Shooting at a dog and hitting a kid, comparison of outcomes.

I am stuck by how similar this new case

https://abc7.com/mom-accidentally-sh...earm/10733299/

Is to this older case.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksib...h=56b756e63987

Funny how doing exactly the same thing is a crime in one case and in the other is considered normal police behavior and covered by qualified immunity.

Well at least we can look forward to getting rid of those pesky permits and training to carry a gun in texas that will fix everything.

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Suffering repeated traumatic brain injuries while black.

Quote:

The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias. The practice made it harder for Black retirees to show a deficit and qualify for an award. The standards were created in the 1990s in hopes of offering more appropriate treatment to dementia patients, but critics faulted the way they were used to determine payouts in the NFL concussion case.

https://apnews.com/article/pa-state-...&utm_medium=AP

The NFL had previously made a legal settlement regarding the brain injury inflicted on players as a result of repeated impacts to the head inherent to tackle football. Part of this settlement was an assessment of players to determine how much damage was done, largely by measuring cognitive decline, and disbursing payments.

The evaluation board was working under the explicit assumption that black players were inherently dumber, therefore had to show a greater cognitive decline standard than white players to receive payment.

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The binary race norms, when they are used in the testing, assumes that Black patients start with worse cognitive function than whites and other non-Blacks. That makes it harder for them to show a deficit and qualify for an award. Henry and Davenport, for instance, were denied awards but would have qualified had they been white, according to their lawsuit, which Brody dismissed in March, calling it an improper “collateral attack” on the settlement. They have appealed the ruling.

An excellent legal podcast covering the topic:

https://www.alabseries.com/episodes/episode-21-baked-in

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Trevor Noah's Compilation of GOP Contradictions

Or maybe I should say hypocrisy. Either way it fluctuates between funny and disgusting. And it makes me glad Biden is now POTUS. YMMV

He titles it Fox News: 20 minutes of contradictions.

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12 and 14 year olds in shootout with police

Girl and boy, armed with AK-47, arrested following shootout with police in the United States

Quote:

Two children in Florida ran away from a group home, broke into a house and engaged in a shootout with police, authorities say. The 12-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl found guns inside a home they broke into in the town of Enterprise and fired on sheriff's deputies, the Volusia County sheriff's office said in a statement. The girl was shot and wounded after she pointed a shotgun at deputies. "The 12-year-old boy, armed with an AK-47, finally put down his weapon shortly thereafter and was not injured," the sheriff's statement said.

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AE911Truth pressures NIST for decision on WTC 7 report

Seems that AE911 want to sue NIST

Quote:

AE911Truth, together with ten 9/11 family members and 88 architects and structural engineers, appealed NIST’s initial decision on the request for correction on September 28, 2020 — more than eight months ago. Per NIST’s policy, the agency usually responds to appeals within 60 days.

Here is the request in PDF

Not sure what they are talking about here.

Quote:

The Requestors’ Appeal, and their Request for Correction, clearly show, contrary to NIST’s Initial Decision, that the NIST WTC 7 Report’s conclusion and rationale that the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11 was due to fires and not the use of explosives and incendiaries was more than just wrong

Where is the proof of explosives? Just saying it, does not make it so

Quote:

Requester’s Appeal, and their Request for Correction, clearly establish that the NIST WTC 7 Report was so factually inaccurate, methodologically unreliable, scientifically unsound, illogical, and biased that it blatantly violated NIST’s IQS requirements of objectivity, utility, transparency, and reproducibility.

So we can scratch their report also, talking about being bias.

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Girl pushes bear off a fence/wall to save her dogs.

And it's caught on video

She doesn't recommend anyone else to be as foolish as she thinks she was. I think she was damn smart to see the bear might be pushed off the wall.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

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China reports human case of H10N3 bird flu, a possible first

The Chinese government says a 41-year-old man has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but that the risk of large-scale spread is low. China's National Health Commission said the man is in stable condition.

https://apnews.com/article/china-bir...470abf30432289

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