Politics Thread

[bobbiemcgee]

trump sez he won't commit to a peaceful transfer of power...."Throw out the ballots"...what an ass.

"pubs sharpening up their pitchforks.

[Masterofreality]

You mean when trump locked all the kids?

Obama’s policy.

You do know those pictures were from 2014, right?

[Masterofreality]

Here’s a question.

There was no doubt that BLM & Antifa we’re gonna riot after the Grand Jury decision came down in Louisville. Nothing the Grand Jury did would have been enough to keep these anarchists from doing their thing. Now two police officers have been shot.
Even though the LMPD was ready for it, they were still outmanned. Why didn’t Beshear (sp) have the National Guard in Louisville yesterday? Maybe because another Democratic Governor just wanted to look the other way while his Rome burned?
Just put Million Dollar bails on anyone arrested. That sure squashed it in Lancaster.

[xubrew]

Trump should nominate Merrick Garland just to watch heads explode.

If he did the lunatic fringe of the left would probably be mad at him for cheating off of Obama and not coming up with his own pick, and the lunatic fringe on the right would probably be happy that he stuck it to Obama by stealing his pick.

[cutterX]

Pretty sure the National Guard did deploy to Louisville yesterday afternoon.

[Xville]

Here’s a question.

There was no doubt that BLM & Antifa we’re gonna riot after the Grand Jury decision came down in Louisville. Nothing the Grand Jury did would have been enough to keep these anarchists from doing their thing. Now two police officers have been shot.
Even though the LMPD was ready for it, they were still outmanned. Why didn’t Beshear (sp) have the National Guard in Louisville yesterday? Maybe because another Democratic Governor just wanted to look the other way while his Rome burned?
Just put Million Dollar bails on anyone arrested. That sure squashed it in Lancaster.

the guard was there in the afternoon. No fan of Beshear....but he acted quickly on this one.

[GoMuskies]

All things considered, yesterday in Louisville went pretty well. Yes, two cops got shot which is awful, but they're both going to be okay, and they got the shooter.

[Xville]

yeah, it wasn't bad yesterday. I am concerned though when the professional protestors aka rioters come from out of town along with the c list "celebrities" in the next few days.

[xubrew]

All things considered, yesterday in Louisville went pretty well. Yes, two cops got shot which is awful, but they're both going to be okay, and they got the shooter.

Agreed.

A really good friend of mine works for the LMPD and I've kind of gotten to know several other officers through him. My feeling on the issue is that the department was grossly negligent. I believe there were four houses where warrants were issued. Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend weren't targets at all, but it was instead her ex-boyfriend and her house was one of the places where they thought he might be. By the time they busted into Breonna Taylor's house, they had actually already found who they were looking for, so they shouldn't have been there at all.

Now, while I feel that is utterly ridiculously and almost unbelievably negligent on the part of the department, I also cannot get to a point to where I feel the individual officers are criminally responsible. There was a $12 million dollar settlement paid out to Breonna Taylor's family, and they deserved every cent of it. But the individual officers, in my opinion, had no way of knowing that they shouldn't have been there. Let's say the suspect they were looking for is the person who opened fire on the cops. If that were the case, this wouldn't even be a thing. For all the cops on the scene knew, that's what was happening.

The LMPD certainly failed Breonna Taylor, and her family, and the black community, and probably all of Louisville. But I also believe that they failed their own officers. Sending them into a dangerous situation to apprehend someone that's not even there because they've already been apprehended is a pretty big screw up. Even if this hadn't ended in a fatality it still would have been ridiculous. I would hope that the Blue Lives Matter people would agree with that. I hate that this happened. I grew up in Louisville and still have roots there.

Sorry for going GO and then going on a rant.

[GoMuskies]

The FBI is still investigating the process of obtaining the warrant, which had nothing to do with the three cops. If there is criminal culpability here, it is with the people who sought the warrant and the judge who signed it, in my opinion. No way the cops involved (particularly the one who got shot before he discharged his weapon) should have been charged in Taylor's death.