calmly walk back to their patrol car, while the other kids were shouting that the boy wasn't moving.
Yeah, that's rather hard to explain away. (I'm curious, what do you think of that ballistics report that said the bullet was dented? Would it be unusual for someone to lie about whether it was dented, or are the autopsy/ballistics investigators also corrupt?)
it's so chilled, inclusive and unpretentious
Oh, how terribly dangerous that must be.
"Greece's current government in the midst of political/corruption scandals"
That's the kind of quote I hear. US political scandals often are along the lines of "That official cheated on his wife! With a MAN!" Which is completely the wrong frame of reference... :p
I'd be wary of anyone hailing him as a solution to all problems
I had to be careful during the campaigns, because I wanted so badly for him to solve all my problems. I want to believe he'll be able to carry out all of his promises, but I keep having to remind myself that's not realistic. I think he is a decent human being and will be a good president, but he's still not some magic problem-solver. I do appreciate his care with grammar. ;p
Ah, I didn't mean cops in the entire US--sorry. That was not clear at all. I mean that in my immediate area, nobody's scared of the police. They're definitely not perfect. Sometimes they do fuck up very badly (plus some of them have a disturbing tendency to be extra-suspicious of people who aren't white), but generally they just do what they're expected to do, which is catch people who actually do break the law. People can hold protests without worrying about getting beaten up. (More often, cops get sent to protests to protect the protestors from getting attacked by other people.) When people in my part of the city say, "I hate cops," it's usually because they got a ticket for speeding. Our cops do seem to enjoy filling quotas by setting speed traps, but that's still not close to brutal power-tripping. I'm faintly aware of police brutality as a thing that happens more often in other places in the US, but I can't point to specific Other Places. Research will commence now, because I'm curious and may be slightly obsessed about knowing what is going on at every moment in every part of the world, including my part of it.
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Date: 2008-12-22 04:33 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's rather hard to explain away. (I'm curious, what do you think of that ballistics report that said the bullet was dented? Would it be unusual for someone to lie about whether it was dented, or are the autopsy/ballistics investigators also corrupt?)
it's so chilled, inclusive and unpretentious
Oh, how terribly dangerous that must be.
"Greece's current government in the midst of political/corruption scandals"
That's the kind of quote I hear. US political scandals often are along the lines of "That official cheated on his wife! With a MAN!" Which is completely the wrong frame of reference... :p
I'd be wary of anyone hailing him as a solution to all problems
I had to be careful during the campaigns, because I wanted so badly for him to solve all my problems. I want to believe he'll be able to carry out all of his promises, but I keep having to remind myself that's not realistic. I think he is a decent human being and will be a good president, but he's still not some magic problem-solver. I do appreciate his care with grammar. ;p
Ah, I didn't mean cops in the entire US--sorry. That was not clear at all. I mean that in my immediate area, nobody's scared of the police. They're definitely not perfect. Sometimes they do fuck up very badly (plus some of them have a disturbing tendency to be extra-suspicious of people who aren't white), but generally they just do what they're expected to do, which is catch people who actually do break the law. People can hold protests without worrying about getting beaten up. (More often, cops get sent to protests to protect the protestors from getting attacked by other people.) When people in my part of the city say, "I hate cops," it's usually because they got a ticket for speeding. Our cops do seem to enjoy filling quotas by setting speed traps, but that's still not close to brutal power-tripping. I'm faintly aware of police brutality as a thing that happens more often in other places in the US, but I can't point to specific Other Places. Research will commence now, because I'm curious and may be slightly obsessed about knowing what is going on at every moment in every part of the world, including my part of it.
"There's no such thing as heaven. Let's work on making hell a little bit better.'
I love that.