Naw it's mostly the being black part, being drunk just gives juries another out to blame it on the black guy

So long as you're black

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1002276938872971264

And the garage door was closed. He was just chilling in his garage listening to music at 3 PM.

This is one of the craziest stories I've ever read. The NYT does a bad job telling it, but here is the sequence of events as near as I can tell.

- Drunk guy is playing loud music in his garage with the door closed.
- Cops bang on the door to ask him to turn it down.
- Drunk guy opens the door. He has a gun, but it's not clear whether he was holding it or it was just in his pocket.
- ???
- Drunk guy eventually closes the garage door leaving the cops outside.
- Cops shoot THROUGH THE DOOR, killing the guy, I guess thinking that he closed the door to shoot them from the other side.

If you live your life in constant fear and fire your gun at your own shadow because you thought it was a scary black guy coming for you, like maybe don't become a cop. Maybe Build-a-Bear has an opening you can fill. Casper mattresses.

At least according to the Vox article, there was no intervening time. Hill instantly closed the door when he saw police.

Seems like an open and shut justified shooting. I mean if you're a black guy and close a door in the faces of police, you die. That's just how it's gotta go down.

Naturally, the police said that he was holding his gun during their conversation, but:

Or instead of arguing over outlandish explanations, maybe we could simply assume that the people who always lie about what happened are lying again.

Most people's minds won't even allow for the possibility that the police would routinely lie.

He obviously put the gun back into his pocket after being shot 4 times. Duh

And unloaded the gun. Checkmate.

The hilarious/tragic thing about the story is that the victim's thought process was probably like:

"Oh ****, cops. I'm drunk and I have a gun on me. I better not interact with them at all or they will shoot me. OK, got it. I'll just close the door and turn off the music. They'll be pissed, but at least I'll be alive."

But nah, not even being outside of their field of vision will save you.

The full story is so much worse than the headline.

1. A jury trolling with a $4 award for a guy murdered by police
2. The judge super trolling by reducing the award to $.04
3. The facts are absurd: they fired THROUGH A DOOR YET SOMEHOW GOT AWAY WITH CLAIMING SELF DEFENSE
4. Everyone, including the god damn NYT writer, accepting the self defense claim because he was drunk (WTF?)
5. NYT further embarrassing itself by noting his "HISTORY OF SERIOUS TRAFFIC OFFENSES," a) that's an oxymoron, b) it's totally irrelevant to these facts
6. Nobody seems to care that the cops are obviously lying about his gun. There is no way they saw it, or were threatened by it when they fired, since a) again, he was BEHIND A CLOSED DOOR, and b) it was in his back pocket - what did he do, holster his weapon after his head was blown open?

Rage.

The fact that this isn't leading the news is abominable.

As long as Trump being deplorable dominates the news, then it will be almost impossible for Democrats to get their messaging across.

Of course, the news loves Trump and wants him to continue being POTUS. No surprise that they'd block out Democrat messaging.

They also wrote that he was "over the legal limit". The legal limit for... being in his garage listening to music? You aren't allowed to drink while listening to music in your own home?

Goddamn incredible stuff, like it's the sort of **** you'd think some leftist would write as a parody of tonedeaf "no angel" NYT writing.

Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He’s A Pedophile

Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state. He is also a pedophile, as he admitted to HuffPost on Thursday, who has bragged in website posts about raping his late ex-wife.

...

When asked what his constituents would think about his pedophiliac writings, he said, “People are open-minded.”

He continued, “A lot of people who disagreed with someone like Trump … might vote for them anyway just because the establishment doesn’t like them.”

From the "I never thought my face would get eaten" department, from this story about vulnerable Republicans trying to force Paul Ryan to hold a debate on immigration/DACA

Voting for the guy who campaigned on deporting your workers and being shocked when he wants to deport your workers...I can't even

There are a lot of those types who don't really get that all the **** people like Trump talk about immigrants being criminals and MS-13 members is just a dog whistle. They literally assume that gangbangers are the only ones who are actually getting rounded up.

Tell that 70 year old hag to stop complaining and get to work. This is what she wanted. She got it. So what's the problem?

A roofer I know says he's having a hard time with jobs in San Diego because the workers don't want to go down there. (From LA - there are checkpoints around San Diego, but not around LA.)

The stupid media, NPR for **** sake, is just going along with low unemployment and the Dow Jones having something to do with Trump.

We are so lucky there hasn't been a massive external event.

There will, of course, be consequences to all of this, but the lag could be substantial. W was a god awful president for 7 ****ing years before the wheels came off.

right in my backyard

Part of what worries me is the rest of the world after Bush was like "Yea, the US ****ed up but hey, they voted Obama. Trust the US to do the right thing." And then Trump became POTUS. That action alone set the US back decades. Like, how do you trust the US from here on out? The ****ing dotard put a tariff on Canada for chrissakes.

But hey, at least awval and rara got there sweet $20 tax breaks.

Although it is a far less important aspect to this case than the apparently horrible verdict, there is the issue of the single digit damages. Someone can correct me if I am wrong but I always thought that such damages were similar to a nickel tip for bad service to ensure that the waitress realized you didn't merely forget. Sort of a purposeful insult to the plaintiff. (An exception might be slander or libel suits.)

But it would seem to me that such a reward should never be used when someone dies. Both for mathematical reasons (one percent of infinity is still infinity) and because it is obscenely insensitive.

This has to be some sort of wind-up, right?

Kudos to him for being up front about it, I guess.

Seems like a troll.

He's not a troll. Or if he is, he's a particularly dedicated one. He was briefly married to a woman and had a child with her. The woman committed suicide in 2015 and Larson sought custody, which was denied, obviously. WARNING! If you're easily affected by disturbing ****, do not click through to the article, nor read the following quote, which I'll spoiler. It's pretty awful.



Good news for Trump, who is now definitively not the worst person to ever run for public office in the United States.