I was gonna say “meh, it’s not so bad, just dismiss the trolls on your post”
And then I looked at who you are... Yeah Kinja lacks some actual moderation for cases such as yourself :D 

This is all kind of eerily similar to the rise (never very high) and fall of Kinja that was supposed to be self-moderated by the users, then developed the grey/black system and (useless) flagging system to combat trolling, and now is basically just an unmoderated wilderness only a little better than Twitter or…

I always find it hilarious when large media companies try to wield the internet to their advantage and it ends up wielding them. Someone probably just thought a little FB group would be a great way to take advantage of user generated content to drive up their clicks.

Exactly. The sheriff identified with Long enough that he defaulted to being Long’s defender.

For what it’s worth, the same anti-bias crime provisions that might be invoked if it turns out this was somehow racially motivated, might be applicable if sex or gender was the motivation.

Does this mean that if I am having a bad day I can go to Cherokee County and kill some nazi’s to blow off steam? 

This piece of shit drove approximately 45 mins from the first parlor to the second. That’s deliberate as fuck. How many porn shops, strip clubs, sex toy stores did he pass to only make it to the Asian establishments?  

Chen doesn't sound very white...

He understood the gravity of it.

No. The jurors assess whether the prosecution has presented enough evidence to support a conviction based on the laws as written.

I was assuming that Chen would have agreed to pay for all damages as a requirement for charges being dropped.

The United States of America is a class-based society. The money class, and everyone else.

One of the sad facts about the American Legal system is that if you spend enough money on defense, you can get away with anything. The biggest thing is getting the jury pool “right”.

Insurance companies (the likely claimants) likely have better lawyers than he does.

Money can’t buy happiness. But it can buy drugs, cars, and good lawyers when you combine the first two.

Literally the kindest thing that can be said about Rod Ponton, the Prosecutor, is that he is technologically inept. Otherwise we’d have to focus of being a vindictive, domestically abusive thug that uses the cops to settle his personal score.  https://reason.com/2021/02/10/zoom-cat-lawyer-rod-ponton-used-federal-agents…

Wasn’t this a scene in “The Wolf Of Wall Street”?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I seem to recall a cheer-mom in TX a few years back took out a hit on her daughter’s cheer-rivals.