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noiretextatique

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30. Most of us would be fired if we made our company lose millions due to negligence on the job

Reply to drray23 (Reply #28)

Mon Sep 29, 2014, 08:44 AM

Sep 2014

which is why we need community review boards. police review boards too often rubber-stamp even the most egregious behavior as justified. the police cannot be trusted to police themselves. thanks for your excellent post.

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Twenty-Three People Killed by American Police in the Span of One Week [View all] noiretextatique Sep 2014 OP

so in a year drray23 Sep 2014 #1

yep noiretextatique Sep 2014 #2

In ONE week, not all weeks seveneyes Sep 2014 #8

they are on a roll drray23 Sep 2014 #9

A better number would be those who did not need to be stopped seveneyes Sep 2014 #10

*None* of those cases were valid. ncjustice80 Sep 2014 #19

Right, the number is *not* tracked, so the total provided by those rare entities that do try to tblue37 Sep 2014 #21

the estimate from the article is @1450 per year noiretextatique Sep 2014 #12

Please feel free..... daleanime Sep 2014 #26

An ex future leader of the free world seveneyes Sep 2014 #29

Americans are afraid of ISIS? Cali_Democrat Sep 2014 #3

so true noiretextatique Sep 2014 #4

This. bigwillq Sep 2014 #5

Yes! This is quite true! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2014 #6

+1 nt Live and Learn Sep 2014 #7

BIN-go . . . hatrack Sep 2014 #13

we are fighting our enemy in all the wrong places whereisjustice Sep 2014 #14

I think McCain & Graham are calling for airstrikes. CaptainTruth Sep 2014 #16

Yeap uponit7771 Sep 2014 #17

Right. But the ugly truth is that for African-Americans especially, and for other minorities to a tblue37 Sep 2014 #22

kick noiretextatique Sep 2014 #11

just some patriotic folks shooting some folks, no biggie, need to move forward, blah, blah, blah whereisjustice Sep 2014 #15

There was one here in Wasilla a couple weeks ago, just outside this time window. Blue_In_AK Sep 2014 #18

i see the police are always exonerated noiretextatique Sep 2014 #20

And the millions of dollars in settlements need to start coming out of the tblue37 Sep 2014 #23

+10000 noiretextatique Sep 2014 #25

I believe it may be libodem Sep 2014 #24

American LE Is Out Of Control cantbeserious Sep 2014 #27

several things need to be done to reverse this drray23 Sep 2014 #28

Most of us would be fired if we made our company lose millions due to negligence on the job noiretextatique Sep 2014 #30

kick woo me with science Sep 2014 #31