Your comment is silly. They didn’t say they knew it was wrong. They said they didn’t convict for the laugh, even though that was one of the charges. They said the officer was a rookie and they think she should’ve let the laugh go and not taken it further. But she did. And when she did, the defendant acted out and…

The jury gets no sympathy from me. This was a situation begging for jury nullification, and they whiffed big time.

That’s a justification. I’m not saying that the law isn’t written in a way to force a conviction. So what. I’m saying if they knew in their hearts that this was wrong, that DC police escalated the incident and that this trial is retaliation (which we all know it is) nothing was was stopping any of them who had a…

I mean, also, this is what jury nullification is for:

Now I’m awake to the world. I was asleep before. That’s how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn’t wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Consitution, we didn’t wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death…

Okay, but he made the choice to prosecute. So, yeah, I maybe don’t fault the jury as their hands are tied, but this is still a really terrible choice by Sessions (surprise surprise).

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Wow, they were actually convicted.

I... I’m at a loss. I am a policy attorney and I have been at many congressional hearings (not confirmation hearings, I’ll give you, but still). If folks get loud or out of hand, they are simply gavelled and escorted out.

Margaret Atwood.

this is fucking terrifying

Clearly you just boxed one section and ignored the top part of my original comment

Fuck your apologism and fuck you, too, you fucking sociopath.

Pictures of both parties should be furnished as they look today.

You came in here to blindly defend the murder of a child by the police, apparently without even reading the fucking report first. Fuck you.

There is no such thing as a good cop.

Ummmm not even the cops are claiming they were shot at...

Yeah, we need to stop the hero worship of cops. Not every cop is a hero, plenty are just violent scum. Or jumpy cowards. Or racist. Or collaborators with the violent, jumpy, cowardly, racist scum. Three of the five bullies in my high school class became cops, which looks like a pattern. And Trump isn’t helping.

Fuck every last “law enforcement officer.” The biggest sham in this country. The only things they “protect and serve” are white people and white supremacy. Fuck them all to hell. I don’t care if your dad, uncle, brother, sister, mother is one of the “good ones,” they’re all complicit in this charade.

Dammit man, dress like a grown up. Whoever is insisting that he only be seen in monochromatic tshirts is fucking up.