tvc184

Except for the current media feeding frenzy, this should be little more than a local news story. Armed man of any race attacks people and is killed by the police. Story ends.

In some states probation officers are peace officers and therefore have the full authority of all other peace/police officers. That would mean that they would have to go through a police academy. TX has no such status for probation officers. They could by law grant them CHL status like judges or district attorneys and exempt them from carrying in prohibited places. They would not be trained and would have no arrest authority but could defend themselves.

Spending more money that you are taking in is a conscious choice. It doesn't matter if you are the CFO of a Fortune 500 company or a person living paycheck to paycheck. You don't need some kind of track record in business to know that if you make $100 a week and spend $150 a week, then each week you will go another $50 in the hole. Businesses sell goods and services in order to make a profit. Governments cannot make a profit and only take money from others and provide a service. It is like me telling LumRaiderFan that I am going to mow the grass and charge what I like. What if LRF doesn't want the grass mowed? Oh well, the government has decided what is best and you will pay the bill. That is not any business model. The issue of government spending is what they spend it on and how much they are going to force others to pay. Social issues are sometimes everything. What matter is it if you are a great business person but feel so strongly about giving welfare that you do not care about how much you go in the hole?

I would tend to agree more if it was, "run the government like a household".

Not really. While it sounds good, the government is not a business and cannot be run like one. It is a great catch phrase however.

I would vote on the one that I agree with. I think the fiscal managing is a foolish issue. I believe that the sometimes mantra of "running the government like a business" is bogus.

Kinda .. but...... Due to Bobbitt (in my opinion), this perpetrator realized that merely tossing it out the window might lead to a reattachment and a future career in the video industry.

That was why I was wondering about if it was a newly built center.

EPA Evidence Prevaricating Agency

Got to love those German remakes............

Yep, the chief is a politician. It looks like he made deputy chief about 9-10 years into his career (since he served as deputy chief, assistant chief and interim chief and was named chief at only 16 years). That is a politician that has likely put very little time in on the streets and a lot of time in the chief's back pocket and backstabbing any competition. He will and probably has thrown anyone out there to save his butt and make him look like the hero. I could be wrong but seeing such a rapid rise in such a large department, I doubt it.

I just heard a statement by the chief and it was some of the biggest bunch of caca that I have read. "Cascading consequences"? Pure gibberish for the media. I think they need to fire the chief.

The standard is if a reasonable officer would feel the need to use deadly force. Most times in the past, a felon advancing on an officer with a drawn handgun is most of the time seen as justified in my experience. There is no need to have the person be a threat of death, a point which is almost always glossed over or ignored by the press. There is no statute that requires a person to fear death in order to justify deadly force. There has to be a fear of serious bodily injury which can be a broken bone. If an in shape athlete is advancing toward you while committing a felony and appears to be crazed on drugs, would anyone be in fear or injury? That is the question of law that will be before the grand jury.

I am not sure that they can if what is out there turns out to be even partly true. She might actually be in some deep troublems.........

If they need someone to be a guinea pig, I can take a few tubs for free to test it for safety.

BB is putting out information that it will be back in stores in mid-September so maybe another four weeks or so.

Is that a new building because I don't remember much in the way of a restaurant type building in that block/area?

From the map it looks like it is in kind of a run down part of town like east of Baptist Hospital on College near S. 4th St.

.... but maybe the most fun was the J3 Cub at about 45HP. Low and slow.

Every airplane that I am checked out in has less horsepower... way less.

Not sure about the food but the pictures are about as good as it gets........

A lot depends on how you define acting like a fool. In any case we have another straw man argument. I have never seen any person in any of these forms on any thread saying that I thing like a fool in itself was a good reason to get shot. An officer drawing a handgun while trying to stop a felony in progress is not only normal procedure, it is the safe, correct and a routine thing to do. We are not talking about a misdemeanor shoplifting suspect. I do not know how anyone can have a valid opinion as to the shooting at this point because for right now we have no clue what happened other than media reports and speculation.

Attacking an officer or moving toward him while he is pointing a gun and saying to stop is not the most intelligent thing a person can do. The dead guy looks like he was whacked out on some serious drugs.

we cannot see the actual shooting so it is impossible to render a valid opinion on if it was legal. Arlington is apparently under Texas civil service law like some of the surrounding area police agencies and therefore the first year the office it can be fired without cause. That means the chief can simply not like his haircut and terminate him legally. in this case the chief probably threw him under the bus and in fact at one point I read where he mentioned Ferguson. The officer was made a sacrificial lamb more than likely. Had this been a veteran officer he almost certainly would not have been fired or if so at a much later time when an in-depth investigation happened. that is why all officers sweat out their first year. They can be terminated for any reason and I have seen it done before. The officer being terminated in this case has almost nothing to do with the events and everything to do with the chief wanted to get out and cover his own hide. Maybe a termination and an indictment might be the correct course of action but so soon lets you know that at this point it's just politics.

What might really be interesting in a Democratic debate will be if Biden gets in the race. The reason is that both are Obama insiders but will have to directly attack each other. Hillary will be beating the drums on how great she was as a Secretary of State and Biden cannot simply go along with it. Hillary will have to defend Benghazi and Biden will have to attack her if he has any chance which he cannot do now as a sitting Veep and not wanting to directly criticize anything or anyone that Obama appointed unless he has a direct gain, which is what will happen if he goes for the big prize. Of course he probably will not announce but it sure would be interesting if it happened.