Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "ABC News" channel.

  1. This is unforgivable.
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  2. What a beautiful little girl. She is so solid, well-spoken, and has a very good, clear memory of what happened. I wish her a good life going forward. So disturbing, no way to know how this will affect her in the years to come.
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  3. "People just didn't want to believe it." Thank you, sir. That sums it up.
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  4.  @wioi  He approached a LOT of women. A lot of them said no, or someone interrupted. Like a group of girls or a boyfriend came by and he backed off. At least two did get in his car and lived. He let one go because she had cut her hair short, the other escaped.
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  5. I am SO sorry for his girlfriend. So, so sorry.
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  6. ​@0098Elaine After he got it and was hospitalized, he was chastened and said he wanted all Americans to get the treatment he got. Notice the subtext -- we do not have that offered to us. Accidentally told us the truth.
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  7. If that were true, it's not relevant. You don't get to kill a person who is on drugs. You don't get a freebee. If that were true, then you could kneel on anyone's neck who has taken an overdose, and say oh well, I didn't do anything criminal to them. I have never seen such a lack of logic in the people who defend Chauvin.
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  8. On the contrary, if Floyd was using opioids since the beginning of the year, he was habituated. Hence a larger dose would have no effect, or perhaps modestly delay his death if he were in extreme fear and anxiety. Painkillers are used not just to keep patients comfortable, but to avoid overtaxing their cardiovascular system with the anxiety that severe pain will invariably bring. You don't like facts, do you?
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  9.  @Djevan41598  He chose to appear in this report, and allowed his minor children to appear as well.
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  10.  @rvrmn2682  No. You have a right to send a letter to a judge. Can you be serious? Whether it was wise or ethical is beside the point. Suddenly, everything you don't like is a "crime?"
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  11. So, these 6-figure salary, stock option millionaires do not understand that they are getting paid for "soft skills?" Of course they should be fired. What did they think their jobs were?
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  12. How anyone could ever fall into any of this is incomprehensible. I really mean that.
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  13.  @noahhaon2147  Are you nuts or something?
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  14. I have an idea. Get a stop watch, run it to 9 minutes and 29 seconds. See how long that really is.
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  15.  So much white privilege  "On Wednesday (May 27), Trump tweeted that he has instructed the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate Floyd's death: At my request, the FBI and the Department of Justice are already well into an investigation as to the very sad and tragic death in Minnesota of George Floyd.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020 ....I have asked for this investigation to be expedited and greatly appreciate all of the work done by local law enforcement. My heart goes out to George’s family and friends. Justice will be served!" So, . . . is Trump "the left?"
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  16. Yes, extremely intelligent. Really a pleasure to listen to.
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  17. @Frankie T. Wankum Esq. Gay people have kids. She also said "or a college kid trying to make her way in life." The point that there may be many good reasons why that woman took that job is lost on you? Should someone have to exhaust all possibilities in order to make that point?
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  18.  @myfeelingsarehurt6655  What is relevant is that you cannot shorten a dying person's life. That is a homicide. You cannot shorten a physically fragile person's life. That is a homicide. You cannot shorten a mentally ill person's life. That is a homicide. You cannot shorten a drug addict's life. That is a homicide. There is no "balancing test," taking into account probable lifespan. It could have been days, or hours. It does not matter. If you believe what you profess to believe, you better find a new country to grow old and die in. Because you are too sure that a version of what happened to Floyd won't happen to you, when people decide you aren't so valuable any more, and will kick the bucket soon anyway. Because that's where we are.
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  19. How was the cashier anti-gay?
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  20.  @mastercontrolprogram163  Good luck being logical and factual around these people.
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  21.  @danimalthebruce2569  Just the opposite is true. Habitual use leads to remarkable tolerance. You have NO idea what a lethal dose would be to someone using. Why are you so dead set on believing nonsense? You have zero knowledge on the matter, just what your equally ill-informed friends tweet, or something.
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  22. Not to mention that she escorted the kids out of the class while bleeding internally. She is a true hero.
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  23.  @vg6761  Archaic class system? Brought it up, or saw it's still in force?
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  24. I also thought that luckily, she's in Europe.
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  25. @rvrmn2682  Someone who is not a party to a case but wants to write to the judge concerning their views on something like the length of a sentence are allowed to do so. The letters will be entered into the record and the judge is under no obligation to take them into consideration in deciding on the sentence. Both the defendant and the government have a right to see them. Families of the convicted and of his or her victims often write to the judge prior to sentencing. Where do you get bribery out of this?? Note that I'm not saying it's a good practice to write -- or that it isn't. There's nothing legally dubious about it is the point.
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  26.  @rudyrubio2475  So, you've read the court documents, have you? Because they are all publicly available, on the Minnesota Courts website.
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  27.  @thehousedown  Good grief, those mothers had no idea at the time. Those girls had not yet been interrogated. The police at first refused to divulge which girl was hurt, because they could not, in order to investigate properly.
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  28. @krispeekream  His point that police handled this badly is correct. But he was assuming that she was the perpetrator in that particular incident, when she may have been the one acting in self-defense. The police didn't investigate properly or follow the law.
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  29.  @danimalthebruce2569  Actually, you know how people typically overdose? They are clean for a period of time, often due to incarceration or hospitalization, then they take what they think is "just a little bit less" than the dose they were used to taking before they were clean. That is the typical case. LOOK IT UP. But more to the point, you don't get to kneel on someone's neck and shorten his life, even if he would have died of other causes an hour later. You are still responsible for the homicide. If that weren't the case, anyone fragile for any reason could end up being fair game. And when someone is in police custody and in distress, police are supposed to try to save his life, or summon paramedics and allow them to do so. What parallel hell are you living in?
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  30.  @danimalthebruce2569  False, misleading, and most of all irrelevant. Your fatal dose or my fatal dose or a user's fatal dose or an addict's fatal dose do not come close to the same amount, with respect to their physiological tolerance, not their psychological craving. Nor do police, or anyone else, get a "freebee." Funny how you ignored that part. In the rich suburbs outside of the city where I live, police brag about how they carry antidote and save lives. They've been carrying it for at least 5 years now.
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  31.  @danimalthebruce2569  But more to the point, you don't get to kneel on someone's neck and shorten his life, even if he would have died of other causes an hour later. You are still responsible for the homicide. If that weren't the case, anyone fragile for any reason could end up being fair game. And when someone is in police custody and in distress, police are supposed to try to save his life, or summon paramedics and allow them to do so. What parallel hell are you living in?
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  32.  @danimalthebruce2569  "Paramedics called to treat George Floyd after a police officer kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes last year testified Thursday that they thought he was dead when they arrived. Derek Smith, one of two paramedics who testified in a Minneapolis courtroom Thursday, said that when he arrived on the scene he could not find that Floyd had a pulse. "In lay terms, I thought he was dead," Smith said. Seth Bravinder, the second paramedic, told jurors Thursday that officer Derek Chauvin was kneeling on Floyd when they arrived. "They were still on top of him," Bravinder said." A "hostile crowd" did this?? Okay, end of discussion here. Waste someone else's time.
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  33. I have an idea for him. Apply to a non-profit that represents LGBTQ people. Oh, he'll make $65k a year, maybe. Is that the problem?
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  34.  @paulogaspar8295  She could not have found him without his prior consent, or a law which lifts the veil. It isn't "creepy" to donate sperm and produce children, possibly, who you will never know? Or not know whether they exist somewhere at all?
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  35.  @lambsquad_9047  What a hater he was. Hate incarnate.
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  36.  @QuiteTheLady  I never thought I'd live to see anything like it. Especially during COVID. That this is happening during a pandemic, when we should ALL appreciate the sanctity of life, and want to be a little more gentle with each other, is harrowing. Every time I think we've reached a moral bottom, some people will go lower. Why? That's the part I can't understand.
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  37. Pandemic is influencing us all. :/
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  38.  @johnmartin4641  A C-suite employee is always always always the public face of his company. He is always in public relations, for which he was NOT qualified. Of course he should have a good job, commensurate with his education and merit. Just not the one he thought he was entitled to.
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  39. This happens all the time.
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  40. ​ @floriansailer7887 Even worse -- this timeline is false. They were apart for nearly a week, when he returned to Florida by plane to sell some things from his storage unit and she had the van. She had the golden opportunity to flee, and time to talk it through with friends. Why does the press hide that?
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  41. ​ @taylorfrink1182 Because this report is misleading. They were apart for almost a week. She did have a chance. The moral of the story: you cannot trust the media. They could have told the truth in this video and actually helped people.
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  42.  @pfjohnson1964  Read the law. Letting immediate family continue to live with you is not illegal in Florida. As long as you don't obstruct police or lie to them or destroy evidence, you've broken no law. Real simple.
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  43.  @danimalthebruce2569  No. Because the police would not let anyone near Floyd until he had already been unresponsive for several minutes.
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  44. No. You do not report on your father to the FBI. You speak with his doctor. You consult a lawyer. You keep at it. I'm not arguing with his concerns.
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  45. Takes one to know one? Whatever you may think of Bannon, and however odious his politics -- or poor his character -- may be, these observations are true.
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  46. Pray for literacy
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  47. He has not been charged with first degree murder. Nor with involuntary manslaughter.
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  48.  @QuiteTheLady  AMEN. EXACTLY.
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  49. The burden should be on anyone wanting to give a non-FDA approved vaccine to a minor to come up with solid data to show that it is safe, effective, and necessary.
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  50. @Jacob King Compared to no heart condition is it mild, when that was the case prior to vaccination?
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