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The reason why we know he had a criminal record is because he was convicted and served his time.  He was already punished for said offenses, and had shot a video talking about the difficulties of navigating the parole system while trying to be a responsible father and partner and how it felt like a trap at times. The minute they began to arrest him he realized that he could be sent back to prison and everything he had worked for undone.  
 
One of the bullets fired by the officer went into an occupied vehicle in the parking lot area.  
 
Let's let a jury decide whether or not the officer's conduct was justifiable or reckless and unnecessary.  
Shooting victims don't need to be angels or even have blameless conduct for us to be concerned about how the police conducted themselves in the encounter.  It's a red herring.  The timing of when the shots were fired will matter a great deal--were the shots fired at the same time the suspect fired the taser, or seconds later?  Once the taser was discharged and missed, the suspect was not in any sense a lethal threat to the officer.  The danger had passed.  And the suspect was running away with his back to the officer.  It's not clear from the publicly available video precisely when the shots were fired, but it appears to be seconds AFTER the taser is discharged.  
 
 

The reason why we know he had a criminal record is because he was convicted and served his time.  He was already punished for said offenses, and had shot a video talking about the difficulties of navigating the parole system while trying to be a responsible father and partner and how it felt like a trap at times. The minute they began to arrest him he realized that he could be sent back to prison and everything he had worked for undone.  
 
One of the bullets fired by the officer went into an occupied vehicle in the parking lot area.  
 
Let's let a jury decide whether or not the officer's conduct was justifiable or reckless and unnecessary.  
Shooting victims don't need to be angels or even have blameless conduct for us to be concerned about how the police conducted themselves in the encounter.  It's a red herring.  The timing of when the shots were fired will matter a great deal--were the shots fired at the same time the suspect fired the taser, or seconds later?  Once the taser was discharged and missed, the suspect was not in any sense a lethal threat to the officer.  The danger had passed.  And the suspect was running away with his back to the officer.  It's not clear from the publicly available video precisely when the shots were fired, but it appears to be seconds AFTER the taser is discharged.  
 
 

The reason why we know he had a criminal record is because he was convicted and served his time.  He was already punished for said offenses, and had shot a video talking about the difficulties of navigating the parole system while trying to be a responsible father and partner and how it felt like a trap at times. The minute they began to arrest him he realized that he could be sent back to prison and everything he had worked for undone.  
 
One of the bullets fired by the officer went into an occupied vehicle in the parking lot area.  
 
Let's let a jury decide whether or not the officer's conduct was justifiable or reckless and unnecessary.  
Shooting victims don't need to be angels or even have blameless conduct for us to be concerned about how the police conducted themselves in the encounter.  It's a red herring.  The timing of when the shots were fired will matter a great deal--were the shots fired at the same time the suspect fired the taser, or seconds later?  Once the taser was discharged and missed, the suspect was not in any sense a lethal threat to the officer.  The danger had passed.  And the suspect was running away with his back to the officer.  It's not clear from the publicly available video precisely when the shots were fired, but it appears to be seconds AFTER the taser is discharged.  
 
 

The reason why we know he had a criminal record is because he was convicted and served his time.  He was already punished for said offenses, and had shot a video talking about the difficulties of navigating the parole system while trying to be a responsible father and partner and how it felt like a trap at times. The minute they began to arrest him he realized that he could be sent back to prison and everything he had worked for undone.  
 
One of the bullets fired by the officer went into an occupied vehicle in the parking lot area.  
 
Let's let a jury decide whether or not the officer's conduct was justifiable or reckless and unnecessary.  
Shooting victims don't need to be angels or even have blameless conduct for us to be concerned about how the police conducted themselves in the encounter.  It's a red herring.  The timing of when the shots were fired will matter a great deal--were the shots fired at the same time the suspect fired the taser, or seconds later?  Once the taser was discharged and missed, the suspect was not in any sense a lethal threat to the officer.  The danger had passed.  And the suspect was running away with his back to the officer.  It's not clear from the publicly available video precisely when the shots were fired, but it appears to be seconds AFTER the taser is discharged.  
 
 

Up to a point.  In my experience, an effective way to distract from the issue at hand is to overanalyze a particular incident in more and more excruciating detail hoping to lose people in the weeds.  In this case, a black man was shot in the back for the crime of being asleep in a stationary vehicle, by a cop who then kicked him while he was dying.  It's not the cop's fault, because of department policy.  It's not the department's fault, he's just one bad cop.  It must be the black man's fault, after all he did something stupid even though it posed no real threat to anyone.  Yeah.  Yeah, that's it.  Let's blame the dead guy and see what he has to say to defend himself.
 
As an aside, it's clear that Office Rolfe's stepmother was canned not for her relatives but because she revealed herself to be strongly racist, which is unacceptable in any position but especially not for a human resources director. 

Xarriel, perhaps.  In Champions Beyond.  

Xarriel, perhaps.  In Champions Beyond.  

Membership gives the character the "perks" of the position--police will speak to him, access to crime scenes, he can go into the FBI office or a forensic lab, log into the national crime database, etc.  Contacts means a more emphatic/substantive request for assistance--extra agents, getting lab results expedited, getting your boss to call the local cops/politicians to make them more cooperative, and so forth.  
 
It seems to me one could take either, or both.  A high level administrative position certainly would take both to represent the level of resources/power provided by having such a position within a powerful organization.  If subordinates are directly loyal to the character first, the organization second, then the character should buy followers(and possibly a base if that, too, belongs to them in practice).  

The thing is, police killings are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problematic behavior by LEOs.  For every officer involved killing(and there's closer to 1500 from all causes than 1000, which blows away the rest of the developed world in per capita rate), there's an order of magnitude(or two) more instances of excessive force, and an even greater number of instances of harassment and/or over-enforcement of laws(we don't really need to cite every minor traffic violation, it's done to generate revenue for the jurisdiction).  And the cumulative effect of this misconduct and abuse of authority is that communities of color, particularly struggling communities, feel as though they are being held down by an occupying army of sorts.  It's hard to instill respect for rule of law when the law never seems to redound to your benefit.  

The thing is, police killings are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problematic behavior by LEOs.  For every officer involved killing(and there's closer to 1500 from all causes than 1000, which blows away the rest of the developed world in per capita rate), there's an order of magnitude(or two) more instances of excessive force, and an even greater number of instances of harassment and/or over-enforcement of laws(we don't really need to cite every minor traffic violation, it's done to generate revenue for the jurisdiction).  And the cumulative effect of this misconduct and abuse of authority is that communities of color, particularly struggling communities, feel as though they are being held down by an occupying army of sorts.  It's hard to instill respect for rule of law when the law never seems to redound to your benefit.  

2 million was a "do nothing and let the virus take its course" prediction for the entirety of the pandemic, not just the first wave.  And the 200k projection I've seen is for the first wave alone, with some imperfect precautions factored in.  For those who downplay those numbers as "could be worse", I wonder what the "failure threshold" is.  Half a million?  A million?  No event in American history has killed more than 750,000 people.  120,000 is already more than World War 1 or the 1957-1958 Asian Flu pandemic.  Only 3 events are ahead of that number: WW2(400k from all causes), The Spanish Flu(about 675k), and the Civil War(high side estimate is 750k, more commonly 620k).  
Given the tangible early failures to test and contain, the death numbers are already shameful and tragic and emblematic of catastrophic failure.  There are specific people and agencies that specific fingers should be pointed at. 

2 million was a "do nothing and let the virus take its course" prediction for the entirety of the pandemic, not just the first wave.  And the 200k projection I've seen is for the first wave alone, with some imperfect precautions factored in.  For those who downplay those numbers as "could be worse", I wonder what the "failure threshold" is.  Half a million?  A million?  No event in American history has killed more than 750,000 people.  120,000 is already more than World War 1 or the 1957-1958 Asian Flu pandemic.  Only 3 events are ahead of that number: WW2(400k from all causes), The Spanish Flu(about 675k), and the Civil War(high side estimate is 750k, more commonly 620k).  
Given the tangible early failures to test and contain, the death numbers are already shameful and tragic and emblematic of catastrophic failure.  There are specific people and agencies that specific fingers should be pointed at. 

2 million was a "do nothing and let the virus take its course" prediction for the entirety of the pandemic, not just the first wave.  And the 200k projection I've seen is for the first wave alone, with some imperfect precautions factored in.  For those who downplay those numbers as "could be worse", I wonder what the "failure threshold" is.  Half a million?  A million?  No event in American history has killed more than 750,000 people.  120,000 is already more than World War 1 or the 1957-1958 Asian Flu pandemic.  Only 3 events are ahead of that number: WW2(400k from all causes), The Spanish Flu(about 675k), and the Civil War(high side estimate is 750k, more commonly 620k).  
Given the tangible early failures to test and contain, the death numbers are already shameful and tragic and emblematic of catastrophic failure.  There are specific people and agencies that specific fingers should be pointed at. 

2 million was a "do nothing and let the virus take its course" prediction for the entirety of the pandemic, not just the first wave.  And the 200k projection I've seen is for the first wave alone, with some imperfect precautions factored in.  For those who downplay those numbers as "could be worse", I wonder what the "failure threshold" is.  Half a million?  A million?  No event in American history has killed more than 750,000 people.  120,000 is already more than World War 1 or the 1957-1958 Asian Flu pandemic.  Only 3 events are ahead of that number: WW2(400k from all causes), The Spanish Flu(about 675k), and the Civil War(high side estimate is 750k, more commonly 620k).  
Given the tangible early failures to test and contain, the death numbers are already shameful and tragic and emblematic of catastrophic failure.  There are specific people and agencies that specific fingers should be pointed at. 

It's almost as if they have a quota or something.  

The thing is, police killings are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problematic behavior by LEOs.  For every officer involved killing(and there's closer to 1500 from all causes than 1000, which blows away the rest of the developed world in per capita rate), there's an order of magnitude(or two) more instances of excessive force, and an even greater number of instances of harassment and/or over-enforcement of laws(we don't really need to cite every minor traffic violation, it's done to generate revenue for the jurisdiction).  And the cumulative effect of this misconduct and abuse of authority is that communities of color, particularly struggling communities, feel as though they are being held down by an occupying army of sorts.  It's hard to instill respect for rule of law when the law never seems to redound to your benefit.  

The thing is, police killings are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problematic behavior by LEOs.  For every officer involved killing(and there's closer to 1500 from all causes than 1000, which blows away the rest of the developed world in per capita rate), there's an order of magnitude(or two) more instances of excessive force, and an even greater number of instances of harassment and/or over-enforcement of laws(we don't really need to cite every minor traffic violation, it's done to generate revenue for the jurisdiction).  And the cumulative effect of this misconduct and abuse of authority is that communities of color, particularly struggling communities, feel as though they are being held down by an occupying army of sorts.  It's hard to instill respect for rule of law when the law never seems to redound to your benefit.  

It's almost as if they have a quota or something.  

They could have just taken his keys and let him walk to his sister's home.  No custodial arrest necessary.  

They could have just taken his keys and let him walk to his sister's home.  No custodial arrest necessary.  

They're well on track to becoming the biggest cinematic universe of all time.  Wong Fei Hong has 80 films, but at this pace they'll pass him within the next 20 years.  Then I expect a reboot once Tom Holland is around 50+ years old.  
 
It's an amazing cinematic achievement.  As a nerd from the "bad old days", whenever I see or hear someone complaining about the MCU all I hear is that "the caviar isn't fresh and the champagne is going flat, I expected more for my $20".  

It's helpful when the deplorables do things out in the open.  One of the counterprotesters was a Fed Ex employee and police officer--now an ex Fed Ex employee, apparently.
 

2012 Republican presidential nominee and current United States Senator Willard Mitt Romney(R-UT), marching with protesters in DC and saying the words "black lives matter" may not seem like a big deal, but it's a hell of a signal as to where the country has moved.  It's not all bad news folks.  Minneapolis is heading towards disbanding their municipal police department and replacing it with a new model.  If that works out, police unions around the country are going to have some tough decisions ahead of them.  I'd recommend that they change their policies in order to let the "bad apples" all go.  But that's just me.