Instead, prosecutors will utilize a “risk-based system” that will determine how likely a defendant is to flee and the threat they pose to the public’s safety.

“If a worker at Vermont Marble has no say about who owns the company he works for and that major changes can take place without his knowledge and consent, how far have we really advanced from the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent?”

It’s really the only viable option

FWIW, according to the prosecution in the linked article, she didn’t. She stripped down in front of the kids.

The statement does beg some questions around where one might go to challenge unfair laws if not court.

Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein, 24, was refused entry to the United States on his student visa when he arrived at the Boston Logan International Airport on Sunday. While he was detained, a Massachusetts district court judge granted him an emergency stay but he was deported Monday night, said his attorney, Kerry…

That “Star Chase” device isn’t stopping diddly. It’s just postponing the stop until a time of the suspects choosing.

I’m not so sure.

Strange, my gut feeling is these wheels will result in it taking more effort to keep at speed due to a lack of angular momentum, as far more of the “weight” of the wheel is towards the center as opposed to along the circumference

Since the guards apparently had no problem with him keeping it, he probably didn’t know it wasn’t allowed.

Perhaps the Times needs a reminder that their government is ours

Can’t speak for DC, Samoa, or Guam, but PR at least has had ample opportunity to choose their destiny, but they keep choosing the status quo.  (or having the question be very poorly asked such that it can be interpreted that way.)

Agreed, the lady should press charges.  She may have consented to the pat down, but she didn’t consent to being treated like a horse.

Uhm, He did do something? Looking at the clip the officer immediately turns around and starts walking towards Odell, and Odell starts backing away. Maybe the officer didn’t want to drag him out in cuffs then and told him to stop by the station later and then Odell didn’t?

I’m rather curious what exactly he thinks are in those violent games that, “ teach you how to kill people” I’ve only heard of one game that fits THAT description, some low budget indie game where you’re basically a serial killer torturing people to death in your basement. And yeah, I tend to be of the opinion that…

Okay, but who’s the creep?

Disagree.

White Castle frozen cheeseburgers or Pepperoni Pizza Hot Pockets.

As pro-immigration folks are fond of pointing out. Just because doing something may be breaking a law doesn’t make it a crime.

So how was he able to pull off such a massive scam? By telling the state Board of Education that the records he kept of how many children were being fed “had been damaged in a flood and were no longer available,” according to the indictment.