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No, I don't think it's unreasonable for the cops to question the situation. Had they just taken his word and left, we'd probably hear a story about the police failing to properly investigate the reported burglary. The family would then point out that any person with reasonable judgement would have questioned the teen based on what the cops must have encountered in the home.

That's where my issue is, the police didn't investigate enough. I would think that they would try to get into contact with the home owners and verify what they were being told.

I've had encounters with the police - few but I've had them. Never lost my cool and certainly never tried to argue with the officer.

The police officers weren't pi$$y about the pictures, they were investigating a call about a burglary in progress. They enter the residence and find a black guy in his late teens in the house claiming to be once of the family's children. Then they see the family photographs with three itty bitty little white kids. There's a gap there that might suggest to the officers that maybe they are not being told the truth by the teen. Now add the teen being argumentative and belligerent and I can see how the cops draw the wrong conclusions.

Should the officers apologize to the family? Depends on the whole story - all we're hearing here is one side of it.

Were your encounters with the police similar to what DeShawn experienced ie in terms of the magnitude of the crime/accusation(s)?

I've had different experiences with the police ranging from calm, to laughing to crying (this time I was 13 I think). We all react uniquely in situations with the cops. I do agree that belligerent behaviour doesn't help a situation like this at all.

I'm sure I wouldn't appreciate being in that situation but I also think I'd keep cool enough to ensure that the situation is resolved calmly. There's nothing to be gained from getting pi$$y with the officers who are, after all, doing their job investigating a report of a burglary in progress.

Yeah we all think we'd do the right thing if we're in a situation that didn't go well for someone else. Too often though that's not what happens. If a someone is in their home, doing nothing wrong, no criminal history, haven't broken any laws and a few cops bust in shouting orders, it wouldn't be surprising if the resident is demanding and becomes a bit hysterical.

By the way the police seemed as if they were being a smart mouth with the picture argument.

He didn't say it, the cops just saw three young white kids in the photos, it's in the vid.

Thought there would be a wall/mantle with about 10 pictures instead of 3.

It sounds like the cops did listen to him, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered comparing him to the family pics to see if he belonged there.

Don't see where in the article DeShawn said the cops should verify that it was his home by checking family portraits.

With the way things have been going lately with trigger happy cops, he's probably lucky he didn't get shot. Should've just listened to the cops though. I don't know why people feel the need to escalate things.

The cops should have listened to him too.

I agree though that the police escalated the situation.

The wife seems just as nasty as her husband. Why would you know someone is a molester (especially to kids) and not report the abuser?

Anyone that has visited a high risk ebola country we should do the same. Quarantine americans that return from these countries until deemed safe. Refuse entry to non citizen travelers. until this has ended.

When you close off a a country you create fear..... Wow. The fear is there already. . He claims that no one will come if they understand they were sick. .. Right .They will come her because they want the care that will save their life. Care they cannot get in their homeland today

This is exactly why you can't close borders. Doctors and qualified aides need to be over there treating and ensuring the right information is being circulated, and that the general population is physically handling victims and disposing of the dead appropriately.

It's normal when you're a cultural minority. And it's not just here either. India has a sizeable Tibetan population and when they work amongst Indian people they go by names like Raj and Kumar and not Tzhengdhopawhateverlama.

Guess it's not normal enough because there are minorities that live and work in predominantly Black communities that do not take on traditional Black names so them can fit in better.

Funny how he "attacks" Islam with people who have no affiliation with the religion whatsoever. Why are you debating a religion with someone who's not a Muslim?

I will never understand non Muslims (esp Christians) crtiquing Islam and trying to impose the "right" standards or ideology.

I had a Vietnamese student whose first name was Bich. I don't want to offend anyone, but I was really happy when she told me before class that she goes by the name Cindy.

Hate when people do that, change their name/dumb it down so others don't trip over their tongues trying to pronounce birth names or so it sounds more White and "acceptable". That Bich one is though is understandable. Does the name sound like b1tch if a Vietnamese should say it?

Was I the only one who found it brow raising that Larry Whitten wanted his wanted his Hispanic employees to "whiten" their names, or am I stretching?

and even after they die

If there is an appropriate host and or environmental conditions.

Well that is essentially what happens. Not that the virus exits the body. Either the patient dies or they fight off the infection and there is no more virus.

What is meant by "no cure" is that there is no specific medicine or anti-viral drug that can be used to cure infection. Treatment is supportive to prevent things like hypovolemic shock and systemic organ failure. Most people who die from Ebola infection die from one of those two things.

Once people get past that stage, they will usually recover, although they will still be infectious for up to 21 days (current guidlines) and virus levels will continue to be detectable for several weeks, after which time most people will have measurable levels of Ebola antibodies, a level of immunity against reinfection, and no dectectable viral load.

So the point of the treatment is to keep the body in stable health long enough to build up the high levels of antibodies necessary to ward off Ebola until said patient is 100% Ebola free? I wonder how many Ebola victims have survived the disease, lived a measurable numbers of years after and what treatments they were afforded because so far there doesn't appear to be any.

You take the "no proven cure" to mean that one will have the Ebola virus eternally once one has contracted it? That's not what it means. What it means is that there is no medication or therapy yet available to effectively treat Ebola patients. There's hope that the experimental drug that was used successfully on the first Ebola patients in Atlanta will provide a cure but it will take time for that to materialize. I fail to see where in this link there is any mention of a person that contracted Ebola never freeing the body of the virus.

I got that impression because the survival rate of Ebola victims is quite low (at most 30%) and the treatments for the disease is kinda up in the air at this point. Both factors spell almost certain death which means the virus stays in the body untill victims expire.

Do you have any of those links?

The sort of people that are going nuts around here are not a species you'd find in recognizable numbers in Europe. Overall, folks on the old continent appear to be better informed and more rational. Plus, they don't have to deal with a black man occupying the White House. That right there is the source of much of the panic around here. If it isn't Ebola it's some other ####### they panic about. They're scared people, they need to be scared of something. It's a tradition for the American conservative.

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29493759

Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage

Spread by body fluids, such as blood and saliva

Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 70%

Incubation period is two to 21 days

There is no proven vaccine or cure

Everything I've seen says patients are only contagious while symptomatic. Everything beyond that is theoretical - virus has been recovered up to six weeks in body fluids etc.

I know they consider a patient cured after 21 days without symptoms.

Some reason I'm not getting the idea that the virus eventually exits the body and victims who have survived become virus free.

Where did you read that? My reading is that several people who had contracted Ebola have been treated successfully and released from the hospital Ebola-free.

Yes Ebola patients have been treated and released but articles I've read go on to say there is no cure for the disease. I've seen such information in links provided on this site as well as in BBC and CNN web articles.

There's no widespread outrage and certainly no panic over the treatment of a French citizen and the transport for treatment of a Ugandan citizen to German hospitals. Why should there be? Any rational person would not have a problem with that.

It's just funny because some people are going nuts about the outbreak. This naturally had me thinking how the citizens of a country who agreed to treat a victim would respond.

Ebola is one of the few things I worry about falling victim to considering there are people, before this Ebola outbreak occurred, that spent 10 mins in a restroom stall and left said restroom without washing their hands. THAT is what scares me.

Based on what I've read so far, it appears as if the is no cure for Ebola. Is that true? I'm getting the impression it's like HIV/AIDS where there is no cure just treatments and the virus is something that will remain in the system of an infected individual until death.

What a bunch of paranoid cr@p!

Here are the "unconfirmed" cases - the scary stuff, I suppose:

• FL - Hospital officials say the patient is feeling better and has been moved out of isolation.
• MD - Maryland hospital says patient has malaria, not Ebola
• VA - UPDATE: 2 Virginia patients tested for Ebola, tests likely negative
• MA - Massachusetts physician Dr. Rick Sacra, who had been successfully treated for Ebola, has been admitted to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester Saturday night for signs of pneumonia, according to multiple reports.

Frankfurt: Ebola patient arrives in Germany from Sierra Leone. This is an infected doctor from Uganda who was purposely transported to Germany for treatment. If this makes the list, where is the French nurse that was previously transported to and successfully treated in Hamburg?

This is why you leave it to professionals. Bloggers such as the one that put up this paranoid "tracker" simply lack the expertise to inform the public effectively. They're generally speaking just full of themselves and their irrational fear. And they like to spread that fear. Of course, that's just up your alley, son, ain't it?

What has been the reactions of the German people to the fact that someone suffering from Ebola is in the country?

Closing that "border" is complete nonsense. Following that logic (it's not really logic), we should cut of Dallas, scratch that, Texas right now.

Well they did want to secede. Texas free by the end of Twenty Fourteen.

You have a visa system use it. Anyone from that country needs to free from infection before entry. . Pass the health requirements and you are not in the group left behind.

So you're saying being Ebola free is a get into America free card? Hmm.

Even if the "border" of direct flights from West Africa was closed, what about connecting flights leading to America? Wasn't that how the Liberian man got to the US? What if people travel to northern, southern or eastern Africa to get direct flights to America?

It seems logical because it is logical.

I always wonder whether lib was crying foul back in 2003 when we didn't cut off travel to China where the SARS outbreak - an airborne virus - originated. Actually, I don't wonder. I'm quite certain he wasn't crying foul then.

Maybe because he was on the other side of the globe. You can't offer solutions that might end up having you in the group that gets left behind.

2 questions...why do your friends know your finances? why don't you put an end to the comments?

my wife had no prior work history before coming here, we never discussed finances with anyone outside of our marriage. within a few years she became an electrician earning a nice paycheck, we never discussed finances with anyone outside of our marriage. now she is working for Halliburton making great money, we never discuss finances with anyone outside of our marriage.

I do get the occasional jab about my 4'8" 85lb. wife working blue collar (man jobs), while I work a white collar (woman job). but no paycheck comparisons, because its no one outside of our marriages business. and it wouldn't be tolerated if they knew.

Part of it is common sense. If you are a manager at your local Wal-Mart and your spouse is a part of the senior management team at GE then it would be quite obvious that there is a huge gap in salary between the 2 and who brings in the bacon. Also folks in similar careers with similar qualifications and experience know what the going pay is for one in a similar position. Another thing is depending on the level of friendship, friends sometimes talk about pay whether they are happy with it or disgruntled.

My heart sank when I saw the video. Not only did it not prove one ounce of what people were saying to justify the shooting but Crawford running back and forth in fear was sad to witness.

Now they need to charge that "ex marine" 911 caller with something serious.

This is the most nonsensical/unproductive thread I read in a while. I've read the posts and absorbed the English lesson yet I'm still baffled.