The funny thing about the Tucker Carlson writer story is the dude had a racistβs dream job, just getting paid to be publicly racist all fucking day, and he fucked it up by doing some extracurricular racism
βI had six shots in me. Two were bourbon. Three were Pfizer. One was a .38 slug that the doc never bothered to fish out of my shoulder. And on a night like this I was feeling all of em.β
Police, firing into a crowd, shot a man in the back who was walking away from them, and 5 other people, Sunday morning in downtown Denver.
Cops claim the man was armed; witnesses say they didn't see a gun on him and the only shots fired were by police.
I think itβs really important to remember that Feinstein vetoed gay domestic partner benefits in 1982
hey was anything happening in 1982 that might make it important to access a partnerβs health benefits
*spits*
Cop asks my juvie client: βare you in a gang?β
He says no
βHang out with gang members?β
He says no
βKnow any gang members?β
Kid says yeah, my cousin is a Hoover crip
Cop lists my kid as βaffiliated with the Hoover Cripsβ
βGang databasesβ sound like key enforcement tools. But find out how they work in practice & who they target. Theyβre an over-broad surveillance tool used far more often to stop/frisk young people of color than to stop gang crime. Thread breaking this down:
Dear Los Angeles: Stop Fucking Protesting At Pershing Square. Downtown is specifically designed allow police to control you, and also thereβs nothing there! Cut it out! Itβs a bad idea!
My dad ran into a guy he knows who is a real estate investor, who explained that heβs currently holding 8-10 RSO units off the market to angle for higher rents and taking a tax write off. This is a thing that multiple YIMBYs have told me is inconceivable
βFolks have got legal counsel and have decided not to accept our help. I think others are kind of gaming the system a little bit,β said CM Curren Priceβ¦ βTheyβve had it good living in the hotel rent free for several months. They want that to last as long as it can.β
.
@bostonpolice
estimates its employees will use over 1.2 million hours of overtime in 2020. This equals:
- 23,500 overtime hours BPD-wide per week
- 420 overtime hours (2.5 months) per BPD employee per year
- the equivalent of hiring over 570 new full-time employees (6/10)
LAPD officers call in absent for nearly 700 transit-policing shifts in one week I bet there were reduced stress levels and very few 4th Amendment violations last week. Also, miss us with the "this is not a protest" rhetoric, we are not fooled.
#BREAKING
: James Weems Jr., who was shot by his wife after he allegedly sexually abused children at her daycare in Baltimore County, can be released on home detention while he awaits his trial, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
Totally disgusted by the number of people falling for this. Letβs be clear: she made her career putting Black people in cages - teachers in cages! - and her office simply canβt run a trial of this size or complexity. But she wants to be the next Kamala and she knows the score.
LAPD came in swinging batons on elders and children at a protest outside the mayorβs house, but they βdonβt want to escalateβ with these creeps. Police donβt keep us safe.
There were LAPD officers present throughout the event but they mostly did not intervene aside from a couple of very brief altercations. They told me they didnβt want to escalate things.
ah but if we abolish the police who are you going to call when you need someone to build and detonate a truck bomb in the middle of your residential neighborhood? Iβd like to see a βsocial workerβ try that one!
NEW: LAPD officers racked up $40 million in overtime during the recent protests, but wonβt be paid for it, and will instead be given comp time, according to a memo sent out by Chief Moore I obtained. Budget is out of cash. LAPD sources tell me morale is at βrock bottomβ.
@FOXLA
@birdhonks
@Ruth_Mensch
@MusDanz
Anne Frank died from typhus. The medical treatment of a prisoner is the responsibility of the party imprisoning them, and this is true anywhere from a county lockup to a POW camp to the Hague.
@LolOverruled
In one of my funnier trials, four cops testified and one made up a story that was not only clearly false and nonsensical, it was also totally out of step with the other three cops.
Editors Note: Can we all stop using the term βSuper Smash Brothersβ? It is imprecise (they are not all related) and dehumanizing. They have names and are separate individuals worthy of respect. Mario and Luigi and Kirby and Yoshi and Captain Falcon and Donkey Kong and Pikachu and
@TheAtlantic
@elainejgodfrey
Throwing it out there but maybe it has something to do with abolishing and also possibly with ICE, and maybe like a verb-object relation
Oh are we talking about law school? Advice for 1Ls:
1) Law school is a system designed to destroy your sense of morality and justice in order to make you into a system-touching handservant for capital. Donβt let it.
2) law school looks nothing like the practice of law
@Faith_Harbour_
@ArchRose90
@jk_rowling
We live in the US where you can call a fascist transphobe a fascist transphobe without running afoul of a law designed to protect aristocratic nonces from public scrutiny.
neither of today's bad opinions even involved an actual case or controversy, a bedrock requirement for a case to be heard. this court is completely lawless and should be ignored to the extent possible.
@angstyenby
@NoraReed
As a public defender and an organizer: first, please fix this reasoning in your mind for ALL trials, should you be on a jury - cops didnβt start lying when the protests began. And second, βwhenβ it ends is an βif,β and be ready to fight against the denial of trial rights.
LASD's entire account of the arrest of
@josie_huang
was fabricated from beginning to end, and I hope that all the journalists who demanded her release will keep that in mind in all future interactions with the department.
Right now you can go shop at a mall that is still open despite being repeatedly cited for breaking COVID rules and be assisted by a retail employe who has to work in an unsafe environment or else lose their job and risk eviction (thereβs no moratorium)
At this very second, health care workers across L.A. are fighting with everything they've got to save lives.
Please stay home as much as you can. Do it for them.
@BaltimorePolice
Every hour every officer spent on this βbustβ was of no societal value. This post is just showing us how badly you need a budget cut.
NEW: The day before he died, tech exec Bob Lee was at the apartment of a suspected drug dealer. An attorney for his alleged killer says "heavy illegal narcotics use" led up to the fatal stabbing
@franklinleonard
@kmay
Thatβs so fucking wild especially given that the actual organizers were like βdo not fucking post a black square, post meaningful shit and do somethingβ
@lingerie_addict
Lotta cosplay leftists who get reeeeeeal awkward when folks start talking about the actual liberation of the international proletariat
@_grendan
@uhshanti
Shout out to all the liberals presently begging for riots who were like βomg riotsβ when folks protesting the mass murder of black people by the state broke a couple windows
@LeslieMac
@WestCoastKev87
And important to emphasize, since people are asking: they did this as a planned media stunt and invited a ton of press to the scene.
@fodderyfodder
I have literally never in my life seen a response like this so Iβm pretty sure the video has to be more fucked than all the other videos, which, uh
@nytimes
The law requires prosecutors to turn over THE EVIDENCE THEY INTEND TO USE in a bare-minimum manner that every line prosecutor is required to in most states. If they canβt hack it they should turn in their bar cards.
THREAD. One of the most dangerous forms of modern copaganda is claiming βeven liberals are doing itβ when talking about something monstrous and authoritarian.
@MayorOfLA
@LADOTofficial
Ah, so a discount for people who have enough financial resources to pay immediately. That makes a whole lot of fucking sense.
@08mms
His main accomplishments are representing the biggest corporate accountability dodges and turning america into a prison state and heβs also by a significant and obvious margin the best president in my entire life, jesus wept
@jackallisonLOL
@benshapiro
Unfortunately they donβt have a special separate army for tiny elf-men with squeaky voices, else heβd be right there on the front lines in a tank made out of a boot
@Jasmyne
lol so βwe targeted them for harassment using social distancing as an excuse and hereβs what we were able to come up with after the factβ
Iβm sorry, are you the DA for San Francisco putting out a press release because a homeless man was convicted of A MISDEMEANOR? What in gods name are you doing with your bar card? This is pathetic in ways that I can barely even articulate
1/ Today, District Attorney
@BrookeJenkinsSF
announced the conviction of Joseph Moore, after a trial by jury.
Mr. Moore was convicted of willfully and unlawfully committing a public nuisance on October 19, 20203 and October 20, 2023.
@mwhitmoe
The Ivy League grad making six figures out of college yet carrying substantial student loan debt is a mythical creature that exists only in bad faith arguments against debt cancellation
Because if all law is just politics, then there are no illegitimate movesβjust power to effectuate those moves.
If there are no enduring values, then βwe have the votesβ is the only defense ever needed.
Hey yβall support our mutual aid efforts in LA, weβve distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in food, hygiene products, and direct cash aid. No overhead, everything you donate goes directly to people in need.
@April_Sassy
I understand what youβre trying to do here, but it exceptionalizes what happened and reflects internalized ideas about crime that serve the police narrative. They killed him because they were police, and the department has killed others - the violence is a function of the uniform