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Merely suggesting it is not any crime in TX that I know of. In Mississippi? Maybe but I don't know their law. To do so in front of people that then start doing it can probably be charged as Riot.

The Great Divider has not caused but empowered the freaks, loons and morons to come of age. They were always there but not glorified. We can now claim that we are now another sex without the need for an actual change, get a stuffed dog and claim it as a service animal, have days/parades to proclaim a sexual preference, have a presidential election where the two parties selected a felon and a reality show host as candidates, etc.

See, therein lies the problem. At least six of your seven "70's" bands are from the 60's. Because you listened to some of their hits in the 70's........ I guess the Rolling Stones are a band of the millennium since they are still out there. But, at least the Eagles didn't start until the 70's had at least begun, even if briefly. I grew up in the 70's or at least my high school and early adulthood years but the 60's made the vinyl go 'round.

I guess so but that isn't a citation. Driving down a lane is not illegal but going through a red light is. Going through without the proper tag is (again) a civil violation. The fee is not to the driver but the vehicle owner for non-payment. In a way it is like not paying a credit card bill. There are also speed cameras however they are illegal in Texas. I think the red light cameras should be. I think they are unconstitutional but it would need someone with the money to fight it and a lawyer good enough to make the case.

Yes and no. Yes it fits the elements of the crime. In a similar example, when playing high school football if someone tackles you and you even feel pain you have been the victim of assault with injury. The person that tackled you is eligible for up to one year in the county jail if he is at least 17 years old. The same applies when you go to the doctors office and the doctor or nurse gives you a shot. That person has committed assault and can go for up to a year in jail or if it is a child younger than 14 getting the shot, can go up to 10 years in prison. There are sections in the law specifically state that these laws do not apply to certain situations. Those situations are listed in detail.

You were talking about a different law. Texas law only allows photograph evidence of a moving citation at a red light only. Those or a civil violation and not a criminal violation, therefore not requiring an eye witness of the account.

And since I mentioned citizen arrests and breaches of the peace...... Anyone has the authority to take a person into custody for a felony or against the public peace which is witnessed or in his "presence". Under this section (CCP 14.01) I believe they mean presence as in, you are on the scene but may not have actually seen it. Let's say that you hear a gunshot and turn to see a person fall and a man with a gun in his hand. You did not actually see the shot but it was within your "presence". Being two blocks away and having someone report it to you and you then run to the scene is not in your presence. A breach of the peace is something that immediately risks the peace or tranquility of the area. The US Supreme Court (in Chaplinsky v. N. H.) uses the term "fighting words". I can describe it as something that is causing or about to start a fight by actions. Parking does not seem to fit that use. Jumping out and yelling at a person taking a picture of your car and calling him some various words of profanity or making a threat is a breach of the peace.

Here is the actual law on allowing citizen citations for privileged parking violations in the Texas Transportation Code. Sec. 681.0101. ENFORCEMENT BY CERTAIN APPOINTED PERSONS. (a) A political subdivision may appoint a person to have authority to file a charge against a person who commits an offense under this chapter. (b) A person appointed under this section must: (1) be a United States citizen of good moral character who has not been convicted of a felony; (2) take and subscribe to an oath of office that the political subdivision prescribes; and (3) successfully complete a training program of at least four hours in length developed by the political subdivision. (c) A person appointed under this section: (1) is not a peace officer; (2) has no authority other than the authority applicable to a citizen to enforce a law other than this chapter; and (3) may not carry a weapon while performing duties under this section. (d) A person appointed under this section is not entitled to compensation for performing duties under this section or to indemnification from the political subdivision or the state for injury or property damage the person sustains or liability the person incurs in performing duties under this section. (e) The political subdivision and the state are not liable for any damage arising from an act or omission of a person appointed under Subsection (a) in performing duties under this section.

Anyone has the authority to arrest someone committing a felony or a breach of the peace. That is, taking them into custody. I think a parking citation neither is a felony or a breach of the peace. While the law allows citizen arrests, it doe not allow citizen detention to investigate a possible violation of the law. That would likely be the crime of Unlawful Restraint. So no, you cannot detain a person and wait for a police investigation. Citizens are allowed to issue parking citation in TX for handicap (privileged) parking only. To do so the government (city or county) has to authorize the person to do so, the person has to be a US citizen with no felony convictions, he cannot carry a weapon (even with a license) and he has to go to at least a 4 hour clash taught by the government which is usually the poilce department. In Port Arthur and I believe Beaumont and Jefferson County they have programs for people to issue handicap violations. Each has its own rules and in PA I believe that they do not contact the person in violation or even hang a citation on the vehicle. They take a digital photo of the violation and submit it to our Street Crimes Unit who issues a citation and sends it to the registered owner. That it to keep any confrontation chances down to a minimum. PA restricts it to members of the citizen action or patrol groups. Beaumont and Jefferson County might have them simply put the citation on the vehicle but I do not know. I do not know if they have restrictions on who may do it. I helped develop and teach the classes in PA however it has been quite a while since I have taught so I am not sure if they might have changed the rules.

I have eaten goat, squid and octopus.

Starvation is a strong motivator.

I always figured that if something was an acquired taste, there are usually no reason to acquire it.

I am hopefully going to southwest Missouri in the morning for a few days in kind of a working vacation.

If squirrels, various birds, gator , wild pig and deer are strange.... I guess I have eaten something strange. Those seem like everyday fare in southeast TX but obviously not everyone has eaten it. Seems far from "strange" however. "Maybe" in that category that I have eaten is pig ear salad and jellyfish salad..... and maybe strange for most people (including me), haggis.

That won't buff out...........

His one shining achievement............

.......... to keep that string going.

I haven't been to a movie in years. This might be the time...........

He can throw some fireballs but getting off the prompter isn't his problem.

I don't think Rush or anyone else has an issue with teleprompters. They are just a modern convenience instead of notes. Abraham Lincoln didn't give the Gettysburg Address from memory. The problem is with people that cannot give any answer without it being fed to him/her. Trump can talk for a long time without video prompting. You can really tell when Obama goes of the script and he stumbles, stammers and generally flubs his answers. He is a great speech giver when he can read it. He can hardly put a sentence together when he isn't. I am not a Trump fan but speaking isn't his problem.

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I'm going to lose sleep because an editor at GQ has an opinion? Some people must lose sleep easily if that is their level of interest.

It all goes by percentages and how you look at them as you say. About 13% of the population is black. The FBI considers Hispanic as an ethnicity and not a race so most of what we call Hispanics are white although obviously a person can be a black Hispanic. The FBI generally (or always) lists race as Black, White, Asian, Other or Unknown. It varies from year to year but from what I can gather from the FBI annual UCR statistics, blacks commit roughly half of the murders in the USA. Other violent crimes have similar stats with some being even higher. Examples are like in 2013, 56% of arrests for robberies where black. That deals directly with police contacts with people. The more contacts you have, especially for violent crimes, the more likely you have a chance for violence between an officer and citizen. Obviously the most contentious contact is an arrest where you are taking a person's liberty completely away with handcuffs and restrained usually in the back of a vehicle. For that reason, arrests are the most likely situation for violence from either the police are the person being arrested. While whites are shot and killed by the police more, are the deaths equal to their population? The answer is no. I think that recently blacks have been about 30-35% of the people killed by the police which is 200-300% higher than their population. So are they over represented? Again, how do you look at it in total? If blacks are committing 50% of murders and 56% of robberies (both some of the most violent crimes), does that mean the officers come into contact with blacks under violent circumstances more so than other races by population? It appears to me to be the case. I added up the officers killed in the of duty from 2008-2013. If my math was correct, 40% of all officers killed where killed by blacks. Almost no women killed officers so really about 7% of the population (black/males) killed almost half all officers killed. Again, violent confrontations between officers and blacks tend to happen at a much higher rate than their population represents both in number of deaths from both officers and the accused. So how do we look at "more likely"? It is by population or simply total numbers? I believe that more whites (including Hispanics) are killed by the police than are blacks. Are whites more likely to be killed than blacks by percentage of the population? No. Blacks are likely killed at about 200-300% higher than their population. Is that due to what appears to be stats that show that they are more likely to be involved in violent crime and arrests for those crimes? That is open to debate but I believe that some people want to look at the number killed by law enforcement and then ignore the police contacts for violent crimes. Then the want to ignore the number of officers killed. I tend to think they go hand in hand. I normally get my figures from going to what I consider the source, FBI stats. They are never complete however they likely represent the most reliable percentages. The stuff above is simply stats. People can make of them what they wish but I can see where the statement made on the radio could be correct according to interpretation or opinion. That always comes around to my chicken or the egg debate. Which comes first?

What could he see? It all appeared to be on video. Now if he saw the trooper get her in the back of the car off camera and slap her around or something like that, he needs to come in and give a statement and if they will not look at it, go outside like to the Rangers and file a report for Official Oppression against the officer. Why come out with an accusation several months later? Why not step in either to help the officer so more force would not be needed or to stop the trooper for doing anything else? It all sounds fishy on the claims from an officer. More than likely it is an opinion from an officer (if there even was one) that didn't agree with what was done. Not agreeing does not make it illegal. Ordering her out of the car was legal. Putting his hands on her to get her out when she refused was legal. Arresting her for not putting on a turn signal within 100' of a turn is legal.

They showed up in Port Arthur about 20 years ago for a rally. There were about 5 members of the media and one other person attending. They planned on about a 90 minute rally and after a few minutes packed up their equipment and left as there was no audience. Like none unless you count a single person.