• fx8690gii [he/him, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    “Regardless of the outcome today or Wednesday, I know we did the legal, moral and ethical thing that night,” Mattingly wrote to his colleagues. “It’s sad how the good guys are demonized, and the criminals are canonized.”

    You killed an innocent woman in her sleep.

    • Bedandsofa [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Turn this fascist into mulch

      What if, instead of “defunding the police” or whatever pie-in-the-sky idea you commies have, we simply turn them into compost and use them to grow healthful produce?

  • fx8690gii [he/him, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Taylor was killed by police during the botched raid.

    Compare how this line sounds when rewritten in active voice, with a little extra context:

    The police killed Taylor in her sleep during a botched raid.

  • Oso_Rojo [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    About half of the content in that article is just direct quotes from cops. The media loves uncritically repeating the bullshit that cops feed them.

    • LangdonAlger [any]
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      4 years ago

      The Richard Jewell review Ep of Chapo does a good job of pointing this out

            • Oso_Rojo [he/him, they/them]
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              4 years ago
              • Episode 03: The Rise of Superpredator 2.0
              • Episode 06: The Media’s Default Setting of White Supremacy
              • Episode 54: Local 'Crime' Reporting as Police Stenography
              • Episode 94: The Goofy Pseudoscience Copaganda of TV Forensics
              • Episode 97: Porch Pirate Panic and the Paranoid Racism of Snitch Apps
              • Episode 100: Willie Hortonism 2020 - Media Attacks on Prison Reform
              • News Brief: The Growing Pushback to Copaganda
              • News Brief: Detailing the Connection Between Gentrification and Racist Police Harassment

              https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/

              I'd recommend listening to episode 54 first. If it's your cup of tea, then you'll probably like the rest.

  • FLAMING_AUBURN_LOCKS [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    “We as police DO NOT CARE if you are black, white, Hispanic, Asian, what you identify as...this week.”

    cool email Jon! spoken like someone who truly is not butthurt about trans people!

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You can't defend your actions when you started the whole thing off by GOING TO THE WRONG GODDAMNED HOUSE.

    • buh [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      And then breaking in
      And then shooting sleeping people without warning

  • artangels [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    damn wtf happened in this thread lol.

    weird to me how like, the "criminal" he's ostensibly talking about, is literally dead, and he's complaining that she had more rights than him.

    • buh [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      damn wtf happened in this thread lol.

      Some dumb chud who thinks we like RBG decided to do an epic troll

      • artangels [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        damn, he really got us.

        i remember seeing a leftist on twitter got chuds in DMs attacking hillary clinton a few weeks ago.

        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          It's simultaneously amusing and tragic that discourse and education in the US is so shit that people earnestly believe that anyone left of Regan is a socialist, and that leftist and liberal are synonymous with one another.

  • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    ...Did he unironically accuse the mayor & police chief of an "epic fail"?

  • joshieecs [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    porky porky porky, when they finally lay you down for a little nap, they'll have so much bacon frying i'll be able to smell it from Nashville