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Prokorov wrote:
This is beyond absurd. And everything that is wrong with our justice system.
This is the stuff we get for a live murder on film of a cop kneeling on a dudes neck until he dies. Just image what goes on to cover up and sweep away the stuff not caught on film
MrDollarBills wrote:Prokorov wrote:
This is beyond absurd. And everything that is wrong with our justice system.
This is the stuff we get for a live murder on film of a cop kneeling on a dudes neck until he dies. Just image what goes on to cover up and sweep away the stuff not caught on film
I haven't been watching the trial because I can't deal with it emotionally, and reading that headline made me want to hurt someone.
That cop needs a **** ing bullet.
Rich Rane wrote:Police bodycam footage of 13-year-old Adam Toledo shot dead.Spoiler:
Rich Rane wrote:Police bodycam footage of 13-year-old Adam Toledo shot dead.Spoiler:
MrDollarBills wrote:Rich Rane wrote:Police bodycam footage of 13-year-old Adam Toledo shot dead.Spoiler:
I'm not going to watch this. I already screwed up by watching the Daunte Wright murder. I'm not going to watch a Black child be murdered by these state sponsored lynchings.
After the Philando Castile shooting where I watched him bleed to death in front of his family, I can't mentally handle seeing these snuff films. This stuff does psychological damage to Black people. That video threw me into a state of depression that I don't feel like revisiting.
Prokorov wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:Rich Rane wrote:Police bodycam footage of 13-year-old Adam Toledo shot dead.Spoiler:
I'm not going to watch this. I already screwed up by watching the Daunte Wright murder. I'm not going to watch a Black child be murdered by these state sponsored lynchings.
After the Philando Castile shooting where I watched him bleed to death in front of his family, I can't mentally handle seeing these snuff films. This stuff does psychological damage to Black people. That video threw me into a state of depression that I don't feel like revisiting.
No need to watch it. having seen it several times, your assumptions are likely correct.
gigantes wrote:
On all counts... thank the maker.
I'd read some hypotheses a while back that this f-cker would somehow get off, or get off lightly. What an awful precedent that would have been.
gigantes wrote:
On all counts... thank the maker.
I'd read some hypotheses a while back that this f-cker would somehow get off, or get off lightly. What an awful precedent that would have been.
Prokorov wrote:he still has multiple appeals. not out of the woods yet but this is a good start
gigantes wrote:Prokorov wrote:he still has multiple appeals. not out of the woods yet but this is a good start
IIRC he also has to get through a "Blakely" examination (something local to his state) which could actually pump up the sentencing lengths against him.
Meanwhile I notice more than one extremist right-winger (with their major audiences, sadly) crying 'miscarriage of justice' upon this stuff. Like, zoiks?
MrDollarBills wrote:gigantes wrote:Prokorov wrote:he still has multiple appeals. not out of the woods yet but this is a good start
IIRC he also has to get through a "Blakely" examination (something local to his state) which could actually pump up the sentencing lengths against him.
Meanwhile I notice more than one extremist right-winger (with their major audiences, sadly) crying 'miscarriage of justice' upon this stuff. Like, zoiks?
They make it no secret that they enjoy seeing Black people killed. That's why I don't tolerate any of the "Both sides" discourse that disingenuous centrists try to push.
gigantes wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:gigantes wrote:IIRC he also has to get through a "Blakely" examination (something local to his state) which could actually pump up the sentencing lengths against him.
Meanwhile I notice more than one extremist right-winger (with their major audiences, sadly) crying 'miscarriage of justice' upon this stuff. Like, zoiks?
They make it no secret that they enjoy seeing Black people killed. That's why I don't tolerate any of the "Both sides" discourse that disingenuous centrists try to push.
One thing that deeply bums me out about America is the way everything here basically comes down to the slavish pursuit of *money*, and also the fact that genuine centrists (advocating for universal health care, equal rights, voting without ridiculous hurdles, etc) are automatically labelled as "leftists" in this bizarro, wack-a-doodle nation.
Just, BULL... SH-T, dude.
In FACT, the United States has turned in to a weirdly right-wing, authoritarian, 'less than great' country, dominated by wealthy interests, and most of us are suffering as a result. Even worse, it affects our kids, loved ones, family... people we normally bust ass to shelter from this mad situation. If that doesn't suck most of all, I sure as heck don't know what does. :/