I don’t approve of using a taser on a student for asking a question that annoyed you. Especially when he’s at a political event, at a microphone, asking his question like anyone else would. And especially when people are screaming, “Please stop!”
I don’t approve of calling a tennis shoe on someone’s foot a “deadly weapon” or calling a fight between students “attempted murder”. Especially when the alleged criminals are black teenagers who got in a fight with a white student over racial tensions. And especially when some of those racial tensions began with white kids stringing nooses from a tree to intimidate black kids who had stepped “out of line.” And especially when this did not happen in 1963, nor is it a plot from a John Grisham novel or a Denzel Washington film.
I don’t approve of cheating. Or people who defend cheaters.
I don’t approve of killing both your brother-in-law and father-in-law*. Especially if you kill them over a TV remote control. Even if that’s actually really hilarious. (Apart from it being awful, of course.)
I don’t approve of O.J. Simpson.
*For the record, I don’t approve of killing anyone.
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You’re right, tennis shoes aren’t too dangerous, as evidenced by this story from Chicago 2-15-07:
A Kane County coroner’s inquest revealed Wednesday that a 42-year-old woman likely was stomped to death in her bedroom on Christmas Eve.
Maria Guadalupe Gomez Cid had come to Aurora from Mexico about six months before. She was found dead by her son in the basement bedroom of her home in the 900 block of Fulton Street at 6:59 a.m. Dec. 24, 2006.
When coroner’s deputies arrived, they determined that she had trauma to her neck, chest and face, according to testimony at the inquest.
Deputy Coroner Lisa Gilbert said Gomez Cid had been stomped to death. The coroner’s jury ruled her death a homicide.
Gomez Cid was last seen by family members around midnight drinking with her boyfriend, Joel Enriquez, 33, early on the morning of Christmas Eve. Enriquez has not been seen by family, friends or police since Gomez Cid was found dead.
The investigation is considered open, and anyone with information is urged to call Aurora police at (630) 801-6662 or Aurora Area CrimeStoppers at (630) 892-1000.
Gomez Cid, a stacker in a warehouse, came to Aurora with her four children and Enriquez in June, her sister said Wednesday.