I'm'a hide out here. I just blew up a longstanding twitter friendship telling a dude I like most of the time that it's not about whether he's "supposed" to feel guilty "about something", and I'm THIS CLOSE to blowing up about 20 facebook friendships by walking in swinging to a discussion of how if they didn't indict there really must not have been any evidence.

I know she's full of shit. But I guess it's easier for her to just believe what she does. I don't know why. Like the other co worker who had such venom in her voice when she said "He's not the innocent people make him out to be." and "he defied the police".

I'm resolved not to talk about this at work. I'll talk about the upcoming holiday stuff, I'll talk about how 2 employees everyone was excited to hear were leaving aren't and how that sucks (seriously I don't get why they were allowed to stay). But I won't talk aobut this because I can't be calm.

It pisses me off that innocent people are dying at the hands of police over and over and over again all across the United States and it keeps being treated like it's rare or a one time thing. And then there's all the victim blaming.

I'm so glad my Facebook list is generally an echo chamber, because that's all I can handle right now. Any other nonsense I'm either going to hide the posts or unfriend.

My sister recommended Key & Peele without context. C'est quoi ca?

I am ignoring the verdict.

NO ONE IS GOING TO HIRE ME THIS WEEK. I almost drove to Torrance for a 4pm interview today. Shit, I'd have to move...they were going to make the call this week.

And tomorrow I nag the other recruiter about the nearby job.

I'm so angry about the decision--it should have gone to trial, even if he was eventually going to be acquitted, but more violence is not the answer. The BF is listening to the scanner, and the crowd is firing shots at the fire station and trying to tip over an ambulance with a crew inside working on a cardiac arrest patient. I don't get it. How does this help?

Key & Peele are a comedy duo, and well worth watching. I'm surprised you hadn't heard of them given your comedy pedigree.

I hadn't heard about the verdict because I spent the day working or cleaning. I wish I had it in me to feel something more productive than anger and frustration.

A lot of the crowd violence is in response to police violence. They tear gas indiscriminately and use flash brigades against peaceful protestors. So some people take advantage and turn to useless violence. But the chaos in which that occurs is a fucking police riot. The police are not responding to chaos. They are creating chaos. They intended a beat down after the verdict from the beginning.

Two wrongs do not make a right. Where does it fucking end?

But I won't talk aobut this because I can't be calm.

Sometimes you have to draw those lines, askye. You have to be able to do your job.

I'm not surprise but I am disappointed. At the inevitability, in part.

Maybe it ends when the police are not just another criminal gang under the color of law. I'm not justifying. I'm pointing out the police are the cause, the root of what is happening. Hell for all we know the violence is being led by undercover police. There is plenty of Usa historical precedent. At minimum, tear gassing the peaceful protestors left the field free to the violent ones. That both sides are responsbile does not mean both sides are equally responsible.