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lydamorehouse I disappeared for a bit because I was in the midst of the horrible prep for the colonoscopy (FOR SCIENCE) and the procedure itself.
I would say all went well? But I'd be lying about the prep. I mean, technically everything happened as it should (the doctor even complimented my clean colon!), but that involved a lot of unpleasantries, including the fact that I am of the group, apparently, that barfs. FUN TIMES.
However, science has been scienced.
Hooray!!
That occupied a lot of my brain space, which is probably good since Daunte Wright was killed by Brooklyn Center police... and my heart is breaking... again. I am so done with this narrative about the warrants out for his arrest, his drug addiction, etc., because you know what? COPS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO KILL GUILTY PEOPLE, EITHER. I don't care how bad anyone is, police aren't supposed to kill. Even if someone comes at them with a knife. Even if someone is high as a kite and biting them in the face. They're supposed to be the one profession that knows how to end that conflict without loss of life. It's supposed to be why we call them. This is supposed to be what we train them to do: bring people to justice, to help them, to PROTECT... not leave them dead in the street, JFC.
Twenty year veterans should know the difference between a Glock and a taser, too. Having done some gun training as part of research for my first novel, I can tell you that most automatics, like the ones cops carry, also have a safety that you have to click "off" in order to shoot it. Bob's gun range also taught me that it is easy to accidentally discharge a gun, so you never pull it with your finger near the trigger. I was untrained and managed to remember that. If the Brooklyn Center cops are running around with guns with their safeties off and their fingers on the trigger, there is a LOT wrong, beyond the obvious.
It's just as well that I was hugging the porcelain throne most of Monday and recovering from the procedure yesterday.
Ugh, I hadn't wanted to dwell on this because, frankly, I don't know what is to be done about it all. I wish I knew. Today, my coffee shop (Cladaugh for those who are local,) is donating all of its profits to the family of Daunte Wright. I bought as many coffees as I could comfortably carry. Feel free to do the same or donate to the Wright family's gofundme directly: https://gofund.me/b101c9ea or any of the organizations listed here: https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/minneapolis/how-to-support-the-black-community-in-minneapolis or here: https://www.mnallianceoncrime.org/resources-for-racial-justice-community-healing/
I would say all went well? But I'd be lying about the prep. I mean, technically everything happened as it should (the doctor even complimented my clean colon!), but that involved a lot of unpleasantries, including the fact that I am of the group, apparently, that barfs. FUN TIMES.
However, science has been scienced.
Hooray!!
That occupied a lot of my brain space, which is probably good since Daunte Wright was killed by Brooklyn Center police... and my heart is breaking... again. I am so done with this narrative about the warrants out for his arrest, his drug addiction, etc., because you know what? COPS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO KILL GUILTY PEOPLE, EITHER. I don't care how bad anyone is, police aren't supposed to kill. Even if someone comes at them with a knife. Even if someone is high as a kite and biting them in the face. They're supposed to be the one profession that knows how to end that conflict without loss of life. It's supposed to be why we call them. This is supposed to be what we train them to do: bring people to justice, to help them, to PROTECT... not leave them dead in the street, JFC.
Twenty year veterans should know the difference between a Glock and a taser, too. Having done some gun training as part of research for my first novel, I can tell you that most automatics, like the ones cops carry, also have a safety that you have to click "off" in order to shoot it. Bob's gun range also taught me that it is easy to accidentally discharge a gun, so you never pull it with your finger near the trigger. I was untrained and managed to remember that. If the Brooklyn Center cops are running around with guns with their safeties off and their fingers on the trigger, there is a LOT wrong, beyond the obvious.
It's just as well that I was hugging the porcelain throne most of Monday and recovering from the procedure yesterday.
Ugh, I hadn't wanted to dwell on this because, frankly, I don't know what is to be done about it all. I wish I knew. Today, my coffee shop (Cladaugh for those who are local,) is donating all of its profits to the family of Daunte Wright. I bought as many coffees as I could comfortably carry. Feel free to do the same or donate to the Wright family's gofundme directly: https://gofund.me/b101c9ea or any of the organizations listed here: https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/minneapolis/how-to-support-the-black-community-in-minneapolis or here: https://www.mnallianceoncrime.org/resources-for-racial-justice-community-healing/
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Date: 2021-04-14 04:55 pm (UTC)Yes. There are no crimes for which the punishment is summary execution, but you wouldn't know it the way half the country talks.
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Date: 2021-04-18 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-14 07:52 pm (UTC)And thanks for the link. I'll donate.
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Date: 2021-04-18 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-14 11:24 pm (UTC)I concur with every word you wrote about the police and their duty. I'm incoherent with rage and sorrow. I've seen several random people, unknown to me, suggest that the murder was deliberate, a comment on the Chauvin trial and how it had better play out. I find this very improbable, but that's what it FEELS like.
P.
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Date: 2021-04-18 11:09 pm (UTC)(Also, later, or perhaps in person one day at a quite corner at some con or other, I would love to know how one fails the prep for a colonoscopy.)
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Date: 2021-04-19 11:29 pm (UTC)I didn't fail prep in quite the usual way, but I know people who did and would be happy to pontificate about both possibilities when the time seems right.
P.