Eat a cock and have a good night.

> Number 3 is a perfectly reasonable reaction when some dude you don't know jumps in the back seat of the car while you're asleep

What, did the kid think someone was jumping in to steal the car something? lol. The kid had one cop inside the car and sounds like the other was being dragged while reaching in the window or something. You're giving this guy a lot of benefit of the doubt. He knew he was in a stolen car. He saw cops. He tried to run. Oh he also had a gun on him. That's all "perfectly reasonable" behavior for a criminal, you're right.

The idea isn't that he "deserved to die" for "not complying", it's that he got himself killed because he committed a bunch of dangerous crimes.

Couple other things: the ACTUAL victim of the crime, the person whose car was stolen, is a single mom with four kids who works two jobs in addition to going to school herself. This kid didn't care about her, you think he cares about the police (or you?)? Dead guy also had a 5 month old baby. Sounds like he didn't care about that either.

His mom cried at the scene, “You’re supposed to protect us. He was only 17!”. The cops were protecting everyone else from this waste of life, mama!

"Nee Nee Taylor, a community activist with Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, a mutual-aid and community defense organization, was at the scene and criticized the shooting. “Why are police officers getting inside of a vehicle?” she asked. “And why didn’t he just get out?""

Yes, "why didn't he just get out" is also a good question for the now-dead criminal!

I just hang around there and catch falling ones in a big hat. After a few days I have enough to cook with

Rose ice cream is a Persian dessert that has a similar flavor.

Precisely. What we have here are cherry sparkling flower trees

This is why for St Patrick's Day all my special cocktails taste like some sweaty Irishman instead of mint. For the authenticity!

>And if you're the type to not comply with the police (see: dumbass dead 17 year old), cops are going to have to come into the car to detain you.

I keep bringing it up because folks like you keep thinking that he was given an opportunity to comply with the cops, even though that's not what the police spokesman claimed.

Read the paragraphs I quoted above again with the cops' description. It says:

1. The kid was asleep in the car.
2. The cop jumped in the back seat of the car.
3. The kid hit the accelerator pedal.
4. The cop inside the car told him to stop.
5. The cop inside the car shot him.

Number 3 is a perfectly reasonable reaction when some dude you don't know jumps in the back seat of the car while you're asleep. Not that it would justify his death - but this wasn't a lengthy car chase where the kid knew he was running from the cops. According to the police statements, at most a few seconds passed between the cop surprising the kid awake and shooting him.

The idea that he deserved to die for "not complying" with the cops in the dangerous and volatile situation they created is total bullshit.

You can order Monin Sakura syrup on the internet now. Cheers

Who cares! Just let people have fun.

I'm so glad to see this!! Every year I make a liter of cherry blossom simple syrup from a cherry tree in my yard because I got so sick of getting excited for cherry blossoms things, just to get "cherry-flavored" every year.

Almondy, floral, lightly fruity. Divine. Great in coffee, tea, tonic water, on your waffles, everything :)

Girl it is not that deep ☠️

Let the people have their cherry flavor.

I was going to say this sounds a lot like McCarthyism but that means something different now lol

I laughed unreasonably at this comment

Fixed link for old reddit without all the tracking stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Floral-Elixir-Co-Cherry-Blossom/dp/B071CZ5G2J

I think it's ignorance on the part of restaurants.

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There are also a lot of "successful businesses" that cater specifically to... serving what they say they are serving, even if someone might not have heard of it. It's why a cheap Americanized roll of sushi with spicy mayo and avocado costs a fraction of a piece of fish that the person who is upset their sakura drink doesn't taste like the wrong thing would say "ew, it's raw."

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You will notice several people share this criticism in these comments.

So this is why everything that’s “almond flavored” tastes like cherry flavoring to me. But cherry flavoring tastes nothing like cherries.

Please don’t give tourists and others this idea or they’ll be breaking branches to try this and exposing trees to disease.

I'm sure restaurants will be glad to put a drink on the menu that annoys more people than it satisfies. Clearly how successful businesses are run.

Sounds like you not liking how local restaurants capitalize on the cherry blossom tourism is "a you problem".

You're really hung up on this sleeping thing as if that somehow makes a difference. The car was stolen, so you get arrested for that sort of thing. And if you're the type to not comply with the police (see: dumbass dead 17 year old), cops are going to have to come into the car to detain you. Shame for us all, really. We're down one future business leader of America here.

"I got what I asked for and am upset"

A you problem

If you order the sockeye salmon with your cherry blossom martini and are mad you got neither socks nor eyes, that's not the fault of the establishment

...if you're at the kind of bar with sticky floors where everything is served in disposable cups.

1. You're
2. I wish I was a mid level manager
3. I fucking hate Reddit
4. I do like cocktails tho

My doctor put me on Methylphenidate for exactly this reason

I have plenty of family who’ve done shit like this. I would be sad if they died, but I can’t really blame the cops, I already know they be on that bullshit.

We talk about cops being violent when pulling people over, so why would it been any less dangerous if you become a target that they are attempting to arrest. Kid was walking into a hornets nest, fell asleep by it, then unfortunately got stung.

So if a 17 yr old is trying to kill you, the officer can't shoot him.... ok... whatever. I want the officer to do whatever will stop the 17 yr old violent felon as fast as possible to ensure that I live. You want to sacrifice your life for a violent felon's, that's your choice.... don't think that others need to sacrifice their lives like that.