So he promised to decriminalize, but did nothing to make good on that promise until most of his term in office had passed, and that's why we aren't done with the lengthy process to get there yet. Your answers throughout the discussion seem to keep glossing over the bolded part.
And that is the part that makes me doubtful Kamala will be any different.
So far it's just a campaign promise. I wouldn't envy us yet. She made a career out of putting people in jail for MJ.
Oh I’m not perfect. But I am trying.
Me neither, fam. 🤜
I mean, I'm gonna vote for Kamala, but Dems ain't movin' left, let's be honest.
You two are great, it's nice to see people not get all chest thumpy online.
Aw now you love to see an exchange end like this.
Seriously.
He says: ‘One rough hour and I mean real rough, the word would get out and it would end immediately.’”
Word would get out all right. And the 2020 protests would be a handful of angry karens in comparison.
I agree that it's fitting and the word should have been applied to them sooner. However, I definitely think some folks and journalists go out of their way to use the word. I'm not even saying there is anything wrong with that, just acknowledging that sometimes it feels a little forced.
I know Weirdo is the current kinda forced (IMO) word we're hurling at the magas these days, but that kind of behavior is legit weird. Like really weird.
There's obviously the "some people have more money than brains" angle of dropping 4K on something so you can destroy it.
Then there's the "I'm a grown-ass man, and I'm so insecure about a female celebrity endorsing a politician I disagree with that I'm going to drop 4K so that I can publicly and in front of cameras showcase that insecurity for the entire world to see, while gloating and being proud of it" angle. (Which by the way, smoothbrain magas, serves to amplify her endorsement, not diminish it.)
I can't promise I'm not going to drive around with "Fuck Donald Trump" blaring and my windows down all during election day and the day after (regardless of outcome), but I'm not going to spend $4k for the privilege, and I'm sure as hell not going to do it for an assembled audience.
Trump’s call for violence is one that cops nationwide will gladly answer
Yup.
Protests about police brutality are met with wave of police brutality across US
“Oh wahh, they fact-checked me but didn’t fact-check Harris!” and now CBS is saying they won’t fact-check the VP debate.
And if there weren't already enough examples that our media are complicit in this clownshow, this puts it over the top for sure.
I'm not pointing the finger at anyone, but just today I was thinking how I can't wait for him to not be in the news cycle every effing day anymore.
This video has been around since before the trial, tells you everything you needed to know about Rittenhouse's intentions. https://youtu.be/l3B_tpccOnw
Meta: The company whose products you use when you absolutely, positively, don't give a shit that they are the worst example of the worst nightmare of a consumer-hostile, privacy-invading, you-are-the-product, tech company. Yes, even worse than Microsoft.
Remember, this is the shit he's trying to pull while not in a position of power.
Police in small Mississippi city discriminate against Black residents, Justice Department finds
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/43424862
> Police in a majority-Black Mississippi city discriminate against Black people, use excessive force and retaliate against critics, the Justice Department said Thursday in a scathing report detailing findings of an investigation into civil rights abuses. > > The Lexington Police Department “has created a system where officers can relentlessly violate the law” in one of the poorest counties in America, according to the Justice Department. Investigators found police also sexually harassed women and kept people behind bars for minor offenses because they couldn’t afford to pay fines. > > “Today’s findings show that the Lexington Police Department abandoned its sacred position of trust in the community by routinely violating the constitutional rights of those it was sworn to protect,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
LOL, even "brain" would have worked better.
The ozone layer is looking as fit as a fiddle at the moment.
The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers tortured two Black men.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19963910
> JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers tortured two Black men in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth, officials said Thursday. > > The Justice Department will investigate whether the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department has engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force and unlawful stops, searches and arrests, and whether it has used racially discriminatory policing practices, according to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke. > > Five Rankin sheriff’s deputies pleaded guilty in 2023 to breaking into a home without a warrant and engaging in an hourslong attack on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. A sixth officer, from the Richland Police Department, was also convicted in the attack
Police are using secret deals to hand pensions to troubled officers. Millions of taxpayer dollars support the system
Some California police officers who get into trouble suddenly claim they’ve been injured. Their departments disagree, but still award them lifetime disability pensions.
Harold Medina made that argument during an internal investigation of a crash he caused last February.
Medina offered two puzzling excuses for leaving his camera off. He "cited intermittent conversations with his wife, who was a passenger in his unmarked patrol vehicle at the time of the collision," Ortiz says. "He claimed there was a right to privileged communication between spouses, which specifically exempted him from mandatory recording requirements." But the relevant policy "does not provide for nonrecording based on spousal privilege."
Even more troubling, Medina said he "purposefully did not record because he was invoking his 5th Amendment right not to self-incriminate." Since "he was involved in a traffic collision," he reasoned, he was "subject to 5th Amendment protections."
Indiana police have dogs that sniff specifically for cash at the US’s 2nd biggest FedEx hub, then they simply keep the money
This isn’t crime fighting. It’s an actual crime — a blatant, naked theft carried out by officers, Libertarian Party Chair Evan McMahon writes.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13349939
> cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13145612 > > > (edit) Would someone please ship some counterfeit money through there and get it confiscated, so the police can then be investigated for spending counterfeit money?
The department has killed more than 400 cases of alleged misconduct this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated. It’s part of a lax attitude toward discipline under the current police commissioner, Edward Caban, critics say.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19678700
> The New York Police Department has tossed out hundreds of civilian complaints about police misconduct this year without looking at the evidence. > > The cases were fully investigated and substantiated by the city’s police oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and sent to the NYPD for disciplinary action. They included officers wrongfully searching vehicles and homes, as well as using excessive force against New Yorkers. > > In one instance, an officer punched a man in the groin, the oversight agency found. In another, an officer unjustifiably tackled a young man, and then another officer wrongly stopped and searched him, according to the CCRB. > > The incident involving the young man was one of dozens of stop-and-frisk complaints the NYPD dismissed without review this year — a significant development given that the department is still under federal monitoring that a court imposed more than a decade ago over the controversial tactic.
LL Cool J - Rock the Bells
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> My personal entry point to LL Cool J - and I think best song on his best album. > > There's a remix that actually has bells, but I thought I should go with the one most will have heard.
LL Cool J - Rock the Bells
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My personal entry point to LL Cool J - and I think best song on his best album.
There's a remix that actually has bells, but I thought I should go with the one most will have heard.
LL Cool J - Spirit of Cyrus
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20031449
> I have the unpopular opinion that aside from a couple specific songs I've been lukewarm to every LL Cool J album later than Radio (which was such a banger), but this is so eyebrow-raisingly off the path of what I tend to expect from LL Cool J that I had to post here. > > I literally came blind to this new album, and just before hitting play I thought - well unfortunately I can predict I'm not going to get any hard social commentary like from dead prez or etc... > > 30 secs later it felt like that thought had personally offended him. Track 1 no less. > >
LL Cool J - Spirit of Cyrus
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I have the unpopular opinion that aside from a couple specific songs I've been lukewarm to every LL Cool J album later than Radio (which was such a banger), but this is so eyebrow-raisingly off the path of what I tend to expect from LL Cool J that I had to post here.
I literally came blind to this new album, and just before hitting play I thought - well unfortunately I can predict I'm not going to get any hard social commentary like from dead prez or etc...
30 secs later it felt like that thought had personally offended him. Track 1 no less.