The portend of super-idiotic post-millennial vape babies should stick in everyone's head today.

trump supporters wanted someone who would stand up to Wall Street. Maybe they got what they wanted...

Trump's right about something: bin Laden should've been captured or killed long before he was. Like when Bill Clinton went after him in the 90s and the Republicans protested that it was just a "distraction" from Oval Office blow jobs. Or when the Bush Administration kept him on the loose so they could have a boogeyman for the 2004 election.

6 Cranky crab got pee-pee in his oatmeal today?

re:Snoop's Star. And what's Warren G? Chopped liver? pretty heavy omission by the original tweeter.

8 It later came out that this very black man was drooling, and then he sneaked around the counter, grabbing both white girls by the tushies while forcing them to drink whiskey. Security cameras were malfunctioning when that happened.

@3 -Yes, it most certainly is. See @8.

@11:

If he'd been rich and white they would have just let him do it - or so some people say...

For many years the only black person in Kirkland was one featured in a kumbaya-group statue near downtown.

Lol. If u read the article on the weed toking rat mommies, they were exposed to the THC vapor 60 times per day. And the outcome measure was how long it took the rats to figure out a pattern in a reward mechanism for specific behavior. How do we extrapolate the clinical significance of this to humans? Maybe future human children will take twice as long to do their chores to earn their allowance. Maybe those rat babies are just less intrinsically motivated by material rewards. Maybe they are more interested in contemplating their strange little lives where they live in empty glass terrariums playing strange little lab games for white coat overlords. But yeah, probably not a bad idea to avoid drugs while pregnant.

15 You seriously begin comments with 'lol'? Check your napster account.

15 ROFLMAO SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY A MAN A PLAN A CANAL, PANAMA.
See how much that informs?

I sure hope no one has reported comment #6. We wouldn't want that to disappear. It stands as the best evidence yet of just how little he deserves to go by that name.

As for Trump, I assume he's picking a fight with someone so that he has a foil. (Gotta have distractions when the Mueller updates start rolling in, after all.) As to why he picked THIS person, I can't fathom. I'm pretty sure everyone - regardless of political identity - agrees that killing Osama bin Laden was a benefit to the world.

As he ages, Kyle MacLachlan is morphing into a thinner KD Lang.

Frozen yogurt is so 1980s. They should have gone to Dairy Queen because they treat you right.

@20....Wasn't he wonderful in "Showgirls".

@16 no regrets

Protest for what? The cops showed up because someone called, that's what cops do.

I mean, I guess protest that women are scared of men?

Damn, Quincy didn't already have a star?

@20 "I'm not fast food...I'm NON-RACIST food!".

@23: How about protest about the cops being called when everybody knew the guy wasn't doing anything other than sitting their being black-and...shudder...gasp...BEING BLACK AND WEARING A HOODIE!-? How about protest the fact that the cops made the guy leave even though the woman and the kid whose visit he was supervising respectfully explained to the cop that the guy was just doing his job, which would have been enough for the cops to let it go at that if the guy had been white, as we all know?-How about to make sure Menchie's changes its damn policies so nothing like this ever happens again?

@23 and @27 - Well, I read the attached article, and it sounds as if they're protesting the store for calling the cops more than cops themselves.

If a business rep calls the police about a trespass, it's true the cop gotta respond. Further, if the business rep wants someone to leave for a lawful reason (like not buying anything), the person has to go. If the person refuses, they'll be arrested. That's the short and simple of it.

That said, the cops could have contacted the business rep by phone and explained what the person was doing there. I would have. It sounds as if the business owner had known in this case, he would let the guy stay.

So, a misunderstanding on everyone's part, which I'm sure was indeed aggravated by at least subliminal bias. The business owner trusted his employees when maybe he should taken a second look or had them ask the guy if he was waiting for someone. He also should have requested a callback from the responding officers. The cops were lazy in not making a callback anyway once they had the guy's story. Having been a cop for 30 years, this smacks entirely of them just wanting to get the call over with as soon as possible, so that they could move on to something more exciting. Criminal Trespass calls are boring! Well, this one isn't anymore...

In my view, the cops were slightly negligent. It's not the kind of negligence that physically hurts someone like hitting them with your squad car while speeding to the donut shop or shooting someone for whipping out a shiny laminated bus pass (happened in my city), but it's the kind of duty-shirking that results in formal apologies, protests and another chip in the public's confidence toward the police. It's also the kind that's hardest to fix.

@31 - Yes they can.
They can't give their names or share images of them, but they absolutely can tell the owner the guy is a supervised visit counselor doing that job and/or meeting a client.

31 The confidentiality laws wouldn't bar the cops from telling the owner WHY the guy was there, and the cops certainly had every right to point out to the owner that, since the man was there for legitimate reasons and was doing nothing wrong, there was no reason to treat him like a trespasser. If the cops knew the man was legit, that was enough to leave it alone. And let's face it, had the guy been white, the cops would never even have been called. We all know it.

33: To clarify that further, it is not confidential information that a man is a caseworker overseeing a supervised visit, especially since the woman and child having the visit stated this out loud IN THE ESTABLISHMENT. There's no reason for anyone to be defending the insistence that the guy be made to leave. It's not as though public order would have crumbled had the cops backed off and simply left after explaining the sitch to the staff and owner.