“D’arville said they spoke to a detective but were told no laws were broken because they were on the shooter’s property.”
The reports said police couldn’t determine if a crime was committed by anyone involved, and said each party appeared “justified in their actions based on the circumstances they perceived.”
Just another “he shot, she said” situation. Whatcha gonna do? 
I somehow doubt that’s true, as even the stupid stand your ground laws require a credible threat.
But even so, if shooting at someone who doesn’t present a threat isn’t illegal in your state, your laws suck and you should get new ones.
Spoiler alert: NYC isn’t the danger zone. But we all knew that.
Ralph Lauren?
But I don’t see any Karens?
Archived version, for those who need it:
There’s no national drinking age law. There’s an Act that says that if your state’s drinking age isn’t 21, you don’t get federal money for highway construction and maintenance. That’s why Louisiana highways were so shitty in the 1980s and early 1990s.
https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/the-1984-national-minimum-drinking-age-act
The first time I ever legally drank it was in NOLA in the 90s…
A sobering look at the situation from your friends upstairs:
The statistics about trust are especially telling. I definitely noticed that living there. Everyone is afraid of their neighbours.
This seems like a good article for the history topic, too. Americans who only think about this issue along state or partisan lines could learn from this. It might also be useful for allies from other countries who wonder why folks in the US have been struggling for so long to find lasting solutions.
I can see some value in thinking of the country along those lines - but I think it is also leaving out far too much… Like the deep south there is only defined by the ruling class? I’m wondering if that is still playing into the definition of southern culture that only gives voice to white southerners…
That gave me a flashback to some interviews with folks who were told that the GOP wants to rule, not govern. They didn’t seem to care if the ruler/dictator was someone they approved of, like 45. I looked at that as not being defined by that class, but more likely to accept leadership from that class than areas that push back against it. It makes me want to cross-reference this with voter disenfranchisement actions (and resistance) in each area, as well as the breakdown of wealth among pols, which gets overlooked too often.
White, conservative Southerners. The South has historically had very strong labour movements, and part of the legacy of the redneck stereotype is a kind of historical revisionism that erases the Left there - a myth that suits US politicians generally.
Yep, this too… I think maybe the author is getting at something important about the “ruling class” in each area, but culture isn’t quite so cut and dry in how it impacts larger society. Much of our mass culture (that is national and global) is derived directly from working class peoples, especially working class Black peoples, generally speaking from the deep south areas. And that’s gonna have an impact on how people understand themselves…
And of course, not just that, but also there has never been a time when Black Americans of all classes have not been fighting back against their oppression here, and influencing our cultural norms as well.
So I think there might be something to this breaking up of cultures in the way that he has it - but these cultures are never stable or uniform as he would have it… if you were to map out things like race and labor movements, you’ll likely get a whole different cultural breakdown that has also shaped US history and regional politics in vastly different ways.
Officer Lina Mino is suing Texas Police Trainers and its CEO and owner, Janice Washington. Mino was shot during an active shooter training course held by the company last November, blinding her in her left eye and leaving her with a brain injury due to the bullet traveling through her brain and exiting through her skull above her left ear, the suit states.
Texas Police Trainers – holding itself out as a “one-stop-shop” that helps “ensure our law enforcement community are highly trained” – violated the most basic safety rules that led to Lina’s permanent eye loss and brain injury," the suit’s introduction reads.
The training course was held Nov. 5, 2022 at David K. Sellars Elementary School and instructed by Paul Gaumond. Mino was shot by another student in the course, also a law enforcement member, who carried a firearm loaded with real ammunition into the training area, the suit detailed.
Forest Hill police said at the time of the accident that this wasn’t a live-fire training and that they don’t know how a loaded weapon was introduced.
The suit states Mino had to undergo brain surgery to remove the bullet fragments and argues that her injuries were caused by the negligence and gross negligence of Texas Police Trainers and Washington.
Totally voluntary, they say. Could help, they say.
