Reminder that if you ever feel like you’ve majorly fucked up, just remember that Nickelodeon rejected Adventure Time and greenlit Fanboy & Chum-Chum in it’s place instead.
This is his Jokers first day on the job, and he’s being such a good boy.
Donald W. Cook is a Los Angeles attorney with decades of experience bringing lawsuits over police dog bites — and mostly losing. He blames what he calls “The Rin Tin Tin Effect” — juries think of police dogs as noble, and have trouble visualizing how violent they can be during an arrest.
“[Police] use terms like ‘apprehend’ and ‘restrain,’ to try to portray it as a very antiseptic event,” Cook says. “But you look at the video and the dog is chewing away on his leg and mutilating him.”
Cook says the proliferation of smart phones and body cameras is capturing a reality that used to be lost on juries. “If it’s a good video,” he says, “it makes a case much easier to prevail on.”
The new generation of videos is capturing scenes of K9 arrests that are bloodier and more violent than imagined by the public. An NPR examination of police videos shows some officers using biting dogs against people who show minimal threat to officers, and a degree of violence that would be unacceptable if inflicted directly by the officers.
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In fact, in many videos, the release of a dog appears to escalate the violence of an arrest.
“You just look at the dog as the source of pain and you do everything you can to address that pain,” says Seth Stoughton. He’s a former police officer, now an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina who studies police use of force. “Those shouted commands — you’ll deal with that later, when the pain stops.”
And yet suspects who kick and try to shake the dog off are often accused of resisting arrest.
i don’t care what this dog in particular is being trained to do. furthering the idea that police dogs are somehow cute or good directly contributes to injustice and the perceived acceptability of police violence
My aunt rescues and rehabilitates german shepherds, and the vast majority are failed police dogs. The rehab process for these dogs is intense. They are trained to be hyper vigilant and to resort to violence. They are often is worse condition than formerly abused animals.
I spent a summer training one of these balls of anxiety. She was too fast and strong for my aunt to train her, so I did it. The biggest hurdle was getting her out of the mindset that biting someone gets her a treat. I had to let her bite my arm, forcible break the hold, and kennel her all without giving her a response because these dogs are trained to equate someone screaming at them as Go Time.
By letting her attack me and showing her that I was stronger than her and then not allowing her to play with the other dogs was what finally got her to stop attacking whenever she heard a loud noise or was surprised or just felt like it.
She still had to be homed in a gun-free, pet-free, child-free home because of the sheer anxiety she was bred for. These dogs are not cute, they are horribly mistreated.
ngl i know it’s probably not how troll genetics work but i really like the idea that each mutantblood (even if they aren’t necessarily of the vantas line!) has dumb fucking nubby horns. it’s just another weird hemotype specific feature and yeah. good shit
I hc that due to the way ecto biology worked, every prospit alpha troll had the mutation and it effected them differently.
It gives bronze bloods wings
Jades natural body marks
Teal loses sense of smell
Cerulean and purple have greatly amplified psychic abilities.
stuart semples still at it, fighting the war against anish kapoor
I’m a little frustrated that people think Stuart Semple is just putting these colors out because of Anish Kapoor.
Stuart Semple has been working on these pigments for years. He has spent a lot of time and energy creating these pigments + a line of acrylic paints. The popularity of Pink BECAUSE of the Kapoor feud has given him the monetary support necessary to produce the rest of these pigments and the glitter. But he’s been working on them and trying to get them made for a very long time.
Like by all means, continue to support Semple. Continue to get enjoyment/entertainment out of this feud. But give credit where credit is due - Semple spent years working on this, he didn’t churn it out in a week becuase of Kapoor.
That’s actually neat to know, because it kinda did look that way. I appreciate you letting us know!
Of course he’s been working on this stuff for years. That’s what’s so great about it. It’s like writing a novel, selling it somewhere, and then, the week before it goes to the printer, changing the dedication page to read “Fuck you, Steve, you know what you did.”
I- I just can’t get over Zuko and his arc. Everything he did - everything - was out of this insane drive to prove everyone wrong, to prove that he was worth something, and it amazes me that he never realized just how valuable he already was.
His sister tells him ‘You waste all your time playing with knives. You’re not even good!’ and he masters dual swords.
His sister is a prodigy and he’s told he’ll never catch up. He learns from dragons. He trains the Avatar. He takes her down (with the help of a very skilled waterbender)
Anything his family said to him, he managed to turn around and build on it. He thrived on it, exploded from it, turned all the negativity into a positive path and it’s just… it’s amazing.
There’s just no end to my love for this character. No fucking end.
Bonus: The weak, banished prince has fangirls for all the ages. Take that, Ozai.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
