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Thursday, July 30, 2020

the bus driver's dilemma

This is probably beating a dead horse.  But when we were discussing the McDonald case the ex-cop alluded to photographs that showed that the shooting was justified.  He said a photo could show more than video which I found doubtful because a photo has less, not more, information, but I didn't say anything.  

In the interest of fair play this morning I googled photographs of Laquan McDonald and came across this:
https://www.wbez.org/stories/city-records-show-detectives-used-video-to-craft-laquan-mcdonald-narrative/1398279d-23d5-4e3c-be0f-5834d9f07b35  It's just an item that shows how the cops were coached to give a different version of the story, So not only did the cops lie about it, but they were coached to do so by their higher-ups.  I am just putting this in this morning because I had the link and did not want to lose it.


Here's a thing.  Consider you are a school bus driver and one of your fellow drivers has a crash and whiskey bottles are found under the bus driver seat but the school board decides not to give him a breathalyzer test, and in fact proclaims that it will never give one of its drivers such a test.  As a sober driver yourself this is likely to piss you off because now the general public will think you are all a bunch of drunks.  Since you don't drink and drive you don't want to be tarred by this brush, so you would be all for giving all bus drivers who have accidents a breathalyzer test.

But wait.  You get together with your fellow drivers and one of them opines that the guy was framed, and that these breathalyzer tests, sometimes they give a false positive.  Well shit, what if you had a fender bender and the test returned a false positive?  You would be up shit's creek.  So maybe when the issue came up at the next school bus driver's meeting you would be against giving breathalyzer tests after accidents.

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