is used suspiciously often as ‘justification’ for whites to assault/kill blacks
says a lot more about the “scared” person than it does about the “scary” person
Any way you spin this, I question if someone with that high a fear/aggression response is a good choice for a career in law, let alone a seat on an ethics panel.
There’s a video of the encounter and it shows them actively pointing their guns at people who were just calmly walking past. I really can’t see how someone could view that calm video and claim that these people felt like their lives were in so much danger that it justified bringing out multiple guns.
Go check it out! (Can’t link because tumblr will hide it)
Chapter Plot: In order to make it easier to take Suzie on adventures undetected, Coach and Suzie are looking for a girl who’s not quite what she seems. It may be more of a challenge than they thought.
Zelda Lore:
“this is a twisted, mindless monster formed from a mere fragment of an ancient god of hate and destruction, if you let it reach this temple the whole fking world will end"
The news keeps mentioning the same two or three little “family owned” businesses that got hurt in outbreaks of panic but can’t seem to come up with any more than that.
That’s because downtown is dominated by places Starbuck’s, Rite-Aid, Target, Apple, Microsoft, Nordstrom Rack, Whole Foods, Men’s Warehouse, Payless, AT&T, Sprint, Doc Marten’s and other big chain brands.
Brands which themselves cost hundreds of people their livelihoods or homes when they came here, which people were already angry about before any of this happened.
Oops, I forgot the scientology building got vandalized too. Poor babies.
And STILL, the most that’s happened to the majority is a little graffiti.
Vandalism of business was already commonplace in a city where so much business was lost to gentrification, and the relationship between several major companies and its citizens already strained for very good reason. In fact, this isn’t even a downtown location, but a beloved bowling alley people were hoping to see reopen a couple years ago:
And here it is now:
Damage to inanimate things such as property is an inevitability when large numbers of people are angry together. It’s also undeniable that American law enforcement violates people’s rights every single day, people have protested that for generations without seeing it get better, and outrage over that is justifiable no matter whose bricks or plaster or linoleum gets caught in the crossfire. All media attention to “damaged businesses” is a distraction from what actually matters, on top of being ridiculously overblown.
When writing always remember… a character flaw is only a flaw until becomes useful.
Is your protagonist manipulative? Well that’s awful… until they manipulate the antagonist into making a decision that saves the lives of their friends.
Is your protagonist a skeptic? Well that’s not good… until someone tries to lie to them.
Is your protagonist overprotective? That sucks… until someone they love is in danger.
Is your protagonist remorseless? Well that makes them pretty unlikeable… until a hard decision has to be made.
