You tell me he's not bracing for riots.

That's exactly what they are doing.

Yup. It sounds from what I've been reading that the grand jury could rule this week, at which point the prosecutor said he will release the video, and then all kinds of hell will break loose. This is the third black man killed by police in Cincinnati this summer.

I have a muscle spasm in my left shoulder blade area and I hate it.

I also have a very moody teen who is not pleased that he has lost data privileges on his phone and will have very limited screen time starting tomorrow.

I also have wine.

As I recall, I like baked beans. Though that's a lot of carbs.

Alton Brown's recipe is excellent, and I usually make them for our Father's Day brunch. So, there are a lot of eggs to balance out the carbs.

Yay wine?

I was married to a police office for years, and I have known many fine officers. In some of these recent cases, I have had sympathy for the officers' positions. One thing I have found peculiar, however, is what seems to be a strange uptick in officers shooting people because they said the person was trying to run over them. Cars are very limited as weapons. Unless you're cornered in a parking garage, just dodge the damn car.

-t, those are gorgeous ballerina flats, and you should buy them because I can't right now.

So, there are a lot of eggs to balance out the carbs.

Lot of fiber in beans, too. Hey, I have baked beans in the cupboard!

My plan to spend the week eating the rest of whatever is in the pantry/fridge is not going all that well, mainly because I never restocked after the last time I did this. There's actually not much in the kitchen. So at least I've stuck with the overarching plan of not buying more food than I really will eat.

I don't need to be browsing shoe sales, but these are awfully cute [link]= I'm not at all sure about ballerina flats, though.

Those come in my size too.

You people are determined to make me buy Fluevogs, aren't you?

There was a shooting death of a white female teenager in Northern Kentucky in the last couple of years that was a "she tried to run over me" situation. The officer was not charged, IIRC.

I have every sympathy for the Cincinnati police chief. There have been a LOT of non-police involved shootings in the city this summer, and the mayor tried to throw him under the bus, and then there was the police shooting of a man in Northside, and then an officer was shot and killed (and the killer was in turn killed by police), and by this point the chief is probably like, "And now this fool campus police officer who is not even my cop kills someone for no reason and we're facing riots. Why the fuck did I even go into police work."

Yeah. That's pretty much where I landed, too, zen. I'd cleared the fridge and pantry before this last trip, so here were even a good number of staples gone low.

by this point the chief is probably like, "And now this fool campus police officer who is not even my cop kills someone for no reason and we're facing riots. Why the fuck did I even go into police work."

Seriously. I agree with you -- I feel really bad for the police chief. Particularly because Cranley tried to throw him under the bus. (I am really regretting voting for Cranley, I tell you what.)

And it's also so humid right now that the entire outdoors smells funkybad.