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@CJetty26
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@staysaasy @sentitive I delivered food in downtown LA in 2005 and 2006. It was, indeed, the best job ever. Fill up two big bags, skate or drive to the delivery, hand them over, collect cash. I saw everything, from skid row hovels to floor to ceiling marbled suites built to intimidate. bring me back.
"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them." — Charles Bukowski
It is not an exaggeration to say my nervous system has been in fight or flight for the past two years - this is why.
🚨BREAKING: A new video shows DHS lied, again, about an ICE shooting. Yesterday, ICE reportedly told police that a man “weaponized” his vehicle by “ramming” into an ICE sedan, forcing an agent to fire his gun during an operation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Except… that’s not what the video shows. In the video, an ICE agent rushes the driver’s window with his gun drawn. The agent recklessly waves his gun around, and appears to order the driver to roll down the window. That’s an extreme use of force from the very beginning. Another agent approaches the car, and moments later, they violently smash the driver’s window. And notice how the driver doesn’t try to flee until ICE violently escalates everything. He drives around the ICE vehicle, makes it into the street… not hitting a single ICE agent, or vehicle. Then, AFTER the car is already past every agent, and driving away, an ICE agent opens fire. The law is pretty clear… officers may only use deadly force, against a fleeing person, if they have probable cause to believe that person poses an immediate threat of death, or serious physical injury to the officer, or others. So, where was the immediate threat? The car had already passed the agents… and was driving AWAY. ICE also claimed Lara-Hernandez had a criminal history of assault, and that this was a targeted enforcement operation. Yet, publicly available court records reportedly do not show any active warrants. Federal agents don’t get to point guns at people without legal justification. They don’t get to fire at a vehicle after the immediate threat has passed. And they don’t get to lie to police about what happened. So, when are we going to start holding these agents accountable?
@confusionm8trix I miss CA's elite dry-heat. Growing up in LA, summer nights were chilly, & Florida-brained tourists were always cold. But over my 43 years here, nighttime temps w high humidity increased ~1°C/decade. Scripps called it back in 2012. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/heat-wave… agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
