Randaconda posted:

https://i.imgur.com/dFJXPJO.mp4

Randaconda posted:

https://i.imgur.com/9CWyd1k.mp4

Mu Zeta posted:

Everyone pretty much knew that would happen. It's corrupt as gently caress with maybe a handful of people making huge profits.

Randaconda posted:

https://i.imgur.com/dFJXPJO.mp4

quote:

The mayor ... urged Officer Noor to speak to the BCA but conceded he could not be compelled to do so.

"We can't force the officer to make a statement but I wish that he would," she said.

Memento posted:

Fireworks may have startled Justine Damond's killer, US police officer Mohamed Noor


The schadenfreude is on the entire non-Police world that you can't make a police officer, who shot an unarmed person because they were possibly startled by fireworks, make a statement about it.

alternate take: Poor Piggles, thought of fireworks and killed.

Lime Tonics posted:

So, the olympics,

The Rio Olympics continue to be an example of why more and more cities are wary of hosting the games.

Rio 2016 has essentially become a financial disaster, with the games costing $13 billion in a mix of private and public money, according to a June Associated Press report.

Much of the Olympic infrastructure is abandoned or underused, including the $700 million athletes village that was supposed to be turned into luxury condos once the games were over.

Stephen Wade of the Associated Press recently reported via Twitter that the athletes village was "shuttered" and that only 7% of the condos had been sold.

Other areas aren't in much better shape. The Olympic Park has staged some events but is largely underused and wasn't sold because there was only one bidder, according to the AP report. Wade reported that the Olympic Park was also basically vacant.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rios-700-million-athletes-village-144747686.html

Negrostrike posted:

The schadenfreude is taking the Olympics to third-world shitholes. Not only IOC is a corrupt organization but the Brazilian government manages to be a hundred times more. It's not gonna be the same story in Tokyo, let's be honest.

Say Nothing posted:

Say Nothing posted:

Inco posted:

More cop schadenfreude: any cases involving these three chucklefucks just got a whole lot harder for the prosecution

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/887504546074939393

Grem posted:

I bet there are a lot of cities in America that would want to keep the Olympics away because the creation of a few thousand apartments would destroy their precious housing bubbles.

Dave Grool posted:

The Wire reboot lookin good

Solice Kirsk posted:

Can't make a civilian do that either. You got the right to remain silent.

Memento posted:

Police should be held to a higher standard. And if a civilian shot someone and was refusing to talk, they'd be in remand without bail, so if you're going to apply the same logic to police, that's where this officer should be.

edit: the problem with that video up there showing the cop planting drugs is that now they know that the body cameras capture 30 seconds before activation.

Randaconda posted:

https://i.imgur.com/dFJXPJO.mp4

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

Honestly I'm kind of surprised the Athlete Village in Rio hasn't turned into high rise favelas of some sort.

Chichevache posted:

800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Mega blocks. Mega highways. Mega City One. Convulsing. Choking. Breaking under its own weight. Citizens in fear of the street. The gun. The gang. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the men and women of the Hall of Justice. Juries. Executioners. Judges.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

God drat this bird has some serious rodeo skills.

Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:

The real problem is that police officers have control over when the body cam is and isn't recording.

Negrostrike posted:

The schadenfreude is taking the Olympics to third-world shitholes. Not only IOC is a corrupt organization but the Brazilian government manages to be a hundred times more. It's not gonna be the same story in Tokyo, let's be honest.

Azhais posted:

http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-amazon-ai-designed-phone-cases-fail/

Randaconda posted:

https://i.imgur.com/dFJXPJO.mp4

Azhais posted:

http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-amazon-ai-designed-phone-cases-fail/

Memento posted:

I had a thing typed up about that and decided that I didn't want some pedant jumping down my throat about battery life or extra weight needing to be carried. But you're absolutely right, they should be recording from clock on to clock off and the officers shouldn't have access to their switches.

spog posted:

While I get your point, I'd hate to be in a job where every single thing I did and said throughout my working day were recorded and stored for years.

spog posted:

While I get your point, I'd hate to be in a job where every single thing I did and said throughout my working day were recorded and stored for years.

Not just every time I took a dump and a piss, but every moan, bitch and joke I shared with anyone.

Ak Gara posted:

We've recently had 100 cameras installed all over the facility where I work. I can't even scratch my nuts or pull my underwear out my rear end crack without playing Metal loving Gear Solid trying to find a blind spot. But hey thefts are down!

Sagebrush posted:

The obvious, logical way forwards is to just assign a permanent summer venue and winter venue that the games default to unless some other country really wants to host them instead and applies to do so.

Also, execute every member of the IOC.