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A melange of thoughts
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That's better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... from the #BBC re. positive news. It would be great to see a weekly feature sharing more of these to shine a light in the darkness of negative news we get every day. Or maybe something for @theguardian.com to think about, along Blind date and How we met?
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Disappointed to see the #BBC decided to change the headline to something much less optimistic, now burying the stranger kindness in the article www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... Then they complain and report people no longer reading the news because it's too negative 🙄
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Mas já estão tanto contando que não vai ser preso, que já estão até mexendo os pauzinhos ué
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Pra você também 🙂
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Putz daí sim, não vale mesmo! 🤦♀️
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Mas não é boato não noticias.uol.com.br/internaciona...
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Muito dinheiro e pouco juízo de quem compra.
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I really don't like being told off, worse yet in front of other people. I try to work on what they call resilience, and growing a thick skin, but I wonder if I should keep being subjected to this treatment and I'm the one who has to change? 🤔
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Had yogurt and mixed nuts for breakfast, leftovers for lunch, and it'll be homecooked salmon pasta for dinner. Hope you find something to open your appetite soon!
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Of course I welcome and appreciate a review, possibly a better outcome that will save lives, but it's the linking to the tragic news that it is too late for a celebrity that eeks me. It makes me feel like the many young males suffering and dying from prostate cancer didn't really matter.
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What happened, and why do we have to take sides? I feel really sorry for a life that ended like that, the POs involved on the day and the one making such hard decision at that moment. And this is how I read the letter in the original post to start with.
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On the point on how the community reacted at the time, I believe a lot is driven by sadness, grief, fear, frustration and more complexities of just labelling him a good or a bad guy. I'm sure a lot of people would have loved him or not even known him and still be allowed to feel appealed by 🧵
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For the jury to decide that. They could have as easily gone the other way depending on the evidence presented. As a society, it is important that these processes are followed. The police should never be free to just kill people without having to face a jury to decide if it was lawful or not. 🧵
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You'll find that the political pressure was actually the opposite, as the gvmt at the time was pressing for charges to be dropped.
In law though, you can't only say that by seeing scenes of someone getting killed amounts to 'obviously' not being murder. You have to go through a trial and it's 🧵
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I believe it is more complex than that, and the police force should treat it like that too. But maybe something we need to agree to disagree as I find it it will be difficult for you to convince me otherwise and vice versa.
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I recognise and appreciate the police in UK rarely ever shoot anyone, and even less after this happened. It shows progress maybe because of this fateful day, but I'd still like to it becoming the UK police *never* shoot anyone. It might be utopia, but I think is attainable.
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Some might be, but I for one am not venerating Chris. And I didn't get Bell was trying to either. The point, for me, is that the PF should be better prepared in dealing with crime than shooting on spot. The PO got fair treatment in a fair trial, as it should be. What do you mean he should have got?
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The UK can and must do better to train officers not just to know how well to shoot. But also when, where and to take actions to avoid it.
I'd like to think this is never the only way to deal with suspects and those involved in crime. There should always be a different way that preserves life.
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In understand, the police officer would have been scared and had the best intentions in that fateful moment. But I come from a place where police killings hardly make the news anymore, and know the dangers of that kind of power given to them. 🧵
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Let us know what you thought! ☺️
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You'll know more than I do in terms of comparing it to other seasons as I am a relative new fan having watched only since after COVID 😳
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Which is fine, it's just that this year it feels differently to me, and the commenting is not matching the scoring. 🙂↔️
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I'm sure the feud is fake and for our benefit
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Ok, I might start watching as pantomime and see if it annoys me a little less. I just think that after a standing ovation to Chris and all that feedback, it had to be a 10, or it really feels like patronising. Same with Toyah...