StringJunky

You probably never used it before but you knew instinctively that was the right prefix to add, in the context of your post; you understand the rules.

Would there be consequences if the effect preceded the cause?

For once, your sarcasm is perfectly appropriate I would smile brightly at your wit if it were not so sad. That is so not the reaction you want to see from the powers-that-be. A white man just got a kicking by 10 deputies after being tasered, so we can safely say they aren't totally racist.

Given the ubiquity of mobile phones in the last few years, how often have ordinary people filmed police shooting people? I bet most people would film, if they felt safe enough, given the stuff you see on the internet social sites; it's news isn't it? I agree,it wouldn't make a substantial difference and it would likely cause new problems.

Yes, there's a very longstanding India-originated population in the UK and we play cricket against them as well so stuff about India features quite often here. BBC News is very multicultural in its ethos as well, if that's the one you are following.

Sorry. Missed that.

The first fires were probably opportunist ones when bushfires started.

This idea is below stupid; don't you think the majority of homeless people are vulnerable to enough threat-types without being seen as a snoop as well?

The Kings' new clothes are made of it.

How would it have played out if it was a white bloke doing that?

I think the officer can use reasonable force to apprehend him which could mean striking him with his baton to bring him down. I think the point is the situation needs to escalate in proportion before lethal force is used. He could have just tracked him until assistance came. This is from the UK government site on arrest powers:

He could have radioed for assistance as he went after him and then his colleagues could head him off; there is no 'I' in team, which is what a police force is.

This is the best; no electricity needed so you are not tied to a plug socket.

If you want psychology with a strong footing in neuroscience then Biopsychology by JJ Pinel is great and very accessible to a beginner, like me, but really geared to a degree. Not cheap though. On the Quantum Physics side QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman is a a good read and cheap as a paperback.

I can't keep up with the discoveries; everyday something new popping up. People generally only notice the stuff that has commercial application or seeks to answer the 'big questions'.

Nice acoustic version of Floyds' Breathe.

Yes, i think she'll likely start to communicate her wishes eventually in the next few months as she becomes properly talkative. She also seems like a 'Mummys' girl', for now, so it's not necessarily unusual that she isn't wanting her Dad, or anyone else, at the moment when she's upset.

If she has no physical problems she may be crying because it works.

NIMBY!

Unreal. Americans with guns is like heroin to a drug addict.I know it's not all Americans but they are the influential consensus that keep things as they are.

No such thing because that implies a confidence level of 100% If a model works under all known conditions that's about the very best basis you can get, I think.

Yes, it seems that way. What's it going to take to get that critical mass of opinion.

That's your law training showing. Is it murder? If this was under British jurisdiction.

That will be the taser won't it?I don't know how I missed reading iNows' post. When you look at the two photos, a copper with a gun visible doesn't feel like they are protecting the public first and they don't look approachable. The UKs armed officers shoot to kill though ...no half-measures.

The taser got slung in the initial struggle and not near where he fell, didn't.it? If that copper didn't have a gun, he would have run after him which he should have done. What's wrong really is, it seems, that the gun is the first resort and not the last in a US policemans' arresting repertoire. A baton/truncheon should have been ok in that situation to manage it, if needed.