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guilty verdict good, of course, and long overdue especially in the face of these shitstains: quote:Before the jury was seated on day six of the trial of Amber Guyger on Saturday, former Dallas police chief Craig Miller was called by the defense as an expert witness to testify about a temporary condition called “inattentional blindness”. quote:Both hinge on the argument that it made sense for Guyger to feel threatened by Jean. Texas Ranger David Armstrong and retired Dallas police deputy chief Craig Miller each contend that it did, with the former telling jurors that Guyger, due to her heightened stress upon confronting someone she perceived to be an intruder, may not have been perceiving the situation as she normally would, according to the Dallas Morning News. Speaking only to the judge and legal teams soon after, Miller followed by raising his “inattentional blindness” defense, claiming that Guyger was too distracted to recognize, in the moment, that she’d parked on the wrong deck and entered the wrong apartment. Judge Tammy Kemp ruled that Miller wasn’t allowed to make this argument before the actual jury. Miller did argue, though — as Armstrong had before him — that Guyger’s actions were reasonable, based on his own beliefs about what drove her behavior.
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Arcella posted:So cops have zero expectation to do de-escalation of force? De-escalation for cops is pulling the trigger. Once the other party is dead, there's no more need for force. bird food bathtub posted:I really liked the part of the trial where they tried to use the castle doctrine to defend the invading murderer instead of the guy eating ice cream in his own place. That part was super loving cool. I get it as a part of the adversarial nature of our court system but holy gently caress that was some brazen bullshittery. Sounds like a new strain of "affluenza", for police rather than rich assholes.
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The explanation as I understood it was that by not allowing the castle doctrine defense to be heard, it would open up as grounds for appeal later, by arguing that they should have been able to use that defense and it should have been considered. Since it was allowed, that angle is no longer available.
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quote:Bad posts bad posts In other news, has there been any chat about the California vs NCAA feud? Because that whole mess is going to be delicious, even if it takes until 2023.
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facialimpediment posted:Getting worse, by the way. These are real screenshots. Today is also the second anniversary of the Las Vegas shooting.
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Even beyond the presidential elections, there's a ton of work that needs to be done getting progressives into local and state governments, as well as the Senate.Crakkerjakk posted:You're right. People understand stories, and stories work best when there are villains. That said, I think most people are perfectly willing to go along with "the bad guy is your boss/landlord/rich assholes, they are loving you, and there are more of us than there are of them." You'd have to hope this gets past the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mindset, though. Some people are more than happy to get poo poo on by someone above as long as they get to poo poo on someone else below.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Here’s some more very normal treatment of a veteran and journalist at Dulles, an airport serving the capital region of our very normal country.
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Is Trump just doing the presidential equivalent of running down a grocery store aisle with his arm in a shelf, knocking everything over? He seems to have gotten particularly unhinged as of late
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I can only imagine this administration is trying to see how high they can get the crime/time ratio
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Well I think I'm starting to understand the whole crack-ping feeling now At this point it's less crack-ping and more twitch-crack-kabloosh 
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Oct 16, 2019 22:42
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Not wearing a seatbelt is a great way to get thrown out of the car and into the afterlife.quote:fuckerberg wish he'd make like steve jobs
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bird food bathtub posted:Republican hypocrisy is a pre-escelator concept. When you're pushing for an authoritarian single-party state you frame it as a struggle for survival against pure evil and then say nothing you do matters because the other guys are worse. IOKIYAR
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Oct 23, 2019 21:24
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Eej posted:Facebook, Youtube and tech companies being complicit in allowing this poo poo to spread for the sake of money But but but algorithms!!!! "Complicit" doesn't feel like a strong enough word for what they're doing; in a lot of cases they violate their own supposed terms by allowing that kind of trash to spread, because it drives ~engagement~ and more ad revenue.
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Oct 24, 2019 20:15
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bird food bathtub posted:Best way I heard this described is that social media is the weaponization of loneliness and stress. The social media companies weaponize it to drive that engagement, and the advertisers pay for it to happen so they can modify your behavior. Whether that modification is to make you buy more toothpaste or to disbelieve the idea of a shared, fact-based political discourse it's all the same to the amoral sociopaths making money off your loneliness and stress. Less that, and more that anger and sensationalism gets attention. Fox News rose up in getting everyone enraged about mundane normal stuff because poors/blacks/mexicans!!!. Social media just let the average person play the game instead of only the news outlets and media companies, and in making it mainstream.
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one way to rear end-ist the investigation
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