Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "this was before the mainstream knews heard much about people getting shot by police officers"

• Jacques Chirac was shot in the head by a fascist named Jean-Marie Le Pen
• The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
• SA-8 Gecko (and getting shot down by one)
• The cult leader poured himself a drink and started on about his plans, and I wondered how the priest was getting on
• Shot Down by the Burbank Police Department
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep?
• I knew about the kissing problem before I said Yes.
• A lie only hurts when it's told by people you care about
• There's so much to think about. I'm getting distracted.
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
• There is not much new to say about snow, or about broken love
• I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• That Thursday the Universe was curved in the morning and was flat again by afternoon
• by people who know what salsa should taste like
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• Cybersex before it was cool
• I dreamed about you for 29 years before I met you
• Getting offered money for sex by a crackhead in the 24-hour supercenter
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• My Singing was Stolen by Whispers to a False Friend
• Are the gospels written by the people they're attributed to?
• You can learn a lot about a person by how they act at an Airport
• Much Ado About Nothing
• do you think about me as much as i think about you?
• A Book about Me, by Me Myself
• Stop Me (If You've Heard This Before)
• I Liked Booze before It Went Mainstream
• most people don't know what they're talking about anyway
• Photography and religion
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
• Supporting your views on modern social dynamics by citing anthropology
• I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space
• smiling in photographs was a concept introduced by Kodak
• My lunch money was stolen by a predatory Mars rover
• On getting blown up 8000 miles from home by a man who does not own shoes
• The Invasion of Ireland by Parlothan's People
• Being accurate about the small things is more important than getting the story fundamentally right
• Much Ado About Nothing I.i
• Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths
• People who carp about their jobs
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• I knew before I met you just how we would end
• Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
• i don't spend a lot of time thinking about what it feels like to be gored by a chainsaw
• It was better before they came
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• People referred to by three initials
• The Umbrella Academy is about damaged people
• I was hit by a train that doesn't really exist
• Characterizing stoners by reference to stoned people
• Personality is defined by other people
• If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
• The German textbook that was written by Morrissey
• Going by the script when talking to people
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• much visited by bees (user)
• i would much rather engage directly with the supreme powers of the universe than the horde of ghosts conjured by man
• You will know me by those colors, deep and bold, of the heart you never knew.
• she was waylaid by an octopus
• Avoid getting screwed by contractors
• How to really impress people using division by 7
• 80% of the wealth on this planet is in the hands of about 220 people
• What people talk about when they can't think of anything to talk about
• A joke about dealing with people
• I heard about it on the radio
• Much Ado About Nothing I.ii
• It was always about words
• When I heard about the funeral I said "Why?"
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• Who cares about a bunch of people in Austria
• people are lazy about explanations so they make rules
• Ground rush
• We've heard it all before
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• London Beckoned Songs about Money Written by Machines
• he knew that victory is not about who is standing after the fight
• They protect us from danger by harming us before we can harm ourselves
• I was me before being me was cool.
• I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
• I remember the minimizer's playbook before it was killing grandmas
• I was taken by a honeymoon scam
• Hit by the realization that they are all getting to know you nodes
• Before you, there was me
• Find someone who dreams about people like you
• "I was surprised to hear about the cat."
• The Invasion of Ireland by Casnar's People
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• Electronically, I was questioned by a mallard of flame…
• 95% of the money is made by 5% of the people
• You sad cookie, you CARE more about filthy rich pretty people you'll never meet
• getting by with duff ears
• Discovering personalities by watching people with their dogs
• One sock on (or: Getting caught fooling around by the cops)
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• Prejudice and discrimination suffered by mentally ill people
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• I was raised by the French government
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• Men get turned on by lesbians much more than women get turned on by gay men
• War is a game played by old men with other people's sons
• So many people have come and gone, their faces fade as the years go by
• What was stolen by someone else
• Surrounded by people, I forget that I am one of them
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• If you become lucid, you realize history's greatest literature was being written as you read it ...by yourself.
• every secret thing was made by some one
• Woken up by footsteps of people who weren't there
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• Getting hit by a woman
• We are the People Our Parents Warned Us About
• I knew enough about him to know his name and what kind of snowball he could make
• Worry not about the cars that go by
• George Bush doesn't care about black people
• Life is not so much about saying hello as it is about saying goodbye
• Pete Townshend was right about Saddam Hussein
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get
• this was supposed to be a parable about the power of the imagination
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• sometimes i wonder about people who snap at strangers
• Something was about to happen.
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• People who get worked up about misspelling Colombia
• The Day the World was about to End
• The bored who complain
• Foolproof method to determine how much a person knows about computers
• Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• The thing to understand about trans people
• Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody
• For someone who writes about love as much as I, writing about it when it's real sure is hard.
• Early, before our hands knew what to do
• people got a lot of ideas about who i am
• People have fucked up before
• Next time don't drop acid and down a dozen shots right before the rehearsal dinner
• Before Time Was
• what's the point of having other peoples' thoughts about something?
• Wandering about with keys dangling from an oversized shoelace around your neck
• I was wrong about the color changing; your eyes are brown
• There was a time before
• the places that I knew before you
• Before the World was Made
• If you complain about the content of the news, you are deluded about its purpose
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Did you think of me before you knew me?
• Man Getting Hit by Football
• i was given a mind before i was given a heart
• At night, when we walked by the wall, the world seemed to fall down before us - the whole, far-off, dirty world.
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• being beaten into an unhealthy state by other people's pasts
• No important data was harmed by the ILOVEYOU worm
• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, One Second before Awakening
• The best part of having a roommate is getting to bitch about them incessantly
• Food which was intended as such by nature
• On reading letters that bitch about scantily-clad models on magazine covers
• getting hit by a guy
• What to do if you're stopped by the police
• The Wild Colonials
• The write-up contributed to by the most people
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• Being solicited for sex by people who don't even know your gender
• Love isn't about fixing people

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