Posts by TD

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What police have to deal with

by LoveUniHateExams in

so, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.

i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.

cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.

TD

LUHE

Hang on a sec, doesn't the law state that a displayed vehicle license must be visible at all times? The cops had every right to stop the guy if they couldn't see that license.

If you're talking about the permanent plate, yes, the law states that it must be lit. I'm not sure how it's done in other countries, but when you purchase a vehicle here in the U.S. your temporary vehicle license is a piece of paper taped to the inside of your back window which is not lit at night. There is nothing even the least bit unusual about this. We all see it here on freeways and surface streets every day and when a vehicle is not displaying a permanent plate in the normal place, that is the next logical place to look.

It's been a long time since I lived in Virginia and I don't what the law currently is, but as a general statement from a U.S. citizen, traffic law does not go off into limbo when a police officer turns on his lights. It is up to you as a citizen to pick a safe spot for both you and the officer to stop. Here where I currently live, that means not stopping on freeways or narrow shoulders where stopping is illegal. You proceed at reduced speed with your emergency flashers on until you reach a safe spot, which can easily be a mile or two down the road.

The series of mistakes I listed cascade into each other inasmuch as each one in turn yanks the rug of justification out from under the next one down the line. With that in mind, I'm afraid I'm not following you on #2 and #3

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What police have to deal with

by LoveUniHateExams in

so, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.

i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.

cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.

TD

LUHE

specifically, what did he do wrong?

Mistakes in order:

#1 Nazario's temporary vehicle license was visible in the lower right hand corner of his rear window even in the body cam video, which wasn't even at a good angle to see it. The police may not have seen it in the dark, but once he pulled into a brightly lit gas station, proper procedure would have been to check for and run that tag.

#2 The imperatives shouted at Nazario were conflicting. He was simultaneously told to keep his hands visible and to get out of the vehicle which would have involved pulling a hand inside the vehicle which would very likely have gottem him shot.

#3 Use of force by police must be justified by the level of threat. A suspect may be noncompliant for a whole spectrum of reasons ranging from impairment/confusion/fear on one end to open hostility on the other. It's one thing if a suspect is surely and combative, but it's quite another if he is holding his hands up and stating that he's afraid. Proper procedure is to make that determination and not needlessly escalate a traffic stop.

None of this is my personal opinion. This is what use of force experts across the country have said after reviewing the recordings, which is why Gutierrez was fired.

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Was the police stop in the video you posted, in fact, illegal?

No it was not. It's awkward to pull over your boss's boss's boss's boss and not be able to give a good reason for it, but it was not illegal.

Both vehicles in the video (The police cruiser and the white Ford sedan) were owned by the state and running the plates on either one would have returned a null result. The officer may not have realized that at first, but once she identified herself as one of the top law enforcement officials in the state, the reason became crystal clear and the officer going off about the factory tint on her state owned vehicle is pure bullshit.

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What police have to deal with

by LoveUniHateExams in

so, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.

i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.

cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.

TD

Look at what these poor officers had to put up with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVy9rzWKUBY

The smile on Ms. Ayala's face when the officer starts lying is priceless.

On a more series note, LUHE, Governor Northam, Mark Herring, the Attorney General, The Windsor City Council and the Windsor Police Department disagree with your YouTube source.

Joe Gutierrez has been fired for not following procedure.

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The Difference Between Doctors & Nurses and Police?

by Simon in

what is the difference between doctors & nurses, and police?.

studies have estimated that medical errors cause 250,000 deaths per year in the us.. police only kill around a thousand people each year in total, with only a small number being unjustified or accidental.. so the difference?.

police are expected to be perfect and for all the hype, you're are far greater risk of being killed by someone in the health industry than by a cop.

TD

One of the biggest differences is education, but setting that aside, murder convictions against doctors are actually not that unusual.

A police officer on the other hand, can blatantly murder and usually walk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc

And again, this is not about expecting perfection. This is about having some semblance of accountability.

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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

most of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.

i’m not confident with dr. fauci.

i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.

TD

You get far more viral RNA in a traditional live virus vaccine than you do with the new mRNA vaccines.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines contain the mRNA for only a tiny piece of the virus as opposed to the full instruction set to build an exact replica, which is what gets injected into your cells with a live virus vaccine

That nominative statements of fact like this are getting down-voted tells you something about the level of hysteria going on here.

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Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

by Simon in

anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.

if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.

there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?

TD

The arriving EMT didn't do that that just picked him up off the ground and put him into the ambulance.

My understanding is that CPR was performed on Floyd en route and that "Load and Go" actually is the correct procedure

https://www.ems1.com/fatal-incidents/articles/dispatch-recordings-george-floyd-was-in-cardiac-arrest-when-ems-arrived-xtikhsaX8aF14EFn/

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Do you sometimes bemoan the LOST idea, or Belief, that Someone Powerful was going to set all things right?

by pistolpete in

so it looks like about half of my jw relatives are not going back to the meetings once they open up the kingdom halls.

the main reason all of them give is that if we were truly living in the last days, jehovah would not have allowed the door to door preaching work, and kingdom hall meetings to stop for over a year.. the elders have talked to some of them and tried to convince them that letter writing is accomplishing the same thing as door to door, and zoom is the same as meetings-----------but my relatives just won’t buy it anymore.

just a note here, at first, the kingdom hall lock-downs, and the no preaching door to door was not that bad,the relatives still held on to their faith strongly because they believed it was temporary.

TD

There's a short and very sad little poem by James Russell Lowell called The First Snowfall

https://allpoetry.com/The-First-Snowfall

To borrow a line from the poem, I would love to believe in "...the good All-father who cares for us here below."

But such a being wouldn't hide from his children would he?

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Sam Heard Womens brains are smaller then mens brains.

by mickbobcat in

so rolex sam said this.

is this something the whole cult buys into?

any links to rolex sam saying this?

TD

Does anybody besides me find it ironic that a low-grade moron would be crowing about the size of his brain?

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Cities of Refuge

by menrov in

i was for no particular reason thinking about this topic.

i search on google if the concept of cities of refuge is also documented outside the bible.

i did not really find it.

TD

A good general discussion of the concept of asylum can be found here:

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2067-asylum

I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect to find references in non religious sources. Not given the fact that evidence for most of the people and places in the OT is slim to none.

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Cities of Refuge

by menrov in

i was for no particular reason thinking about this topic.

i search on google if the concept of cities of refuge is also documented outside the bible.

i did not really find it.

TD

So you Googled and found nothing?

You didn't by chance, go to a Jewish Encyclopedia and follow the references to Rabbinic and Talmudic sources?

I'm not sure if that would satisfy you, but then I'm not sure what your were looking for that you couldn't find