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[Ploid]

I just read about this, dude should get sued and pay for those people a new awesome house/location/life. How about 10mil!

[ItsSeflol]

You tards, that's not the worst part about this.
"A giant mistake but at least Spike has apologized."
He fucking tweeted his apology (as far as we and the article author know).
That's what's wrong with this. He ruined peoples lives temporarily and the person who wrote the article thinks all is okay because he tweeted he's sorry.
Are you fucking kidding me?

[Ploid]

Early ads pulled for 'Neighborhood Watch' film
Updated: Tuesday, 27 Mar 2012, 9:21 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 27 Mar 2012, 9:21 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) - Twentieth Century Fox has pulled early promotional materials for its comedy "Neighborhood Watch" in light of the Trayvon Martin shooting.

The studio said Tuesday that early "teaser" trailer and in-theater posters have been removed from Florida theaters and will soon be phased out nationally. The film stars Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn as suburban dads who become neighborhood watch volunteers and eventually battle aliens.

Fox stressed in a statement that the film "bears absolutely no relation to the tragic events in Florida," and said the company is "very sensitive to the Trayvon Martin case." The film is set for release in July.

Last month, the unarmed, 17-year-old Martin was fatally shot in Sanford, Fla., by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, causing a national firestorm and demands for Zimmerman's arrest.

Bad timing on that movie Ben! Maybe everything will be done with in a few months, but the marketing should be picking up now. Maybe it won't be that bad since this can kinda advertise the movie in a no publicity is bad publicity kinda way.

[ItsSeflol]

This is gunna fall under the 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' column.

[Yorke]

Not to sound dismissive, but stuff like this happens all the damn time. It's not national news normally, no idea what made this such a big deal.

[ItsSeflol]

Black history month.

[Ploid]

I think it first started going viral when they tried to get the police to release the 911 calls to the family. After pressure to release them from the media they finally did. The 911 calls contained a lot of shady stuff.

Turns Zimm thought the guy was a robber, and up to no good (he was on the way back from the store). He went after him. Turns out the person he killed only had snacks on him. Possible that anyone's kid could have been killed that night. Oh noes.

After Zimm updated his face book to show a picture of himself with a black person as his friend (because his 911 call made it seem like he was into confronting the dead buy because he was black and had a sweater with a hoodie).

Black co worker stands up for Zimm (recently it was found out that this guy's words were lies).

Father stands up for Zimm (more lies revealed recently). Father just did a interview saying his son got beat up pretty bad and a lot of strange movie bad guy phrases were said by the dead guy before his son had to shoot him. And on the same day a police surveillance cam shows that Zimm looks perfectly fine.
Father interview > http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/tr ... -interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5OiLQjUcOU <surveillance footage on the night of the murder.

Witness weren't asked for information, there was no real investigation at the crime scene. Little effort in anything other than getting the former Judge's son on his way home, correcting witnesses, and more shady stuff.

This is pretty much a crime drama. CSI stuff with cops or persecutors covering their faults along the way.

tl;dnr The family of the dead boy fought for answers of why their son was killed, and fought harder because they weren't given answers. Then the guy that killed him is free, was a neighborhood watch, and his father was a judge (which may be why people are helping him out).

This guy in the suit looks silly.


Black history month, sef as always, horrible jokes, wit, or whatever you're going for.

[ItsSeflol]

I originally had "black history month layover" because I thought it was at the beginning of the month. BHM + layover made it hilarious, then I found out it was last month which just made it eh.

[Ploid]

Canadian arrested for intoxication sings Bohemian Rhapsody in back of squad car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNstHBFy5d0&hd=1

Freddy Mercury would have been proud — or maybe not.

Video captured by a dashcam inside a Royal Canadian Mounted Police vehicle shows an unidentified man, picked up for allegedly being drunk, perform a flawless rendition of Queen's famed, "Bohemian Rhapsody."

The video, posted on YouTube, starts with the man arguing that he didn't deserve to be taken into custody.

"I have done nothing wrong," he slurs, then denies being "intoxicated."

The bearded man then belts out "Bohemian Rhapsody," remembering every word and beat.

Not charged for having confessed to killing a person luckily (the song).

[Dhiloda]

Not charged for having confessed to killing a person luckily (the song).

That would have been funny.

[Ploid]

This is such a stinking mess.

http://www.thegrio.com/specials/trayvon ... p#46882946

Sanford police chief, state attorney made Zimmerman 'no charge' call in person

A source with knowledge of the investigation into the shooting of Trayvon Martin tells theGrio that it was then Sanford police chief Bill Lee, along with Capt. Robert O'Connor, the investigations supervisor, who made the decision to release George Zimmerman on the night of February 26th, after consulting with State Attorney Norman Wolfinger -- in person.

Wolfinger's presence at the scene or at the police department in the night of a shooting would be unusual, according to the source. On a typical case, police contact the state attorney's office and speak with an on duty assistant state attorney; they either discuss the matter by phone or the on duty assistant state attorney comes to the crime scene - but rarely the state attorney him or herself.

A spokesman for the Sanford police department confirmed that Lee and O'Connor went to the shooting scene that night. Sgt. Dave Morgenstern said that is typical for a homicide case, particularly in for someone like O'Connor, who was hired by Lee last year to oversee all criminal investigations for the department.

ABC News reported Tuesday that, after questioning Zimmerman at the Sanford police station, homicide investigator Chris Serino filed an affidavit February 26th stating that he did not believe Zimmerman's account of the shooting. He recommended charging the 28-year-old with manslaughter, but was advised by Wolfinger's office that there wasn't enough evidence to secure a conviction. Zimmerman was subsequently released.

What was not stated was that, on the night of the killing, Wolfinger may have traveled to either the scene of the shooting or the police station to discuss the case with Lee and O'Connor, who was briefly named interim "co-chief" with the current acting chief, Darren Scott, when Lee announced he would step down temporarily last week.

In this case, the source says investigators spoke to the on-duty assistant state attorney -- an unidentified woman -- who did not come to the scene, but that Wolfinger did.

And according to the source, after a conversation between Lee, O'Connor and Wolfinger, the decision was made to "cut Zimmerman loose."

Sanford police initially turned the case over to Wolfinger's office more than a week ago, and at no time did Wolfinger indicate he had already reviewed it. Lee has stood by the investigation, saying that officers lacked sufficient evidence to arrest Zimmerman.

Wolfinger recused himself from the case last week, stating in a letter to Florida Governor Rick Scott that he was requesting the case be reassigned "to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest." Florida Gov. Rick Scott and state attorney general Pam Bondi appointed Duval County state attorney Angela Corey to act as a special prosecutor in the case.

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ABC exclusive http://abcnews.go.com/US/trayvon-martin ... d=15959017

ABC News was there exclusively as the 16-year-old girl told Crump about the last moments of the teenager's life. Martin had been talking to his girlfriend all the way to the store where he bought Skittles and a tea. The phone was in his pocket and the earphone in his ear, Crump said.

"He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man," Martin's friend said. "I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run, but he said he was not going to run."

Eventually, he would run, said the girl, thinking that he'd managed to escape. But suddenly the strange man was back, cornering Martin.

"Trayvon said, 'What are you following me for,' and the man said, 'What are you doing here.' Next thing I hear is somebody pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again, and he didn't answer the phone."

The line went dead. Besides screams heard on 911 calls that night as Martin and Zimmerman scuffled, those were the last words he said.

Trayvon's phone logs, also obtained exclusively by ABC News, show the conversation occurred five minutes before police first arrived on the scene.

[Ploid]

Wind Map, US only. So looks like I can let out my canopy umbrella today.
http://hint.fm/wind/

[Ploid]

68-Year Old Ex-Marine Shot After Accidentally Triggering His Medical Alert System

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyreg ... tions.html

The niece stood in the darkened stairwell of the Winbrook Houses, listening, as 20 feet away five police officers yelled at her uncle, who had locked himself in his apartment.

It was 5:25 on a chill November morning. The officers banged loud and hard, demanding that her 68-year-old uncle open his door.

“He was begging them to leave him alone,” she recalls. “He sounded scared.” She pulls her shawl about her shoulders and her voice cracks; she is speaking for the first time about what she saw. “I heard my uncle yelling, ‘Officers, officers, why do you have your guns out?’ ”

The string of events that night sounds prosaic, a who-cares accumulation of little mistakes and misapprehensions. Cumulatively, though, it is like tumbling down the stairs. Somehow the uncle, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a former Marine who had heart problems and wheezed if he walked more than 40 feet, triggered his medical alert system pendant. The system operator came on the loudspeaker in his one-bedroom apartment, asking: “Mr. Chamberlain, are you O.K.?” All of this is recorded.

Mr. Chamberlain didn’t respond. So the operator signaled for an ambulance. Police patrol cars fell in behind — standard operating procedure in towns across America. Except an hour later, even as Mr. Chamberlain insisted he was in good health, the police had snapped the locks on the apartment door.

They fired electric charges from Tasers, and beanbags from shotguns. Then they said they saw Mr. Chamberlain grab a knife, and an officer fired his handgun.

Boom! Boom! Mr. Chamberlain’s niece Tonyia Greenhill, who lives upstairs, recalls the echoes ricocheting about the hall. She pushed out a back door and ran into the darkness beneath overarching oaks. He lay on the floor near his kitchen, two bullet holes in his chest, blood pooling thick, dying.

It makes sense to be humble in the presence of conflicting accounts. The White Plains public safety commissioner declared this a “warranted use of deadly force”; the shooter was later put on modified assignment. Mr. Chamberlain, in the commissioner’s telling, had withstood electric charges, grabbed a butcher knife and charged the officers.

The alert system phone in Mr. Chamberlain’s apartment recorded most of the standoff, as did a security camera in the hall. And the officers’ Tasers carried video recorders.

Last month, the Westchester County district attorney played these for the dead man’s son, Kenneth Chamberlain Jr., who teaches martial arts for a local nonprofit organization and intends to file a lawsuit. He is lithe, with a shaved head, and takes pride in a reasoned manner. “My family, we’re not into histrionics,” he says. “We don’t run down the street inciting riot.”

His voice cracks, though, as he describes the tapes. “I heard fear,” he says. “In my 45 years on this earth, I never heard my father sound like that.”

The district attorney will present the case to a grand jury and has not released transcripts. But the family’s recollection matches that of neighbors who listened through closed doors.

They say officers taunted Mr. Chamberlain. He shouted: “Semper fi,” the Marine Corps motto. The police answered with loud shouts of “Hoo-rah!” Another officer, the niece says, said he wanted to pee in Mr. Chamberlain’s bathroom.

Someone, the niece and neighbors say, yelled a racial epithet at the door. Black and white officers were present.

Kenny Randolph listened from his apartment across the hall. “They put fear in his heart,” he says. “It wasn’t a crime scene until they made it one.”

The police say Mr. Chamberlain was “known” to them, although it appears he had not been convicted of a crime. There are intimations that he wrestled with emotional issues. Sometimes, neighbors say, he talked to himself. Who’s to say? As often, life’s default position is set to “complicated.”

Many police departments have trained corps of officers expert in talking with the emotionally upset. Their rule of thumb: talk quietly and de-escalate. That night in White Plains, no one appeared to have de-escalated anything.

Mr. Chamberlain sounded spooked. His son recalls hearing his father say on tape: “This is my sworn testimony. White Plains officers are coming in here to kill me.” A few minutes later, a bullet tore through his rib and heart. The ambulance took him to White Plains Hospital, where he soon died.

[ItsSeflol]

WHERE ARE THE BOLDED PARTS

[Ploid]

TL;DNR

Cops:
Respond to a 68-year old's medical alert system...leave the guy dead by shooting him in the chest twice
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These situations just can't get covered up and tossed under the rug like they used to. Anyone who's done enough reading or had enough experiences will tell you about the Blue Code of Silence. But it's breaking down more and more as social media and other things spotlight the ever pervasive corruption in police departments.

This is why stories are probably getting a ton of attention now.

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[Dhiloda]

Uses for the intranet:

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You left out the most important:

PORN!

[ItsSeflol]

Uses for the intranet:

Cooking recipes
Emai... facebook/keeping in touch
Amazon.com
Exposing dirty cops/oppressive regimes/authority

You left out the most important:

PORN!

He was being subliminal aboot it.

[Bodycount]

Canada abolishing penny
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... a78979.DTL
Doesn't apply to debit/credit transactions, so if you pay cash it's all going to be rounded up

[Ploid]

You don't realize how useful a penny is until it's gone

[ItsSeflol]

Wilt Chamberlain would not be impressed.
If anyone gets that joke and can tell me why Ill send you something in the mail.