Sentences Like This Are Why Following Domelights Pays Off

Oh boy, I wish I was an investigative reporter looking to do a story on police brutality and I read a PUBLIC forum like domelights and I read a thread started by a cop who claims officers are lumping people up instead of using a taser to minimize injury.

That’s from this thread about Tasers on Domelights. It’s actually been a good read for a lot of reasons recently, with public bickering with the union and this thread with two cops arguing. All worth a perusal.

Bush: A Busy President

We’re only one day into the Barack Obama presidency, and it’s turning even the blackest hearts to lush, read ones. (Is this how it works? Maybe the small heart gets bigger, like with the Grinch.) Even the posters on Domelights, a notoriously whiny bunch, have been pretty upbeat about the inauguration. There’s still plenty of sniping at each other — one poster calls another an “idiotic coward” — but not too much toward Obama, and nothing too stupid. (This is subject to change.)

But I did come across this new, great argument:

Man, Bush has dealt with more than the last three President’s combined! Two wars, Hurricane Katrina, Terrorism, the Economy! Hopefully no other President has to deal with as much as him, he had no breaks! So, with everything he dealt with he didn’t do too bad of a job in my point of view!

Don’t know if this is a joke, but I’m really hoping it’s not.

Breaking: Phila. Residents With Connections Get Perks

Back when Dan Rubin ran Blinq as a daily blog, everybody read his posts no matter how good or bad they were because he was, for better or worse, the Philadelphia paper of record’s official blogger. Then a while back they pulled him off the blog full-time and gave him a column. Now nobody under the age of 35 reads his stuff anymore, because while they know he writes one of the paper’s metro columns, they can never be bothered to find the thing on the website.

Well, well, well! Rubin wrote a column yesterday that quite a few people read. Specifically, police officers read his column. To be more specific, the kinds of police officers (and cop wannabes) who post on Domelights read his column. Don’t get too excited at once; the media in this town is still too terrified to write about any actual problems with our local cops. No, Rubin wrote about the free parking cops get at sporting events down at the sports complex.

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Domelights Reaction Better Than Expected

Hey, let’s take a look and see what Domelights thinks about the police officer who wants to wear a Muslim headscarf on the job. I think we all know what they’re going to think, but who knew it would be this good. The first reply from the thread, I swear, is this:

I will personally punch this b*tch in her face. If she NEEDS to wear that scarf on her head, then go get a job a Burlington Coat Factory. We don’t need her.

I love when the first Domelights reply is the best so I don’t have to read any more. But poster CODE3 chimes in later with, “Maybe the threat of physical harm went too far, but I agree about the b1tch part.” That poster also notes he is surprised the Philly.com comments are going against her. Ha!

Four Cops Fired; Hilarity To Ensue

Four police officers were fired and four others disciplined today for beating up some suspects on camera a little bit ago.

What does this mean? Well, it means a lot, I suppose, but it means this thread on Domelights is going to be hilarious. If you’re interested in seeing people defend (what appears to be) police brutality — I mean, besides Christine Flowers — then please click through and read on.

Who To Blame For Flyers 3-0 Deficit?

Okay, so the Flyers were beaten 4-1 by the Penguins last night and are down 3-0 to the Penguins. Alas, alas. Who to blame for this 3-0 hole?

Oh, Metro’s Clark DeLeon had an idea on Monday:

Then the son asks everyone in the Cathedral to sign the “Let’s go Flyers, let’s go.” Fight song. And again, rather than appreciate the sentiment, my immediate reaction was, “He just jinxed the Flyers.”

Yes, that’s right: Clark DeLeon is blaming the dead cop’s son for the Flyers’ loss. “Geeze, couldn’t that kid think of anyone but himself once in a while?” I assume he was thinking. A poster at Domelights — clearly a liberal hippie communist college student — advocates tossing all the copies of Metro in the trash, which you may know is against the law.

Family Guy-Quoting Racists!

Hey, look, there are racist posters everywhere! I guess. The above shot is from Cottman and Frankford; it was posted at Domelights (the thread later turns into posters arguing that few black officers go to benefits for slain white officers). It’s also, uhm, a freaking joke from Family Guy.

And, hey: A poster at Young Philly Politics found a different one (uh, I guess) after regaling us with a story of buying a new belt at the Gap outlet and realizing some people might not like Barack Obama because he’s black.

Sigh: Domelights, Inquirer Collide

How did I miss this one earlier in the week? Annette John-Hall wrote a column on how “racial incidents threaten campaign against violence.” Sounds good. She’s going to write about the mistrust between minority communities and the police does no one any good, how our “colorblind” society sometimes fails to notice unintentional racism — and some people believe there’s no such thing as racism anymore, unless you have a white hood on — and all that related stuff.

My summary’s an oversimplification, for sure, but this is an Inquirer columnist! She’ll go through 750 words of flowery prose, explaining it better than I can in a little blog post and maybe try to make a coherent argument.

No, wait. She just quoted Philly cop messageboard Domelights and Rochelle Bilal who said a recent cop suspension “sends a message to the department that all jokes aren’t funny.” And John-Hall ended up writing about, uhm, some idiot cop in Ohio and anonymous Internet messageboard posters being (get this!) angry.

Look, you should only quote Domelights when you’re looking for, as Chrissmari might say, the lulz. (Plus, what if someone tries to shut down the site? Think how many hilarious posts would go un-mocked.) And so, I present to you the Domelights thread on Annette John-Hall’s column, and the greatest sentence ever written on the messageboard by far.

You are better off BECAUSE of slavery. NOT in spite of it.

Guess what ethnicity the person this was directed at was? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not white!

Annette John-Hall: Racial incidents threaten campaign against violence [Inquirer]
DOME MAKES THE PAPERS [Domelights]

Hilarious Cops Suspended For Bad Joke

You may remember Scott Schweizer, the lovable narcotics cop alleged to have had a KKK sticker in his locker. Well, now he and the officer who put the sticker on his locker are both back to walking to beat.

Commissioner Charles Ramsey suspended Schweizer and fellow narcotics cop Eric Dial for 20 days without pay and transferred them away from their elite jobs arresting black people for drug crimes. They’re now back to their original districts. Ramsey said they were bad dudes but weren’t racist, and so they get to keep their jobs. He actually even directly skipped a disciplinary hearing and just punished the guys himself they were so offensive and not racist.

Apparently, Dial actually created the “Blue by day, white by night” stickers and put it on Schweizer’s locker. Schweizer just put the two stickers into his locker and left them there, and now for some reason both men are being branded offensive-but-not-racist jokesters! No, really. That’s why they’re being suspended. “It’s my understanding that [Dial] thought that this was a prank, but it was in incredibly poor taste,” Ramsey said. If we start suspending cops for making offensive jokes, I don’t think we will have much of a force left.

The quote of the article once again comes from Rochelle Bilal, head of the Guardian Civic League, which represents the 3,000 black officers on the force. She says the demotion of the two officers “sends a message to the department that all jokes aren’t funny.”

All jokes aren’t funny! The police officers sure have learned a good lesson here. For news on how this new affects the most oppressed of all peoples, the white man, please head to police messageboard Domelights. Do you think white Philly cops change their names (á la the Nation of Islam) because they are so oppressed?

A Real American Hero?

Action News enthusiastically reported the other day a story they called cop versus cop: Off-duty Sgt. Larry Smart allegedly was evasive, did not identify himself as a police officer and then got into a fight, sending two cops to the hospital.

This all happened, naturally, at the parking lot at the Home Depot on Roosevelt Boulevard. Sgt. Smart works out of the 92nd District.

We now go to Domelights to find out how the white man is being kept down again, revealing what he heard Sgt. Smart said during the altercation.

Oh, please. He woulda said cracker, or maybe honkey. Unless the arresting police officer was Barack Obama’s black-hating grandmother, noted typical white person. And those angry emoticons aren’t just for show! Sgt. Smart wasn’t arrested despite allegedly assaulting two cops. Ha ha, Sgt. Smart. He sounds like a G.I. Joe doll.