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  1. TheLeviathan
    This is a contradiction the political left is going to have to deal with here (the right has a lot too...like the militarization of the police against citizens as one example) - their ability to skate from these situations is largely driven by negotiated policies put in place by their union. Most of the protections that allow them to be held to a lower standard start there. Are we willing to break that union?
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    Honestly asking - is that even possible? I'm not a soldier or a cop, is such an assessment even possible? I can only speak to situations I've been in (physically restraining a person out of control) that fluid, cognizant thinking is extremely difficult. And that's without real risk to anyone's life being in the mix. I agree about placing the emphasis on everyone walking out alive, not just the cop. From a philosophical standpoint, I'm in total agreement. I'm not sure when the rubber meets the road.
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    I don't like it either. We need body cams on every officer and on every dashboard. (It has demonstrated positive results in many places) We need to encourage officers and applaud those that step outside their group to hold each other accountable. And, hardest of all perhaps, is that some of this will also involve breaking their union and I wonder how much stomach we'll have for that?
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    You mean, other than the very principle our justice system is based on? Something all sides (including many of the cops in these situations) seem to be forgetting? What I believe is that he panicked and murdered this man, but I'll save my outrage for the results. I am hoping that this case results in a clear response by the judicial system, but I don't have all the information. The fact that cops are not prosecuted is one difficult part for people to accept, it's one of those many layers to this issue that contradict across political lines. For most, their politics are in a constant state of confusion responding to these situations. That is going to make this really, really hard to fix.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I'm unclear where you pulled that from in his posts? Sometimes the hardest thing to do in these situations is to avoid a rush to judgment, even when it seems pretty clear. We've steadily gone further and further down the path of trying people on social media long before all the facts are in. Saying that is not denying either of those things, both can be true.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Well, I hope that's a possibility. He's got legit power, it'd be nice if he could be a contributor.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Target a catcher, but I'm with Willihammer - this could be a seller's market, be active. Nothing has to be forced, but all options on the table.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I'm not ready to do this until we start playing people in the second half to build towards the future. I need to see Berrios, Polanco, Vargas, and others for the next three months. That's absolutely vital to have happen.
  9. TheLeviathan
    Oh, I agree, officers really need to understand the fight/flight feelings they generate merely by confronting someone. And for black men and women that feeling has to be even more powerful. And justifiably so. This chaos in Dallas only adds more need to find peace and progress.
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    I know police officers are trained in de-escalation, but it has to be the most important part of their job. We may also need to start requiring higher standards for officer hiring and for officer behavior. Even then, I don't think people understand just how difficult it is to make your brain work properly in a tense, potentially violent situation. I lived through enough of that in my own work with kids in inner-city Chicago to speak to how unbelievably difficult that really is. And the thing is, that goes for cops understanding that difficulty for those they are confronting and for those assessing the reactions of police officer. But we have to be able to do better than this.
  11. TheLeviathan
    That video and this incident could be the true rallying cry needed for change, it's the only optimism I can generate from this horrible situation. I feel so badly for the little girl who was in the car at the time, I can't imagine. This issue (if it can be boiled down simply at all) is so layered, so steeped in contradictions, and so thick with issues engrained for some time in this country....it's going to be one hell of an uphill fight. I can only hope that maybe this will set things moving in the right direction.
  12. TheLeviathan
    OJ Simpson and his Bronco for me.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Kepler is exactly the type of player this team needs too - great at working counts, good discipline, solid speed and power. He's basically your ideal 2/3 hitter. Now we just need that ideal #1 to progress and you have at least the most important spots in the lineup figured out.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Kid looks good. Vargas looks better too.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, I guess I don't understand the distinction between "careless" and "absurd errors in judgement". At best you're playing semantics and I don't understand why. There are lots of times people aren't charged with crimes that I still find their behavior abhorrent or stupid. Hers is more on the stupid end of things, but it was stupid with confidential information. Anyone who wasn't in such a prominent position, with as much influence as she has, probably would be looking at jail time. Or never being near a government institution again.
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    I'm not speaking at all generally right now, but on this issue the FBI director was pretty clear - she acted in a completely ridiculous way with high level information and many of her subsequent explanations were completely debunked. I don't understand why you'll take his word that she shouldn't be indicted, but not that she was "careless" and heavily implied to have handled things "unreasonably".
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    Good luck with that....
  18. TheLeviathan
    Just because a prosecutor wouldn't take the indictment doesn't mean you didn't act criminally, negligently, or just plain dishonestly. It just means it's not a case you'd entertain in court. Those aren't the same thing. Everything in this report is an indictment of Clinton's decision making, even if nothing singularly or collectively amounts to a criminal indictment.
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    Not a technicality, but as ash says....she basically did a whole host of absurdly stupid, dangerous things. If Joe Bagadonuts does even half of the negligent things she did with information half as important - they never work in government again. Might spend jail time too. What she did was gross negligence in every reasonable use of the term. Hell, he even said your average, reasonable person would have found many things she did absurd. And I agree, nothing in this report could have possibly redeemed her image with many. It's too far gone and for those people nothing would make a difference. That doesn't change that she just got skewered for incompetence and many of her subsequent explanations of what she was doing don't hold up to the facts.
  20. TheLeviathan
    It's amazing he keeps being allowed to pitch. Pretty impressive!
  21. TheLeviathan
    To be fair, the nebulous problem of proving intent is probably the only thing that saved her. The FBI basically blasts her incompetence and recklessness. She shouldn't have been indicted, but this report is hardly saves much face for her. It reinforces all of the negatives people have about her. Even among those of us rational people who aren't hyponotized by decades of right-wing attacks.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Eat that Dave!
  23. TheLeviathan
    The over/under is three? Feeling optimistic eh? I'd have said 0.5. I'm leaning under, but the optimist in me wants to believe the over just barely squeaks by.
  24. TheLeviathan
    I don't think it's as easy as saying "my version isn't much better" because every small ripple of difference could have had a huge effect. Just the Plouffe/Park/Sano decision had a HUGE change on this team. A few changes here and there and maybe we're just bad and not historically awful. The "What If" game is just impossible to say. What matters is what RB was getting at - we KNOW the decisions were bad regardless of how bad the outcome was. Many of us were crowing about it before the results were in. It's time to go, there are some young guys starting to show some good signs. Build on that next year with fresh eyes.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Who on earth even has the assets for Westbrook? Boston?
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