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appetitusinvictus:

I was in Iraq & even in an actual theater of war,unless you were immediately fired on we had several steps to go through before kill shots. we had rules of engagement and escalation of force cards my command made us carry on us at all times with those regulations. even when a car possibly carrying explosives was barreling down on us, we were taught to exhaust several steps of warnings before killing: hand signals, flags, pop smoke/flares, warning shots to the sides, disabling shots THEN kill shots. so for the life of me, I can’t figured out why on the streets in the United States of America, police officers go immediately to murder and people are just like “well, in the heat of the moment…”

micdotcom:

So far, in the wake of Castile’s death, the NRA has been silent about the importance of the second amendment. That’s not unusual. While the NRA advocates passionately for Americans’ right to own guns, it has historically — and hypocritically — remained silent when black men, armed and unarmed, are killed by police. One reporter was able to get the NRA on the phone today.

My power keeps flicking on and off like someone’s playing with the switch. I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s weird. And frustrating.