Replying to @MSNBCweekends
What a generous, clarifying, and straightforward telling. So much respect for this mother.
Lainey
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- Replying to @CathyYoung63 @OtisGHouston and @benshapiroI just read both your stories & they are horrible. But they are simply not comparable to Tamir Rice. 1st: the boy pointed the gun at police & then pulled a knife. 2nd: the girl was old enough to drive & no one knows what happened. We know exactly what happened with Rice, a child.
- Replying to @lauferlawThe GOP doesn't actually want abortion to go away, for obvious reasons. The trick for them is to keep it right on the edge at all times.
- Replying to @rafaelshimunovHoly cow. You were thoughtful and generous. They were misguided in their outrage. I'm sorry you had to deal with this. And I'm depressed such people and places exist.
- Replying to @CathyYoung63 and @benshapiroNope. You don't get to have this. There's a reason it never gets that far. Everything would have been different from the get-go. Everything. Starting w a black man thinking in vigilante terms for property. A black man approaching police w his slung gun, getting waved away...
- Replying to @davenewworld_2How can they not look at this video as prima facie evidence that black people are (justifiably) afraid to use their hands to obey police commands (like reach over and unbuckle a seat belt)?
- Replying to @AdamSerwer and @BenjaminPDixon“I believe he was going to aim at me.” “I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me.” Just wow. I can't get over these words as a defense. So now we can kill people because we think we know what's in their minds?
- Replying to @ryangrim"Four days later, in text messages with Passow, Coleman disputed her recollection." This right here is the chilling part. He knew up front that the scene might come back to haunt him, so he needed to gaslight her right away, convince her that her lived experience wasn't real.
- Replying to @ajplusThank you for focusing on her. She is literally the reason, and the only reason, justice rained down.
- Replying to @infinite_walrus and @RachelBitecoferCritique the form when you can't argue with the substance.
- Replying to @MZHemingwayMore than 10,000 arrested over the summer. Five times as many BLM protestors arrested in DC as compared to the insurrectionists. You have this exactly backwards. You can look it up--the numbers are all over the place.
- Replying to @jacobkornbluhThis is soo defensive. A cause is lost (or lacks the moral high ground) when you start having to operate in all directions with such defensive maneuvers.
- Replying to @realLainey and @ryangrimAlso? In his own transparently recreated story, he's still the one who "smacked" a woman b/c she broke up with him. That's enough, isn't it? Like in court, can't we say, "OK, we'll concede to your version. Now, on with the assault charges."