No, you are just devoid of any understanding of the law and civil rights. Plus, you are arguing for the same position as those on Fox News, though it’s about different people. Think about that for a second.

Except that her rights WERE violated for being arrested merely for pissing off a cop, rather than an actual crime. And she was detained - as an underage girl - for 18 hours in a hold facility with adult men for no actual reason. Yes, obviously it isn’t by any stretch of the imagination as bad as Freddie Gray or Kalief…

I don’t really get why you aren’t emotionally moved by this. From what I can tell (from reading this chain of posts) it seems like you aren’t moved because other people have it worse. If anything it seems sad that lots of us are become so jaded that we aren’t outraged when someone (regardless of race or socioeconomic…

She “interfered” by saying that her friends don’t have to show their ID, as is their right. She wasn’t using the fake ID, so no, she wasn’t sanctioned for that. Just because she has an ally doesn’t mean that she shouldn’t take advantage of that and take the cops to task for their bullshittery.

No, no one is saying that. Once again, some things are worse than others but just because there are worse things doesn’t make it ok. Is that hard to understand? really?

Dismissing someone’s complaint about their civil rights being violated by the police based on their race and income? And making up excuses as to why the youth deserved the treatment they got? Fascinating...

The girl is not going to change the world just by suing the police.

1. She was cleared of all charges, and no one else at the party was charged with a crime — other than this girl having the audacity to remind her friends of their 4th Amendment rights.

“...she was most likely breaking a law or about to break one...”

Well, that’s the little dialogue we have going on here. That some people deserve to have their civil rights defended and some are just whiny privileged people.

I think that's the point. She's fighting because she has the means to fight. If no one fights, it gets even worse for those who do not have the means to fight. It's about setting precedent and holding officers accountable the only way possible under our current system.

True. We should only apply civil rights to those we feel deserve it.

Except getting large money damages through the civil justice system is what gets policy changed. If people in a position of privilege don’t sue, and people who are not privileged enough to be able to sue obviously can’t, then nothing changes. Think about employment discrimination. It’s not the passage of Title VII…

So one problem is the police misconduct. No matter the victim of the police misconduct...whether white or black or poor or privileged in some way...we are all better whenever police misconduct is brought out into the open. We focus so much, and understandably so, on the most egregious aspects of police misconduct…

Oy. People can’t win, can they? So here you have a “rich and entitled” kid who DOES get abused by the police and people are mad she’s using her means to sue them. She specifically said, “if you have the privilege and the means to pursue legal action, you should.” How is this a bad thing? Many people cannot sue, they…

This girl sounds incredibly bad ass, and so does her mother. And fuck the fucking misogynistic media.

My first thought also. I love Emily. But Richard was her perfect foil.

Sadly Richard Gilmore won’t be in it

Not the only one. For all that people might have been charmed by Jess’s silly bad-boy angst and Dean’s aw-shucks fumbling, neither of them were legitimately quality partners long-term. Logan was dumb in a lot of ways because of being, what, 21? But he clearly had something in him that would’ve matured into a decent…

I must be the only person on the planet who was team Logan...up until that stupid fight between him and Jess.