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The newest "It Gets Better" video comes to us care of the San Francisco Police Department, the nation's first law enforcement agency to join the viral video campaign geared toward LGBT youth. In the video, officers in uniform open up about the struggles of coming out as a cop. "I was a police officer for four years and believed I was the only gay male police officer in the world," one admits. Others reassure viewers that leaving the closet can be easier than it seems: "I think it was harder for me to tell my mom than it was for my mom to hear what I had to say," a female officer says. More »
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Actress Ellen Barkin got into a bit of a tangle with the NYPD on New Year's Eve. She was walking in her Manhattan neighborhood with her boyfriend, Sam Levinson, when she says the cops were arresting people who weren't doing anything illegal. She saw one girl who she says was getting randomly arrested and tried to intervene. At that point, Barkin said on Twitter, one of the officers pushed her: More »
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The good news is that across the country, police are putting their feet down and raising their voices in support of civil rights. They're standing against the tyranny of the government retaining DNA records of citizens when those people aren't being investigated for a crime. The bad news is that they only actually care about the rights of themselves and other police officers. Fuck all of you privacy-wanting jokers. More »
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Recent months have brought a spate of stories about sexual misconduct by both police officers and teachers. Are authority figures crossing the line more frequently, or are we just starting to notice? More »
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A Seattle police officer clocked a 17-year-old girl after spotting her and her friends jaywalking. The girls were "verbally antagonistic toward the officer," things escalated...and so the punch was warranted, you know? Oh, and it was caught on video. Fun. More »
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• A former policeman from Connecticut has been charged with raping his brother's girlfriend by impersonating his twin. The victim was initially fooled, but noticed during the rape that he lacked a tattoo. She says Rohrig continued the assualt. •  More »
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It's COPS...meets LOL Cats! [Vimeo] More »
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Maybe it's because Judge Judy worked in the NYC Family Court system for years and years that she's particularly sympathetic to other municipal workers, like the plaintiff in this clip. He's a cop who pulled over the defendant's husband and son, who were going 100 mph in a 50 mph speed zone in their Lotus, attempting to street race with a Corvette. The defendant's wife decided to make trouble for the cop, and filed a complaint against him for "mistreating" her son because he is Hispanic; the cop is suing the woman, claiming the complaint is frivolous, and damaging to his employment record. Judge Judy totally agrees. Listen to the lashing she gives the defendant, her husband, whom JJ refers to as "Mr. Idiot", and their son. More »
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A British woman was arrested in Norway after the police discovered coke under her wig. It seems the Norwegian police have learned to check hair for drugs after that whole Amy WInehouse debacle. • Conservative Virginians are nervous about the popularity of gay marriage, because if it can happen in a conservative stronghold like CA, it can happen anywhere! • Aw, Michelle Obama was "touched" by Laura Bush's defense of her reportedly "anti-American" remarks. • Wonderbra is looking for 1,000 big-breasted British babes to pose for an ad, and their "casting call" ad uses some confusing imagery for boobies. • China translates the names of popular dishes for restaurants to their "American" names during the Olympics, but what if I really wanted "Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman"? • Just throwing this out there, but, fighting a PC battle against a ubiquitous adjective like "crazy" is probably a lost cause. • A trans woman was held down and beaten by two Memphis cops after she objected to being called a "faggot" by one of the cops. One of the cops was fired and the other was suspended. • The US Post Office has released stamps honoring Charles and Ray Eames (you know, those chairs that are always drooled over at Apartment Therapy) the husband-and-wife design team. Dodai notes that Ray Eames was also a filmmaker! • A wedding-crazed couple plans on having five weddings over the space of nine months so their entire family can see them getting married! • Elda Beguinua is being tried for fraud after she pretended to have a $500 million fortune as a Philippine contessa and tried to trick people out of loaning her money. One man was tipped off when he was asked to be her "world ambassador." More »
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]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=343934&view=rss&microfeed=true There's a show called Manswers on Spike TV that answers questions, dispenses trivia, and serves as a how-to guide on all things socially unacceptable. Because it's on Spike TV, a lot of the topics are extremely sexist-sounding — like "Turn Your Girl Into a Stripper" and "Are Women With Fake Boobs Hornier?" — but a lot of the stuff they cover is actually really useful, like how to legally get high or how to cure a hangover. The clip above is a little of both as it tells guys how to tell if a hooker is really a hooker or if she's a cop. More »
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Belgian police sound a lot like the cops in Superbad. Officers patrolling the red light district of Brussels have been ordered to lay off the hookers and booze. "These officers think their duty hours are to be used to drink alcohol in bars, practice sports... visit brothels or massage parlors, and entertain (intimate) relationships with residents of the neighborhood during their patrol," the Belgian police chief wrote in a letter to errant employees. So far, no hedonist policemen have been prosecuted. [Reuters] More »
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