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I'm glad I talked with my girlfriend about our plan for the zombie apocalypse. We've discovered the local bar and probably has the most defensive value around here.

The fact that Aestu made a funny and this many people missed it is a testament to how even the things he says seriously are kind of a joke. Not even Rikki and Nechra can troll at that level.

Police Fraternity In Vice Squad Controversy

A botched prostitution bust has landed the Miami Fraternal Order of Police (MFOP) in controversy once again.

On the evening of May 27, two officers affiliated with the MFOP took part in a prostitution sting in Little Havana. In response to a "sudden movement" by a sex worker, one of the officers rapidly moved into a defensive position as the other fired his weapon. The bullet travelled through the extended right wrist of the officer's partner and stopped in the suspect's left thigh.

Then, says a brief filed by women's advocates, the officer "spent excessive time and attention on the care of his fellow officer, laying him out on his back and elevating his arm on a padded stool, using a fetish whip as a makeshift tourniquet, repeatedly comforting the officer, 'It's gonna be okay [redacted], it's gonna be okay. We're gonna take care of you,' while the sex worker lay bleeding to death."

The officer was picked up by a police ambulance within five minutes and is currently out on sick leave. He is expected to make a full recovery. The sex worker, however, had to wait thirty minutes for an ambulance and another twenty minutes for a bed to be available at the emergency room to which she was taken. Due to her rare blood type, a transfusion was unavailable. The sex worker, who was of Haitian nationality, died later that evening.

"This was a gross breach of professionalism," says women's rights advocate Lizzy Lenovich. "That the woman was engaged in illegal activity is besides the point. She was a victim. The officers were perpetrators who shot her for 'making a rapid movement'. The female victim should have been on that police ambulance that arrived first - not the male officer."

The officers, however, say they were only following a controversial MFOP policy.

"The Miami Fraternal Order of Police's motto is, 'Bros Before Hos'," said MFOP representative Magnus Phandro. "The MFOP stands by its time-honored traditions of fraternity and dedication to law enforcement, including laws against vice.

"The officer was following the vow he took upon joining the Order fifteen years ago, by providing aid and assistance to his 'Bro' injured in the line of duty, before that 'Ho' who was engaged in illegal activity and may well have been about to threaten the lives of these two officers."

Women's rights advocates, however, say that times are changing, and that old-guard police fraternities like the MFOP must change with them. "Prostitution is big business here in Miami. In the last twenty years, many women have become successful small businesspeople. We can no longer take for granted the patriarchal stereotype of many underpaid female sex workers in the employ of male pimps.

"Indeed, many women entrepreneurs have finally managed to break into middle management, working for themselves, or creating jobs for both men and women, and working for both men and women. Not only is the MFOP policy misogynistic, it's also homophobic," says Lenovich.

"That woman the male officer shot was a victim of patriarchal stereotypes."

City Hall was unavailable for comment. However, a source from the Miami Office of Diversity Affairs says, who requested not to be named, said, "All options are on the table. We are considering mandatory seminars to educate officers that, indeed, sometimes the needs of sex workers come before the needs of their 'Bros'."

Thanks to the feminist lobby, Kay now counts as five people.

Amazing how that works, isn't it?

(that said I assumed she just stopped reading after the first sentence, though I'm surprised she didn't scan the rest - I easily forget that most people are not hardwired to do so involuntarily)

am now confused.

It's like you come from some parallel universe where women aren't retarded.

"I wouldn't say he had mental problem but he always felt like people was against him ... No one was for him, everyone was against him," she told the station.

According to our local ABC station --- which I'm sourcing via the Associated Press, as I refuse to promote the stylistic oversights of most local news editors --- the "Miami Zombie" had a history of mental and interpersonal issues, at least according to his mother.


Natural psychoses aside, what's troubling about this story, aside from the obvious, is that investigators have so easily shrugged off the breakdown as a mere byproduct of the use of bath salts or, in the case of some officials interviewed, "some new, more potent form of LSD." Where is PCP to be found in the conjectures made about the suspect's mental state? Not that I myself am readily attributing such a breakdown to the drug without sufficient evidence, but it's hard not to consider this a textbook case of phencyclidine overuse.

Since the early 2000s, PCP use --- once common in urban areas during the early 1970s --- has skyrocketed, particularly among inner-city gang members and the city-dwelling impoverished. And yet the Miami Police Department is trumping this case up as yet another instance of a potent, easily-demonized research chemical unleashing its apparent potential upon the denizens of what is in essence a typical ghetto. The department, of course, isn't entirely in the wrong; most mainstream research chemicals are certainly harmful to those who take the risk of experimentation. But why narrow the causes down so quickly when the toxicology report hasn't even come in?

I'm expecting a rash of point-counterpoints and wishy-washy "told you so, drugs are bad m'kay" columns on the potential police RC crackdown to appear in local papers --- if not those on the national level, as well --- in the coming weeks. But should this be the central argument, especially when, as I've already said, the reports haven't even been publicly released? It seems counterproductive to spend so much time and so many resources on what is at heart an entirely underlying social issue, but I suppose that the press is at times beyond logic.

They probably understand the scene here, is what it is. RC's are literally *rampant* here. I don't know anyone who takes drugs anymore that doesn't try a low dose first to make sure it's what it's supposed to be. I've actually known someone who sold DOx chemicals as LSD and it killed 4 people last summer. It's the newbies to the scene who end up dying because they aren't cautious. Like I said earlier, it really is textbook PCP use, but it's just not common on the scene here, especially in Miami. Miami is riddled with 2Cx and DOx drugs. A lot of them are unable to be tested for, and they seem to be coming up with new ones every week or something.