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Patrick Skinner

6 years

Well. There’s this. Me in the New Yorker. Easily the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done. But I wanted to highlight local policing done with a great group of colleagues. But yeah, this is terrifying.

The Spy Who Came Home

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.

www.newyorker.com

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

5 years

Read the below sentence out loud. Please. Out loud. “More children were shot dead in 2017 than on-duty police officers and active duty military combined.” We are afraid of all the wrong things. I say this as a cop.

Mike Walker

@New_Narrative

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More children were shot dead in 2017 than on-duty police officers and active duty military combined, study says

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 years

No other profession excuses fatal mistakes like we cops do. Any criticism is an attack. We think policing is something we do TO a community & not FOR a community & certainly not WITH the community if that means actual input. We don’t get to tell them how we do our job; they do.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

5 years

An ugly shift did have a nice moment. 14 year old kid walks up to my patrol car in a parking lot as I’m trying to write reports. I ask how I can help. He says his phone died & he’s trying to get in touch with his grandmother to pick him up...

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

I’m breaking my years-long no TV rule tonight to speak with @chrislhayes at 8 and tell anyone who will listen that we cops are not warriors because we are not at war with our neighbors. I’m not gonna quit. I’m gonna change it all.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

6 years

As a local cop I’m very very aware of the threat of angry men with guns terrorizing & killing women. Forget ISIS; the greater threat day to day & over the long term isn’t foreign terrorism; it’s the violent husbands, boyfriends, exes, & stalkers of women right down the street

TIME

@TIME

6 years

Gunman kills 5 people including his wife in southern California

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

To my fellow cops, we might not be to blame but we all are responsible for this. We are all bound by oath to serve our neighbors. All of our neighbors. We must reject this cancer of a war on our neighbors. This has to stop. We have to stop this.

‘I Can’t Breathe’: 4 Minneapolis Officers Fired After Black Man Dies in Custody (Published 2020)

“Being black in America should not be a death sentence,” the city’s mayor said as video of the arrest was widely shared.

www.nytimes.com

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

5 years

I never talk about arrests, of which I do a lot. Legally cuz duh. But I like non arrests. I’m pretty good at arrests. I build solid solid solid cases. But I very much like the cases trending towards drama where we find an off ramp. And then follow up and keep it going.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

I can not adequately state how criminally wrong these officers are acting.

Tanya Kerssen 🍉

@tkerssen

4 years

Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

5 years

I’m not a sheep dog cuz my neighbors aren’t sheep. I’m not a warrior cuz I’m not at war with my neighbors. I’m not a Spartan logo t-shirt. I’m not a thin blue line. I’m a very lucky person with great colleagues & neighbors & we live & we work right here

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

1 year

I don’t know how I can continue to be a police officer in America. I do know I don’t want to right now. Law enforcement in America is the scattered good will of individual officers in a change-resistant structure with fundamental principles & philosophies that are utterly rotten

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

2 years

We don’t call it the ‘Nicole Simpson trial’ so stop calling it the Ahmed Arbery trial.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

5 years

I need to make clear that the kid is the ‘hero’ of this thread. I’m at best a well-intended tourist in his life, always at not good times. He bucked history & perhaps his own experience to see my open window & say ‘I’ll give it a chance’ That’s all i am. An open window. A chance

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

I’m a local cop. Not a solider. This senator was a soldier. Not a local cop. I’m not afraid of my neighbors. This senator is scared to death of his neighbors. Reject his calls for war.

Opinion | Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops (Published 2020)

The nation must restore order. The military stands ready.

www.nytimes.com

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

5 years

I drop him off in my old beat and say hi to his grandpa, great guy. And tell the kid ‘I’m so glad you trusted me to walk up and ask for help’. He said ‘just wanted to use your phone but this is way better.’ Happy New Year’s indeed

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

1 year

We lost SweetDog today after 13 years of her being the best friend ever every day. She formed Skinnerville. And all of us here are lost without her.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

I repeat: If you say you’re a law enforcement but don’t put your name & your agency on your super tough guy military uniform—and won’t tell people your name & agency—then you are neither law enforcement nor tough. Somehow local cops manage to work everyday in real name...so scary

CBP Mark Morgan

@CBPMarkMorgan

4 years

Our personnel are clearly marked as federal LEOs & have unique identifiers. You will not see names on their uniforms b/c these same violent criminals use this information to target them & their families, putting both at risk. As Acting Commissioner, I will not let that happen!

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

I can’t express what I’m feeling as I watch the killing of Ahmaud Arbery a short drive from my city. As a cop I just witnessed an obvious crime; as a neighbor I just witnessed a senseless loss; as a person I just witnessed an utter outrage. We all just did

Ahmaud Arbery’s Killing Will Go to Grand Jury as Graphic Video Emerges (Published 2020)

Mr. Arbery, 25, was killed after two men pursued him in a South Georgia neighborhood, a confrontation that was caught on video. A prosecutor said charges should be considered in the case.

www.nytimes.com

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

Stop saying they should have ‘complied’ with that illegal order. There is no legal basis to order anyone to ‘go inside’ while they’re on their own property. Therefore there is no legal obligation to ‘go inside’. Therefore they didn’t refuse to comply with a lawful order...

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 months

One of the three soldiers killed this weekend in Jordan was Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett. She was from Savannah. Graduated from Windsor Forest High School in 2019. Was a drum major with the marching band. She was 23 years old. She was my neighbor.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

7 years

Unless I'm mistaken, Comey didn't testify today via Skype from Moscow after working with Russian intel.

Edward Snowden

@Snowden

7 years

It seems the @FBI Director agrees: sometimes the only moral decision is to break the rules.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

6 years

I swear to god, if we Americans are so stupid as to believe the anti-fact never-served mouth movers about a FBI ‘conspiracy’ where the gov ‘illegally’ obtains .gov emails, then we are the dumbest people on earth.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

I said I was going to speak out. I prefer a twitter feed of mean cats & sweet dogs but we need to change what it means to be ‘police’ in America. So I spoke out. Here is something personal I wrote. I appreciate the @washingtonpost giving me this chance

Perspective | I’m a cop. I won’t fight a ‘war’ on crime the way I fought the war on terror.

The failed strategy I participated in for years as a CIA officer is not how to police people I consider my neighbors. It’s not how to police at all.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

And so we answered the age old question: Do commas matter?

Business Insider

@BusinessInsider

4 years

Delta has banned the Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden for refusing to wear a mask

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

5 years

shift ended w/ colleagues facing real bad calls. I mean bad. And my colleagues were awesome. Are awesome. But my takeaway is seeing that kid walk around the parking lot uncertain about talking to me. & me making sure my window was down & waving him over. The rest is noise

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

7 years

I’ll say this once loudly for those in the cheap seats: Russian interference is serious but wouldn’t work if we weren’t already so so stupid

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 years

There is real crime that police must address. Stuff hanging from a rear view mirror ain’t it. We need to stop treating regulation violations like violent crime. So we need to slow down, stop confusing compliance with success, and keep our guns in the holster. Start there.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

I’m a rookie cop and so I’ve only known body worn cameras. And I love them. They record my interactions with my neighbors. When my neighbors pull out phones and say they’re recording me I always say ‘you should’. Maybe don’t put stupid Instagram cat ears on me but whatever.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 years

Getting theatrically outraged over the notion of some magical oppressive document that shows your vaccination records before you travel is a loud way to say you’ve never really traveled.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

Please stop framing this as a political or partisan issue. Police misconduct & the militarization of local police is a bi-partisan & very-much all-American disgrace. It’s generational & widespread. We must not be warriors cuz we are not at war with our neighbors. Change it all

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

There is no excuse and no justification. The police are the ones violating the law here.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 years

End of chapter 29 of Stephen King The Stand goes like this: “Tottering a little, he began to walk down the road.” God I read this in 1980 when I was nine. Reading now when I am almost fifty feels the same. I’m tottering a little as I walk down the road. We all are.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

Fellow cops: if your first instinct upon even potentially being held more accountable to the communities you serve is to quit...well, then, you should really go ahead and quit. We work for our neighbors. They decide how we work. It’s their consent that empowers us.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

2 years

The time to stop the Omicron variant was getting the vaccine six months ago.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

2 years

Drunk Uncle Orangey was killed this morning crossing the road to get breakfast. For the last year we’ve fed him, got him fixed, & loved on him. He had a rough life but he was loved & I think he knew it. Our porch feels so empty. He was a great friend & we will miss him. Damn it

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

Twitter isn’t bad if you block instantly and never spare the trolls another thought. This isn’t a mandatory debate club. This isn’t your chance to show me how fake tough and real dumb you are. It’s my chance to connect with kind and smart and creative people. You’re not welcome

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

1 year

Last picture of us. Yesterday.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

6 years

As a long time optimist and someone very experienced with the truth that most things are never as bad as they seem, this press conference by the US president is a literal national disaster. A national disaster.

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Patrick Skinner

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2 years

If a fire fighter offered thoughts & prayers instead of putting out the fire, if a dentist offered thoughts & prayers instead of fixing your teeth, you would demand change. So why do we re-elect politicians who only offer thoughts & prayers instead of addressing gun violence?

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 years

This is just so bad and so wrong and so bad and so wrong. There is very real drama in our jobs as police. We can not, we must not, bring the drama.

Ali Weatherton 13News Now

@13AliWeatherton

3 years

WATCH: A new lawsuit claims Windsor police officers drew guns, pepper-sprayed uniformed Army officer during traffic stop. More at 5 on #13NewsNow

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

7 years

As a former intelligence officer, I'm gonna more than suggest there is no difference. And for the administration to say so is naive at best

ABC News

@ABC

7 years

Press Sec.: "Massive difference" between CIA WikiLeaks leak and Podesta email leak lauded by Trump during election.

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Patrick Skinner

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3 years

We have got to change what it means to be the police in America. We stress that cops are only human but then call our neighbors monsters. We excuse our own emotions and then demand our neighbors be robots of polite compliance. But its more than that.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 years

Mankind landed a damn rover within a mile target using a quad-copter after traveling 292 million miles. So accept the fact that most of our sufferings are the result of indifference or politics, not solutions. Accept that fact. AND THEN WORK TO CHANGE IT. Stop electing grifters

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

Well, there’s this. I said I would speak up. So I did.

Perspective | We’re police officers. You should know our names. That goes for Portland, too.

Anonymity is for CIA officers and certain undercover agents fighting crime, not for federal law enforcement forces countering protesters in America. It denies local accountability.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

‘If you don’t want to be shot then comply with the cops’ is just about the most pathetic most wrong belief system I can think of and I’m a cop. It’s the opposite of protect and serve. It’s cancer. It’s wrong. It’s systemic. The burden isn’t on our neighbors. It’s on us cops.

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

Have had two neighbors today tell us that the ‘new cure’ for the coronavirus ‘that the president talked about’ will be ready this weekend...a cure hyped by POTUS will be ready this weekend...Two neighbors who aren’t connected or talking to each other. Holy god this is dangerous

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Patrick Skinner

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3 years

I see we are at the ‘snarking about the president’s dead son’ stage of our shining city on the hill thingy.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

Police should not cover their name tags or badge numbers when engaging with their neighbors. We should not be so afraid of everyone and we should not be so ashamed of our actions that we have to hide who we are from them. We are all accountable. My name is Patrick Skinner.

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

I’ve posted this before but it bears repeating. Years ago I was in the Four Seasons’ cigar bar in Doha. John Bolton walked in & I yelled, and I mean yelled, ‘NICE MUSTACHE!’ and he walked right back out. It was a small petty moment but I am a small petty man. It was glorious

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

1 year

Dead serious. This might be the most beautiful person on this planet.

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@jiggymaami

1 year

Watched this video like 50 times since I found it on Tiktok. What a beautiful man. 😍

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

I think @AVindman is an honorable man who spoke out when everything and everyone around him said silence was the best path. Ukraine is stronger because of him but also America is stronger because of him. It’s no small thing. There are no small acts of courage.

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

As a former CIA officer, I’d like to say: One, who says ‘intelligence warriors’ and ‘bad guys?’ Stop it with your cartoonishly childish understanding. Two: torture, which the agency did and called enhanced interrogation, is wrong and we should say that.

Secretary Pompeo

@SecPompeo

4 years

I watched “The Report.” Fiction. To be clear: the bad guys are not our intelligence warriors. The bad guys are the terrorists. To my former colleagues and all of the patriots at @CIA who have kept us safe since 9/11: America supports you, defends you and has your back. So do I.

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

Sorry but I’m gonna post a bunch of pictures of SweetDog. Mute away. Like this when she picked out her last and favorite bed (we used to let her roam PetSmart and try all the beds). She loved this one the most. Was in the dining room where she could see the bedroom and front door

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Patrick Skinner

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3 years

The culture wars were fought in the decaying Weimar in the late 1920’s EXACTLY as the grifters & bobble heads are doing today. Reading ‘The Coming of the Third Reich’ by Richard Evans is to read what’s happening right now. I’m not being dramatic or alarmist. It’s the same path

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

Just gonna point out to those saying it’s ok for cops to shoot someone in the back cuz in theory that person could run over & grab a knife in a car...hate to burst your compliance-at-all-cost bubble but that’s not a legal argument. ‘Should’ve complied’ isn’t what you think it is

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Patrick Skinner

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3 years

Also we are insane with guns in this country. Argue amongst yourselves and call it a debate or whatever but we are insane. The amount of guns in the hands of young people is the forever war that America doesn’t even pretend to fight. I can’t stress enough how insane this all is.

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

Goodnight to SweetDog and all who love her.

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

Weeks ago I said this pandemic was The Great Revealer. It has revealed this about us: We are an armed GoFundMe campaign pretending to be a superpower. We substitute air shows for leadership & see shared sacrifice as individual injustice. We don’t have to be this way. But we are

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

BAKEY IS CANCER FREE!!! His surgery and biopsy shows no cancer. YAY BAKED POTATO!!

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

I’m gonna guess that the people who are against the US Post Office are also against public libraries, and against public parks, public health, public art, and public education.

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Patrick Skinner

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6 years

I rarely speak about my old job. But I’ll say this: if you participated in torture, you can’t lead the agency in 2018 or ever. We aren’t talking punishment—we’ve decided on none as a nation—but promotions, really? I get the issue is larger than her. But everything is.

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Patrick Skinner

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5 years

He says he’s never been in the back of a cop car & we both agree that’s a good thing. I ask what he did at the mall and he had the greatest answer. He went to a movie. Aquaman. I ask how it was & he says ‘i didn’t want to see aquaman & didn’t pay attention. I went for a girl’.

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Patrick Skinner

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6 years

McCain has it right. Haspel is amazing. She really is. She just shouldn’t be Director CIA. At some point we as a nation must say enough with the ‘in the aftermath of 911 rules didn’t apply..’. They did. And they do. They always did and do.

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. @SenJohnMcCain weighs in, urging his Senate colleagues to reject Gina Haspel for @CIA Director. This is a quite a fight.

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

I hop out at a red light to say hi to a struggling neighbor & give him a tactical caring kit. I hop back in the car, look over, & he’s crying. I get back out & tell him it gets better. And now we are both crying, hoping it does indeed get better. We all matter or none of us do

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Patrick Skinner

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That really wasn’t so bad a wait…Was accepted into one of the three law schools to which I applied. We shall see what the remaining 2 say/offer, but I’m extremely lucky. And I’m extremely going to start law school somewhere in August 2024. I do what I say I’m going to do.

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He speaks so softly but directly. ‘Don’t care about aquaman. I guess it was ok’. I ask about the girl and he says ‘oh she’s great.’ I say ‘you’re a wise kid.’ Only smile of the ride.

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Patrick Skinner

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3 years

The childish vaccine ‘outrage’ is the inevitable result of several generations in which only handfuls of Americans were asked to do anything at all for the common good. Being a good neighbor requires doing good for your neighbors. Like muscle memory, you have to do something.

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Patrick Skinner

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3 years

I appreciate @chrislhayes having me on the show tonight. We need to not see the verdict as a conclusion of a trial but rather as the beginning of change. Also, how insanely cool is it that @ReverendWarnock was on the same show!! we went to high school together. Life is amazing

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Patrick Skinner

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3 years

I’ve not read today’s updates news about the Atlanta spree murders but let me guess: a sudden focus on mental health; a focus on the shooter and not those shot; a focus on what the victims must have represented to provoke the young lad; a focus on literally anything but guns.

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Patrick Skinner

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6 years

It can not be said enough. The most powerful predictor of future violence against women is, wait for it, a history of violence against women. Stop looking for imaginary monsters to worry about. Violence against women by misogynistic pathetic men is a national open wound.

CNN

@CNN

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Gunman in Tallahassee yoga studio shooting was reported for harassing young women, police say

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I let him use my phone. No answer. He calls his grandfather. He answers but can’t drive to get him. Kid lives in my old precinct IN MY OLD BEAT!! So I say ‘hop in, I’ll take you home.’ We talk. He goes to the same middle school I went to. Hates school. Hates a lot of stuff...

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

A sign that the militarization of local police is a national cancer is that people are understandably confusing police officers for National Guard forces. Think on that for a second. In my useless opinion, the militarization of local police has caused infinite grief & trouble

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Patrick Skinner

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I have big news. Huge news, actually. Incredible news, if I wanted to be understated. Stupendous news, if I’m being accurate. The news? Oh, it’s just… … … A NEWLY-DISCOVERED PROBABLY-THE-FIRST-EVER PHOTOGRAPH OF MEANCAT, FROM AUGUST 2015.

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

Yesterday MeanCat lost his only friend. And he just sat on the porch staring back at the door.

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1 year

This just gut punched me. No SweetDog bed where one has been for 13 years.

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Patrick Skinner

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5 years

I empathize that being in 8th grade sucked. No way around it. Gets kinda better around 10th grade but it’s worth it. He asks me about shootings. His biological dad was shot and paralyzed. He said ‘I don’t want to be paralyzed.’ I got nothing to say but ‘me either’...

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Patrick Skinner

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5 years

We refuse to fund the teachers & students of schools but funding armed guards for schools is freedom at its finest isn’t just pathetic. It’s the self-inflicted death of our society. We don’t need more cops. We need to fund all the things that make cops less needed. And I’m a cop

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

I support ‘defund the police’ if it means finally funding all the social/health/economic challenges that drive most of the calls to the police. Can’t really cut the number of police until you reduce the number of calls for the police. Most of our calls are not close to crimes.

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

Meaningful police reform isn’t more coffee-with-cop photo ops. It’s not more attendance at the bi-monthly neighborhood watch meeting. It’s not school assemblies. It’s not. Reform is imagining the end of a war, this war on our neighbors. And then changing. Changing it all.

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Patrick Skinner

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@chrislhayes It is insane that we’ve never had an actual briefing from any relevant agencies on what is easily the greatest security failure and senior political-social incitement in memory. Nothing. Like we’re supposed to forget it happened and why.

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

If only there were any options other than being in a silo or giving an unrepentant amoral anti-democratic twice-impeached former President a 75-minute infomercial. If only there were any other options, you know, like the many many many other options.

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Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

Oh look, an Assassination Coordinate Book!!

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

We would like to thank all of you for your warm thoughts and words about losing SweetDog a few days ago. She was a wonderful friend and a deeply loved member of our family, and we are, quite simply, heartbroken. Thank you from all of us at Skinnerville

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1 year

So, The Baked Potato is having surgery this week to remove three (hopefully benign) growths from his belly and genital region. He would appreciate you telling him how handsome he looks in his body suit he will wear to keep him from getting to his stitches for a week.

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Patrick Skinner

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5 years

I talk about the problems in his neighborhood & he’s happy I know a smidgen of what he knows about the drama there. He talks about local rappers with rap sheets and says he doesn’t like violence. I say me neither....

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

At work I’m a rookie cop and now rookie detective. I don’t talk about old jobs or twitter stuff or my writing etc stuff. I just try to do the job right. So it was surprising & uplifting to get a call from my Chief about the Post piece...who wanted to say how much he loved it...

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Patrick Skinner

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4 years

My captain, who has been very supportive of our tactical caring kits, told me that she was driving today & was stopped at a light. Struggling neighbor knocked on her window & asked if she had ‘one of those kits, the NEIGHBOR kits’. In a totally different precinct!! That’s cool

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

7 years

I don't remember you at the Farm during training. You must have been in a separate training for brave pundits. Thank you for your service

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson

7 years

#Tucker : our intel services are corrupt and it is making it hard to run the Government @FoxNews

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 years

And people say there’s not at least two justice systems. Charge them all. If you entered the building through a smashed window or busted door, you trespassed on the most federal of federal properties. Or is accountability & deterrence only for minorities and the poor? I give up.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

3 years

Justice Department, FBI debate not charging some of the Capitol rioters

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

1 year

Goodnight to most, from all at Skinnerville, where a sad MeanCat sleeps alone in the bed, without SweetDog, who’s been his only friend since day one.

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

If you think dropping off vulnerable people in sub-freezing temperatures on a sidewalk is a clever political statement you are a garbage human being. No ‘but both sides…’ about it. You’re garbage on all sides.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 years

Most every day I walk past a couple of my neighbors and we wave. Decades ago they came as refugees from our war in Vietnam. Savannah welcomed a fair number of Vietnamese refugees who now are part of our community. We created neighbors. We should do the same now for Afghans

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Patrick Skinner

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3 years

You know what was like The Holocaust? The Holocaust. You know what was like Jim Crow? Jim Crow. Stop using offensive historical analogies because you’re so sheltered that you have to use the historic pain of others to express your mild inconvenience or because you’re just a liar

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

2 years

Theresa and I appreciate all the lovely responses to us losing Drunk Uncle Orangey. There are no small acts of kindness, nor any small loves, only small people who can’t grasp that. He’s ‘not just a cat’. He, and everything, is the whole point.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

3 years

Good lord the performative ‘I alone am the righteous noble warrior’ garbage of cops quitting because they forgot the meaning of public and service in the job description of public service. Just quit and go away.

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Patrick Skinner

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2 years

October 30th. And today. Just awful. His dent in the pillow remains. I see a lot of ugly but I’m surrounded by way more beauty. That rough looking tom cat orangey was part of that beauty.

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

4 years

This is insane. I keep saying to all who will listen that this is not a matter of tinkering with police training. This is a foundational mindset. Of a war on crime that is utterly just a war on neighbors. Unless you change that mindset, nothing, nothing at all, will change.

Lindsay Wise

@lindsaywise

4 years

Aurora police apologize after Black children were detained, handcuffed in stolen car mixup

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Patrick Skinner

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1 year

If Twitter collapses, I will be saddened. I’ve loved my time on here, and have learned a great deal from really interesting people. I’ve found people to be kind at heart & generous of spirit; and I’ve tried to be the same. You are the company you keep & I’ve kept great company

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Patrick Skinner

@SkinnerPm

5 years

LOOK UP from your rutted roads, your unaffordable health care, your dysfunctional governments, your failing schools, your warming planet, your lack of safe drinking water, your intentionally-created divisive/ignorant society...and take pride in what we decided to buy instead.

The White House 45 Archived

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