Were it not so tragic it would be funny, the subject of an SNL comedy sketch.
Apparently outside the Florida School shooting 4 deputies waited with guns drawn for the shooter to come out and give himself up. Or something. None thought to enter the school and attempt to render aid or stop the shooter.
Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics/parkland-school-shooting-broward-deputies/index.html
This really casts the police's "Heroic Narrative" in the proper light. They can only be heroes against unarmed opponents.
On that note, cop decides it's OK to cruise a rape victim. Because she's probably looking to get laid.
Canada, sadly, isn't any better.
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I don't have a TV, I don't watch the news, so I never see how these things unfold.
Helicopter circling, "Live Coverage" - ongoing, second-hand eyewitness reports of the massacre, another disgruntled student inspired by the media coverage of countless other schoolyard shootings just like it. Unbelievable. And before the week is out there will be another copycat killing, for which the networks and grubbing journalists covering it are 110% responsible. It is impossible to see how this news impacts anyone other than the friends and family of the victims, and I seriously doubt any of them would want to learn of this via the news. The "News" - if you believe it - exists only to serve it's own ratings.
For a idea of how the media adversely affects mental health and encourages people to act out on their worst impulses, read Time Magazine on the spike of suicides that followed the publicity of Robin Williams suicide. (Link: http://time.com/5137194/robin-williams-suicide-rate/).
Local news outlets for a long time have not published suicides, aware that they created copycats. That National News agencies can livestream schoolyard shootings with full knowledge of the copycats it will inspire - every schoolyard shooting since the Stockton School Shooting in 1989 can be argued is a copycat, and the blame laid squarely on the media's doorstep. This isn't news, it's first degree murder.
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A link that explains how prevalent and entrenched corruption has become in the US:
If you think it's any better here you're out of your mind. Read the news. The Calgary Police force routinely is accused - and convicted - on similar charges. Maybe not as bad - but maybe - just maybe - we don't know everything that's going on. Probably. There's no fixing this, there's just dismantle it and start again. We can do a lot better.
UPDATE: This on Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/if-we-want-to-have-a-just-society-we-need-to-start-giving-police-officers-parking-tickets.html
This actually makes a lot of sense. You don't have to have lived in Calgary for long to see the police flashing their sirens to run a red light (for no reason other than boredom), make illegal turns, parked illegally, etc. And the whole attitude of "we're above the law" is pretty clear in any dealings with them. Accountability is the first thing everyone should expect from anyone paid to uphold the law...
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This made me laugh. I mean, it's sad, fuck, it's fucking pathetic, yet it's pretty much exactly the same impression I received in my dealings with the Fucking child molesters at Canadian Tire. Only I never had the "... she expected the same good service and attitude that she and her family had come to expect from the company,"
LOL. With Canadian Tire there's only raped - when you've been awake and had to endure every fucking minute of the horror of their "Service" - and then pay a bill afterwards, and then there's "Date Rape Drug Rape", where you don't fucking know enough about cars to know how fucking hard they just raped you.
Link: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-woman-blames-canadian-tire-for-month-of-auto-drama-1.3787960
I gotta write up my Canadian Tire Story, and then post pictures of my ass afterwards. Not a pretty sight, I'm telling you...
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