but this holiday season, table is...
https://i.imgur.com/sYr8ZBG.gif
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
above the law
(seagal is a cop in that movie, it fits)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
fits with the thread, i mean.
sorry
https://bplusmovieblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/andjusticeforall.png?w=590
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
your honor, under the traditions of the time-honored Magna Carta, i believe that as the defendant in these proceedings i am entitled to a
Trial by Combat
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
what does "no offense to you" even mean lol. if you think i care about judges or what the law says i don't know what to tell you
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
I mean it's easier for us to dismiss the law when the case involves a privileged alt-right kid who fessed up to killing both people right after he did it and was publicly witnessed doing it by everybody that was there...
vs if someone of lower income who can't afford a lawyer and has to go with a public defender is accused of something they didn't do.
if conservatives had their way, it'd be easier to convict people on trivial evidence, and that's not something I want to gravitate towards. we already know of scores of people who were wrongly put on death row in the current system.
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
I want to pay wergild for my murders.
― "Devious" Licks (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
But if we all don't believe in the law then it will just fuck off and the prisons will disappear
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
The point is that there is quite literally nothing redeemable about the US legal system as it is, so while knowing its ins and outs is valuable, I don't actually put any faith in it. It's a field based in pain and death. Fuck it.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
the problem with the legal system though is that it unfairly penalizes non-violent crimes that pose little harm to the community with stiff penalties, is weighted in favor of people with money who can afford rockstar legal representation as opposed to poorer individuals who can only receive the services of an overworked public defender. and that it punishes people of color disproportionately to Caucasian individuals. the issue with the legal system is that it is locking up too many people that do not belong locked up at all, locking people up for too long, locking the wrong people up, executing the wrong people, etc. Meaning the deck is stacked against the average civilian who runs afoul of the law. Suggesting more legal protections are needed for the average individual.
Yes, there are also people who aren't incarcerated who should be, but I've never understood the argument against our legal system to be that "more people need to be locked up", but that we need to overhaul and rethink the entire prison system, which encourages recidivism and makes it impossible for prisoners to re-enter society.
the example that harbl is talking about is an actual protection offered to civilians accused of a crime, mostly to prevent prejudicing the jury and resulting in an unfair trial that puts them away for many years. I wouldn't see this as an emblem of an unjust legal system because it's a protection that actually seeks to give defendants a fighting chance to defend themselves if they are wrongfully accused. and in this case, I don't think it's one that's going to have a significant role in the outcome of the case.
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
table i understand that, in fact i agree with you. i'm just not sure why you directed that at me like i'm proud of the legal system
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
yea, sorry. i apologize for that.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:02 PM (yesterday)
yeah ... it's a challenge to work within the system you have misgivings / major problems with to try and do harm reduction. I think you are awesome harbl, for what you do and being able to maintain your values and criticism of said system. Also Happy Birthday.
― sarahell, Friday, 29 October 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
only complaint re: harbl is I miss the "superdeep borehole" display name.
― Hannibal Lecture (PBKR), Friday, 29 October 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
aw thanks! flattered that my birthday is on sarahell's xls
fyi i don't do criminal law anymore i am now toiling in obscurity elsewhere ;)
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Friday, 29 October 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
lol, actually my xls only says ' harbl - Scorpio - awesome' -- and as Scorpio is the best sign, harbl gets a whole month of birthday
― sarahell, Friday, 29 October 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
happy birthday to both of you
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
If this was posted here three months ago, you can ignore this. It came up in a Stereogum comment about the Travis Scott concert tragedy.
https://defector.com/the-myth-of-cops-overdosing-from-touching-fentanyl-persists-for-a-reason/
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 November 2021 11:06 (two years ago) link
Loooooooooolhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-police-lodge-jack-daniels-committee-investigation/2021/11/04/e035a92a-3377-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 7 November 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
united states cops - they aren't too smaught
― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, 7 November 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
“Look if what we did was illegal I think we’d know, after all I am a cop.”
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 7 November 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
I looked for an appropriately lolworthy quote in that article to repost here, but I gave up trying to decide which one after the first half dozen.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 7 November 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
“He has good communication skills, and he is very neatly dressed,” the sheriff said.
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 November 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
The most important takeaway
So far, neither the lodge nor the leaders of the Jack Daniel’s committee have faced legal consequences. The D.C. police investigated, but prosecutors declined to file charges.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 7 November 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
*screams*
Losing my fucking mind at the "police reform" proposals of Seattle's new mayorhttps://t.co/WmuvtO9d1F pic.twitter.com/gSl5PfJGZ2— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) November 7, 2021
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Sunday, 7 November 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
jackoff motion optional
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 7 November 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
Mentioned it months ago, and a few days ago, but the other half of his proposal was that they can have a pizza party on Fridays if they don’t murder anybody that week.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 7 November 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
Another in the "cops ain't too smart" series https://www.insideedition.com/san-francisco-police-departments-sgt-davin-cole-charged-with-shoplifting-at-a-rite-aid-pharmacy
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 8 November 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
harbl if yr intersted in reading back
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
haha ok i do remember that!
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
oh whoops lol sorry
Houston police chief walks back the viral story that a security guard was drugged through a needle prick at Astroworld festival “He said no one injected drugs in him” pic.twitter.com/tf6ljkIigC— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 10, 2021
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
No one, else.
― Hannibal Lecture (PBKR), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/CTPBin7PwQ— Corey Frazer (@OG_coreyfrazer) November 10, 2021
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 11 November 2021 00:57 (two years ago) link
You have to get four paragraphs into this story to learn that the girl was shot by a cop who panicked and fired into a random car a block away from where the teenagers were https://t.co/QyBbyxRIeQ pic.twitter.com/zihv8Ocv88— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) November 11, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 11 November 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that story is nuts.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
The Bility family’s attorney, Bruce Castor, said Wednesday that the decision to charge the two teens was “a gutsy move” but said he believes that it will be difficult to convict them of murder.
not this guy again!
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
she was one of 4 ppl hit by police crossfire. insane.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/nyregion/queens-prosecutors-misconduct.html
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.inquirer.com/crime/a/philadelphia-murder-exonerations-wrongful-convictions-20210507.html
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Friday, 12 November 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link
that's from may, i just saw a twitter thread about it. maybe it's already on this thread.
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Friday, 12 November 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
oh, duh, sorry. part 5 came out today or yesterday. that's why i saw it. and part 5 is very intersting!
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Friday, 12 November 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
"An Illinois police union on Wednesday ousted from its membership an officer facing criminal charges for exposing a squad car video that showed his fellow officers slapping and cursing a man dying of a drug overdose."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/11/12/union-ousts-police-officer-featured-in-usa-today-behind-the-blue-wall-series/6396601001/
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 19 November 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
HE's's facing charges for...sharing the video of THEM doing that?
wtf
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
the one cop that wasn't a bastard, eliminated
That headline is a real journey.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 19 November 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
just a few bad ah fuck it
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Friday, 19 November 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
union leaders described his conduct as “reprehensible.”
And no, they weren't talking about the officer who shoved a baton in the mouth of a dying black man
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
The COPS Counseling Act, signed by Pres. Biden on Thursday, aims to help law enforcement officers recover from the ‘invisible wounds’ of the jobRead more: https://t.co/DFbed17lea pic.twitter.com/sH4E5tNBzR— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 18, 2021
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link