reddogblitz

The Rangers is my team and has been since they moved to Arlington on 1972. I have always thought it was a dumb name. First, why Texas? There was already a team in Houston. Then it was named after a law enforcement agency. But what are ya gonna do if your team has a dumb name? I also root for the Buffalo Bills. A team with a Buffalo on their helmet named after a guy that killed mass quantities of Buffalos. I propose a new name. Arlington Friends of the Earth ?.

This one takes the cake.for me. https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/12/abraham-lincoln-statue-boston-mayor-walsh/ I did a little internet searching ( about 2 minutes ) and come to find out its a replica of a statue in Washington DC. The original was paid for exclusively by freed slaves and black veterans of the Union Army. When the original one was dedicated the key note speaker was Frederick Douglass. Douglass had some parts of it he didn't like, but evidently not enough to not make the speech. https://www.nps.gov/cahi/learn/historyculture/cahi_lincoln.htm Now we are cancelling freed slaves, black soldiers who laid their life on the line to free slaves, and Frederick Douglass because some people won't do their homework before getting outraged. It is Boston, so maybe I shouldn't be too surprised.

Are the Tar Heels next? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Heel

Well, they'll use unarmed street patrol. But they'd still need a few cops there just in case I guess. The thing no one talks about in this re imagining the police in regards to using social workers and marriage counselors to respond to calls is where are these people going to come from? There are not that many social workers and they don't make much money and are over worked. We don't have mental health systems in place for responding to calls and committing people for observation and treatment. Where we gonna put 'em? On top of that, the mental health treatment success rate is very low. It would also mean 911 operators would have to be very adept at diagnosing the problem in short order to send the right people. We would need a lot more specialists and the ability to deploy them properly. The reason we send cops out to everything is cuz that's all we got. Oh, and all this will have to be done while state and local governments are short on funds due to the COVID-19 shutdown. Jay "The Snake" Inslee is already promising draconian budget cuts if the Feds don't send him money. I don't trust the government to be able to re organize and set up all this without making it worse.

Amen. This is what is driving me nuts on this thing. If we want to solve the police brutality and higher death rates per % of population for blacks, we would study the problem first to see exactly what we have. In 2020 we.have data analytic methods that can determine trends and patterns in large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Perhaps we could find some things we didn't know that we could fix. It is used for all sorts of applications. IBM Watson is such a technology. I'm not necessarily saying use that. There are others. It's just the one I know about cuz I used to work for IBM. Load on all the data for every case where someone was killed by police. Police reports, trial transcripts, any private investigations that were done, depositions, forensics, ballistics, autopsy reports etc. See what trends/commonalities come out of it.I https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data

Related: What anti-racism really means and how to talk about it. it's one of Chaz' demands. https://medium.com/@seattleblmanon3/the-demands-of-the-collective-black-voices-at-free-capitol-hill-to-the-government-of-seattle-ddaee51d3e47

This is how they caght the lady that that set 5 cop cars on fire on Seattle. Tattoos. Pictures on FakeBook. When I saw it on the news I LOLed out loud. Stupid criminals.

I read your article. Thanks for sharing I do not really doubt this stuff happens. Do you really think this alleged cop's name is A. Cab? In the disinformation world we live in I am skeptical of most things. Not using his/her real and using a funny name doesn't help. aside from all that, this was the part I thought had the best benefit to help the situation. cops can legally lie to you but if you lie to them it's a crime. I have been thinking for a while that the cop situation would be better for blacks and everyone if they knew their rights when dealing with police. Ask for a lawyer. I see people get hosed by police for not asking for a lawyer and instead confess after the cops bald faced lie to them on true crime TV shows where they show the actual police interrogation. I yell at my TV, ASK FOR A LAWYER. They rarely do. Officer A. Cab could do much more to help black people if he spoke at black churches and community centers telling people of how to handle dealings with the police than writing anonymous articles and pining for a dream land where all people's needs are met somehow IMHO.

It does look like some serious/obvious pandering to do it at this point on time.

June 19th has been a state holiday in Texas since 1980. Nice to see the enlightened North join the party. Better late than never I guess.

I got the Perry reference as well. Perry makes the best objections.

Are you sure about that? https://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/Still-our-streets-Protesters-block-new-CHOP-15346260.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headlines&utm_campaign=spi_itsintheseattlepi

He's like Trump. Never read the Bible evidently.

Ah, the ole switcheroo. Do the Rs get to claim FDR?

I'm gonna call BS and have a question about the second one. It has been my life experience that if you throw a bunch of kids say aged 6 or less, they will all play together happily. By the time they get to HS or college it is sometimes different. The question - If it is subconsciously inherited, is that not an immutable characteristic? How can it possibly be changed? If it's consciously passed down, wouldn't that indicate it is learned?

librarians in Seattle don't charge late fines.

If you don't like people with blood on their hands I assume you won't be voting for Uncle Joe and did not vote for Ms. Clinton. They both have the blood of 1,000,000+ brown people on their hands.

Danged ole white supremacist black cops.

She has to. Her seat is very hot. City Council Person Kshama Sawant says Durkan should resign. If she doesn't, Sawant will impeach her. Sawant has a lot of support. She's trying to outrun the mob.

I've been thinking that for the present moment Bernie would have been better. Income inequality is his thing. Second to police, this is the issue most talked/chanted about. Bernie was too radical. Now radical is in and we're stuck with the status quo establishment candidate in a time of change.

I saw you pull this same nonsense on The Rhino yesterday. One of your favorite tricks. Put words in someone's !mouth and expect them to defend it. Find someone elae. Have fun.

Really?

Jake Fromm State Farm got busted by a text message to a "friend". Be careful.

marijuana is far from legal in all states. in fact the D nominee for president wants to keep it that way.

So you are a fiscal conservative?