Tony Timpa's murder was captured on police bodycam and the cop is heard laughing and saying "I hope I didn't kill him" as well as making fun of Tony.

Qualified Immunity needs to go. Shitty cops hide behind it.

Western legal doctrine says that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but QI says that ignorance of the law is allowable if you work for the government in any capacity.

The federal circuit court that covers Texas just ruled that federal "actors" (anyone who works directly or indirectly) has absolute immunity.

I was military police when I was in the Marine Corps. I hated the way it was Us vs Them.

Come now - do you really think George Floyd is the first black man killed at the hands of police? What made that case blow up was solely the fact that it was captured - in its entirety - on video, and then made public. Plus the fact that it took over 8-minutes for the man to die - slowly - as the policeman showed complete indifference.

Take that one facet away, and he's just another statistic!

The truth is, death by cop is an epidemic in our country - and with easily defined reasons:

• Police are not trained to de-escalate a situation! Rather, they are trained to escalate and gain control of the situation! Often with tragic consequences - and not just the civilians!
• Police are given advanced tactical gear (largely military), and often are looking for a reason to use it (to justify maintaining it, for one!)
• Police are trained in military-style attack methods - often mirroring the military's training. This is actually counter to the primary function we give to our Police: to preserve the peace.

As a result, the Police often act as-if the public were the enemy, and that virtually all situations are potentially violent.

IMHO, we need to re-think what we want out of our Police force... Do we want Robo-Cop (who shoots first and asks questions later)? Or, do we want Adam-12: (Reference to a 1960's and 70's police drama about 2 LA police officers who routinely went out of their way to help people, catch the really bad guys, and sometimes give people who need it a break.)??

MSM does go into all kinds of things, as long as it fits liberal their narrative.

That's why the world knows about George Floyd, but barely anyone knows about Tony Timpa and the rest who died the same way.

I'm sorry, if you payed as much attention to the goofball (and frankly, just as dangerous) ideas coming from the RIGHT as you do the LEFT, you'd see why the MSM just doesn't think it's newsworthy -- at least, not until it gains traction....

When you only have 22 minutes (or even 45!) to present the news (allowing for all the commercials that interrupt), combined with the desire to do a "deep dive" on one or two of them, and there is just precious little "space" to report on the pop-up fringe nutball ideas - even the dangerous ones...

That doesn't take away from the fact that both the far-left and the far-right are becoming even more radical in these times... and, in-fact both are becoming dangerous... it's just that there's so much ELSE out there that is "of consequence"...

BTW: That's why MSM came up with their NEWS magazine shows - 60 minutes, Dateline, 20/20, and so forth...

And cable news? Sheesh - they have the opposite problem... there just isn't 24-hours worth of actual news out there to report on in MOST 24-hour period! They need filler - and these hyper-extreme stories can sometimes fill the void...

Funny - now that we're in the Information Age we're REALLY STRUGGLING with clear and important aspects of Communication!

The fact that they think it and say it and no one bats an eye, screams volumes.

In another thread, I posted about how liberals were calling for Trump supporters to be sent to re-education camps, banned from the internet and one even called for us to be banned from society.

The UK's BLM has its own political party and they want anyone simply accused of a racist incident to be prevented from living near POCs and having a job that may potentially deal with POCs. Like always, MSM loves to kiss BLM's ass and won't report on this.

MSM ignored the National Museum of African American History and Culture (part of the Smithsonian) racist stuff about whites.

MSM ignores a black cop gunning down an unarmed white teen.

MSM ignores when white people are killed the same way George Floyd was. If they do talk about it, they don't use the same language as when a black person is killed.

Of course I think it's wrong... I think it's "wacky" wrong...

But the part of your post I replied to was the part about MSM not reporting on it!

The point I was trying to make is that I see this kind of "wacky" (just plain bad) idea on the leftist and rightist sites all the time... they don't get traction - usually not even on their own networks - and the bad concept dies a quick and quiet (and well-deserved) death...

In other words, the MSM doesn't cover this kind of dumb idea unless (until?) it starts to gain traction in the wacky world from which it originates - unless they're doing a segment on stupid things that should have never been said or something...

You know the segments: where they look at how they convinced themselves that we'd all be in flying cars by 2000!

But you don't see anything wrong with an MSNBC host saying the country should drone strike those against the DNC ideology.

Cancel culture needs to end, but it won't while the swamp protects it.

Would someone that is anonymous, need privacy?

Actually, the privacy concern there would be the maintenance of their anonymity.

I'm not so sure about histrionics (and from @raphjd? Pot meet kettle!)

But it certainly has a liberal bent... that said, a lot of the "acceptance" of LGBTQ people are progressive ideals.

The terms "Conservative", "Liberal", "Progressive", "Libertarian" and so forth can be applied to many very different "parts" of our politics.

For example, I consider myself a Conservative on many fiscal and government policy areas. I consider myself a Progressive Libertarian (both) on most social issues (in a nutshell: leave people alone to live their personal lives they way they want, so long as it doesn't actually hurt others!)

In a broad sense, I think our American (and global) Society is being challenged on 2 major fronts:

• the lack of privacy (everything seems to be everyone else's business these days!)
• the rise of anonymity (the true test of a man is how he acts when he thinks no one is watching -- and most of our Society fails this test!!)

Until we can find ways to ensure people's privacy, and at the same time hold people accountable for their actions (even verbal/texted ones) -- seemingly opposite issues -- we're going to struggle...

If some of those goals can be met using the right path, it could do some good.

That article uses extremist language and histrionics.