I don’t think it will affect her bottom line—if this cost her more than $5k in criminal defense fees I’d be a little surprised—but it WILL waste some of her time, and even if she’s got loads of free time, I’d rather she have to spend some of it—any of it—dealing with some bullshit. This is not about striking a…

“It’s sad to see the intelligence of Kyrie Irving constantly get hijacked by this disinformation and that he allows it to happen.”

“Thug” has the benefit of reappropriating a term that conservatives have, at least as of late, imbued with some gross racial coding.

You said elsewhere that charges would go “nowhere,” but securing even nominal damages or the admonishment of a court would be “somewhere” as far as many of us are concerned—to say nothing of wasting MTG’s time and money, which is a good unto itself. At a minimum, engaging in the process would send the message that if…

Is there anything material at stake here beyond the psychological or emotional satisfaction of correcting a past wrong? Money or something? 

I don’t know that it’s necessarily “assault,” but it’s *definitely* battery, and it’s on video: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/battery

I don’t think OP’s comment is necessarily doing “whataboutism” to excuse white people engaging in slavery. To me it seems like they’re simply pointing out that the movie appears to lionize a group that sold people into slavery.

It may seem like a small, nothing incident, but this is literal political violence. I think it would be apt to start referring to Greene as a thug.

“Or how about the African chiefs who were happy to sell captives and their own peoples into slavery?”

I was responding to an obviously facetious reply from Videopgh. There is no inherent conflict between faithfully executing one’s duties as a juror, and doing so quickly. It just happens that this is not a complicated matter; the defense has so little to counter the state’s case that they were basically asking for the…

I guess it's only self-defense if you're white and use a gun.

Was gonna say basically this. I get that her saying “[b]ut it doesn’t take away from the fact that a crime was committed[,]” is part of saving herself, but it's fucked she has to go on record to say this. To my eyes, no crime was committed here.

If the juror meal protocol in Chicago is anything like where I practice, that meal is a reason to get the verdict out quick.

“I’m just confused why BET feels the need to nominate Harlow for this award”

“‘He immediately recognized his mistakes in comparing the two words and using the full N word. Mr. Cheney contacted the district office and met with the parents of the student to disclose this information[.]ʼ”

No, no, I get it. Even setting that law aside, by all accounts there’s a statement by a witness to having been sexually battered. Adult or child, that shit is illegal, and nothing is likely to happen.

“The jury was dismissed for deliberation by 1pm on Tuesday afternoon. A verdict could arrive as early as Wednesday.”

Isn’t Florida one of the states that *doesn’t* allow cops to have sex with people in custody though? Your map has it in gray...

“The investigation summary, which corroborated the incident with vehicle footage”

I’m still sort of surprised they dropped the charges.