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UpperWestside

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  1. Just now, TXSG8R said:

    11 total counts.  DA hitting him for all kinds of shit.  I'm pleasantly surprised, but worried how much of it will actually stick.  The other cop flipped to state witness too.  

    Throw everything you can possibly throw at this POS and see how much they can get to stick. One worthless cop down and many more to still get rid of.

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    ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in the back after the fleeing man pointed a stun gun in his direction will be charged with felony murder and 10 other charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

    Garrett Rolfe kicked Brooks while he lay on the ground and the officer with him, Devin Brosnan, stood on Brooks' shoulder as he struggled for life after a confrontation Friday night, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said at a news conference.

    Rolfe had already been fired after he fatally shot Brooks, 27, on Friday night. Brosnan, who will be charged with aggravated assault and other crimes, had been placed on administrative leave.

    Brooks’ widow, Tomika Miller, attended the news conference along with her lawyers, Justin Miller and L. Chris Stewart.

    Looks like that officer in Atlanta just got charged with felony murder. 

  3. 4 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

    He literally said nothing in that statement, once someone tells him his opinion he'll tweet something about it.

    Right. It is just there is an expectation that he immediately goes flying off the handles on most everything. I agree someone will tell him what his opinion is and he’ll go on a twitter rampage blaming everyone ranging from protestors to Mexicans (always gotta work them in) for what has happened today.

  4. 11 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

     

     

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    Oh don’t worry. Wait until he gets in front of those supporters on Saturday and tells them the complete opposite. Hell wait until he goes on a late night twitter rant this week saying the opposite. He cannot help but say something stupid and ignorant on this and it’ll be sooner rather than later.

  5. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    I don't disagree with your take, and appreciate your acknowledgement of the role that the politically dominant class has had to play in this.  Honestly, my response and thoughts on this are the same as my thoughts on the chaos that we're seeing and we're going to see with respect to policing, and the rioting we saw.

    The best way to avoid riots and violence (the complete breakdown of the Rule of Law) is to first.....avoid undermining and voiding the Rule of Law.  And that's exactly what allowing the police to operate with complete impunity, to break the law in both letter and spirit in your face, then laugh at you and say "fuck you, what are you gonna do about it?" has led to.  Society (through its armed agents) shouldn't breach the social contract....because then we lose the benefits of the social contract.

    Our political environment is much the same way.  It would be FANTASTIC if the political conversation these days actually could focus on differing takes on monetary policy, foreign involvement, etc.  But you and I both know that the dominant political class -- the GOP -- is not having those conversations, because that movement is no longer about policy at all.  It's about appeals to baser instincts (ALL the dog whistles have now been blown), and abandonment of any consistent policy in favor of what is functionally a cult.  Thinkers like George Will are persona non grata.  So, again, when you abandon core principles for....well, whatever the hell GOP is and stands for now....you end up with chaos.  There's actually a good piece in the NYT for this weekend that Trumpism has done more to shove a large swath of the country to the left than any political development in decades.

    Extremes lead to extremes.  So, like, avoid them.  Don't be a deranged, despotic king, and you won't end up facing a violent revolution.  This is one of the big reasons some of us keep cautioning against the metaphorical "despotic king" route.

    I was finishing up a paper last night for a psychology class and part of it was about George Kelly. I am not here to argue the merits of his Social Construct Theory, but part of it resonated to me with what we are seeing from the cult supporters. The construct they have built for themselves with which they have lived their life around is now not only being stamped out, but they are being left behind and told they are flat out wrong in how they view things. They feel threatened to see their own personal construct and view of life come under assault. I do not feel bad for them, but reading his theory makes me better understand why Dotard’s supporters are going down with the ship instead of adjusting their own construct to a world that is changing by the minute in a positive way for millions of people who deserve it. It is easier to cling to the comfort of what you know instead of progressing forward and re-thinking long held wrong-headed views that are now becoming extinct.

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  6. 20 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said:

    It's worse live.  He seems to suggest what Lincoln did may not have been good.  Jesus.

    Listening to that was just another incredible moment where he says something that would have been a moment that any other president would have been immediately called out on and it would have been news for weeks. He has done and said so much heinous and racist shit that this won't be in the news cycle for a full 24 hours.

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  7. This is what change looks like. Coolest thing I have seen all day. The dad was wearing a shirt that said “Please...I can’t breathe.”  

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  8. 7 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Some good news if you like a delicious, contemporary, deconstructed twist on the cheeseburger with some light misuse of position on the side. 

     

    Well no shit you didn’t ask for it Dotard. You just took it and assumed the money was rightfully yours. 

  9. 3 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

     

    That one in Columbus Circle is definitely getting moved now. I think the city will act to remove it before protestors get a chance to do so. Remove all traces of him and his disgraceful name from that area and follow Mayor Bowser's example down here and name that circle after the BLM movement.

  10. Lafayette Square will be open again today as Ft. Dotard has its fencing removed. Looks like that's where I will be protesting at later on.

    Edit: Apparently the Secret Service opened it up again right after midnight and let protesters back in.

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  11. Buying ad time to appease the the fragile ego of a narcissist who spends his days watching cable news and talking shit on Twitter. I want the simulation where Dotard shovels shit for a living in Louisiana and never gets a better job than that.

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  12. 14 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

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    Great. Pack them in there. Two to a seat. Get as many of these idiots together as possible in the same place. Hold two rallies a day. Go all out Dotard to get as many of your cult members in the same place and as close together as humanly possible. I would ask that masks also be banned from these rallies.

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