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[Calliegirl]

And I thought our police were bad. Unbelievable. I hope Earl Sampson (as well as the store owner and customers) sues the **** out of the cops and wins a huge settlement.

Miami Gardens mayor calls new footage of police behavior ‘unacceptable’
For more than a year, the cameras at 207 Quickstop in Miami Gardens rolled around the clock.

They caught a police officer confronting a frail-looking woman, shoving his hand in her purse, dumping its contents on the pavement, then kicking at the scattered items before walking away.

They were rolling as another uniformed police officer handcuffed a 69-year-old man, then rifled through his pockets and ordered him to sit down while cuffed behind his back, a feat the man could only accomplish by falling on his backside.

There’s more footage: An officer grabs a plastic bag full of Red Bull drinks from a man, flinging the cans on the sidewalk, then picking up one and giving it away to someone in a parked car.

It’s not like the officers didn’t know they were being recorded.

They not only knew, the videos show, but in some cases, they relished it, taunting the store’s owner by waving open beer cans and cups, taken from customers, directly in front of the cameras as if the cans were trophies...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/...mi-gardens-mayor-calls-new.html#storylink=cpy

This is the employee they keep harassing.

Florida police accused of racial profiling after stopping man 258 times, charging him with trespassing at work

A Florida police department is facing racial profiling charges after stopping a man 258 times and repeatedly charging him with trespassing at the convenience store where he works.

At least once a week for the last four years, Earl Sampson, 28, has been stopped by Miami Gardens police — and searched more than 100 times, jailed 56 times and arrested for trespassing 62 times, records show.

The only conviction he's had, according to his lengthy records, is for marijuana possession.

"They created this record," Sampson's boss and the owner of 207 Quickstop, Alex Saleh, told the Daily News Friday. "He's a good guy, a humble guy, a quiet guy. He's not a convicted felon."...

...
"They ask him, 'What are you doing here?'" recalled Saleh. "He said, 'I work here.' The clerk said he works here. I said, 'I'm the owner, let him go. I work here.' The officer said, 'Yeah right.'

"So he has more power than me!"

According to Saleh, it doesn't stop there.

In addition to video appearing to show Sampson being grabbed by an officer while taking out the trash and at another time searched against a wall, Saleh accuses them of searching throughout his store without a warrant...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...mes-charge-trespassing-work-article-1.1526422

 

[Snowcone]

And I thought our police were bad. Unbelievable. I hope Earl Sampson (as well as the store owner and customers) sues the **** out of the cops and wins a huge settlement.


http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/...mi-gardens-mayor-calls-new.html#storylink=cpy

This is the employee they keep harassing.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...mes-charge-trespassing-work-article-1.1526422

Damn. At least over here, the cops put in a smidgen of effort to make their racist and corrupt thug tactics only 80% blatant.

 

[ledboots]

There's no actual proof the natural remedies worked. Since the girl is "in hiding" it's easy to make any claims they want about her results with natural treatment, so we're forced to take the word of her fundamentalist Amish bishop grandfather. If the non-chemo stuff is helping, good for her, but I'd need proof before I make a judgment on this story. Right now I'm siding with the doctors.

Chemo is very hard on children. It must have been very difficult for the traditional, old-fashioned parents to watch her go through it, so when they are sold a bill of goods (probably) from some natural cure guy, they believe it. Hopefully the first chemo round did the trick on the leukemia. Poor little girl.

 

[Snowcone]

Chemo is very hard on children. It must have been very difficult for the traditional, old-fashioned parents to watch her go through it, so when they are sold a bill of goods (probably) from some natural cure guy, they believe it. Hopefully the first chemo round did the trick on the leukemia. Poor little girl.

It's really sad. No matter what happens, the kid's the one who is gonna lose in all of this.

 

[Moll Flanders]

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I was a fan of his, someone texted me about this early this morning. Very sad.

 

[shyvas]

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I was a fan of his, someone texted me about this early this morning. Very sad.

I saw this on this morning's news.

I have never heard of him but it was even more sad that this happened, as he was on his way to a charity event.
Very sad when young people die especially in road accidents.

 

[hungryraccoon]

Yes I was a fan too. How sad it was all over fb this morning.

 

[Moll Flanders]

Paul Walker - Rotten Tomatoes I really liked the horror film he did, it was called Road Kill/Joy Ride. I've seen it about 15 times. He also made a Disney film about a man who has to rescue his sled dogs called Eight Below.

 

[ledboots]

Paul Walker - Rotten Tomatoes I really liked the horror film he did, it was called Road Kill/Joy Ride. I've seen it about 15 times. He also made a Disney film about a man who has to rescue his sled dogs called Eight Below.

Wow, so handsome. I wasn't sure who he was.

 

[rainforests1]

There's no actual proof the natural remedies worked. Since the girl is "in hiding" it's easy to make any claims they want about her results with natural treatment, so we're forced to take the word of her fundamentalist Amish bishop grandfather. If the non-chemo stuff is helping, good for her, but I'd need proof before I make a judgment on this story. Right now I'm siding with the doctors.

Cancers can disappear, then come back later. It's still too early to judge what worked and what didn't. If the chemo was making her sick, it's probably not the chemo that helped her if she's cured.

Ultimately this is an issue about freedom. Her parents should be allowed to dictate what to do regarding their own child. For a court to try to force a person to take a treatment that is making them ill goes against everything Democracy is supposed to stand for.

 

[KLS52]

Wow, so handsome. I wasn't sure who he was.

I had to google him since I didn't recognize his name. He definitely looks familiar...I did see Eight Below.
I agree, a very handsome young man. Such a tragedy.

 

[Snowcone]

Cancers can disappear, then come back later. It's still too early to judge what worked and what didn't. If the chemo was making her sick, it's probably not the chemo that helped her if she's cured.

Ultimately this is an issue about freedom. Her parents should be allowed to dictate what to do regarding their own child. For a court to try to force a person to take a treatment that is making them ill goes against everything Democracy is supposed to stand for.

That's not the same thing. The kid's a minor and cannot consent, so I don't see how it's a matter of personal freedom, since either way, she's the one with her life at stake, and whether the parents or the state makes the treatment decisions, it's out of her hands. Why is it a horrific infringement on the PARENT'S' freedoms to force them to give her the treatment? In fact, going by your logic, should parents be able to beat their children into a bloody pulp for disrespecting them? Should they be allowed to sell their children on the streets, if the family is going hungry? Personal freedoms, yo. If an adult wants to take some unverified miracle cures where they smoke moon rocks thrice a day on their own, sure thing, no problem; but to do that to your kid, who trusts you, and is willing to believe you'd protect them no matter what, because you weren't strong enough to stand by them as they fought through a horrific life-threatening illness and the agonizing treatments that came with it? Now that is what I'd consider to be the travesty here.

 

[Snowcone]

Also, chemo can make you sick, whether it's helping or not, based on one's individual reactions (though it probably will). Because, ya know, POISON.

 

[Nightshade]

Paul Walker Dead: Fast And The Furious Actor Dies In Car Crash

I was a fan of his, someone texted me about this early this morning. Very sad.

I don't think I saw any of his films but I knew that he studied marine biology in college and was an vocal advocate for sharks and other sea animals. I read somewhere that he did volunteer work to help study sharks so humans would better understand their behavior. Very sad to lose an ally.

 

[Pirate]

I wasn't a fan of Paul Walker, not my kinda films. However, noone should have to die like that. How awful. I really feel for the friends and family of him and the other victim. Ive seen photos online of the car still on fire, I hope that they manage to avoid seeing that.

 

[rainforests1]

That's not the same thing. The kid's a minor and cannot consent, so I don't see how it's a matter of personal freedom, since either way, she's the one with her life at stake, and whether the parents or the state makes the treatment decisions, it's out of her hands. Why is it a horrific infringement on the PARENT'S' freedoms to force them to give her the treatment? In fact, going by your logic, should parents be able to beat their children into a bloody pulp for disrespecting them? Should they be allowed to sell their children on the streets, if the family is going hungry? Personal freedoms, yo. If an adult wants to take some unverified miracle cures where they smoke moon rocks thrice a day on their own, sure thing, no problem; but to do that to your kid, who trusts you, and is willing to believe you'd protect them no matter what, because you weren't strong enough to stand by them as they fought through a horrific life-threatening illness and the agonizing treatments that came with it? Now that is what I'd consider to be the travesty here.

Cool. Courts can tell us who to marry as well. Doctors are usually taught what big business wants them to be taught(chemo, surgery, and not much else). Most have no knowledge of how diet can effect cancer. In many cases the parents have more knowledge than the doctor at least on the subject of Cancer.

If any person here was in the same situation the girl was in, most would think much differently about it.

 

[Snowcone]

Cool. Courts can tell us who to marry as well.

Relevance? Even if we were to change the story to make your marriage comment fit into the framework of this dilemma, it still would not be equivalent. It would be more like the government infringing upon the parents' ability to make arranged marriages, only this bizarro government would be organizing arranged marriages instead. Again, it's not interfering with the rights of the individual, but the rights of parents to gamble with their childrens' lives. Thankfully, child brides/grooms are mostly illegal in the US.

Doctors are usually taught what big business wants them to be taught(chemo, surgery, and not much else). Most have no knowledge of how diet can effect cancer.

Valid point...

In many cases the parents have more knowledge than the doctor at least on the subject of Cancer.

Nevermind. I'd wager that half of the US population can't even be bothered to look up how Cancer works, except for the tumors and death aspects, and maybe a couple of things they picked up on a TV show, accurate or not.

If any person here was in the same situation the girl was in, most would think much differently about it.

To be fair, a preteen member of an oddball religious community that shuns most technology after the buggy (of which I'd imagine a lot of nutritional science would fall under, if we wanna go back to your earlier argument), and frowns on bright colors and fun, would have a bias against modern medicine. Especially because she has a close family member who is in a position of authority in said oddball religious community, and is expected to be subservient to men (one of which being the relative with a position of authority) for being born without a y chromosome.

 

[rainforests1]

If a parent had a child who has Cancer and nothing that doctors recommend was working, many of the parents would look elsewhere. Of course chemo damages your immune system and makes it harder for other methods to work. As it is the parent would be much more likely to look into other methods since the doctors know so little about cures that they haven't been taught. Many does not mean half.

In other news, food stamp costs are dropping:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/11/food-stamp-costs-decreasing-gop-cuts

 

[Blobbenstein]

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is testing unmanned drones to deliver goods to customers, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos says.

The drones, called Octocopters, could deliver packages weighing up to 2.3kg to customers within 30 minutes of them placing the order, he said.

However, he added that it could take up to five years for the service to start.

The US Federal Aviation Administration is yet to approve the use of unmanned drones for civilian purposes.

"I know this looks like science fiction, but it's not," Mr Bezos told CBS television's 60 Minutes programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906

 

[das_nut]

Anyone remember 'News of the Weird'?

The co-CEO of the company that puts out Archie Comics, Nancy Silberkleit, seems to be qualifying:

[E]mployees’ claim that she’d used her “gender as a weapon” by yelling “*****! *****! *****!” during a business meeting.

“[T]he word ‘*****’ became somewhat of a campaign slogan and her preferred method of referring to employees in lieu of their names

October came the $32.5 million suit by the Archie employees. They're seeking a court order keeping her two miles away from the office, and say her “deliberate and disturbed campaign of outrageous conduct” has them so freaked out an armed guard's been posted in the office.

Silberkleit, they say, invited Hell’s Angels to Archie’s Mamaroneck offices in an apparent effort to “intimidate” them, and has repeatedly inquired about the whereabouts of the handgun and 750 rounds of ammo her husband kept at the office. She's also stalked the employees and their families, the suit says.

Silberkleit called the accusations "untrue and twisted."

- New York Daily News