The officer who shot him tasered an innocent person two years ago, and has shot two other people in his five years on the force. Bones was 40 years old, weighed 115 lbs, and had no criminal record of violence.

Goddammit!

Incrementally, of course.

It started in large metropolitan schools that were experiencing drug, crime and behavioral problems, circa the melodramatic description of public schools in the movie “The Blackboard Jungle”.

Then, middle schools starting attracting police attention, because of the genesis of bad behavior, crime, sexual promiscuity, and drugs begin during the period of puberty.

School districts also like having control of their own police force, which is answerable to the School Superintendent, and not to the local police department. That way, real crimes and the school district’s legal liability can be more easily covered up. Like when school campus rapes do not get reported to the police…..

Police also like to either moonlight as school resource officers, or land easy and safe jobs after they become police department retirees.

Now is certainly no time for reason and doubt, it is a time for mindless jingoism and State-worship as we eagerly await the revelation of the identity of our new national bogeyman.

Cue retaliation, reaction by eradication of all remaining civil liberties on three … two … one ….

-jcr

Oh, no Pandora is part of the Music Genome Project.

So this genetic music project sounds like a ripoff.

If you are looking in Radley, have a great trip!

How do I become a cop and where does that prosecutor live?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, you are right EH! Those douche bags were approaching that lady like she was pulling a fucking .45. Hands on sidearms because she had a camera. Guess what officers, you violated this woman’s rights and managed to come off looking like a couple of pussies. Any decent police officer would heap derision upon you guys for that display of cowardice.

So much clearly wrong with this case. If the kid was off school property, what were they doing following him and scolding him about his pants. Aside from this, if this whole thing started because the kid wore saggy pants, that is simply pathetic. You can get manhandled and tased for damn near anything these days. If that was the starting point, and the kid was not engaging in any REAL criminal behavior, all police actions after that are wrong, in my opinion. And I’m sure the fact that the kid was Hispanic had nothing to do with the use of force or the tone of the comments on the newspaper site. THEIR TAKIN’ R JAWWBS (Borrowed that one from Southpark, of course).

The Who had planned on having one person from the audience in a live show have their vital information collected and put to music to make a theme for a unique version of that song.

Something bigger ended coming from it in The Lifehouse Project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifehouse_Method

“Bwah-Hah-Hah! Kochfare Queen Radley Balko Of Reason Magazine Plays Political-Correctness Card Against The eXiled! Libertards, Libertards…”

lame.

Just ponder this: even with 1000 comments, most supportive of the police and a few not, no one asked the most poignant question of all: WHAT are the police doing in most every American public school, grades K-12, and HOW and WHEN did they get there?!? At least we know WHY? The fear and hatred of the average commentator explains that much.

My six-year old niece thinks school police are normal, and that being led away in handcuffs for “bullying” or “crying too much” is normal. Apparently, my neighbors, their children, and the school staff agree. Even the people I went to high school with support this, though we somehow managed to do well enough without taser-wielding police breathing down our necks.

I sometimes feel deep despair when I think where our country is headed. Then I remember that “the children are our future.”