• MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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    14 days ago

    I didn’t say the cops handled this well. I said they can be criticized here and we should check their story.

    My disagreement with you is solely limited to whether this is good agitprop.

    I brought up how pretrial detention is used everywhere, including in AES states, because when we use stories like this to say things like "its not justification for keeping her in jail without trial nor hearing," we show our ass a bit. Lots of persuadable people out there would point out that there's a reason some people are held before trial; it's not some unique horror of the U.S. criminal legal system. We make the exact same argument when libs push "China bad because they exercise authority" articles.

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      14 days ago

      What makes it good agitprop is that she's 13 and the cops didn't give a fuck, it shows their inhumanity. And idk, if china holds people for weeks or months without a hearing I'd be critical of that too, generally. Not all lib "evil CCP must go" levels of mad about it, but certainly it's not ideal.

      Edit: they did give her a bail hearing. so feel free to scratch the bit about "without trial nor hearing" It was cash bail though, and it still feels like the word "homeless" was all it took for the jailers to give zero shits and throw away the key

      edit 2: ultimately what people are mad about IMO, is the fact that they felt scolded for posting about this here, which is you know, not a mixed space and not primarily/solely for agitprop. The phrasing was some shit people harboring liberal opinions about police love to trot out.