@LetsRoc @Joaquincastrotx That’s just pointless, unproductive hyperbole. As long as you aren’t based in reality, your involvement in the process is harmful. Come from facts rather than emotion and then you’ll have something meaningful to contribute.
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@LetsRoc @Joaquincastrotx If the game is who can point to more saved lives vs more taken lives, you’re going to lose. Police officer dies trying to save drowning teenager. Police officer dies trying to rescue workers at a science lab. Police officer dies after driving his car into the path of a wrong way driver. Police officer dies… It goes on and on and on.
Were the police in Texas cowards? Yes. But again, they’re the exception.
@LetsRoc @Joaquincastrotx I disagree. 99+ percent of the police in the US are conscientious people, doing their best in incredibly difficult circumstances. Police fought and bled and died on January 6 to stop people trying to overthrow the government. That’s just one example of their service.
What we need is to select and train better and weed out that small percent who make all officers look bad.
@Joaquincastrotx One small bone of disagreement with you. We *cannot* pretend this is just the Memphis police department. This is a nationwide, police culture problem. And based on the response of the fire department, I’d say there’s an even wider problem.
Yes, step 1 is investigate the MPD.
But step 2 is investigate how this culture came to be and how it can be ended.
Joaquin CastroThe video of Tyre Nichols’ murder is horrifying. There is no excuse for that brutality.
The Department of Justice needs to investigate how the culture of the Memphis police contributed to this killing and Congress needs to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act now.
@godpod Guy fills a boat full of animals that eat each other, but (poof) magic.
@MeidasTouch Victory and peace for Ukraine.
@auschwitzmuseum @histodons @museum Yes, I absolutely want to visit Auschwitz. I visited Dachau shortly before the pandemic started and it was a very moving experience. I have a Ukrainian refugee friend living in Krakow. I hope to go visit her and her family some time and make a trip to Auschwitz as a part of that travel.
@futurebird One minor criticism of your poll. I mostly use a tablet *with* a keyboard. Which option should I choose?