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December 23, 2015

Sanders Supporters' Ongoing Hissy Fit

From now until the morning of February 2nd, I'm just going to hang around here, if that's okay. I have already stated elsewhere on DU that I will indeed vote for Bernie next November if he ends up with the nomination. But I've yet to see any Sanders supporters (I'm sure there are some on the website that I simply haven't seen) make a reciprocal promise vis-a-vis Hillary. Do these people want a Trump or a Cruz (or ANY GOP nutjob, for that matter) in the White House???

I'm going back to bed now. I couldn't sleep earlier, and probably won't be able to now, but I have to try.

December 23, 2015

Video shows San Diego cop killing homeless man from nearly 20 feet — but DA won’t prosecute

Source: RawStory

Arturo Garcia
22 Dec 2015 at 23:00 ET

San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis released footage on Tuesday of a local police officer fatally shooting a mentally-ill homeless man almost instantly upon spotting him, while defending her decision not to press charges in connection with the incident, KGTV-TV reported.

Warning: the video included with this story contains graphic footage.

The footage shows Officer Neal N. Browder firing at 42-year-old Fridoon Rawshan Nehad on April 30 while responding to a complaint that Nehad was threatening customers inside an adult bookstore with a knife. But the “knife” actually turned out to be a pen. Browder was wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting, but did not turn it on.

As the San Diego Union-Tribune reported, Dumanis released the surveillance footage a week after a federal judge lifted a protective order she obtained blocking media outlets from gaining access to it, and a month after she determined that Browder was not criminally liable in Nehad’s death.

She also released audio of Browder’s conversation with police dispatchers before the encounter, as well as security camera video showing Nehad inside the bookstore, saying that footage of the shooting alone would not put it in the proper context.



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/video-shows-san-diego-cop-killing-homeless-man-from-nearly-20-feet-but-da-wont-prosecute/



Note: The linked article did not have a video that could be posted here, so I went to YouTube.

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Name: Dennis
Gender: Male
Hometown: Straight white married
Home country: U.S.
Current location: Lovely wife Sandra ;-) (Deliberate sexuall innuendo)
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