You are so talented!!

Patient first doctors have misdiagnosed me so many times. They're only worth a trip if you need a doctor's note or can't get in anywhere else for an illness imo. I go to planned parenthood for regular exams and while they can take a while to get in to, they offer great care.

Knowing him casually... I fully expected this and was looking for the name of someone I know in that post. Poor woman had definitely been through it with his grooming and manipulation.

I went off foo dog when they served a cold hard boiled egg in my ramen

Ok. My point was that every article I've seen about it, including this one, makes it very difficult to parse that he was a cop in the first place. You can see by how many people in this thread alone couldn't tell due to the wording of the article. The headline is ridiculous, should read "Virginia police officer shot dead after abducting teenage girl and killing her family." There are many people out there who won't read further and will never know that this is the kind of person hired for the police force.

Lol what does South Africa have to do with anything. I'm all for having laws, but the police ain't working. They have zero accountability, little training, and too much power/force behind them. Are you ok with guys like this patrolling your streets?

He was employed by Washington county sheriff's office and he was a pedophile.

For sure there's more to the story. But we know he was a cop who was a pedophile and murderer.

The Washington sheriff's department stated publicly that he was employed there. It's not some conspiracy, he was a cop. And until the police as a whole start fixing their problems and really examining who they employ, they're just gonna keep being hated. No responsibility without accountability.

And then he was hired by the Washington sheriff's department. Try again. If his first department knew he had these kinds of issues do you really think it'd be ok for them to let him resign and get a job doing the same thing elsewhere? Where is the accountability? Where is the process to weed out these freaks? Whatever the police are doing is not working because they're empowering people who wish to do others harm.

No it wasn't? My original comment was about how journalists never state that a cop has murdered someone. In this article in particular they went to great lengths to avoid using the words "police officer". This obfuscation in the polices favor is frequent.

The worker! Lmao

After which he was hired by the Washington county sheriff's office, which is where he was employed when the murders (and other crimes) took place.

That's why their subs taste so good, then

I feel like they could have worded it more succinctly while also including the fact that he abducted the girl as well.

Yeah the article is purposely vague. We know now that he was employed with the state troopers, resigned, then hired by Washington police. Washington police dept stated that he was indeed hired as an officer (per the link). He may have still been in training but he was definitely a cop when he murdered three people and abducted a teen. (so, a cop AND a pedophile murderer!).

Yes, thank you for articulating what I couldn't! Reminds me of when my roommate begrudgingly venmo'd me for shoes her cat ruined with the comment "for shoes that got cat pee on them", haha.

I don't think I would assume that, and I'd say the majority of people I know have positive feelings towards firefighters. I would say, though, that you might not want the association with the thin blue line image.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rva/comments/z6ycx2/north_chesterfield_virginia_law_enforcement/iy46n8q?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

Clearly you didn't see the comment in this thread containing a statement from his current employer.

"the media" doesn't even mention that he's a cop, though? They beat around the bush a whole lot for "jumping at any chance to shame a cop".

YEP glorified gang members whose purpose is to protect capitol, not people.

If you read the article it states he was a state trooper.

"A spokesperson for the Virginia State Police said Edwards entered its academy July 6, 2021, and graduated as a trooper on Jan. 21 of this year."

The article states he was a state trooper

Edit: furthermore this is just one of many examples of the press refusing to reflect in their article titles that the perpetrator of a murder was a cop.