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Hi everyone. I'm Michelle Burrows, a civil rights attorney based out of Portland, Oregon. I've spent the last 30 years suing police, police departments, and the prison systems for widespread abuse of people and misuse of power.

I'm well known for cases like Anstett v. State of Oregon, a prisoner class action for the non-treatment of Hepatitis C in the Oregon prison system. As a result, we entered into a stipulated agreement which enforced new standards and protocols for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Hep C in the prison systems. The outcome also included a multi-year monitoring system with a federal supervisory judge to verify that the parties followed through.

Another important landmark case for Oregon was Kaady v. City of Sandy and Clackamas County. Where two officers tazed and shot Mr. Fouad Kaady in the back multiple times while he was naked, covered in third degree burns, and looking for help after his car caught fire through mechanical failure. The law firm of Ge

Maybe it's because my expectations were so beaten down from reviews and reddit, but I genuinely enjoyed this show. I found myself laughing aloud more than I expected from so many "mediocre at best" reviews. More so, I liked the characters and found myself really rooting for them to succeed.

For any of you folks on the fence, I recommend giving it a shot. It's not The Office or a laugh track sitcom. It's a little absurd at some points for the sake of comedy. But based on how I feel about our actual government these days, just about everything is believable (to a point).

SPACE FORCE has a lot of the same humor as Dr. Strangelove or Catch 22 or any other sort of military satire you can think of. Greg Daniels and Steve Carrell really decided to take the Netflix money and go HAM with it and I thought it was an interesting show.

The mega-critical backlash though kind of baffles me. Again, why would you take Netflix money and recreate a broadcast network sitcom? THE OFFICE in space also sounds like a mega-cringey idea. I have to imagine everyone was expecting Naird to be Michael Scott but I loved we got this deeply complex and flawed guy just trying to do his best without being a complete nincompoop or whatever Flanderized hell would have popped up.

idk just my two cents. im sure there are dozens of us that feel the same way.

So this weekend I just moved into my girlfriends flat so that we can spend the rest of lockdown together.

We celebrated by going to this beautiful oasis, lake type thing. The water is serene and clear. It’s deceptive. We decided to go for a swim and there’s this small island in the center of it, so we decided to go for it.

The water wasn’t too deep but it got to a point where I couldn’t touch the floor. I’m quite a confident swimmer but haven’t been swimming for ages and ages. That was my mistake.

Everything was fine until my girlfriend was in front of me and the gap was ever increasing. I realised I couldn’t touch the floor and felt the seaweed wrapping around my feet. At this point I panicked. I’ve never really had a panic attack before, but this was certainly it, in the middle of an oasis, where I couldn’t touch the floor.

I tried dunking under swimming but felt my legs start to give up on me. But my fight or flight responses were kicking in. We were getting closer to the islan

I normally have good interactions with police and always have been helped if needed. Over the years I wanted to help others and ensure folks felt safe thus I wanted to be an officer. I know many officers and always felt they were good people. So I decided to test and apply to agencies.

Last night I witnessed police fire CS upon a rather peaceful crowd. I helped as many as I could and then went down an alley where people who got sprayed were at. As I was helping an individual a cop on a bike looked me in the eyes and shot CS at us. People were sitting there in pain while we tried to help them and the police fired at “wounded” people who were out of the way.

The police held no regard for these people who were already down. I now found my self this morning actively dodging police on the sidewalks.

I’m strongly concerned now about my path in life, I want to be a backcountry rescue deputy of sorts but if this is how all agencies are then I never want to join forces with those who thi

The images on Sky show a line of about 20 police officers in front of crowds of thousands..

No weapons

No riot gear

No provoking the crowd

That in itself speaks volumes about the difference between our country and the USA. We are seeing militarized police over there attacking protesters and making tensions so much worse.

Whilst I understand why there are protests here in the UK. I can also appreciate how our police are handling it.

Edit:

Unfortunately the protesters got violent, but our police have still been calm and avoided any excessive force.

Pic for those interested

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