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    The gun should always be on the dominant side. The taser is supposed to be on the opposite side of the gun. Given that the video shows her holding the gun in her right hand, It's highly likely that she's right handed and drew her gun from her right hip. The location of the taser is the big question It should have been on her left hip. Personally, I think we'll learn that it was. Being a woman, and therefore likely smaller, I doubt that she would have had room to comfortably carry both on one side.
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    Yes it is possible. She'll be double fucked if so. I still think she was probably wearing them on opposite hips per policy. Her brain told her taser and her muscle memory told her gun.
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    As both the OP and the guy responsible for the derail, I concur.
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    Criminals need to be held accountable for their actions, but there is a common preventable theme here. The common preventable theme is that Police aren't being held accountable. All of the men you mentioned died or were disabled as a result of their poor choices. Not one of the officers in the cases you cite have been convicted (at least not as of yet). Two of them weren't even charged.
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    A quick google of "Cop accidentally uses gun instead of taser" tells me: 1) It happens more than I would have thought, and 2) whether or not the officer gets charged has a lot to do with the way the local law is written, though if there's any interpretation that allows it you can be sure this County Attorney will file. Conviction will obviously be a different matter.
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    They're taught that they have the right and responsibility to their family to go home at the end of the shift, and that at any moment their life could threatened. This is actually true, in my opinion, but the constant harping on it in the name of combating complacency goes too far. As the video shows, this "bad shit can happen at any moment" message doesn't really eliminate complacency. Instead, it often leads to a severe overreaction when something does go wrong.
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    I don't think we know yet why he was stopped in the first place, but at the point in which the (wrong) weapon was pulled and discharged, it was no longer a routine traffic stop. He had pulled away and jumped into a car that hadn't been searched. IMO, the taser would have been justified.
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    Not Minneapolis PD.
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    I won't watch the video again, but I saw multiple mistakes before the big one. First officer had way too much trouble getting the cuffs on. Female officer announced "he's got a warrant" within ear shot of the guy and before he was secured. Female officer reached out and grabbed the guy, as if to help secure him, but had a piss poor grip and zero leverage. As for the makeup of the guy who was killed? Yeah, he was a wanted man who tried to get away. The consequences for that are additional charges, not an immediate death sentence.
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    Not MPD, but yeah, that's how it's done. Problem is that it's unlikely she spends as much of her time in front of the mirror drawing her pistol than her male counterparts. Not as much muscle memory.
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    Different color, different shape, and (most importantly) different hip. That's a colossal fuck up if that's what happened.
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    There was another officer involved shooting last night which led to the death of another black man. There is more unrest. https://www.startribune.com/police-fatally-shoot-black-man-daunte-wright-minnesota-brooklyn-center-protest/600045002/ The shooting last night occurred in Brooklyn Center, which is a first ring suburb of Minneapolis. So, while this one doesn't fall on the Minneapolis Police Department, that's a distinction without a difference for many up here. The fact that much of the public is assuming it was dirty until proven otherwise is of no surprise either.
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    Correct. Expect an announcement soon. He didn't want to steal any of the spotlight from the team while in the tournament but that's over now so the expectation is that he's going to declare soon and Gonzaga is the favorite by a mile.
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    I felt the exact same way. Used to say "I had the perfect dog and he died. What's the point of getting another?" Wait until you're ready. Took two years for me to be okay with another dog. His roommate came a year after that. Neither one of them are Rudy, but they're pretty damn cool. Nap time.
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    I don't fault you one bit for the cynical interpretation. But just to be clear, that's not an accurate summation of Graham V. Conner decision. Quite the opposite, really.
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    I think he's sincere. And for what it's worth, the Noor case was not under his watch. The chief at the time was removed immediately following the murder of Justine Damond and Arradando was promoted. He dealt with the aftermath of it, but was not chief when it happened.
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    Early contender for pic of the year.
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    Attorney is trying to infer that Chauvin wasn't even on his neck. "Camera perspective bias" because one of the body cam shots show him on the shoulder blade.
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    This just caught my eye. Kinda cool I guess.
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    The Klondike Gold Rush.
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    Yeah, with those types of chairs (I have 4) I either go super cheap Amazon knockoff or I buy at REI, where I know I can return if it craps out. Here's my current favorite when weight and bulk aren't an issue. https://www.rei.com/product/128052/nemo-stargaze-recliner-luxury-chair I got it with a seam rip at an REI garage sale and had it stitched and reinforced for $15.
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    Don't even try to read the thread. You'll only fall in love with stuff that- while maybe still talked about- could be at a very different stage (hold instead of a buy for instance). Set up a brokerage account if you haven't already, and consider a Roth IRA. Join the Discord discussion. Take your time researching the terms being thrown around and the stocks under discussion. Or... just put 7k on cbbt if hookers and blow is really your style.
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    Weird. My 2nd was scheduled at the time of my 1st. They wouldn't even stick you unless you could commit to coming back on the exact day.
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    Just got Round 1 of Pfizer. Don't know the current guidelines in Texas and elsewhere but here in MN I was eligible by virtue of being 45 and "Obese". I'm not- by any metric other than the BMI- even in the general vicinity of obese, but this is the 1st time in pretty much my entire adult life that the use of that standard hasn't fucked with me, so I'm going to roll with it.

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