Abuse of Power Thread (Cops, Governments, Etc.) - Part 2

[Teelie]

Where is that Republican outrage about illegal drug imports coming from cops?

 

[Sithborg]

The goat story is just so, so ****ed up.

Sue them to the ground.

 

[squeekness]

The goat story is just so, so ****ed up.

Sue them to the ground.

Hope she gets enough money to buy herself goats for life.

 

[Teelie]

ACAB.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[Teelie]

Has to be embarassing to be the Chief and still not know the law...

 

[Dr.]

Has to be embarassing to be the Chief and still not know the law...

I don’t know anything about the LA police chief or the context of his tweet. But the content of the tweet is a link to an article called “A Word to Protesters: Heckling Isn’t Free Speed” by an exec. VP of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) — a pro-free speech organization. I.e., though the chief (presumably) agrees with the article, he didn’t write it or give it its title. The twitter comments (universally negative, as far as I could see) seemed to assume that the chief was offering a pithy and uninformed edict on heckling. No one commented on the article (either pro or con). From which I infer that no one actually read the article.

The article, itself, takes on the issue of one person’s right to speech and another’s right to protest that speech. And the central question is whether the so-called “heckler’s veto” is, itself, protected speech or actually deprives another of their protected speech. It’s an interesting and nuanced subject. And, needless to say, Twitter is the wrong forum for nuance.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Heartland Signal - FBI investigating GOP Okla. officials caught on tape talking about lynching Black people, murdering newspaper reporters

NBC News - [Policeman] Derek Chauvin's murder conviction upheld by Minnesota appeals court

Mississippi Free Press - Mississippi Must Stop Jailing People For Months or Years With No Lawyer, Court Says

 

[squeekness]

The GOP-- who are these people? Don't they remember what Democracy is?

 

[Teelie]

Nope, they are all about the facism.

 

[Morg]

Oklahoma county leaders caught on audio talking about killing reporters and complaining they can no longer lynch Black people

 

[squeekness]

Oklahoma county leaders caught on audio talking about killing reporters and complaining they can no longer lynch Black people

Seriously? I'm going to go throw up now......

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Associated Press - Oklahoma sheriff says recording of [their] killing talk was illegal

 

[squeekness]

Associated Press - Oklahoma sheriff says recording of [their] killing talk was illegal

That's what they are worried about? Geez....

 

[Sithborg]

Yeah, good luck finding a prosecutor who thinks they can get a conviction in that case.

 

[Teelie]

His take away about murdering journalists and lynching black people is "your recording of my racist comments is illegal" is not the take away I would go with, but I'm not a racist sheriff.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Daily Kos - Oklahoma county commissioner who discussed killing reporters resigns

 

[squeekness]

Daily Kos - Oklahoma county commissioner who discussed killing reporters resigns

Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

 

[Teelie]

One down, several more to go.

 

[Morg]

 

[Teelie]

It's Cop City so they expect to be able to just shoot people for target practice.

 

[squeekness]

Wow......

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Ex-officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor hired as a deputy

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Kim Potter, the officer convicted of killing Daunte Wright, released from prison

 

[DarthSkywalker]

LAPD officer arrested for alleged rape of a child under 14