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Where? I am not being rude just asking for the source please

> she, on the stand, said that Broadwater was the one to do it under oath.

That's a terrible mistake she will have to live with for the rest of her life. She clearly regrets it.

She was very young and traumatized by an awful sexual assault. You'd have to read Lucky to understand how bad it was.

I'm not trying to defend her or excuse her mistake. I'm not ready to condemn her, either. Life is hard. Life is complicated.

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Yeah I badly phrased my response, it wasn’t my intention to say that only Paterson and Camden are that bad, there are definitely other cities (the oranges and parts of Newark like you said). I also live outside of it and while I think it has gotten better recently, it still has a long way to go.

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> Will she support him and use her platform to bring more attention to the book?

The books are old news, don't sell like they used to.

I don't know how much money she made from her books. Even though they were successful, she didn't necessarily make millions.

I would glad to know she has offered to help Mr. Broadwater. On the other hand, he just won a $5.5 million settlement. He may have more money than her, at this point. If she does offer him some kind of assistance, she will probably keep it private. Grandstanding about helping him would really be tacky.

I live outside of it and this is really an understatement because there are other cities just as bad in NJ like some the Oranges and parts of Newark, it’s not just Patterson and Camden that are rundown unfortunately

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Bartenders deserve justice too

The section on France was particularly interesting.

Drug dogs have repeatedly been shown to be useless, it's pretty public knowledge that the handler is why they alert. We still use them anyway, I don't get it.

I feel like anyone who is trying to say that Putin cares about this is fooling themselves. It’s quite obvious that what Putin says in the media is a carefully crafted narrative designed get people to miss the point entirely. He invaded Ukraine because his country is failing. Population growth and economic growth is stagnating. Quality of life is downright bad. He needs oil and natural resource revenue to maintain Russia’s appearance of strength and eventually hopefully find a way of recovering.

When he started the war, he made a lot of assumptions based on the assurances of grifting yes men. He assumed his army, the legendary Russian army, would cruise to victory like America in Iraq. Heck if he managed to seize control, we’d probably be treating Ukraine more like Crimea at this point. Just another chunk of “illegally” seized territory but getting a heavily armed Nuclear power to give the land back… well it wouldn’t be an option. Just a bunch of sanctions and a decade or two of grumbling until the west finally gave up on the issue and moved on. But he didn’t win, and instead found out he lost a war he couldn’t lose. He gambled and lost big time.

So what does he want to accomplish now? You have to ask yourself, what would be the way forward for Russia? To give up on Ukraine and become the laughing stock of Europe and every former Soviet Republic? With crippling sanctions and the drum beat of war reparations grinding his country down to nothing? Or to keep fighting to keep that fear and doubt alive? I think really that’s his only hope.

Did they get the idea from Law and Order SVU or was it the other way around?

He's trying to use it as a political chip in his re-election campaign because he got 60,000 Turks killed through sheer incompetence and corruption and now he's using everything he can think of to try to claw back from it.

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Wait no, cops never abuse their power to pursue personal vendettas.

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I suspect that personal queries are the primary use case for US police. So... yeah....

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