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Black Lives Matter

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Gundi wrote: »
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »

    Some layers there. What a stupid law. What asshole called the cops over a tulip

    hot take: i bet they were white

    the asshole? the cop? or the flower?

    yes

  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    Interview in 2 hours

    Please raise your hands in the air and channel your Business Energy towards me

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Cello wrote: »
    Interview in 2 hours

    Please raise your hands in the air and channel your Business Energy towards me

    i have no business energy but i will send you over caffeinated need to poop energy instead

  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Cello wrote: »
    Interview in 2 hours

    Please raise your hands in the air and channel your Business Energy towards me

    this one is tough for me because usually when I'm instructed to raise my hands in the air, the next step is to wave them like I just don't care. but in this case i care very much! so i did it, but i'm not sure if it worked, hopefully your interview goes well either way!

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Cello wrote: »
    Interview in 2 hours

    Please raise your hands in the air and channel your Business Energy towards me

    this one is tough for me because usually when I'm instructed to raise my hands in the air, the next step is to wave them like I just don't care. but in this case i care very much! so i did it, but i'm not sure if it worked, hopefully your interview goes well either way!

    you just wave them in reverse

  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    Well this was absolutely not the job thread but the support is appreciated!!!!! Extreme oops!!!

    Cello on
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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    oh shit I didn't realize either, apologies folks!

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »

    Some layers there. What a stupid law. What asshole called the cops over a tulip

    hot take: i bet they were white

    the asshole? the cop? or the flower?

    yes

    The tulip did nothing wrong except create a economic disaster in 1637, which again, wasn't its fault!

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Gundi wrote: »
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    honovere wrote: »

    Some layers there. What a stupid law. What asshole called the cops over a tulip

    hot take: i bet they were white

    the asshole? the cop? or the flower?

    yes

    The tulip did nothing wrong except create a economic disaster in 1637, which again, wasn't its fault!

    yeah but it laughed while it happened so....

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular

    This would not have happened if the kid were white.

    That's really all it is to it. At every step of the process: the police being called in the first place; the police charging the kid; the judge not summarily dismissing the charges... a white child would have been treated with the leniency and sympathy that all children deserve.

    Instead this kid is going to have a record before they're even in double digits, and that's going to predispose authority figures in his life to dismiss them as a lost cause already. The rest of this child's life is going to be an uphill battle because of this, and systemic racism is such that this injustice will only enable/justify countless more against them.

  • DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    Just because something is legal doesnt mean you arent an asshole for doing it. Likewise, just because something is illegal, doesnt mean you are a criminal that must be charged.

    I've no doubt the person that called also loudly complains about any speeding tickets they get.

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    i am really amazed the judge didn't throw it out and fine the cop and the person who called. i would have given them both jail time and let the kid spray them with a hose the whole time

  • Kane Red RobeKane Red Robe Master of Magic ArcanusRegistered User regular
    The judge did throw out the case on that one, still a travesty that they dragged the kid to court though. Who the fuck arrests a kid for picking a flower? (Sadly I am familiar with the kind of person who would call the cops on a kid for "vandalizing their property").

  • QuantumTurkQuantumTurk Registered User regular
    The judge did throw out the case on that one, still a travesty that they dragged the kid to court though. Who the fuck arrests a kid for picking a flower? (Sadly I am familiar with the kind of person who would call the cops on a kid for "vandalizing their property").

    Somehow we have more stories like this than "cop called to break up kids playing hockey joins kids to play hocky", hmmmmmm, surely no reason behind it.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    First reason, tragedy sells more

    Second reason, officers punished for not meeting quotas

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    The judge did throw out the case on that one, still a travesty that they dragged the kid to court though. Who the fuck arrests a kid for picking a flower? (Sadly I am familiar with the kind of person who would call the cops on a kid for "vandalizing their property").

    Do you have a link on the judge throwing the case out? It's not in the articles I've seen.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    The judge did throw out the case on that one, still a travesty that they dragged the kid to court though. Who the fuck arrests a kid for picking a flower? (Sadly I am familiar with the kind of person who would call the cops on a kid for "vandalizing their property").

    Do you have a link on the judge throwing the case out? It's not in the articles I've seen.

    https://journalnow.com/north-carolina-sends-6-year-olds-to-court-why-some-say-its-time-for-change/article_e2a15a82-8383-11eb-91ee-43ce7c88753b.html
    The 6-year-old accused of picking the tulip ended up before a judge because his mother couldn't make the intake meeting. Once the judge realized what was happening, he dismissed the case, said Boyer.

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Thank Christ for small miracles, I guess.

  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    Pathetic that despite multiple tiers of law enforcement that handled the case before it went to a judge, it wasn't dropped until that last moment. Like seriously, of the dozens of people who probably reviewed that case before it went before the judge not one of them said, "hold up, WTF is going on here???"

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Pathetic that despite multiple tiers of law enforcement that handled the case before it went to a judge, it wasn't dropped until that last moment. Like seriously, of the dozens of people who probably reviewed that case before it went before the judge not one of them said, "hold up, WTF is going on here???"

    Law enforcement is racist at all levels

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    A DA decides it's probably worth charging a 6-year old kid for picking a flower.

    Meanwhile, in another state, a DA decides it's not worth charging anyone for murdering Breonna Taylor in her sleep.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Greenlight everything I put on your desk or you're fired.

    I don't care what it is, I got a quota to meet.

    If you cannot tell, I am implying that legal cases are treated the same as order picking at amazon fulfillment centers. That one must be complicit in this to have a career in a prosecutor's office or be exiled for people with better rates.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    A DA decides it's probably worth charging a 6-year old kid for picking a flower.

    Meanwhile, in another state, a DA decides it's not worth charging anyone for murdering Breonna Taylor in her sleep.

    I can basically promise you the DA has zero involvement in the flower picking case.

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  • H0b0manH0b0man Registered User regular
    I'm not a legal person, but this sounds like a good thing.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-police-idUSKBN2BH2I5
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday expanded the ability of people to sue police for excessive force, ruling in favor of a New Mexico woman who filed a civil rights lawsuit after being shot by officers she had mistaken for carjackers.

    The 5-3 decision allowed the woman, Roxanne Torres, to pursue her lawsuit accusing New Mexico State Police officers Richard Williamson and Janice Madrid of violating the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment ban on illegal searches and seizures even though she had not been immediately detained, or seized, in the incident.

    The court determined that in order to sue for excessive force under the Fourth Amendment, it is not necessary for a plaintiff to have been physically seized by law enforcement.

    “We hold that the application of physical force to the body of a person with intent to restrain is a seizure even if the person does not submit and is not subdued,” conservative Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the ruling.

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    H0b0man wrote: »
    I'm not a legal person, but this sounds like a good thing.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-police-idUSKBN2BH2I5
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday expanded the ability of people to sue police for excessive force, ruling in favor of a New Mexico woman who filed a civil rights lawsuit after being shot by officers she had mistaken for carjackers.

    The 5-3 decision allowed the woman, Roxanne Torres, to pursue her lawsuit accusing New Mexico State Police officers Richard Williamson and Janice Madrid of violating the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment ban on illegal searches and seizures even though she had not been immediately detained, or seized, in the incident.

    The court determined that in order to sue for excessive force under the Fourth Amendment, it is not necessary for a plaintiff to have been physically seized by law enforcement.

    “We hold that the application of physical force to the body of a person with intent to restrain is a seizure even if the person does not submit and is not subdued,” conservative Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the ruling.

    https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/scotus-cites-centuries-old-case-where-countess-was-arrested-at-mace-point-as-analogue-to-police-shooting/?utm_source=mostpopular
    The case stemmed from a 2014 incident involving Roxanne Torres and two New Mexico State Police officers tasked with executing an arrest warrant on another woman at an apartment complex. The officers attempted to speak to Torres and a third (unrelated) woman during the process of serving the warrant. Torres had just gotten into her car in the complex parking lot. When officers tried to open her door, she assumed the officers were carjackers, so she fled. Officers fired a total of 13 shots to stymie her escape — hitting her twice — but Torres still managed to drive 75 miles to a hospital.

    i don't know much about the case but it sounds like another situation where she wasn't even involved in the reason the police were there in the first place

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Why...why did the police fire at a fleeing vehicle at all? Shooting people in the back is...like, they literally can't be a threat in that situation.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Ubik wrote: »
    H0b0man wrote: »
    I'm not a legal person, but this sounds like a good thing.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-police-idUSKBN2BH2I5
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday expanded the ability of people to sue police for excessive force, ruling in favor of a New Mexico woman who filed a civil rights lawsuit after being shot by officers she had mistaken for carjackers.

    The 5-3 decision allowed the woman, Roxanne Torres, to pursue her lawsuit accusing New Mexico State Police officers Richard Williamson and Janice Madrid of violating the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment ban on illegal searches and seizures even though she had not been immediately detained, or seized, in the incident.

    The court determined that in order to sue for excessive force under the Fourth Amendment, it is not necessary for a plaintiff to have been physically seized by law enforcement.

    “We hold that the application of physical force to the body of a person with intent to restrain is a seizure even if the person does not submit and is not subdued,” conservative Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the ruling.

    https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/scotus-cites-centuries-old-case-where-countess-was-arrested-at-mace-point-as-analogue-to-police-shooting/?utm_source=mostpopular
    The case stemmed from a 2014 incident involving Roxanne Torres and two New Mexico State Police officers tasked with executing an arrest warrant on another woman at an apartment complex. The officers attempted to speak to Torres and a third (unrelated) woman during the process of serving the warrant. Torres had just gotten into her car in the complex parking lot. When officers tried to open her door, she assumed the officers were carjackers, so she fled. Officers fired a total of 13 shots to stymie her escape — hitting her twice — but Torres still managed to drive 75 miles to a hospital.

    i don't know much about the case but it sounds like another situation where she wasn't even involved in the reason the police were there in the first place

    Also once again the cop response to person driving away from them is attempted murder

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Why...why did the police fire at a fleeing vehicle at all? Shooting people in the back is...like, they literally can't be a threat in that situation.

    They've seen it on the tv

  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Why...why did the police fire at a fleeing vehicle at all? Shooting people in the back is...like, they literally can't be a threat in that situation.

    you must not be american. cops here shoot people running away all the time

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    They attempted to speak to her, she ran away, so they fired thirteen shots at her car. Fucking clownshoes.

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Jars wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Why...why did the police fire at a fleeing vehicle at all? Shooting people in the back is...like, they literally can't be a threat in that situation.

    you must not be american. cops here shoot people running away all the time

    And, it should be noted, they're not supposed to even by the ridiculous standards in the US. The bar almost literally couldn't be lower for them and they still make it under.

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  • H0b0manH0b0man Registered User regular
    What's crazy to me is that she was shot in 2014. It's 2021 and she is still having to deal with legal bullshit from it. This case isn't even the end of it. All it does is allow her other suit to proceed. Who knows how long that will take.

    Our system is so broken.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Jars wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Why...why did the police fire at a fleeing vehicle at all? Shooting people in the back is...like, they literally can't be a threat in that situation.

    you must not be american. cops here shoot people running away all the time

    And, it should be noted, they're not supposed to even by the ridiculous standards in the US. The bar almost literally couldn't be lower for them and they still make it under.

    They are never punished for doing it so why would they not do it

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Jars wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Why...why did the police fire at a fleeing vehicle at all? Shooting people in the back is...like, they literally can't be a threat in that situation.

    you must not be american. cops here shoot people running away all the time

    And, it should be noted, they're not supposed to even by the ridiculous standards in the US. The bar almost literally couldn't be lower for them and they still make it under.

    They are never punished for doing it so why would they not do it

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely, yes.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular


    a black Georgia state representative, Rep. Cannon, is being literally dragged out of their capitol building by state troopers while the Georgian assembly is in session, charged with felony obstruction of justice for knocking on the governor's door to observe him signing a bill to ratfuck their voting process somehow or other.

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    This won’t be the end of it I hope

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    Of course all the pigs were white

    Fuckin of course

  • TicaldfjamTicaldfjam Snoqualmie, WARegistered User regular
    edited March 2021
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Of course all the pigs were white

    Fuckin of course

    Georgia y'all!

    Ticaldfjam on
  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    It hit me that the top sheriff incident over the the newpaper delivery person is extra embarassing for the county and office because that is supposed to be the one person they can count on to act responsibly

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