Black Lives Matter

Hacksaw

Governor of Texas just issued a full pardon for a man who was convicted of murdering a BLM activist last year. The man, Daniel Perry, claimed he killed his victim in self defense, claiming he feared for his life because his victim was armed. I don't think I need to tell anyone just how lax they are about public Open Carry in Texas, so that's a bunk assertion on its face. The jury in the case was unconvinced, as the man was not brandishing his weapon nor making threatening moves towards Perry when he was gunned down.

This would all be bad enough were it not for the fact that this likely happened at the behest of Tucker Carlson, who reached out to Governor Abbott about Perry's conviction. Why would Carlson care about this particular case, you ask? Because during the trial, it was revealed through Perry's own social media posts and text messages that he is a virulent racist. And if there's one demographic in this country that Carlson (and Abbott, let's be honest) prioritizes before all others, it's violent racists.

With this pardon, Perry will have his full rights as a citizen restored, including the ability to purchase, possess, and carry firearms at will. Normal America is normal.

RoyceSraphim

High school classmate will bury their son who took a clip to the chest Thursday for ..... *checks notes* trying a stop a fight between fellow teenagers, including the shooter.

Suspect still at large

Suspect still a child

America is all the lesser

RoyceSraphim

Spd officer recorded joking about pedestrian killed in high speed impact with police cruiser (similar to how other spd officers have died in the past) was fired for their misconduct

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/spd-officer-fired-after-joking-about-death-jaahnavi-kandula-killed-officer-involved-crash/YICARSLIEFDAJIMX5CCXPB3FQM/

Ranlin

That's...extremely surprising.

Pinfeldorf

Well, it did take them over a year and a half to do something that should have taken less than a day.

Houk

still, that's like a prime candidate for the standard "month suspension with pay (i.e. a vacation)" and "sensitivity training (i.e. two hours of 'watching' videos while fucking around on your phone)" approach

Ranlin

Yeah, they don't get a lot of credit or praise for doing it but it's amazing it happened at all, given how much worse offenses can be that they just get a little paid vacation over.

RoyceSraphim

Well, seattle is going nuts with another black woman with mental health issues getting shot by police.

Major points here:
Only 1 officer fired
"Weapon" the victim had was a boiling pot of water
Officer in question had been at six departments in 4 years

There is something to say about the victim's jesus comments but I do not know how to word it

archivistkitsune

And the assholes on the right wondered why one of the things BML was pushing for was a national registry of officers that were fired for misconduct. I don't know, maybe because we've had so many incidents where the cops do something shitty like shooting people that they have no business shooting and then we often find out that many of the cops involved in those incidents have been shuffled around between various law enforcements agencies, at least three times as often as pedophile clergy were shuffled around churches.

RoyceSraphim

The fact that anyone could justify blocked any sort of filter for police applicants based primarily around their past conduct as a police officer alone is pants on head crazy and a sign of the power addiction

RoyceSraphim

And that?s why https://imgur.com/gallery/I6zdRYT

Thro

I had the same problem, but from the opposite angle. I was a southern sounding young white guy working construction with his VERY hillbilly sounding "Paw". No way to guess we were secret liberals and I had a Jewish mom (she did NOT let me call her "Maw" but also didn't volunteer her background readily). Well, till Paw started talking but honestly the accent and getup covered up most of the radical leftist hippie stuff he would say as no one was really looking for it.
I knew the KKK was alive and well because I would get the occasional invite (not like a rally or anything, more of a gathering/feel you out kinda thing). The absolute horrific stuff some of the other white guys would say when it was just us "good ol' boys" around was unbelievable. Apparently literally unbelievable as my mixed race friend groups in fancy secular private school and then later in fancy University would never believe me when I told them how terrible people really are. My wife I don't think really believed me either. Unlike me she experienced the effects, but didn't realize that there were people who still wanted it to be worse. In my friends' defense my view did come across as just a very dim, pessimistic view of human nature in general.

Then 2016 rolls around, and people openly celebrated getting to say the quiet part loud again.

RoyceSraphim

Welp, colin capernic just had his milkshake duck moment

Ranlin

Today's PA strip is accurate then?

RoyceSraphim

Ranlin wrote: »

Today's PA strip is accurate then?

Yep. First few google results for the tech listed cap's linkedin profile

BlackDragon480

Lumi...isn't that the name for the "whole body" deodorant cream that has shitloads of radio ads?

Seems fitting for a douchey idea.

Shadowfire

That's Lume. And honestly my wife swears by the stuff.

RoyceSraphim

As i finish the documentation over the drunk asshole who collided with a coworker and review police body camera footage of the scene and coworker's limp form, i am reminded of my earlier statement in a previous thread.

Police, when fulfilling the duties we want of them, are not a source of merriment. They are meant to now solve problems beyond our means. Problems that require ambulances and need documentation bedore drunk skunks are taken to lockup

It is a founding problem of our society that they act as butlers and enforcers for many of the ruling class in our communities and will continue to engender conflict until that relationshop has ended.

I'm hopeful coworker's personal tech is safe considering i have it on camera in the car

Edit: because first responders steal

Thro

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breonna-taylor-kenneth-walker-judge-dismisses-officer-charges/

Well this is infuriating. Someone please tell me there's some way to hold judges accountable. Are we working on that?

BahamutZERO

They can possibly appeal the decision, but the level above the circuit court is the supreme court, and I suspect the odds of the supreme court opting to hear this case are slim.
A good rundown of the structure of the federal court system: https://naacp.org/find-resources/know-your-rights/understanding-federal-courts

Polaritie

BahamutZERO wrote: »

They can possibly appeal the decision, but the level above the circuit court is the supreme court, and I suspect the odds of the supreme court opting to hear this case are slim.
A good rundown of the structure of the federal court system: https://naacp.org/find-resources/know-your-rights/understanding-federal-courts

No, this is the initial trial judge if I'm reading it right. The first appeal stage would be to the circuit court of appeals, which sits as a 3-judge panel.

BahamutZERO

Oh you're right, I read "circuit court judge" somehow when it actually says "district court judge" so yeah they can take this to appeal.

archivistkitsune

Yeah, there is still some hope; however, slim, that the bastards may still be held accountable because a majority of judge son the panel decide that those fucking cops were at fault for Breonna Taylor's death because they had no business opening fire and this is before we get into the whole thing of those fucking pigs having the wrong address.

Thro

So I posted it in the Black Lives Matter thread because, well it's relevant first to those most effected by this ruling.
I asked about where it went from here, not just for the people it was against this time, but because the precedent the judgement would set seems like it's huge.

A cop can get a warrant approved knowing the evidence to do so is falsified. A cop can execute that warrant incorrectly. If a cop, unannounced, breaks into a building and meets any resistance, all subsequent fatalities are considered the fault of the initial resistor. The cop is possibly subject to a misdemeanor.
If the cop is attacked by a dog on entry, then opens fire on the rest of the occupants, does the dog become the proximate (legal) cause of everyone else's death? Or is this a special: shots were fired, cops are allowed to assume all occupants are armed and hostile until proven otherwise?

It's insane that your roommate doing non-violent crimes without your knowledge could get you killed, in your own house, by a cop.
Or your neighbor.

Polaritie

Thro wrote: »

So I posted it in the Black Lives Matter thread because, well it's relevant first to those most effected by this ruling.
I asked about where it went from here, not just for the people it was against this time, but because the precedent the judgement would set seems like it's huge.

A cop can get a warrant approved knowing the evidence to do so is falsified. A cop can execute that warrant incorrectly. If a cop, unannounced, breaks into a building and meets any resistance, all subsequent fatalities are considered the fault of the initial resistor. The cop is possibly subject to a misdemeanor.
If the cop is attacked by a dog on entry, then opens fire on the rest of the occupants, does the dog become the proximate (legal) cause of everyone else's death? Or is this a special: shots were fired, cops are allowed to assume all occupants are armed and hostile until proven otherwise?

It's insane that your roommate doing non-violent crimes without your knowledge could get you killed, in your own house, by a cop.
Or your neighbor.

No no no, you missed a key detail of the ruling. The judge ruled that resisting also justifies any violence done prior. So if the cops go in guns blazing, kill an infant and the mother, and then the dad comes out and shoots back? It's legally the dad's fault his wife and child are dead. Of course, even if nobody resists, the cops wouldn't be at fault for any part of the process, because cops are above the law.

Tef

I’m sort of mystified that these people don’t seem to understand maintaining the perception of the inviolability of the rule of law is crucial. That sometimes means you have to be willing and able to make a show of punishing some of your own in the most egregious cases. The fact they seem utterly incapable of doing that suggests to me anti-establishment extremism is only going to continue to rise

RoyceSraphim

Polaritie wrote: »

Thro wrote: »

So I posted it in the Black Lives Matter thread because, well it's relevant first to those most effected by this ruling.
I asked about where it went from here, not just for the people it was against this time, but because the precedent the judgement would set seems like it's huge.

A cop can get a warrant approved knowing the evidence to do so is falsified. A cop can execute that warrant incorrectly. If a cop, unannounced, breaks into a building and meets any resistance, all subsequent fatalities are considered the fault of the initial resistor. The cop is possibly subject to a misdemeanor.
If the cop is attacked by a dog on entry, then opens fire on the rest of the occupants, does the dog become the proximate (legal) cause of everyone else's death? Or is this a special: shots were fired, cops are allowed to assume all occupants are armed and hostile until proven otherwise?

It's insane that your roommate doing non-violent crimes without your knowledge could get you killed, in your own house, by a cop.
Or your neighbor.

No no no, you missed a key detail of the ruling. The judge ruled that resisting also justifies any violence done prior. So if the cops go in guns blazing, kill an infant and the mother, and then the dad comes out and shoots back? It's legally the dad's fault his wife and child are dead. Of course, even if nobody resists, the cops wouldn't be at fault for any part of the process, because cops are above the law.

Spirit: you rob a store and someone dies of a heart attack, you are responsible for the conditions and will pay the price

Reality: I shot your spouse and you didn't comply when i tried to cuff you so you're being charged with her murder

RoyceSraphim

https://youtu.be/h__R2h86OiE?si=qP1XH8b_H1SeI9ZA
Dustborn

https://youtu.be/-pUveIzynQI?si=E56AnM4kj42X5QF4
Flintlock: Siege of Dawn

The antiwoke hype beast is raging on these 2 and you'll hear about about it soon enough

Thro

RoyceSraphim wrote: »

https://youtu.be/h__R2h86OiE?si=qP1XH8b_H1SeI9ZA
Dustborn

https://youtu.be/-pUveIzynQI?si=E56AnM4kj42X5QF4
Flintlock: Siege of Dawn

The antiwoke hype beast is raging on these 2 and you'll hear about about it soon enough

Oh the Sweet Baby thing? Honestly the controversy is the only reason I'd have ever heard about Dustborn. (Combat/gameplay was dull, but maybe they Streisand effected some of that into actual sales? I'm sure it bumped up demo downloads.)

minor incident

FWIW, I'd probably put Dustborn as my favorite game of the year so far.

But an anti-fascist queer punk rock road trip beat-em-up rhythm adventure game from the folks behind The Longest Journey was probably always going to hit me like it was laser targeted.

minor incident

Also, I didn't even recognize Dominique Tipper voicing the lead until halfway through the game because I barely recognize her without the Belter accent.

Thro

minor incident wrote: »

Also, I didn't even recognize Dominique Tipper voicing the lead until halfway through the game because I barely recognize her without the Belter accent.

Yeah it's no space Jamaican, but I didn't realize it was her either despite having seen her in other stuff (Girl With all the Gifts).
I had just finished up H-Fi Rush and couldn't stop comparing the two, despite Dustborn's premise promising a real fun time.
I'm glad it has a real audience and isn't just the latest random target of bullshit.

Man in the Mists

RoyceSraphim wrote: »

https://youtu.be/h__R2h86OiE?si=qP1XH8b_H1SeI9ZA
Dustborn

https://youtu.be/-pUveIzynQI?si=E56AnM4kj42X5QF4
Flintlock: Siege of Dawn

The antiwoke hype beast is raging on these 2 and you'll hear about about it soon enough

Can't help but wonder how many unfuckables are going to give themselves away in their rants when they freak out about events that actually don't happen in the game.

RoyceSraphim

Before I accepted that flintlock couldn't run on my rig without the unreal engine crashing, I endured all the player count bitching.....on a single player game.

Label

the visual style on flintlock is pretty sweet, gotta say.

RoyceSraphim

So, over a $2.60 fare, one human was shot and killed, three others wounded, one of whome was a police officer

1 guess who the triggermen were

RoyceSraphim

https://youtu.be/plOY7dl_W7E?si=-lKyMHz-5P44UAw-

Dove did a thing to code natural hair in games

RoyceSraphim

https://www.viz.com/vizmanga/resenter-chapter-1/chapter/44281?action=read


Viz has a oneshot with black coded characters.

Some gore

RoyceSraphim

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/breonna-taylor-brett-hankison-conviction