#no-knock raid

[crackdaddycaine]

About the Leftöver Crack song “Shooticide” & its inspiration by Stza Crack

When I was 12, my step-father killed himself & the news was broken to me by an NYPD officer that was just inside of the apartment door when I got home from school. I was shocked, saddened & surprised. It felt like an ambush & they had no business being in our home. It was not a crime scene & was it the officers place to tell me this news when my mom was already there?

Growing up a block from Bellevue hospital, I saw police corruption, brutality & the victims of their violence up close all of the time & although I was “taught” that the police were there only to help us, as I grew, I soon learned to only loathe & fear them.

In 2014, with the public's access to video camera's on their smart-phones & with the advent & simplification of social media posting, holding police accountable for murdering people seemed to almost become a reality when news coverage momentarily shifted from the police departments “official” stories to the documented stories of civilian eye-witnesses. The evident & widespread abuse of police power & their flagrant lack of respect for human life started to trend until it was part of mainstream media & and unavoidable national conversation.

Then, all of a sudden, the "fad" waned, the media moved on to something else & nothing changed at all. Mandatory body cameras were either not worn or routinely shut off &/or "broken" at critical moments during confrontations with often unarmed black individuals many of whom were not even suspects in any crime.

With the botched “no-knock” raid that left Breonna Taylor murdered that March in Kentucky to the surfacing of footage of Sandra Bland’s arrest in Texas years earlier that led most people to the conclusion that she was murdered by the same police that had her detained illegally in a jail cell, by the time that George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, the people witnessing his mistreatment knew what to do & their film proved what most of us already knew, that the police were cruel & sadistic, but, as filming police violations became the norm & police started going on public trials for murder, the disturbing trend became more & more evident: the police were not only poorly trained & often racially motivated, but, time & time again, they explained that they were "scared". Now, this could seem like a "strategy" to get a police officer out of a murder charge, but, in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting & in light of the evacuations of their own precincts during national anti-police protests in major cities like Minneapolis & Seattle, even leaving behind guns, ammo & prisoners without food or water, a veritable checklist of state-irresponsibility, it became painfully obvious that police were very rarely "heroic" & almost always cowards.

Shooticide is about how the police in America have undermined their own authority by "outing" themselves as terrified of just about everything & that the farce of the slogan "to protect & serve" only applies to themselves & that 9 times out of 10, when they have their guns drawn, they are all pissing themselves in panic & afraid of their own shadows. Emptying their clips & their bladders simultaneously.

That's why "Defunding" the police is such an ill conceived idea (besides the fact that one vowel changed turns that slogan into “Defend the Police”, coincidence? Nobody’s that stupid, not even the cops), when these officers are so badly trained, less money means even less training. We believe that fundamentally, in its wide-spread corruption & systemic racism, policing needs to be abolished & people need to figure out a way to elect folks from their own communities to actually keep "the peace" instead of sowing chaos & fear through corruption & violence. The war on drugs needs to be suspended & condemned. And the judicial system needs to be reimagined & not as the even less equitable, zero tolerance of the cancel culture that is an essentially fascist style of moral policing that relies entirely on one person’s own testimony while ignoring any & all forensic evidence & the testimony of the only other witness present. Corruption & injustice collide with social media & the back lash of moral outrage & misinformation that used to set the dissenting & bigoted right apart from logical thinkers, but is now reserved for leftist activists in a political ruse to destroy us & our goals.

These are the themes in the song lyrics of “Shooticide”.

[queerdraws]

Fanart for a snippet of my most favorite heartbreaking moment from swordsmans's fic bone-breaker ospreys mate for life (rated E)

[trappedinafantasy37]

I went to a very old save of mine in which I knocked out Minthara in Act 1 and I talked to her again in the throne room. If you knocked her out, this is how she looks at you when she questions you:

She seems genuinely disturbed over your actions. Can you blame her? You were the one who knocked her out. You brought her harm for reasons that she cannot understand. She can understand someone killing her as that is what she expects of those around her. She will criticize your choice of sparing an enemy and showing mercy to someone you have greater reason to kill. Even though she has doubts about you, she shuts herself down, thinking she should be more grateful rather than doubtful of you.

You can tell her that you saw her as a potential ally, but she will call you a hypocrite as Gut and Ragzlin were not shown the same mercy, nor was any other True Soul.

You can even tell her, "You were simply too stubborn to die" as a means of trying to take any culpability off yourself. To try to turn the situation into a little jokey joke. However,

Minthara does not take it as a compliment and she knows you are full of shit. Even though you took the "good" path, she does not trust you.

Minthara understands mercy and even she believes some people are deserving of it. Sadly, she does not see herself as one of those people and is disturbed as to why you gave her mercy. There is no answer you can give her here that will make her trust you. She knows you went out of your way to spare her and only her, and that frightens her.

Remember, this is not the first time in which Minthara's entire army was killed right from underneath her and she was deliberately left as the sole survivor. Orin slaughtered all of her men in a blink of an eye, and Orin's "mercy" only brought her pain and torture. Later down the road, Minthara criticizes herself for not paying more attention to Orin when she first arrived at Moonrise. And so she is giving you a lot of attention, she is watching you, studying you, because she fears that you are going to hurt her the moment she takes her eye off you. Because you already have. Your "mercy" gave her a concussion, your deception had her found guilty of incompetence, and she was then subjected to even more torture by the Absolute in which she was given permanent brain damage. She is afraid that the only reason that you spared her, is because you want to torture her. Even when you show up in Moonrise and enter into her mind prison, she is expecting you to kill her and begs you do it quickly. She is not expecting mercy from you, only death. She is only in that predicament because of you. Why would she think for a single second that your mercy comes from a place of good intentions?

She knows fully well that she owes her life to you and that her life is entirely at your mercy, one you can revoke at any time. She doesn't trust you, she doesn't trust the rest of the companions, but she cannot leave nor walk away. There is no good way out of this for her and she's afraid of the cycle repeating. She is not going to make the same mistake again. Instead of her oath to you being from a place of affection, her oath to you comes from a place of fear.

[wwheeljack]

Still haven't caught sight of Drag Strip's or Wildrider's names, but that's three out of five components of Menasor who show up in the race alone.

[enbnuuynoises]

*waves hands*

You are not immune to gay(pan) Hare propaganda

-They/Them!

[kyuohki]

I may have made an impulse purchase...and I do *not* regret it one bit!

(Edit: MeteorBricks is the shop! You can find 'em here or here!)

BEHOLD!

TEH CUTES!!

No, seriously, they are absolutely fucking adorable, and building them was an amazing way to wind down (and the buzzing in my brain quieted, too.)

The instructions are pretty simple, tho a couple of spots I had to start segregating the bricks bc either the colors were too similar, or I thought I was missing a piece.

Details under Cut, in order of build!

Valere!

She was the easiest to put together. Not too many similar brick colors so no confusion, and very simple! Set the stage for the boys!

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Zale!!

It's my Boy!!! :D His hair is *messy* and I was giggling through placing every piece. His bangs are on a pivoting piece, too!

He was slightly complicated bc there were 2 yellows, an orange, and a tan that all washed out while using the instruction manual on my phone. Thankfully, each color for the flat 1x2s all were of different quantities (and the instructions had word descriptions and clear markings of which one you needed), so just had to separate and count to verify what went where. If you decide on a Zale of your own, separate and count the flat 1x2s.

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Garl!!!

Bestest Boy!!!

It goes without saying that he gets the most pics! He was also the most complicated, as well as the one that I nearly had a panic attack that I was missing a piece! (My fault bc at this point I was so excited that I didn't look at the step piece list; and in the mini build pic, the 3d model blurred the edges of two pieces, making it look like one and of course I couldn't find it bc it didn't *exist*!)

His hair lifts up and down, and his backpack not only opens, it will hold the 2 extra items you get with him! I remembered the apple in the listing, but not the sandwich or cherries, so it was a nice surprise!

[elissastillstands]

Doing BG3 co-op with @frxstguardian, and here are some early scenes with our Tavs! They're adventurers, they're friends, they love shiny things, everyone else is in fantasy peril and they're living in a sitcom.

[lonelysatoru]

zoro needs to stop i’m sorry

[jazzums]

i wanted to save sazza and the grove and minthara and volo and halsin but i keep fucking up by not doing things in a specific order

[bitchapalooza]

I’m curious, what is everyone’s take on nations being born? Do they just appear out of thin air like canon suggests? Do they birth or sire them themselves? Or are they born from humans, it being a long standing(or old depending on the time period ig) fear for parents finding out their newborn is a semi-immortal representation of their kingdom/empire/country to be?

I like all three theories depending on the narrative at play but I’m leaning towards the last one because it sounds cool now that I actually put it into words lol

[twilightakiishi]

the first time takiishi realizes he might like you is when he’s out shopping and sees something he thinks you might like, or imagines you wearing it. he doesn’t actually realize it though — more like gets a weird feeling in his chest and tells endo they need to leave soon; he’s not feeling well.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

kind of interesting that quil, the alfira alternative for the durge murder camp event, is so hard to naturally encounter but she also has unique dialogue for a dragonborn pc

[stizzysupremacy]

“Izzy doesn’t make reparations. You know who does make reparations? Edward!”

Edward who literally could not even say the words “sorry” or “I apologize” or even fucking “oops my bad” during his big apology to the crew? That Edward?? What fucking show did you watch????

[dw-flagler]

it's interesting that no matter who you side with they're both cops doing top tier cop stuff

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

He received 60 years for each of the two murders, but his sentences will run concurrently. He will be eligible for parole after serving 30 years, and must also pay $20,000 in fines.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/houston-cop-sentenced-to-60-years-in-prison-for-felony-murder-conviction

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[hightief]

pookie

master gaslight girlboss aka mister '*bites your throat cutely*'