That’s just naive. And that’s a big claim, a “massive risk” to the public, so back it up… Who got hurt in this instance?
That’s just naive. And that’s a big claim, a “massive risk” to the public, so back it up… Who got hurt in this instance?
Sure, but once they establish a pattern of non-compliance it doesn’t reset with each new instruction. They expect he will resist getting out of the car based on his refusal to roll down the window. At that point they have to choose whether to get him out of the car quickly, or risk non-compliance issue with that, which could involve fleeing or hitting people with his car.
When officer or public safety are at risk they will always choose to take someone into custody to stabilize the situation and then reassess from there.
The situation with the window can’t be separated from the treatment with the door.
The one I saw was longer, they knocked at least two different times and he kept telling them off.
John Stewart did a great bit where station after station reads the exact same script over and over again. It’s unsettling.
They actually said that they could have handled it better and made some procedural changes.
You do the best you can with what you’ve got.
Why would anyone question anything based on your comment?
You didn’t link to an article presenting information that supports you. You didn’t link to information showing why mercury in this type of use would be low.
You didn’t present any factual… Anything.
You didn’t even claim to be someone with training in this area that would give your opinion weight.
Your comment is the equivalent to saying you don’t believe elephants are real, but not even saying it is because you have never seen one, which would have still been a weak argument.
Opinions without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Well, if *YOU * don’t see any reason to worry we should probably just assume they aren’t polluting then.
Thanks for setting us straight.
I think the long stripey socks?
Wait, there are people that don’t press Ctrl?
Four months until the actual election, not four months before people have to start planning for it. The logistics of finalizing, printing, and distributing materials for a nationwide election isn’t something that happens in a few weeks. It’s a lot less than four months until decisions need to be final and things need to be moving forward.
I wish I had good advice for how to connect with people after the school years, that’s just difficult.
If there is one lesson I could teach my younger self, it would be to have several low commitment relationships while I was younger to learn what is “normal”. Once you start making murder pacts, it’s usually too late.
There’s usually a four prong power connector on the top left corner of the motherboard. I always forget that one, nothing works without it plugged in too.
I catch myself humming old songs every now and then and have this moment way too often.
You aren’t imagining things. We take social cues from others. If you have friends who are weird, you will feel more free to be weird. If politicians have to hide their racism to work with someone above them, others will follow suit. If they don’t have to hide it… same.
Last time I asked the pharmacist, they recommended Zyrtec, or other allergy medication. It targets the same mechanism, apparently.
It worked for me at any rate.
I saw one of the bulbs burn out once, four inch flames straight out of the top.
So In this specific instance, the specific instance we are talking about, the instance that is the topic of this discussion, no one.
The obvious follow up question is, if he were rolling up the tinted windows so he could retrieve a weapon without the cop seeing, or if he had taken off at high speed in his little sports car and run a high speed chase before crashing, could multiple people have died?
I’ll just give you the obvious answer, “yes”.
The reason your answer is naive isn’t because cops don’t do terrible things, they do, and they should absolutely be held accountable. It is because cops are also often on unpredictable situations and if you can’t look at something like this and see where pulling him out of the car could be justified, you can’t argue in good faith where the line is between this and a true abuse of power.
And if you can’t do that, the people in power will never take your argument seriously, and your will continue to be largely ignored.