“Hey, free knife”

It only happened yesterday, if the footage backs up the cop’s story it will get released eventually.

Yes, but this time their body cams seem to have worked. Amazing how that happens when it shows things that can justify the cop’s story?

But it sounds like the guy said “I’m gonna kill you if you don’t stop following me”, then hopped on the train with the knife out. You think the cops in LA would have let him do that?

The guy only threatened to use the knife after they stopped him for turnstile jumping.

I should say that there are transit cops that check tickets in L.A. If you don’t have one, all they do is escort you out of the station. And this is the LAPD we’re talking about.

The first step to “escorting you out of the station” is stopping you, is it not?

My whole point is that the cops didn’t get belligerent until he pulled the knife. It also sounds like he might have boarded a train with the knife out, too. (It was the L train, though, I’m sure the riders have seen worse.)

They didn’t start shooting because he jumped the turnstile. I bet if he didn’t have a knife they would have just wrote him a ticket and made him leave.

You dont think your LA cops would have treated their fare evader a bit differently if he pulled a knife?

It sounds like the guy had a knife and threatened to use it. It also sounds like the cops tried to taze the guy first, but it didn’t work.

We can argue whether the cops really needed to shoot the guy. But they weren’t shooting at a fare evader, they were shooting at a guy with a knife who also happened to jump the turnstile.

I’d argue that the real problem is that the cops didn’t know how to de-escalate the situation without shooting. It’s like the tazer was their only “non-lethal” option, and when that didn’t work, they panicked. (I could also believe that they were simply incompetent, and couldn’t work the tazer properly.)

Even if it did get out to the Internet, though, all you have to do is delete it and it instantly disappears.

Most states (perhaps all of them?) require at least a year of US history to get a HS diploma. They do not guarantee the students retain the knowledge after passing the class, of course.

Let’s hope “Storm the Capital II: Electric Boogaloo” falls short of the original, too.

Nobody should want these guys to finish the job, especially before the election. That’s a recipe to end up with President Vance, and the man is an absolute moron. He makes Dan Quayle look like the spelling bee champion.

Donald Trump doesn’t deserve to die from an assassin’s bullet. He deserves to die of natural causes, in prison.

Don’t forget the gold bars, and RVs

Bribery. Checks and bribery.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/15/us/harris-trump-election/dfadef71-0d80-5152-9d29-212f29d599c4

A Secret Service agent was one hole ahead of Trump while he was golfing and spotted a rifle barrel sticking out of a fence in the golf club, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Palm Beach County said at a news conference. The agent “immediately engaged” with the person holding the rifle, who fled. Bradshaw confirmed that law enforcement officials had a potential suspect in custody.

You don’t think there can be an irresponsible gun owner in Florida?

And I don’t think we can assume that the lower bound to Trump’s support is just the hard-core MAGAts.

There are also the die-hard Republicans who treat their political affiliation like a sports team. They will reflexively vote R no matter what, even if they don’t approve of Trump’s behavior.

Then, paradoxically, there are also the low-information voters who actively avoid politics. In prior years, these tended to lean Democratic, but this year is a bit different. We are finding that many of these people are in much worse shape vs 4 years ago financially, and since they never paid attention to political stuff to begin with all they know is Biden was President for all of that. We know the economy is in decent shape, and we avoided a post-pandemic recession. But the benefits are extremely uneven, and there is a large base of people who are still screwed (and doubly so if they ever want to buy a house).

Don’t bet on that. He may have lost in 2020, but he still had more votes than any prior losing (or winning!) candidate, ever.

Even after all the stuff that happened, the only candidate with more votes than Trump in 2020 was Biden in 2020. There are probably at least 60 million voters who think Trump is their guy.

(Maybe he’s hoping for 69…)

Nicky Jam does have kids, so he isn’t a faux pa after all.

I doubt it will happen, but it would be poetic justice if so many people get pissed over this that Trump loses Ohio.

You have the right idea, but a bunch of facts are wrong:

• the States role is simply in validating and certifying the vote in each state. Once that slate is affirmed by the Governor or Secretary of State, the State’s role is over. This is where the chicanery is still possible, but the tactic of “just have the losing side pretend they won and submit votes anyway” was soundly rejected in 2020/1, with most of those electors now facing charges. (Cases involving Trump have been delayed, but others where prosecutors made the choice to not charge him yet but charge others are progressing). It is more likely that local officials may delay the certification, but I hope State officials overrule that.

• They did pass a law overhauling the EC count process, and clarifying that the VPs job in it is simply overseeing it, and she has no power to reject results she doesn’t like. (Besides, Harris will still be VP whe they count the EC votes.)

• If there is no EC majority, it doesn’t go back to the States, the POTUS election goes to the House and the VP election goes to the Senate. The catch is that in the House, each State delegation gets one vote, so Wyoming’s lone rep gets the same vote as all 50+ of California’s reps. Republicans hold an advantage here, but a Blue Wave could eliminate it, as it would be the newly elected House making this vote.