#1 2013-07-31 00:13:19
Not even close by comparison but my story is pretty funny. After being taking down to the pretty fancy clink (for a town of 6k), the officers actually left and the bail dude couldn't let me out to sign the $40 bail note (Melons sweetly bailed me). He actually had to slide the paper under the door and then disassemble his pen to slide only the ink stick under the door at the largest opening in the door jamb. It barely fit and I couldn't even laugh I was in such disbelief. Shortly thereafter someone returned to the station house to release me and Melons took me home. Oh and he was adamant that I return the ink stick to him before he would leave so I had to force it back under the door again.
But they didn't actually physically search me until after I had been actually in the clink and they wouldn't allow Melons to take my watch or even give me a sip of water when they arrested me, but they did manage to put their hands on their pistols once they discovered that I was career military.
WTF world?
Offline
#2 2013-07-31 00:17:17
And secondly I'd really like to know why the DEA has it's own cells? Shit any real question as to why we're broke?
Use the local jails folks, how fucking difficult is it cooperate?
Offline
#3 2013-07-31 19:20:10
The backlash is building. Sloooooooowly.
Offline
#4 2013-07-31 19:25:17
Some of the $4 million should be confiscated from the salaries of the idiots who locked him in there and forgot.
Offline
#5 2013-07-31 19:57:13
And he only got $4.1 mil? If he had been black it would have been $15 mil by the time the rabble had been roused.
Offline
#6 2013-07-31 21:07:47
phreddy wrote:
Some of the $4 million should be confiscated from the salaries of the idiots who locked him in there and forgot.
Precisely, can you fucking imagine what that must have been like? Hell if that had been a dog they would be in jail right now...
Offline
#7 2013-08-01 00:43:17
GooberMcNutly wrote:
And he only got $4.1 mil? If he had been black it would have been $15 mil by the time the rabble had been roused.
It's clear he settled early in the process. Kneegrows would have dragged the process on and on, stating their opening proposal was a non-negotiable demand in the name of the African Diaspora, and used the rabble to try and pressure a settlement without negotiations. By the time a $15 mil settlement was reached, the legal fees would have eaten up $14.75 mil of the total.
Last edited by fnord (2013-08-01 00:44:28)
Offline
#8 2013-08-01 16:01:45
Offline
#12 2013-08-11 18:06:12
That is scary enough to be true.
Last edited by Baywolfe (2013-08-11 18:10:35)
Offline
#13 2013-08-12 09:27:25
The Onion certainly knows how to dance the razor's edge between satire and reality....
Offline
#14 2013-08-12 18:59:50
That's comedy for you: if your jokes aren't based on reality then they're not funny. That's what Jon Stewart knows that Rush Limbaugh doesn't. Well, besides how not to be a fat obnoxious drug-addled asshole.
Offline
#16 2013-08-13 20:32:07
Emmeran wrote:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/01/us-usa-florida-police-shooting-idUSBRE97000Z20130801
The tragedy is that the police shot at him a dozen times from point-blank range and he still walked away.
Offline
#17 2013-08-13 21:27:23
I wonder if he ever got his cigarette?
Offline
#18 2013-08-16 09:24:43
There's always free cheese in a mousetrap....
Last edited by XregnaR (2013-08-16 09:25:20)
Offline
#19 2013-08-16 11:25:49
Pretty scary shit... home invasion by Dekalb County sheriffs without a warrant or probable cause.
Offline
#20 2013-08-16 11:51:36
lechero wrote:
Pretty scary shit... home invasion by Dekalb County sheriffs without a warrant or probable cause.
Offline
#21 2013-08-16 12:54:45
Yep, it's always a good idea to serve civil warrants at 1am
Offline
#22 2013-08-16 20:43:14
lechero wrote:
Pretty scary shit... home invasion by Dekalb County sheriffs without a warrant or probable cause.
“I’m sure the officers were teed off because the family kept them outside for a (half) hour and told them they had the wrong address,” said Brown, who is considering running for Congress.
That's all we fucking need!
Offline
#23 2013-08-29 17:37:24
Offline
#25 2013-08-31 10:05:35
https://twitter.com/OccupyWallStNYC/sta … 16/photo/1
Last edited by melons (2013-08-31 10:07:58)
Offline
#26 2013-08-31 19:06:22
melons wrote:
Do we have an exact timestamp as to when Occupy Wall Street went completely off the rails?
Offline
#27 2013-09-04 03:31:53
Then relax!
Wait - you just destroyed my property, what's with the attitude?
Sorry for the CNN link and ads
Last edited by Emmeran (2013-09-04 03:37:48)
Offline
#29 2013-09-16 22:20:12
Emmeran wrote:
They sure were working hard to prevent the outcome they caused to happen.
Offline
#30 2013-09-16 22:34:57
There's a serial movie script in here somewhere, sadly it wouldn't take much talent to write it. Basically blah, blah, bang, bang, blah, blah, bang, bang, and so on and so forth.
I'd like the see the police academy's start every class with the mantra "Don't shoot people"; for fuck's sake it's basic common sense.
Disclaimer: I'm still pissed off that those fuckers put their hands on their side-arms because I was being too polite and admitted to being a career Marine.
Offline
#31 2013-09-17 18:15:43
Emmeran wrote:
Disclaimer: I'm still pissed off that those fuckers put their hands on their side-arms because I was being too polite and admitted to being a career Marine.
That's why I prefer to live in Texas. The cops here understand that we're all just crazy enough to shoot them if properly provoked.
Offline
#33 2013-09-20 23:08:20
The sobering truth in this recent rash of white authority figure killing black man incidents is the amount of genuine racism still exists in this country. And I'm not talking about the benign fnord racism, which is actually funny, but the number of white men, in authority, with weapons, that are afraid of black men.
Offline
#35 2013-10-03 19:44:04
Can we please stop shooting people, particularly freaked out women with their kid in the car.
It's really not all that hard, this "car as a weapon" thing has gone a bit too far.
Let's go back over this: Thou shalt not kill.
Any questions people?
Last edited by Emmeran (2013-10-03 19:46:31)
Offline
#36 2013-10-03 20:21:20
Why didn't the assholes just shoot out the stinking tires when they were standing right next to the car with their guns drawn?
Offline
#37 2013-10-03 20:33:31
whosasailorthen wrote:
Why didn't the assholes just shoot out the stinking tires when they were standing right next to the car with their guns drawn?
Because no one is afraid of a tire shooter. Did the Marines on Iwo-jima shoot out tires when they charged up San Juan hill? I don't think so. Did John Wayne shoot tires at the Alamo? No need to ask, Comrade! Manly men shoot unarmed grandmothers in the face because that's how they roll when they serve and protect.
Offline
#38 2013-10-03 22:28:09
Oh, you thought it was YOU they were supposed to serve and protect?
Offline
#39 2013-10-04 05:35:25
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Oh, you thought it was YOU they were supposed to serve and protect?
That's what they taught me in school. I didn't believe it then either.
Last edited by Tall Paul (2013-10-04 06:52:22)
Offline
#40 2013-10-04 06:14:01
Over-trained.
That's all, thinking is no longer part of the equation.
Offline
#41 2013-10-04 14:29:31
Emmeran wrote:
Over-trained.
Or improperly trained.
Offline
#42 2013-10-04 15:06:57
I have had the opportunity to witness a police officer shooting and killing a man who was overcome with rage from a domestic dispute. The cop was a sergeant with a dozen years on the force. Even so, his adrenaline was running so high, I was afraid he would shoot me if I made so much as a sound. He almost shot the guy's mother when she tried to approach her son who was on the ground and dying. Out of control is a good description for his condition. I completely agree with Em, but in your own self defense, it's better to never give them any reason to shoot.
Offline
#43 2013-10-04 16:56:58
Emmeran wrote:
The-Article wrote:
"He's the strongest person I have ever met," Yoo said. "As a result of his case, it's one of the primary reasons the DEA placed a nationwide policy that calls on each agent at satellite offices to check on the well-being of prisoners in their cells on a daily basis," Yoo said.
On a daily basis? DAILY? Are they serious? You mean they don't even have a bored constable sitting feet-up at a wooden desk in the corridor, dozing or reading porn as the mood takes them?
Offline
#44 2013-10-06 01:56:44
Offline
#46 2013-10-19 08:59:10
Note the "Call of Duty" cops that appear around the 40 second mark.
Offline
#47 2013-10-19 14:49:19
Emmeran wrote:
Note the "Call of Duty" cops that appear around the 40 second mark.
I counted at least 3. One directly behind and one in the tree line.
Offline
#48 2013-10-19 15:23:58
They brought 700 Cops to a village of 800 people.
Offline
