Shadow Hawk

It wouldn't work for me, the cops would claim that my pasty white legs were an attempt to blind them.

Researchers: Police likely provoke protestors — not the other way around
 

I'd put more stock in the words of Baltimore police officers if Freddy Grey had not mysteriously died on their watch.  Fine when they arrested him and, unless I'm greatly mistaken, managed to sustain a severe spinal injury on the way to lock up and as a result, he died.  Perhaps Baltimore police should put more work into investigating that, instead of pointing fingers at other people.

Read a story yesterday that Arizona governor has just signed a law that will make it so that assets seized will not remain the police department's property unless a guilty verdict. I can still see ways to abuse, but that should have been the way all along.

Spoilers for NSFW.
 
 
 

Never ask a female metahuman, villian or hero, how she keeps her top from falling down.

*Puts torch away* Yes yes... because we were superstitious back then...
heh
 
creepy ass spider-devil goat

It's apparently in Sleep Mode.

Pingpong balls.

The President rubbed his eyes tiredly.  "These aliens make no sense at all!  Even though they speak perfect English, communicating with them is like chewing tinfoil attached to a car battery!  Who can we possibly make the new Earth ambassador to their planet?  I mean, the Queegla are completely delusional, and their logic is as twisted and loopy as..."
 
"...Foxbat's Master Plan?" the Secretary of State asked.
 
"Yeah.  They're as loony as Foxbat."  The President's eyes met those of his Secretary of State, and both of them began to smile.  "Bill, I think we found our new ambassador to Queegla."

Q: We need someone to distract Doc Destroyer while we sneak into his base and destroy his latest Doomsday Weapon! Now who does he find so annoying that he'll be p[reoccupied with him for all the time we need?

I'm suddenly reminded of the great Navajo electrician, Many Hands, who brought the first public toilet with electrical lighting to his people, thus becoming the first man to Wire A Head For A Reservation.
 
As we all know, Many Hands make light work.

I'm suddenly reminded of the great Navajo electrician, Many Hands, who brought the first public toilet with electrical lighting to his people, thus becoming the first man to Wire A Head For A Reservation.
 
As we all know, Many Hands make light work.

Kids aren't scared they will go to jail, they are scared the will go to a morgue.
 
La Rose.

What can I say? I don't like Jim Lee's art or that of his clones much.  What is acceptable is a moving target, and IMO that is a good thing if it means less silliness in drawing the female form.  Posing women so as too have both their butts and breast sticking out has gotten a lot of criticism lately and that has made it less easy to not notice (and be bothered by) such absurd composition.
 
However, for me the big thing is that this Wonder Woman.  She shouldn't be drawn like she is teenage girl.  Yes, she has long been drawn with good size breast, but she has also long since drawn as being old enough to have those breast.  Also, not surprisingly since I'm a guy, I'm perfectly fine with male power fantasies comic books with hypersexualized depictions of women.  I'm not fine with Wonder Woman being such a book.  Wonder Woman is suppose to be about female empowerment.  That is what William Marston intended it to be, and what has made the book unique and enduring.  Good Wonder Woman writers get that, and the way to get bad Wonder Woman is not to buy their work so that they get sacked from the title due to poor sales.

I'm guessing you haven't looked at the case in any detail - nor read what I wrote, from this response.
 
Brown was shot once while allegedly wrestling with the cop - I mentioned that and noted that if true (and it is supported by the autopsy evidence), that was easily justifiable. However, that isn't what killed him - he then fled the scene, apparently lightly injured. The cop pursued him some distance (about a block) and fired another 10 shots (none of them at close range, according to the autopsy), killing him. That - again, if true: it meshes with both physical site and autopsy evidence - does not seem to comply with either the local PD's rules, nor federal law on the use of lethal force, both of which require a suspect to be considered an immediate threat to the community or officer in question. A priori, then, there seems to be grounds for a trial. Now maybe there's more evidence that argued against that - but so far none has been been presented. Maybe he was charging - maybe not. Without a trial, we'll never know .... which is kind of the point, no?
 
All the palaver about "show trials" is just you inventing things you thought I might have said, which you think might sound bad: I'm not in favour of show trials, and have never claimed to be. Nor am I "fixated" on the public order aspect of trials. But that is an important aspect of this case - as the riots so eloquently prove - and it's pure foolishness to ignore that aspect: as the riots also demonstrate. 
 
cheers, Mark

"Best Christmas EVER!!!"

So the NYPD in an act of defiance towards the Mayor have stopped doing their job.
 

 
Why exactly are we paying these people again? This is a unique situation where I actually genuinely agree with Cenk. 
 
La Rose. 

I think part of the problem with the police who themselves break the law or abuse their authority merely 'resigning' is there is little to keep them from heading to another area of the country and getting a new job with a new police department. Sure, their background might raise a red flag, but the new department might also just note that they 'quit their job' instead of 'were fired'. So you have Bad Cop #3 get caught using excessive force on year, and quitting. But in three years, he could be wearing another badge doing the same thing all over again.

I am doing many things but dehumanizing is not among them. 
 
I would really like to hear you defend some thug who tries to choke a perfectly innocent person. I mean, come one, that thug shouldn't be 'dehumanized' just because he choked someone. I mean we shouldn't be bitter and should feel empathy for that thug who committed assault on some young woman. And we should really open our hearts to that thug even though he and his partner tried to destroy the only evidence against him ASSAULTING an innocent young person. 
 
If that cop were anything other than a cop he would be in jail right now. But we have a nice and wonderful two tier justice system where you and I go to jail for putting a person in a choke hold and trying to destroy evidence but cops keep all their benefits and are simply asked to kindly go work somewhere else.
 
That isn't justice.
 
La Rose. 

"Know won't go anywhere"? Are you implying a fixed trial? A grand jury is not a trial, and with more time, more evidence, and a different procedure, might yield different results. So, you don't need to be certain of a conviction to proceed. The only thing required is "probable cause" - is there a case to answer? I'll admit I don't know. But experience shows, that if there is any doubt, sending a case to court tends to defuse the situation more often than it exacerbates it - even though that's not always the case: there's no certainty in life. A badly-handled trial *might* be as bad as a badly-handled grand jury - but the lack of a trial emphasises the feeling in the community that justice is not being done. That's the real cause of the trouble in Ferguson. This particular shooting is just a trigger - as you note, maybe not even a very good case - for underlying problems. 
And yes, it would have been hard for the cop in question - but then, so was deciding not to go to trial. He's lost his job and his home, so it's not clear that a trial would have been worse for him. And given the riots after the grand jury decision, it is clear that didn't work too well - an outcome that should have come as a surprise to no-one. So yeah, I think it could have been handled better.
 
Edit: No, actually, stronger than that. Given the pervasive and growing distrust of the police even among ordinary citizens, precisely *because* of the feeling that justice is not being served, I think it was handled really badly. The fact that the usual procedures for a grand jury were significantly altered in this case, indicates that the prosecutor knew what the issues were and fumbled it anyway. He gave the impression - even to me, who tends to give the cops the benefit of the doubt - that he was desperate to avoid a trial. Whether that is true or not, it's impressions and emotions that are fueling this.
 
Cheers, Mark

Oh cry me a river. I am not going to feel sorry for an abusive nimrod thug and I am not going to feel sorry for an abusive nimrod thug with authority. 
 
La Rose. 

"Picking their incident more carefully" seems a tricky business to me.  From what I've seen of the "white guy with gun kills unarmed black person" protests, the incidents that spark the most outrage are those where the authorities seemingly go out of their way in the early going to make it clear that the killer is going to get off scot-free.  And it only twists the knife if the authorities label the reaction to an outraging event as the problem to be solved, rather than the outraging event itself.
 
And honestly, what would it take to convince a jury (grand or otherwise) that the white police officer (or wannabe) was committing murder of an unarmed black person?  There's always some sort of excuse that could be used.

Hunh? No. No. If we consider Al Sharptonas an obnoxious, self-interested activist, then this line of thinking is taking us in a very bad direction. People who say things you disapprove of or disagree with are good for you. (At least to the point where slander and libel laws intervene; but that's why you have those laws.)
 
If we consider him as an activist--- Look, this whole thing with discrimination against, and oppression of, out groups (for example, Black Americans, Canadian Indians) is a real human problem that causes untold suffering and misery. Bringing attention to this problem  is not what creates it.
 
If we consider him a con artist and opportunist who gins up trouble where there is none to be had --Well, here we're running up on the whole slander and libel thing. There is some social damage being done there, but it's pretty trivial compared with, say, Glenn Beck (lost any money on gold, lately?) or, better example, Bernie Madoff. Putting salt in an open wound for a living is a bad thing, and I'm not defending Al Sharpton for it. But it's a good way of reminding everyone that the wound exists.