed if in doing so it turns out to be a second uncle once removed on her mother's side. Any man worth his salt knows that approaching a random female in a parking lot or on a street can certainly appear threatening,

Let me clarify. My initial response to polite people is polite reply, and as he approached her he was polite. My general response to being approached on a street by a guy with a camera would almost always, exclusively be "No thank you". Sign a petition? "No thank you!". Ta;k about God? "No thank you!". I can't imagine I'd still be speaking as he suggested I kneel, at the minimum I would be three steps ahead trying to keep an eye on him in case things escalated. Make no mistake, this strikes me as a very weird encounter and I'm not really down with that. Oh, on the central park lady who lost her ^%$# when the guy asked her to leash her dog. Somewhere back I posted that while I thought she was crazy, the guy was a weirdo as well. He confronts a lady about her dog being off leash (like he's the dog warden), then when she gets upset, he trie to lure her dog over to him with a treat. I'm willing to bet any sensible woman in America would find her spidey senses tingling when a strange male of any color engages you and tries to get your dog over to him in a park.

You would do something racist that required an apology? Like what?

This young lady seems to have been born with virtually no survival instinct, and a stunning lack of self-esteem. I would politely decline, wish him well and be about my day.

Holy cow C3, this is a check-mate point. The President should open the doors and the DC mayor was spot on and not at all playing her supporters for chumps. Don't sleep on the convertible idea either. Some presidents respected JFK and you may not know it, but he loved driving around with his top down.

Well, I wasn't wrong on 2018 either. It's a pretty common happenstance in the world of politics, sonny boy. I'll acknowledge the blue wave when it happens. I am 100% convinced that there are enough voters who were outraged by Trump's election who will cast a vote for their own version of a serial sexual abuser, plagarizer, shake down artist, bully, racist and fondler and celebrate the accomplishment. It'll be a disappointment, but I'll laugh my ass off at the stunning display of hypocrisy. Hell, I'm laughing now watching the tired old man campaign.

And the people's President should ride in a convertible. What a &^%$ing moron.

It is, or it isn't. You've been wrong before, pretty consistently. Whatever. Like everyone else, if Trump walking to the church is the hot button issue that really riles 'em, they should vote their conscience. Maybe they can do it from the 11 x12 home office where they worship, mask on, while watching services online because the government tells them they are cowardly, dumb , selfish and ignorant if they attempt to celebrate together. Hell, if they have two monitors maybe they can watch their local politician marching arm and arm with other citizens, those who apparently are immune to the super bug, not a mask in sight. Or, maybe they can use the second monitor to track the movement of the wandering hoard of looters and vandals, maybe they can see their church if the vandals get to the right neighborhood. There really are a lot of options when the government locks you down. It's liberating.

What did Mattis say about the weaponization of the intelligence agency under BO, the corruption in the FBI, and Obama’s expulsion of Russians in an effort to create an international incident? What about the Mueller tribunal, what did he say about that? IMO, the attempt to unseat a President and hijack an election is about as dangerous and un-American as you can get.

Earlier today I was typing Duct Tape and a combination of technology and sloppy typing left it at Duck Rape. I wasn’t even mad, I love ducks.

I really love the English language, and try to pay close attention to what is said and who says it. Mark Levine is THE Chair of the NYC Health Committe in the epicenter of the Covid crisis in this country. He's participated in the dialogue, has access to people and information most of us do not, and its fair to consider him an expert. Wtf is this "If" there is a spike? There are tens of thousands of people from all walks of life interacting for hours upon hours on end. Based on the data that was provided to us about the ways the virus spread, the impact of social distancing, the infection and mortality rate and the like ....there should be a massive spike in cases, hospitalization and deaths from these protests. Or, was what it all a lie the first time? $#!! Off Mark.

I've said this for a long time. Michael Brown had arms, he tried to use them to kill an officer. It was going to end one way or the other. The way it ended was the best possible outcome of the worst possible choices.

I think the anger can be directed at the mob that beat this guy savagely, the people who stood around and watched it happen, and the fact that he's disposable to the 'media' that refuses to air this sort of thing when telling a story. He's like the retired police officer, the elderly female shop owner beaten, the police officers shot/killed/run over/injured/dragged by the crowds, and at this point, like George Floyd. Let's be honest, even if he was "attacking" people with a sword (v. defending his property from looters), all they had to do was try and follow Wisdom From Joe: they could have tried to hit him in the leg.

I was saying they are examples of unified speech, based on the heretofore acknowledgement of kneeling as such (ergo). I wear jerseys on occasion, usually with duct tape and a handwritten name of the current player assigned the number. I don't wear them beyond wacthing the Bills play on TV in my basement or to a game (and often not to a game) as I feel the jersey make me look skinny. I also apparently have some odd tactile thing going on, as I find them uncomfortable generally and also find myself really enjoying the feel of the cool flat texture of the quartz countertops we installed in our kitchen a couple years back. And freshly cut boxwoods. I used to play Powerball when the jackpot hit a hundo-mill+. One time, I had two numbers and truly thought "Wow! That was close!". That was in spite of being around 50, trying to take the sensible, slow and steady approach to building wealth over time.

As is an adult wearing a football players jersey (You're so cool man!), playing the Powerball (I wants me money!) and taking a ferry to Nantucket. However, the Nantucket rule only applies to trips on a high speed ferry. Obviously participants are saying "I don't have time for this".

i believe her.