That's what makes it so great

And naturally, when you're going into a police station carrying a rifle to "file a complaint", bring a friend with a camera and a tripod

+1.

Kind of follows the whole 'best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly' mentality. Prob not what the 2A guy had in mind, but if that's the effect, I suppose that's a win.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/new-...acial-boy/amp/

8 year old boy lynched. The attackers - age 14 - get maximum protection from the sympathetic system, treated as juveniles. Not called a gang. Black teenagers never get this chance. They get tried as adults.

A black boy is swinging from a tree and the authorities don't think it is racially motivated.

Why tell such an obvious lie?

They have more empathy for the predators than for the victim.

I'm kinda torn here. I spent a couple years of my life helping a friend research a project (she was an art teacher who taught art therapy at juvenile facilities) about juveniles being tried and incarcerated as adults, not just in general but working with specific young people to get their life stories. Thus, I have very strong feelings that 14yr old people should not be tried as adults. The rebuttal is always, what about the crime being heinous? The conter-rebuttal is, that's the entire point, the whole reason we make the distinction. Nobody is talking about misdemeanor shoplifting.

But.

All of these young people were black boys, save for one black girl and one white boy, all poor from the south side of Chicago. So I quite obviously agree with the ridiculous double standard and I have no stomach for or interest in defending these lynchers. This is about as heinous as it gets, and I can deal with being put in the awkward position of having to think, "Well, my kids were just regular ol' gang-related single homicides, not this madness."

I'm fine with not treating the 14 year olds as adults. Let's put some charges on the parents though if they did something to make their children such psychopaths. And, let's look at that cop and see who he chose to recommend treatment as children vs. adults and if he is pressing for different treatment based on race, then let's hit him with some serious civil rights violation charges.

I agree that 14 year old should never be tried as an adult. Further I think life sentences should be capped at the criminal's age. The outrage isn't having mercy for these criminals.

A merciful justice system for the well off white juvenile and cruelty for everybody else is obscene. Let the white kids feel the full force of the law and reform will be possible. The outrage is denying the crimes that were committed and selective mercy.

Empathy is the magic word. The police and prosecutors can imagine themselves as these white teens, they can have hope for them. A Trayvon Martin (who did nothing wrong) or the 12 year old black kid with the toy gun or countless other young black kids will never receive that empathy. About them the worst will be assumed. The maximum force of law applied. Different words chosen: gang banger, thug, tough.

The quotes in the article are "we can't ruin their lives". About the people who lynched an 8 year boy for being black. They ruined their own lives, but they get a mulligan because black lives don't actually matter to law enforcement.

Compare this case to the central park 5.

The police have nothing to do with the decision to try a juvenile as an adult.

p.s. I just realized a sentence was written very poorly:

It should be something like, "So I quite obviously agree with your observation of the ridiculous double standard and I have no stomach for or interest in defending these lynchers."

You're preaching to the choir, brother.

(I mean, I'm in the front pew and I hope there aren't any heathens in the back)

Yeah, at first I wasn't a big fan of the name BLM as I thought something with some more pop and fire would be better but hot damn it really is genius.

While the chief of police doesn't make the decision it may well not be right to say he has nothing to do with it. Let's see how he handled juvenile suspects of other races, including whether he released their info. That's what I'd do if I were on the civilian oversight committee of the police force in Claremont, NH if they have such a thing.

I'm trying to figure out a way to add "Start The Revolution" to this page:

https://www.facebook.com/places/Thin...5651762802607/

Yeah, in a small town all of their input is taken into account. It's not like a big city with different unconnected moving parts.

The standard in Utah appears to be Implied Consent if the police "have reason to believe" you were operating under the influence.

I am guessing that's written that way to make the standard for suspicion lower than your usual probable cause or reasonable suspicion in the effort by the legislature to give cops as much flexibility as possible.

A cop could easily say he had "reason to believe" the driver was intoxicated for any number of reasons (this driver failed to yield for lighted police cars in pursuit).

jfc it starts out by criticizing him for "disrespect for our American Flag, and everything it symbolizes".

This is fantastic

Update! After 5 years, Ferguson finally drops charges against this guy

Also, apparently he filed a civil suit (don't remember if that was in the earlier NYT article):

Hope he gets $$$$, according to the articles he lost his high-paying job and his savings over all of this ****.

The problem is juries want cops to be "terrified" and do everything they can do to protect themselves, even if it means blatant excessive force



http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...913-story.html



Jesus

WHITE PEOPLE

Rojava style, everyone should go through 6 weeks of police training and then the police forces should all be disbanded.

I gotta admit that terrible lie to explain the video is more plausible than most. Which is kinda disturbing.