desolate Has the national news even touched this shit wtf

  • CommunistBear [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    The only just course of action is for all police involved to be executed.

  • somename [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    This isn't an old, forgotten, thing too. They're hiding deaths out there, currently.

  • carpoftruth [any, any]M
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    5 months ago

    I remember from indigenous residential school unmarked grave discourse that state institutions having unmarked graves is actually perfectly normal and good, so I think we're in the clear here

    • @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Well we don't have all the facts alright, plenty of stories of unmarked graves have had positive endings! I'll hold my judgement, I'm sure police had a perfectly good reason for this:

      The revelation began with Dexter Wade's death in March 2023, in which a police officer fatally hit him. Shockingly, his family was not informed of his death, and he was buried without their knowledge.

  • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    This is such an insane story. I saw this on TikTok like 3 days ago I think, and I have yet to see anyone else talking about it.

    • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      One of the bodies that they claimed could not be identified literally had his state ID in his pocket, in the grave when they exhumed him.

      • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        That's the lack of care they're showing to the dead, now imagine the lack of care for the living inside the prison.

        • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine." -Che Guevara che-no

  • LaughingLion [any, any]
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    5 months ago

    its actually over 670 bodies just they didnt keep track of them until like 2014 or something fucking wild

  • Hohsia [he/him]
    hexbear
    22
    5 months ago

    Of course not, this isn’t nearly as important as the nth performative trump trial

    Are you forgetting that it’s an election year and democracy is on the ballot?

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    7
    5 months ago

    jesus christ. i had heard about the Dexter Wade story and that he had been buried in what i assumed was some mass grave / potter's field type of situation, but i had no idea it was or even could get more fucked up than that.

    Reed describes the grim scene at the burial site, where buzzards flew overhead. The bodies were placed in shadowed graves without embalming, leading to a disturbing stench that attracted scavengers. He emphasizes the inhumanity of such treatment and calls for a more dignified handling of the deceased.

    like apparently this was not even the typical dystopian and depressing kind of pauper's burial field, but rather the state's half-assed dump site for inconvenient bodies appearing in-around the carceral apparatus. as shitty as this country and the internal colonies are, i really don't see how somebody doesn't end up locked up over this, as a scapegoat at the very least.