Okay, I gave you cute critters to bring smiles to your faces this morning, but now it is afternoon, and I am back in my snarky, grumpy, growly mode.
Miscarriage of justice
Former Minneapolis police officer Kimberly Potter was sentenced yesterday. Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu sentenced Potter to a total of 24 months, 16 months to be spent in prison, and 8 months on ‘supervised release’. Murder. Racism. 16 months in prison. Oh, but wait … Ms. Potter is white, so she gets a slap on the wrist. If she were Black and her victim had been white, what do you think the sentence would have been?
It started as a traffic stop last April. 20-year-old Duante Wright called his mother and told her he expected they had stopped him for the air fresheners he had dangling from his rear-view mirror, which is illegal in Minnesota. But, when police checked his license, they discovered that he had an outstanding warrant or warrants, so they attempted to take him into custody. Given the fact he was only 20 years old, I’m guessing those warrants weren’t serious enough to end his life over. Mr. Wright jumped back into his vehicle and as he was attempting to drive off, Officer Kim Potter, a 25-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, drew her gun and shot him through the window of his vehicle. The vehicle travelled for a few blocks before coming to a stop after striking another vehicle, but Duante Wright was already dead.
Now, Ms. Potter tried to say that she thought she had taken her taser, not her pistol, from her belt and that was the entire basis for her defense – that it was an accident. But consider this: Potter had been on the Minneapolis police force for 25 years and surely knew the difference in the looks and feel of a taser vs a pistol! I, who have never touched either a taser or a pistol could tell the difference at a glance!
The one on top is a Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol, the one on the bottom is a taser. Tasers are most often in bright colours to avoid just such an ‘accident’ as Ms. Potter claimed to have made. Pistols weigh significantly more than tasers. AND … for her entire 25 years on the police force, Ms. Potter had followed the protocol that the pistol is worn on the dominant side, in this case her right side, and the taser on the opposite side. After 25 years she suddenly ‘forgot’??? Give me a break … I wasn’t born yesterday! But apparently Judge Chu was.
If Duante Wright had been white, in all likelihood he would still be alive today, but he committed the crime of being a Black male. And if Ms. Potter had been Black, she would likely be spending the next 20 years in prison. Still want to tell me there is no racism in our system of ‘justice’?
It’s still a damn pandemic!
Let’s make something clear right now … COVID IS STILL A PANDEMIC! Yes, I trust Dr. Fauci, but if he honestly believes that it’s time to remove mandates and other precautions, he is dead wrong. Take a look at just the past 10 days’ death toll in the U.S.
Does that look to you as if Covid is gone??? A few months ago, it was predicted that we would reach one million deaths by the end of April … I’m thinking it looks more like by the middle of March at the current rate! Look at the numbers and realize that these numbers represent HUMANS! They are mothers, fathers, grandparents, neighbors, co-workers … they are not just numbers!
Every state in the U.S. has either lifted or will soon lift restrictions such as mask and vaccine mandates. WHY??? Because there is tremendous pressure from the fools who claim Covid is a hoax, or that their right to ‘personal freedom’ is more important than our lives!
Please, friends, despite the foolishness that apparently rules here in the U.S., continue to wear your mask, avoid crowds, and if you haven’t already, get the damn vaccines! Be smart, be safe, care about your family, friends and co-workers.
The real problem is that BA.2 is coming. Omicron BA.1 was merely the head fake to a sucker punch.
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Indeed, and what I’m reading about BA.2 does not bode well for the “end of Covid”.
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I have this very edgy questionably satirical humour turn going through my head about a cop getting confused with their equipment and using the wrong one.
It will stay there, in my head.
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Oh heck, let it out, Roger … if it gets stuck in your head, it might cause more than a few sleepless nights!
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Toned down version:
‘OK Frinzmantle…Let’s get this straight. You mistakenly drew out your gun instead of your flashlight, and also mistook him cowering as an aggressive mood. So to clarify matters meant to switch on the flashlight but instead discharged the gun thus shooting him in the as- buttocks? Is that right Officer Frizmantle?’
‘Yes Captain,’
‘In broad day light in the residential street????’
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Hmmmmm … seems a little tame to me 😁
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‘Toned down’.
I’m down from the tower.
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That’s a good thing, then.
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Yeah, it gets chilly up there, and after a winter of storms in the UK, it seems better to be a ground level.
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Chilly, dark, and LONELY I should think! Plus, you have a beautiful wife waiting downstairs … why ever would you seek the tower?
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“Mr. Wright jumped back into his vehicle”
That!
There!
I’m not a fan of the police buuuut why the phucque did he do that? He had outstanding warrants, he was supposed to face them. Not run away and duck his reponsibility. It’s called being an adult, or “carrying the weight”. As a fresh new father what kind of role model was he for his kid? When life threatens you with consequences for your stupid actions – run away? I mean that guy was a father. A 20 y/o father? Poor impulse control, no restraint, ill discipline. A shithead through and through.
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He was 17 years old and scared … after all the police killings of unarmed Black males, who wouldn’t have jumped back into the car and fled to safety? I would have.
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According to the article he was 20 … and a father. In any other country that makes him an adult, fully responsible citizen.
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No, he was 17 at the time of his death. Yes, he had a baby, and no, he shouldn’t have tried to flee, but neither of those things make him a candidate for being murdered. Do you honestly think that if he had been white he would have been killed?
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You’d have to live in the USA and grow up in the African American culture to appreciate why…..
Walk a mile in my shoes, as the song goes….
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Exactly … thanks, Roger!
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“You’d have to live in the USA and grow up in the African American culture”
… in order to become a shifty shithead 12 y/o in an adult body and act all suspicious, have a lot of outstanding warrants, severe enough that you prefer to run from the law at risk of being shot?
What if he had stayed? Court, pay a lot of fines, being forced to act like a responsible, grown up person, face the consequences of his earlier wrongdoings, carry that weight?
Mr. Wright’s completely nonsensical behaviour doesn’t compute with most people, sorry.
As for Ms. Potter: She killed, alright. Needs a looooong prison sentence. And be removed from the police service and her fellow humans forever.
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Or, to take a different view of your scenario, Orca, perhaps rather than a fine or court, he might have been thrown to the ground and a cop’s knee choking the life out of him as happened to George Floyd. Remember him? Duante Wright no doubt was thinking of that very situation when he decided to flee, for it was in the same city and not too long after Floyd’s brutal murder by police. What he did, again, did not warrant his murder.
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“happened to George Floyd. Remember him?”
Yes, everybody remembers that shithead. I hear other interpretations of that story. We’ll probably never know the real truth. Most don’t care, I don’t care, it’s just another American ¯_(ツ)_/¯ moment. Nobody cares.
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Wrong. I care.
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For all the wrong reasons maybe?
I’ve heard accounts that he had a heart attack but still resisted help and totally freaked out. Let’s not forget he was hi as a kite at that time.
Aaaand as long as a person can loudly proclaim they “can’t breath” they clearly can breathe, no?
Whatever happened shouldn’t have happened and wouldn’t have happened in any other civilized country. Not sayin’, jus’ sayin’.
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No, not for all the wrong reasons. Because I care, because he was killed by a racist cop and far too many Black people have been killed in this country by racist cops. Where’s your compassion?
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Having worked in public service for 40+ years I have a fair deal of experience of folk acting irrationally…and having my own depression / anxiety problems have been on the other side too.
Now I don’t know Mr. Wright as person, but his actions suggest someone hyped up, and if he had a lot of outstanding warrants was not very astute at getting his way out of jams, but was familiar with the police. So he panicked, he ran, not thinking things through, even though part of him would have been screaming stay put. Maybe there was someone he was afraid of meeting in jail, maybe he was in deep with the very wrong crew and scared that been taken into custody would mark him in some convoluted way as damaged goods. Maybe he was just ‘spooked’ by the sight of a police officer.
I don’t know. I only know sometime we are all prone to take the stupid move. Most of the time it ends up as a ‘What was I thinking’.
This time it didn’t.
Why the cop shot him instead of just booking him in as a runner and to be taken in later I don’t know either.
None of us are immune to flight or fight taking over, we just hope it happens in a potentially comical situation we can all laugh over afterwards.
Sometimes that does not happen.
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For one thing, I’m sure the brutal murder of George Floyd was on Mr. Wright’s mind, for he was in the same city and it had happened not long prior to Mr. Wright being pulled over. He certainly knew the cops would follow him, but likely thought that if he could get to a more crowded area he might be safer. Unfortunately, we’ll never know, for Ms. Potter took care of that.. Oh, and he did NOT have “multiple warrants” out against him — only one.
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Ah I missed that, had it in mind it was ‘multiple’. Sorry. One would have been enough though.
We can’t say for certain what was in his mind.
We can all have a laugh, when it’s put into a comedy situation like in ‘The Heat’ when the Melissa McCarthy character tries to arrest an African American guy (Played by You Tube star…’Spoken Reasons’)……
Not so funny in real life.
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I think it was Orca what said he had ‘multiple’ warrants out against him, and also that he was 20, but the facts are that he was 17 and had a single warrant out, though I’m still not sure what for. Either way you cut it, he had done nothing to deserve ending his life. I’ll have to look for that link with Melissa McCarthy … I could use some humour, though as you say, when it happens in reality the humour is long gone.
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I think I read it briefly somewhere else too, should have checked my facts.
The Heat is a fun film. A standard line of ill-matched cops buddying up. Sandra Bullock plays the wound-tight humourless type she plays so well, and Melissa is an ill-dressed, loud mouthed street wise cop from the wrong side of the tracks (her family are hilarious, there was mooted a film just involving them).
If you’ve seen Miss Congeniality 1 & 2 you know how it will work out- but heck; it’s fun
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No worries … faux facts fly all about these days. The Heat definitely sounds fun and I could use a bit o’ fun these days!
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Well said my friend.As usual you go to the heart of the matter.
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Thanks David.
On another matter.
How were things in your part of the world during the storms?
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blustery but apart from missing bins we survived. It’s a very steep hill I live by so any water always sails past me.I hope you’re reasonably unscathed.
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Yeah bins do take the opportunity to escape don’t they?😏
We escaped in our part of Wrexham, though after our two-day power cut back in November we had a fit of the jitters every time a light flickered.
I’ve lost my taste for strong bracing winter & spring winds.
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Who can blame the bins for wanting to escape? People just keep putting yucky, smelly stuff in them … I’d take the opportunity to flee, too!
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I never thought of it that way Jill….🤔
Gee…I’ve glad we took up Sheila’s idea to payment a small sum over 4 weeks for ‘Bright Bins’ to come round and clean ours
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Awwww … I’m so glad you’re showing love and respect for your bins!!!
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We have a few A dark wheelie one for all the grungy waste, and that gets cleaned, a green one for garden waste, which is not cleaned lest there is chemical contamination, a titchy grey one for food waste (wrapped in biodegradable bags) and plastic crates for plastic and glass. Part of my evening routine in putting waste in each (And thinking…this would annoy the hell out of MAGA ‘Deep State’ folk’😉)
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That sounds like fun! (sarcasm intended). We just put all of ours in a bag and walk it to the big dumpster at the end of the street, and of late Miss Goose is the one who does all the walking, ’cause I couldn’t make it to the end of the street and back. We used to have separate re-cycling dumpsters, but the management of this complex opted out of recycling 😒
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Yeah, cause recycling is so ‘socialist’ and an infringement of your ‘rights’ 🤨
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No doubt. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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Question: How do you keep a MAGA follower out of your house?
Answer: Whichever way your doors open, put the opposite sign on them.
(Qualifier, dependant on the level of literacy in your area…terms and conditions apply)
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Good one, Roger! That would certainly work, I think, in most any neighborhood, especially south of the Mason-Dixon line. Sigh.
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We still seem to be getting conflicting messages from the media:
“Yea, that’s it Tony! Dr. Fauci claims the easing of COVID mandates by blue states has ‘nothing to do with politics’ and they are only ‘following the science’: Virus cases plunge 44% in one week”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10518037/Fauci-claims-blue-states-easing-COVID-mandates-politics.html
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We must all listen to the experts, Dr. Fauci said he IS science. W
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WE MUST FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! 😉
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Jill, I feel like we are not finishing the prescription dose because we feel a little better. I still will wear my mask for a while longer in stores. Keith
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Yes, as Fandango commented, it is akin to a person stopping a ten-day antibiotic regimen because the fever is gone. When the mask mandates first started, I hated it, swore I couldn’t wear one because of my asthma. But, as I usually do, I sat down and thought about it and realized I owe it to my family, to the rest of the nation, to do the right thing. Yes, it is very hard for me to breath with a mask, but I limit my trips out of the house and wear it because it’s the right thing to do. I think those who feel a little better now, who think the end is in sight, may be in for a big surprise. I hope I’m wrong, though.
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“I owe it to my family, to the rest of the nation, to do the right thing. ”
That mindset is why you’re still alive and don’t lay dead in the street, in a puddle of your own blood like Duante Wright.
But allow me a slight correction: We’re talking pandemic here, not just epidemic. So you owe it far far above your nation, you owe it to humanity and the fuxn planet! We all do!
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Agreed on all counts. Sadly, about half the population in this country think they have no responsibility to their own families, let along the community, the nation, or the rest of the world.
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Exactly! The fuxn mask has killed nobody yet … and were I live you can’t enter any stores or anything without wearing it. I will take mine off the day the govt says Pandemic’s over and done with, not a second earlier. Should happen around March 15th, so not too long in the future.
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I hope you are right, but I think March 15th may well be an optimistic date, given current circumstances and the things we’re just now finding out about this new sub-variant, BA.2
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I don’t think viruses bother much with calendars; they don’t listen to any human much. Me and my mask are buddies now and for evermore.
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I can’t say me and my mask are buddies forevermore, but for the foreseeable future it will be on my face when I leave the house. My favourite is my BlackLivesMatter mask!
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Good one Jill! 👏
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March 15 would be just short of 2 years in lockdown. And our president is supposed to call an end on that date.
But what do you know about BA.2 the rest of the world doesn’t know? According to all the data it may be even more contagious but also even more harmless than BA.1. And most countries are easing restrictions already, some have ended all measures completely.
Now is South Africa maybe a bit better off than most other nations. I lieue of lacking medical supplies for most Coloureds and Blacks they turned out an astonishing robust people. Even at the height of Covid-19 most of them rather died in drive-by-shootings, taxi crashes and family violence.
You got asthma? Carry your inhaler, keep on wearing the mask … avoid infection at all cost!
Is what my hubby with his wonky immune system does. He refuses to board airplanes, didn’t even leave the house since 27th March of 2020. Not even once!
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Yes, everything I’ve read about BA.2 is concerning and I think those who believe we are out of the woods are in for a big surprise. Covid is nowhere near done with us, I think. Yes, I leave the house only once a week to pick up my online grocery order where I don’t even need to leave my car. My daughter has been trying to lure me to the bookstore, my favourite place to go, but I just don’t feel comfortable, especially now that nobody seems to be wearing masks or observing social distancing. Like your hubby, I always carry my inhaler and if I wheeze too badly, I step outside for a breath of air. I haven’t flown on a plane since before 9/11, so not much danger of that. I’m amazed that anybody in their right mind would find it necessary to fly these days.
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One doctor pointed out that ending mask mandates for COVID-19 now is like stopping to take a 10-day course of antibiotics on the third day because your fever broke.
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That seems a perfect analogy.
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It is, isn’t it?
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Yes! ^.^
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Shows just how far we have to go as a society
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It seems today as if we’re going backward instead of forward. Racism … bigotry in all forms … is on the rise. More and more people are claiming that violence is the answer to our problems and I read yesterday where somebody said that “If we can’t win at the ballot box, we’ll win by killing people.” How can this continue like this? This is not a world I want to live in!
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… as an American society. Most other nations are doing fine.
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I’m not so sure about that. Gary, whose comment you’re responding to, is in the UK and tells me that things are as bad there as here in the U.S. I also have friends in Germany and France who say the same. And then there is Ukraine vs Russia … I have no idea where that will lead the world.
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UK, Germany and France are just wannabe democracies. Their gvts are working on The Great Reseat and using scare tactics.The true numbers don’t mirror their panic.
And then there is no Ukraine vs Russia. There is an internal conflict in the Ukraine. Nazi Govt vs Russia friendly breakaway republics. They get shelled now … and Russia – to everybody’s astonishment – does nothing. Ok, Putin offically acknowledged Donestsk and Luhansk as independent republics but mostly stays a 3rd party like all the rest of us (except the US).
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Shit! I just read Putin is sending peacekeeping troops to the republics in order to protect the population. He is now where America wanted him. Now they can point their fingers at him and ring in another round of sanctions. But we all know where that ends, do we? Russia orients itself even more towards China and comes out stronger than before while the west will suffer.
Alexander is heavily OCD, so better not look at him. 😮
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I suppose it all depends on how one defines “peacekeeping”. I don’t define military aggression against an independent nation as a peaceful gesture.
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Racism, is, a more serious, pandemic than, the outbreaks, and, just like, the outbreaks, you usually, don’t, detect it, until, someone, gets, killed by it…and sometimes, even as, someone, gets, killed by, racism, we still, only, have that 3- second attention span, soon as the news reports on it, we, forget, and so, it will, keep on, recurring.
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You are so right, my friend. Today’s news is often forgotten by the end of the week, replaced with some other heinous thing that will also be forgotten soon. We seem to have very short attention spans, or much smaller brains these days that are unable to hold much data at one time.
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I “think” we are supposed to be satisfied that Potter was found guilty. Isn’t that what everyone wanted! We are not supposed to notice the lacklustre sentence. Hopefully the Prosecutor’s Office will. If they don’t appeal, or, even if they do, I hope Duarte Wright’s family will sue Potter for wrongful death. Even if she gets out in a few months, she should be made to suffer for a long long time. While this goes TOTALLY against my own sense of justice, nothing is going to change if cops aren’t made to start seeing that they are supposed to protect the lives of everyone, not just people with white skins.
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Well, the Wright family and other BLM activists have indeed noticed. I read that the judge passed a light sentence and asked the public to have “compassion” for Ms. Potter because she ‘cried’ in court. Bullshit! Crocodile tears! Duante Wright’s mother has cried far more tears than Ms. Potter has likely cried in her entire lifetime! I hope … I sincerely hope … that when she does get out, activists picket outside her home day and night, calling her a murderer and carrying signs with that on them.
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Not wt her home, no, I cannot abree with that. But at her workplace, if she cab find anywhere that will hire her, THAT I am on board with!
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Now here I would disagree with you, for demonstrations and protests at her home would affect only herself and any immediate family, whereas at the workplace they would affect the company and all the other employees. That said, it’s doubtful anyone will even bother … sigh.
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The main idea was to get her fired from any place she will work. Let her find out what it is like to live in poverty.
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‘Twould be good enough for her!
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WHETHER OR NOT Officer Potter pulled out a gun instead of her taser … why were either of them necessary under the circumstances? Oh wait. Duante Wright was black, wasn’t he?
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Yep, Nan … he was Black and that’s the only reason she needed to use unnecessary force … just as so many others have done in the past few years.
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Nope! Black or green or yellow or white, he jumped in his car in an attempt to get away from the law and duck his responsibilities. Ok, Potter could have shot his tires or done a shitload of other things. Nevertheless, Wright acted like a gangster and was dealt with like one.
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Btw, her taser excuse is crapola! You don’t shoot at a vehicle that’s speeding away from you with a taser! Makes no sense, does it? You shoot with a real gun … at the tires! Not at the driver! Fuksake! 😮
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Agreed.
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A terrible verdict. xx Michael
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It truly was. Apparently Ms. Potter cried in court and that was what swayed the judge to be lenient. Crocodile tears, no doubt. xx
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Thats sad. One could become very angry again. ;-/ Have a nice Sunday, Jill! xx Michael
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Yes, I think most of us who aren’t caught up in racist views are angry again … or still angry. Where does it ever end, my friend? Or does it? xx
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Thanks, Michael!!!
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You are welcome, Jill! Thank you as well. xx Michael
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Potter was convicted on 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter and received less than half the sentence that Mohamed Noor received for only 2nd degree manslaughter. Both were MN police officers convicted under the same laws.
Noor was originally convicted of murder which was dismissed. I don’t agree with Potter’s sentence, and there is indeed big differences between the gun and taser. I carry both myself.
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Yes, I read that the prosecution had asked for a 7+ year sentence, and the maximum would have been 20 years, so the two years, only part of it to be served in prison, is naught but a slap on the wrist. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Of course Noor’s sentence was more than twice Potter’s … his skin isn’t white. Bah Humbug.
Haven’t seen you posting lately, Bro — are you alright?
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Thanks for asking. Not really okay. Dealing with a ton of grief. Lost three colleagues since October, two who were very good friends. Just been trying to manage that and contemplating life itself.
I’m working through it, but it just takes time when loss is sudden. Likely won’t make my goal of 28 posts for Feb through. 😁
Also switched shifts in January and my body hasn’t gotten used to the change. I was working 10p – 8a for 2 yrs, and now I’m working 5a – 3p having to get up at 3am. I get home from work, and I have 3 or 4 hours before my body shuts down. I’ve got to go back to writing and scheduling posts like I did in the past.
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OH NO!!! I am so very sorry to hear that! Losing one friend is bad, but I cannot imagine losing three in such a short span of time. And yes, that certainly makes one stop and contemplate life, its fragility, its meaning. Take care and know that you’re in my heart and thoughts.
No, I somehow don’t think you’re going to meet your goal of 28 posts in February, nor will I be meeting mine of half that many! Too much happening, too many distractions. Sigh. Indeed, it takes the body a while to adjust to a new schedule and the older we get, the harder it is. My daughter is a nurse and works 6:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., so she gets up at 5:00 every morning. I don’t know how she does it, for I’m usually just getting to bed at that time! Relax, my friend … Black History Month posts can happen in March, or even November!
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Thanks. I intend on making people uncomfortable beyond February. It’s in my DNA. The entirety of the pandemic has been an exercise for me in self-introspection. Things that bothered me before seem so insignificant now. My focus now is on ensuring my kids and their generation are better than we are now.
Thanks for all the love. It’s truly appreciated and reciprocal.
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I hope that you and many others are successful in ensuring our kids and grandkids are better than we are now. Some will be, no doubt, but those who are being raised by heartless bigots will likely grow to be just like their own parents. I don’t know how we stop this madness except through education, and some 32+ states are adapting the rules in schools to make sure future generations never learn our true history. How do we overcome that? People like you, me, and others will teach our children the truth about the past, but others won’t. Sigh. Cheers ‘n hugs, my friend!
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Look, if Trump fans are eager to die, I’m not going to stand in their way. If you can’t fix stupid, let it fix itself. (Yes, I know that sounds uncharacteristically cruel. My frustration showing.)
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I agree … if they’ve got no better sense, let the chips fall where they may. Trouble is, of course, that they put us all in danger, for even those of us who are fully vaccinated can catch Covid, and it is particularly risky for those like myself who are above a certain age and have other serious health problems. PLUS … the hospitals are having to put off treating some heart and cancer patients because they are so overwhelmed with Covid patients. But you are right … stupidity has its own consequences and whenever I hear of an unvaxxed person dying of Covid, the word “Karma” automatically comes to mind.
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I agree 200%
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