# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 993
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/993 "2020-09-19T22:39:24Z")
Unfortunately, in that first quote, **Slack** is advocating (or at lesson condoning) violent police reaction against unarmed protesters and criminal suspects who _might_ be armed. (With knives). So I think RBG would be pretty upset. To be fair. ETA: > [@Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread #2](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread-2/912531/254): > > [Per the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2020/08/26/jacob-blake-had-knife-car-but-otherwise-unarmed-tased-kenosha-officer-rusten-sheskey-shot-in-back/5639429002/) Officers tried to arrest Blake. One of the officers deployed a Taser to try to stop him, but it did not work.[…] Blake had a knife on the driver’s side floorboard and had no other weapons, the DOJ said in a news release. I’m going to bet that, like the vast majority of people, you don’t have the slightest clue how big “knife range” [actually is.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0haocH4-o) And let’s get this straight: you are saying that someone who resisted arrest, shrugged off a taser, and wrestl… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461)._