Recent content by Constance

:clap::clap::clap: I think the truth likely lies somewhere in between. But with all the recent incidents involving violent perps who are police officers, it's easy to see why so many people believe that good cops are the exception rather than the rule these days. How many innocent...

IMO, we're never going to get all the people of any one race to understand and agree on any one thing, especially if the implication of that thing is that their race, and therefore they personally, are somehow guilty of this kind of terrible violence against others. But I think all that really...

Thank you for the interesting link. I fully understand and appreciate your point of view and agree with what you say about how Mr. Dubose's character is being attacked here and elsewhere. It's maddening, really. I think you and I are coming from the same place, just looking at it differently...

To your first sentence: Yes! That's why I feel the way I do about focusing too much on the racial aspect. By locale & culture I meant that in places with a lower African American population & a higher, say, Hispanic or Native American population, dirty cops may tend to target these races...

JMO, I think it's a disservice to victims of police abuse and distracts from the core issue to hone in on the racial aspect of cases like this. Although we hear more in the media about the cases involving African Americans, people of all races, and even pets, have fallen victim. Oftentimes...

rsbm I don't think I accused the cops of lying, just threw it out there as a possibility because I thought mainstream media reported it had happened in this case. I could be wrong and have no problem admitting that. I don't have a utopian world. I do believe that some people do in fact lie...

Agreed. I've already expressed my curiosity in the perp's background, but I'm too lazy to Google right now. I guess I was hoping someone else would do it & report back, lol. I do know his actions, however, because it's on video. :( About the bottle: I don't get how handing it over would be...

OT: Eventually they're going to have to. Meth & heroin & god only knows what else is all over causing destruction and death these days. That means more people know the truth, having seen the real bad stuff, and aren't as easily fooled about the marijuana as we once were. They can continue to run...

Respectfully, we don't know Dubose's intentions or reasons, or even that he was in fact trying to "evade arrest" and sadly, we can't ask him. Neither do we know that the bottle contained gin, or that there was pot in the vehicle. After all, there was some dishonesty early on in this case on the...

In my opinion: Being uncooperative with a doctor doesn't give them the right to overdose you to death. Being rude to a waiter doesn't excuse their poisoning your food so that you die. Being a jerk to the electric guy doesn't give him the right to electrocute you to death. Being...

rbbm, jmo I don't have an answer to this but a bullet to the head seems extreme. Sadly, being lied to is one of the many terrible risks that every cop has to take every day. It's crazy and awful that they would have to take this kind of risk instead of just being able to shoot...

Re: the possibility that Samuel Dubose had marijuana in his car: It strikes me as slightly insane that in 2015, people still try to use Reefer Madness as an excuse to allow the police to terrorize people. Marijuana has been and is being made available by prescription, legalized, and/or...

rbbm I'm of the opinion that the killer is shocked that he's actually being held accountable. JMO.

You're welcome, and no need to be ashamed -- it's super easy to overlook the date on online news stories. :) I don't envy your AC-less state in the humidity we've been having, ugh! I'm glad you've got it turned back on now! :)

I think people either love it or hate it, there's not much in-between that I've seen. I try not to take slurs against it personally; I'm not even from there, just nearby, lol. I just really love that city. It's super exciting to see the positive changes that are happening there every day. The...