Fables of the reconstruction

My Name is Legion; For We Are Many

Ran across an anti-Scientology protest today in Center City:

 

They were wearing those creepy "V is for Vendetta" masks and handing out the leaflets above. Apparently, the "Anonymous" people who protest Scientology remain anonymous because they claim harassment by the church. I believe it.

One of the protesters had a sign that said, "What Kind of Church Has a Secret Police?", and I thought, "The Catholics, but that's a slightly different story."

Also, considering the source from which "We Are Legion" is derived, it's a strange subhed.

I hope for obvious reasons, no comments on this post.

Gay Scientists Discover Gene for Christianity

Fair Warning: Here's What a Flyers Game is Like

Today's Inquirer:

My son and I drove from Montreal to catch Monday night's Flyers-Canadiens playoff game at the Wachovia Center. Your fans have many reasons to be proud of their city and team, but how they treat their guests at a sporting event is not one of them.

As the game progressed, the level of threats and abuse heaped on us grew at an alarming rate. At one point, an unfortunate Habs fan had a glass of beer poured on her head, and her boyfriend thought it best for them to leave the arena. By the end of the game, we and other Habs supporters needed the protection of arena security and police to exit the building.

I can't imagine what would have happened to us if the Flyers had lost.

Phil Azimov
Montreal

Well, I can imagine.

Local Progamming: Temple U. Hate Crime Update

My predictions suck.

Back in February, I wrote about a hate crime up at Temple University where a couple of Jewish students got jumped by at least three guys who shouted "We hate Jews! We hate Jews!" (allegedly) and punched one of the hated Jews in the face, "leaving him with a broken orbital bone in his face and a broken nose."

Just based on the mugshots, I tried to guess who the ringleader was, choosing between Michael Walsh - who looks like the devil - and David Scott, who looks to me to be the largest of the three pictured. I picked Walsh, solely because of his cold stare. Wrong!

Prosecutor Christy Tuttle called David Scott the "ringleader," saying he threw a punch at [Jordan] Blady.

Blady, whose grandfather survived the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, told the Philadelphia Daily News that a group of young men had come up to him and his friend and yelled anti-Semitic slurs.

He was then punched in the face and suffered a broken nose and a fractured bone around his eye socket. Blady's friend, David Wise, was unharmed.

However, there is good news for the Jew-haters. The charge of aggravated assault was dropped, apparently based on a rule I was not aware of: A single punch never constitutes aggravated assault.

The judge concluded that there was insufficient evidence for the aggravated-assault charges because there was no intent to cause serious bodily injury in the Feb. 15 attack on North Broad Street near Norris when a single punch was thrown.

I dunno, judge. How big is David Scott? How little is Jordan Blady? If the mismatch is big enough, I think that warrants a finding of "intent to cause serious bodily injury."

Update: Jordan Blady's dad, Bruce:

"This guy [David Scott], who's like a foot taller than [my son], stood to the right without looking at him and punched him so hard that he busted his eye socket and his nose," Bruce Blady said. "For what? Because he was Jewish. Just because he was Jewish."

Of course, the defendants deny all charges blah blah blah lying sacks of shit yadda yadda tragic case of mistaken identity rhubarb rhubarb Mongo just pawn in game of life.

Swedes Encourage Drunken Mexicans to Invade California

Freak out ensues.

Rendell: Fox News "Most Objective" Cable News

Oy, Ed:

"I think during this entire primary coverage, starting in Iowa and up to the present -- FOX has done the fairest job, and remained the most objective of all the cable networks. You hate both of our candidates. No, I’m only kidding. But you actually have done a very balanced job of reporting the news, and some of the other stations are just caught up with Senator Obama, who is a great guy, but Senator Obama can do no wrong, and Senator Clinton can do no right.”

He did this because the kind of voters he's trying to appeal to are the ones most likely to be watching Fox.

Update from John Cole:

Ed Rendell, someone I actually like, is on Hardball right now lying through his teeth, claiming the Democratic party did nothing wrong in Florida and Democrats are being unfairly punished. Roll the tape:

Achtung, Baby

But did he wear a Totenkopf uniform?

Max Mosley, one of the most powerful men in world sport, was under pressure to resign as boss of Formula One’s governing body last night after he was exposed enjoying a Nazi-style orgy with five prostitutes.

Jewish groups condemned the behaviour of Mosley, 67, whose father, Sir Oswald, was the leader of the British Union of Fascists and a friend of Adolf Hitler.

Mr Mosley was caught on video by the News of the World with five women in an underground “torture chamber” in Chelsea, where he spent several hours allegedly indulging in sado-masochistic sex.

The Oxford-educated former barrister, who is president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), reenacted a concentration camp scene in which he played the role of both guard and inmate.

Speaking in German and brandishing a leather whip, he beat the women after allowing himself to be subjected to a humiliating inspection for lice and an interrogation in chains.

Mr Mosley, a close confidant of Bernie Ecclestone, who holds the commercial rights to Formula One, paid £2,500 cash for the sex services, the Sunday newspaper claimed.

Only in Britain. Especially given that it's not clear he will resign.

(Via Herr Doktor Professor Schwarz.)

Update: NSFW pic below the fold from here. I like that they censored his ass with a checkered flag. Cute. Love the boots, fraulein!

I Feel Safer Now

No one could have foreseen this:

A gun belonging to the pilot of a US Airways plane went off as the aircraft was on approach to land in North Carolina over the weekend, the first time a weapon issued under a federal program to arm pilots was fired, authorities said Monday.

The "accidental discharge" Saturday aboard Flight 1536 from Denver to Charlotte did not endanger the aircraft or the 124 passengers, two pilots and three flight attendants aboard, said Greg Alter of the Federal Air Marshal Service.

"We know that there was never any danger to the aircraft or to the occupants on board," Alter said. ...

[Aviation consultant Mike Boyd] said Saturday's incident could have been much worse. "If that bullet had compromised the shell of the airplane, i.e., gone through a window, the airplane could have gone down," he said.

Of course, nitwits like this guy want every flight crew armed. Since the possibility of a terrorist attack like 9/11 is now effectively zero, the only result of such a policy would be more accidental discharges and intentional shootings in situations that now can be resolved with less than lethal force.

Update 3/25/08:

A bullet fired by a US Airways pilot as his plane was landing in Charlotte penetrated the left side of the cockpit and went completely through the aircraft's exterior shell, according to a report by Charlotte airport police.

The shot was fired at about 11:20 a.m. Saturday, when Flight 1536 from Denver was at an altitude of roughly 8,000 feet and about eight minutes from landing at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. It was carrying 124 passengers and five crew members.

An airport police officer observed that the bullet pierced the left side of cockpit interior and went through the exterior of the Airbus A319, the police report said. The exit point was visible on the left side of the nose of the aircraft.

From reading around, apparently the consensus is that while putting a hole in your fuselage is not considered best practice, unless it hits a fuel tank it's not going to kill you. But this shot easily could have taken out a window while they were at a higher altitude or hit something critical in the instrument panel, which would be fatal.

Get the fucking guns off the fucking flight deck.

Silver Lining

The one thing I find valuable about the continuing Hillary v. Barack fight on blogs is that it is exposing liberal bloggers, on both sides, who don't have the judgment to see past today's contest. It'll save me time in the future when contentious issues come up.

Unless You Want to Start Calling Lawyers Whores Instead

Mistress Matisse:

I was masochistic enough to read the threads about this on a few feminist blogs, and good lord, I had to close the window and go do some deep breathing. Such a maddening combination of prostitutes are dirty whores whose lives should be made as unpleasant as possible AND/OR prostitutes are deluded victims who need to be protected from themselves whether they like it or not.   The truly talented people are the ones who can hold both positions at the same time, switching deftly from one to the other as necessary. And don't bother trying to tell them there's another option, because look, they have statistics to back this up!

Oh, statistics? Oh well, all right then, those of us who actually are sex workers will sit down and shut up and let ya'll decide what we deserve, thank you ma'am. I do not even participate in such threads. I have learned through infuriating experience that this is not a discussion based in reason, it's based on ideology, and you will never argue an ideologue out of their position.

It perturbs me no end that media reports refer to her as "the prostitute".  Last night at a party someone called her "the prostitute" and I blurted, "She's not 'the prostitute', she's a woman who worked as a prostitute. No one calls the man involved 'the john', they call him Eliot Spitzer." Which wasn't totally fair, but we were drunk and anyway they got my point.

Spitzer Not Resigning - Yet

Spitzer does the Larry Craig dance:

"I am disappointed that I failed to live up to the standard I set for myself," Spitzer said. "I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family."

Even though Spitzer did not address the idea of resigning, talk of him vacating the post ran rampant.

What's he hoping will happen? Divine intervention?

So when he goes, who's next?

In the short term, if Spitzer resigns his lieutenant governor -- David Paterson -- would take over. Paterson, who is legally blind, would become only the second African American governor in the country (Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is the other). According to the state constitution he would serve the remainder of Spitzer's term, which lasts until 2010.

Goodbye, Gov. Spitzer

Talk about going down in flames:

Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation.

The fact that she crossed state lines to meet him makes it a federal crime. How long until he resigns? What's the order of succession for the NY governor's office?

What has Blogging Wrought?

Only in your 20s could you be so pathetic and not care:

Sometimes, Mr. Capps will send an instant message to signal when dinner is ready. Or, as Becks explained, “We’ll all be in the same room having meta-conversations online about conversations going on in the room, a running commentary on the other conversations.”

These people are considered intellectuals. And there are multiple locations in D.C. where this goes on.

Update 3/10/08: Um, I was wrong.

Science in the Service of Power

If you're not aware of him, John Tierney is a science reporter for the New York Times who also writes a blog there. His right-wing political agenda is pretty unambiguous. He never touches the appalling rejection of the theory of evolution by the public and Republican politicians. He works hard to show that sexism is a myth (and that women are to blame for their body-image issues), female genital mutiliation causes no harm, pesticides are nothing to worry about, the health risks of trans fats are overblown, and - of course - global warming is no big deal. Today's post is a case in point:

After asking a national sample of more than 1,000 Americans how much they knew about global warming and how they felt about it, the researchers report that respondents who are better-informed about global warming “both feel less personally responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming.”

Tierney describes this as an apparent paradox, and offers the explanation that the more people know, the less they are concerned because, well shucks, there is just not that much to be worried about.

Except his summary of the research is seriously misleading. From the study:

It should be noted that the information effects reported in this article are limited to self-reported information.

In other words, people who believe themselves to be more well-informed on global warming tend to minimize it, no matter where they get their information from. Are these people scientists? Or are they Fox News Channel watchers? Tierney flatly says they are more well-informed, which is not proved, at best. Again, the study says:

Objective measures of informedness about global warming and climate change might produce different effects.

And with complicated, technical topics, the more you know, the more you know you don't know. Would any layperson who had read widely on the topic really say they were "well informed"?  The more likely explanation is that people who don't want to believe climate change is a real problem rate themselves well-informed, when in fact they are deliberately ignorant. Tierney is just one of the army of corporate shills who are paid to keep them that way.

Local Programming: Temple U. Students Arrested for Hate Crime

David Scott, Michael Walsh and Steven Scott (left to right, above) are Temple University students - all now suspended - who, along with another man, are accused of this:

[T]wo men, neither one a Temple student, were assaulted. The station reported that they had left a restaurant and were standing outside the former North Broad Street house of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, which recently moved to a nearby location.

According to the television report, the Temple students asked the men if they belonged to the [Jewish] fraternity. When the men answered no, the report said, at least one of the students made an anti-Semitic remark and punched one of the victims, leaving him with a broken orbital bone in his face and a broken nose.

The "anti-Semitic" remark was allegedly, "We hate Jews! We hate Jews!" Pretty straightforward. These guys face a laundry list of charges: "ethnic intimidation, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, terroristic threats, simple assault and conspiracy."

Innocent until proven guilty and all that, but if they did it, I'm glad these three are off the street. Just based on the photos, the guy on the right, Steven Scott, looks like (a) he wants his mom, (b) he's too young to be out after dark, and (c) he does whatever David Scott (on the left and presumably his older, tougher brother) tells him. Mugshots make no one look wholesome, but between David Scott and Michael Walsh, I had a hard time picking which looks more like Pure Evil personified. Initially, David's crew cut draws the attention, but then again between him and Steven they look like they share a single brain cell, alternating days. Walsh, in the middle, on the other hand, is looking into that camera lens like he's thinking of ways of making the witnesses disappear. I think I know who runs that crew.

Just also notice how different this situation is because of the identity of the accused. Imagine instead of being white, they were black, or Hispanic, especially Hispanic immigrants, or Muslim. This wouldn't be "local programming", it would be national news. Ann Coulter would get half an hour on FNC to wax nostalgic about lynching, or Lou Dobbs would have a poll up on whether they should be executed before being deported. But because they're white, no one is making generalizations about how dangerous and scary white people are, and this story isn't going to get play outside of Philly.

Funny how that works.

"There's That Boy Who's Suing Jesus"

Developments in the case of a lawsuit brought against the Indian River School District, the public school system in southern Delaware that promotes Christianity and discriminated against the tiny number of Jews in the district, who had to flee:

The settlement, which was approved Tuesday, includes payments to the families that both sides would not disclose. Although the settlement resolves many complaints in the suit, against the Indian River School District, the parties are proceeding with litigation over the school board practice of beginning its sessions with prayer.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs and defendants said their clients were satisfied with the settlement. On local blogs, the anger many people felt toward the families for protesting Christian prayer at school events has flared anew.

Mona Dobrich, 41, whose family was a plaintiff in the suit, said such a furious reaction had exacted a profound toll on her family and might indicate that the settlement would alter little on the ground.

“I feel that it is a good settlement because the rules are out there,” Mrs. Dobrich said in a telephone interview, referring to new policies the board has agreed to adopt. “Do I think life is going to change in Sussex County or all the other Sussex Counties in the country? No.”

It really is a tragic, infuriating story. I know that area of Delaware really well, and the impression you get of the residents is absolutely accurate: Backwards, insular, ignorant and violent. Their religion, like their politics, is just a club to beat the nonbelievers and outsiders. I wouldn't live down there on a bet, although some of the beaches are pretty. Just don't wander too far in land, or go down out of season.

The financial settlement, which will be paid by the district’s insurer, will pay off the debt that the Dobriches accrued as they moved. The family has settled in Dover, Mrs. Dobrich said.

The Dobriches tried once to take Alex back to live in Georgetown and understood that they could not return.

“We tried to have Alex live with my sister in Georgetown,” Mrs. Dobrich said. “Alex was in the yard, and some kids came up and said, ‘There’s that boy who’s suing Jesus.’ ”

But as soon as one case is settled, a new one pops up:

Our 10-year-old sister, Amani, is in the fifth grade at Lord Baltimore, a public elementary school in Ocean View. Last Tuesday, her teacher “taught” her class that Barack Obama is a Muslim and that she would not vote for him because he does not swear on the Bible, nor recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Her teacher told the class that she is a Republican and that Barack Obama “believes in different things and is scary.” ...

We are American Muslim kids. We love our country. We feel that kids need to be taught the truth in school. We believe that what is going on in our schools is un-American and scary. Kids are being taught hatred and fear of Muslims. Our sister was badly hurt by what was said in her classroom.

Each of us has experienced similar prejudice in our classrooms in three different schools. We would like for people to know that we believe in peace and respect for everyone. We are your neighbors and this is our home, too. We pray for understanding and an end to hate. Please stand with us.

Fatima and Basima Abdelsalam
Bethany Beach

Good luck, kids. Pack a bag, just in case, though.

Political Violence!

This would be funny, except for the fact that someone got stabbed:

District attorney Risa Ferman says a heated debate over the candidates escalated into violence:

"One is a supporter of Barack Obama, the other is a supporter of Hillary Clinton, and an argument of words turned bloody when one brother-in-law tried to choke the other and the victim then responded with a knife and stabbed his brother-in-law in the stomach.”

[Sean] Shurelds was taken to the hospital in critical condition. [Jose] Ortiz [pictured] is jailed in lieu of $20,000 bail. Police found the knife in the dishwasher.

The best part:

If Ortiz is convicted of the felony charge, he won’t be able to vote. And voter registration records reveal that Ortiz, who supports Clinton, is registered Republican.

Ralph's In!

You want change? I got your change right here, buddy.

I actually know people who I could see supporting this idiot again.

Update: A message to Ralph Nader:

The Modern Confederate Party

I guess dimwits are always a Lost Cause:

[Bertram Hayes-Davis, head of the Davis Family Association and great-great grandson of Jefferson Davis,] says his ancestor is a victim of political correctness and of people's insistence on looking at historical events from today's perspective.

He believes, as Davis did, that the Southern states had a constitutional right to secede. When asked if he thinks secession is viable or legal today, he is noncommittal.

"I think the issue is not so much the country splitting. I think the issue is federal control over the states. And I think that you see that even today, when federal mandates come from Washington that, `You will do this, whether you want to or not...,'" says Hayes-Davis, who has represented Davis' family at more than 100 functions over the years.

But what's interesting is not that some banker from Colorado Springs is running around defending the honor of a traitor who fought to keep humans enslaved, it's that they hold a beauty contest: The Miss Confederacy Pageant, along with related events, the Wee Miss Confederacy, Little Miss Confederacy,  Junior Miss Confederacy, and - new for 2008 - the Ms. Confederacy Pageant.

There are rules (warning: pdf) for these contests. For example, Wee Miss Confederacy contestants must be at least 2 years old but no older than 5. The Ms. Confederacy Pageant has no upper age limit, but is "open to women 18 and over that are married, divorced, or single that do not qualify for the 'Miss' category", which is quite a genteel way of saying single moms.

As for who wins, the application says:

Judging will be based on costume (dress, period fabrics, hat, accessories, etc.), overall appearance, and stage presentation. In case of a tie, Miss and Ms. contestants may be asked questions during the pageant to determine the winner for each category.

Remember that there are no hard and fast rules. However, the judges will be looking for contestants that portray the typical Southern girl, lady or woman of the Antebellum Era.

"Girl, lady or woman." Hilarious. And since slaves made up one third of the population of the Confederate States, I submit that a "typical" Southern woman could include an African-American woman in ragged clothes and bearing evidence of abuse, but I bet that's why they require a picture with the application.

But Did They Make Another Campaign Contribution?

C&L:

My first thought was that the Filipino Monkey had graduated from harassing sailors on the marine band to prank-calling CNN. But it turns out to be more mundane: The closed-captioning typist rendered "Hillary Clinton" as "al Qaeda".

No problem with that, is there?

(Via PhillyBits.)

Why They Build Prisons

Some knucklehead, already looking at 71 years in jail for armed robbery, decided to add on a few more by trying to rape his own defense attorney inside the federal courthouse in Philly:

Before their meeting with federal authorities, [Kareem] Millhouse and his attorney were given a few moments to speak privately in an interview room, according to information from the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey, which handled the prosecution.

Once alone, Millhouse leaned toward his lawyer and told her that he would cut her throat if she screamed, and then showed her a razor blade.

Millhouse, federal prosecutors said, went on to tell the woman that he had not had sex in a long time and wanted to have it with her, and he also wanted her to be able to "leave alive."

Millhouse then lunged at her, and she screamed and tried to run from him. He grabbed her and threw her over a table, but several law-enforcement officials heard the screams and rushed into the room to subdue him.

Ah, the glamour of the legal world. I am so glad I didn't go work for the public defender's office.

"Norwegian Village Pension Fund": The Mortgage Crisis Explained

Here. (Click the picture to start the slideshow.) Very informative, as well as funny.

(Via John Cole.)

Horrible Story About TMobile's Treatment of Dead Customer's Family

This man's daughter was seriously injured and his grandchild and son-in-law were killed in an auto accident. TMobile decided to make his life even harder:

In the last two weeks, I was tasked with more items to complete than I can even remember. Besides making the funeral arrangements, one of the menial tasks was to replace my daughter’s phone that was destroyed in the accident. I figured, no problem, I’ll run to TMobile, her provider, and get a loaner. ...

The “gentleman” who is the manager of the TMobile store in Southlake told me under no circumstances could he give me a phone. I wasn’t authorized on my son-in-law’s account. I explained to him that my daughter had just gotten out of ICU and was needing a phone to make some phone calls. Not going to happen. I told him that I was willing to give them my credit card to secure the phone, but to no avail.

Long story short, he went up the line to TMobile USA's corporate headquarters and got no help, so he bought a new phone for his injured, grieving daughter from a different carrier.

I've emailed TMobile's media relations people to see if they have any comment.

"They Will Massively Rig"

Hilarious:

A prominent U.S.-based human rights group Friday released what it said was a recording of Pakistan's attorney general acknowledging that next week's national elections would be "massively" rigged.

Human Rights Watch said a journalist made the recording during a telephone interview with Attorney General Malik Qayyum when Qayyum took a second call without disconnecting the first, allowing his end of the second conversation to be overheard and recorded.

In the recording, Qayyum, Pakistan's top legal officer, can be heard advising the caller to accept a ticket he is being offered by an unidentified political party for a seat, Human Rights Watch said.

"They will massively rig to get their own people to win," Qayyum said, according to a transcript released by Human Rights Watch. "If you get a ticket from these guys, take it."

That's so awesome. I've often thought that we need a constitutional amendment requiring all elected or confirmed officials in this country to wear a wire at all times. It would make things so much more entertaining.

More Anti-Women Religious Nutbags in America

What the hell's the matter with Kansas?

Before the game started, a school administrator approached [Michelle] Campbell’s officiating partner, Darin Putthoff of Topeka, and told him a woman could not serve as referee.

That would be putting a woman in a position of authority over boys, he was told — a scenario that was contrary to beliefs at St. Mary’s Academy.

"I was upset," Putthoff said. "So I said, 'You’re telling me you don’t have any teachers at the school who are women?'"

The good part is that when the bigots at the school tried to round up a guy to take Campbell's place, he walked off the court in disgust. They had to use their own athletic director to ref the game.

Rendell: PA Racists Elected a Jewish Governor But Hate Blacks

Tony Norman, quoting Ed Rendell from a Pittsburgh Post Gazette editorial board meeting:

"You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate," he said bluntly. Our eyes only met briefly, perhaps because the governor wanted to spare the only black guy in the room from feeling self-conscious for backing an obvious loser. "I believe, looking at the returns in my election, that had Lynn Swann [2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate] been the identical candidate that he was --well-spoken [note: Mr. Rendell did not call the brother "articulate"], charismatic, good-looking -- but white instead of black, instead of winning by 22 points, I would have won by 17 or so."

So, Ed. The rednecks in the T give a Philadelphia Jew 17+, but they will turn on a "well-spoken" black man? Look, Swann was an empty suit going for his first elected office. The GOP tapped him because they had no one in the pen willing to go up against you. Secondly, rural Pennsylvania conservatives hate gun-grabbers, faggots and illegal immigrants. They would hate black people, too, if they lived near any, but they don't. Mr. Norman adds:

I know I have a habit of sometimes zoning out in these meetings, but it sounded to me like Mr. Rendell had unilaterally declared Pennsylvania to be Alabama circa 1963. Was he suggesting that Pennsylvanians are uniquely racist in ways that folks in the states Mr. Obama has won so far aren't? By the way, Mr. Obama won Alabama on Super Tuesday, thank you very much!

Right. Other things rural conservatives hate more than blacks: women with power and the Clintons.

Call It The De Menezes Squad

I predict that the first person killed by one of these cops will be a swarthy, innocent, unarmed civilian and that they will never, ever encounter a terrorist:

In the first counterterrorism strategy of its kind in the nation, roving teams of New York City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the city’s subway system daily, beginning next month, officials said on Friday.

Under a tactical plan called Operation Torch, the officers will board trains and patrol platforms, focusing on sites like Pennsylvania Station, Herald Square, Columbus Circle, Rockefeller Center and Times Square in Manhattan, and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.

Right. Helmeted, rifle-toting guys with dogs, in a city of paranoics. One false positive alert from the dog and they'll drop someone who doesn't speak the English so good.  Which, you know, is fairly common in NYC. You give these guys a mission (Operation Torch! 12-hour shifts!) and, because they'll go months and maybe years waiting, waiting, waiting, the first time "something happens" it's no questions asked, BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Oops, sorry, we regret the error, and our review of the incident shows no wrongdoing on the part of our brave officers, so fuck off.