@deetoo Yes, second degree certainly fits - not caring whether or not someone dies and dangerous conduct - that's the definition. How he was not charged with that, I don't know. And only three states have the third degree murder charge.
Yes and yes! I am a native Californian and watched the (sharks) CHP's grow into an armored battalion that was every other car on the freeway... (insert?theme from Jaws here?).
It's for certain militarized control and especially there in So Cal... the DMV is like Fort Knox. Can you imagine the staggering amount of big bucks the State rakes in? It's a crime. And the police are dangeroso. Too many nuts!
I live in SoCal now, and yep, very militaristic and I see the POs in patrol cars flouting rules all the time.
There was a time when I had to call our local city police for issues with our daughter. Long stories short, most of the officers who came to my house were kind and caring. Then there was the guy with the 40 yard stare who kept telling me stories of his time in Afghanistan interspersed with some interrogation style questioning and subsequent offhand dismissal of our concerns. All I could think was "This guy should not be allowed to carry a gun". He was also in our house way long, I kept saying "Ok well thanks for coming". That was in 2016, and I'm still amazed that he hasn't popped up in a bad police news article to date (I don't remember his name, but I'd recognize his face for sure).
@jeanne-mayell @deetoo ... I just heard a report on what the findings were after the Watts riots. While I do believe that we have made some progress (President Obama being a great example), I'm truly dismayed that the Watts report may prove to be identical to the report that will eventually come from all of this.
I agree and have noticed how in many ways we've gone backwards from the progress made in the 60's and 70's. We went backwards due to a rising right wing backlash that began with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Reagan made a lot of rich people much richer and that fueled the power of the right for the next four decades. The Koch Brothers carefully orchestrated an extreme right move in politics. Racism, along with other travesties of right wing domination, accelerated once again. It's the way that natural systems, including Collective consciousness, evolves. Not in a linear straight slope upwards but in a spiral. But caring for all people will rise and return to new heights during this decade. It won't happen without effort but because of the efforts of millions of light workers.
A great read that speaks a bit to what @jeanne-mayell and @seeker4 are discussing:
Anti-Intellectualism Never Went Away
This is a good legal update on the status of the Floyd murder case. Glenn Kirschner is an MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor/Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBa_TH_Cmbw
I am also from NY and we knew him as a joke.
I want to know how does he gets his hands on drugs now? Not all of his “habits” can be prescribed to him and i am sure he has some but not enough. Also, who gets his other “medications” the street ones? Does he send out the secret service?
Maybe we could talk our friend Allyn into getting a seat in the House or ...the Senate? )) I would wager that she could take her sword and give 'em something to write home about.
Like introducing some 'laws on law enforcement' psych exams etc that she so clearly described up thread.
(That Pluto retrograde is really manifesting in some heavy ways!)