https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-karl-ashanti-special-federal-arrest
The main component of my job was defending police officers in similar situations who are sometimes guilty of falsely arresting people. And this was one of them,” he says. “That irony hit me immediately.”
that's a hell of a thing to center your entire job on :what-the-hell:
He figured it was an area that would always have a backlog of cases.
Wait I specifically defended this leopard eating OTHER people's faces why is this happening
“That irony hit me immediately.”
Joke about "Irony" being an unusual last name for a police officer
A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "lol. lmao, even"
"See!!!!??!? I'm one of the good ones!!" Says the lawyer.
"Bonk bonk bonk" goes the pig's cudgel.
After reading the article, I don't think I have any sympathy for the lawyer. He sounds like he had a "fuck you, got mine" attitude.
After being forced out of bootlicking, he got a new job representing civil-rights cases against the city.
He was finally realizing his original ambitions of using the law to help others. “It just took a long, long time — a long, circuitous route to get here,” he says.
A "long, long time" when he could have left much earlier. :matt-jokerfied:
“It just took a long, long time — a long, circuitous route to get here,” he says.
Indistinguishable from a made-up quote in an Onion article
You can lick the boot, but that won't stop it from coming down
As the case drags on, Ashanti sometimes sounds a bit like Brown. He complains that the city lawyer assigned to his lawsuit is treating it like a “No Pay” case and “fighting tooth and nail against me.” There is a deep sense of outrage, even hurt, in his voice. And yet when I asked him recently about the parallel to Brown, and whether his experience has made him rethink his own hardball tactics at Special Fed, he was unequivocal. “I did my job the right way,” he says.
No self awareness at all. :brainworms:
