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lemonlime

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  1. If he's not fucked, the police will deserve every ounce of shit that will be rained down on them. They need to stop defending this shitstain. Which is why the defense focusing on whether the witnesses were angry is fucking stupid. Because the jury has to be thinking that answer, even when the witnesses aren't vocalizing it.
  2. yeah. The analogy doesn't even make sense. It's more like the crowd of 20 people yelling at you that you were trampling a baby in the fire, and you choosing to ignore it. The crowd wasn't telling Chauvin how to arrest people. It was telling him to stop killing a man.
  3. The defense questioning of these witnesses is terrible. I don't understand after listening to a witness describe how they stood there watching Chauvin kill a man, you would ask the witness if he/she was angry. It's clear the cops and their attorneys are so used to a criminal justice system that swallows whatever bullshit they spew out, they don't know how to actually respond to real questioning.
  4. I only watched a few minutes of it, and I'm biased, but I'm not sure how accusing a witness of becoming angry as he was watching his client murder someone is somehow helpful to the defense, even if true. My favorite question, though, is "Did you tell him (the officer--can't remember if it was Chauvin or the one who was watching) you hoped he killed himself"? Answer: No. I didn't use the word "hope." I said he would kill himself, because he wouldn't be able to live with what he had just done. Also, he is a "hostile witness." But being an asshole to a witness who watched your client choke a man to death is probably not a good way to earn credibility with the jury.
  5. Who the fuck cares either way. The basis for criminalizing behavior, here giving people water, can't just be that innocent people won't die if the criminalized activity doesn't take place. If you're passing a law criminalizing giving people water, you're on the wrong side of any issue. Be it voting or giving water to migrants. This isn't a close call or tough issue.
  6. LA has issues with overtime in general. Hell, a traffic officer made $234,000 in 2019. Seems odd to focus on life guards, as opposed to all the cops earning overtime. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-firefighters-police-officers-and-other-city-employees-received-nearly-500-million-in-overtime-pay-in-2019/
  7. It shouldn't. To quote Brisket from the DT thread, if you suffocate a dying hospice patient with a pillow, you're still going to be charged with murder. To the extent it should have any bearing on the case, I think it should be to show that Chauvin had intent to kill him. If Floyd was really in that level of distress, then putting his knee on his neck for nine minutes is even more obviously intended to kill. But, well cops. And a criminal justice system designed so that they avoid accountability.
  8. Fair enough. it just seems so prejudicial. And the probative value should really be limited to something beneficial for the prosecution---if true Chauvin should have been putting Floyd in an ambulance, not choking him, and his intent to kill Floyd is even more obvious. But maybe I'm hung up on the fact that a theory that something else killed him than the knee on his neck for ten minutes is patently absurd.
  9. I don't understand why this is even admissible, never mind the focus. Even assuming it's true, it doesn't matter what preexisting conditions the victim had if you put your knee on his neck for 10 minutes, whether it's drug abuse, stroke, etc. Doesn't that make it worse? He's not well because he's overdosing, and instead of calling for an ambulance, Chauvin put his knee on his neck for 10 minutes.
  10. So a sitting Senator, who is supposed to work for his neighbors, is more concerned with gunning them down in an emergency than with helping them out. And the GQP thinks this is normal.
  11. For fuck's sake, even on the West Wing, the president had a seating chart.
  12. It must be so mortifying for you to support a guy whose approval never got above 50% even during the honeymoon period, making him far less popular than a man you believe belongs in the memory unit of a nursing home.
  13. Yeah. But has he tried to sell malaria drugs or bleach injections as Covid cures yet?
  14. What makes you think the government isn't running things now? They currently pay for about half of healthcare costs in the U.S. And we have to deal with state and federal government bureaucracy and that's in addition to the bureaucracy from all the insurers.
  15. You're the one who painted yourself as a victim because you, checks notes, are a white man in the U.S. who owns weapons.
  16. LO fucking L.
  17. Certainly a good example of what snowflakes white men are.
  18. Her. And bingo. There are some regulations. But they obviously aren't keeping this shit from happening on a regular basis. And there's a huge segment of the country and a huge amount of money invested in stopping any regulations that might actually help fix things. Not 100% fix. But actually target the problem.
  19. We also regulate both driving and food production/safety. We don't just say food is a public good, so fuck the FDA, fuck labeling, and we don't need food safety inspectors.
  20. You should hope dumbasses shouldn't demonize all brown people and spout off about "religion of peace." And that Fox News, who decided to ignore the story before finding out the shooter was Muslim, doesn't now decide to demagogue over this. Of course, we already know those hopes will never be realized.
  21. Maybe? Probably? I'm also wondering about vaccines. I saw a bunch of MAGAts walking around my neck of the woods with signs saying "Vaccines are made with aborted fetal cells." Edit to add: Also the Bill Gates chip, Q crap.
  22. Do we know if they were vaccinating people at the King Soopers?
  23. The grift and the gullibility are real. Getting people who make under $80k per year to spend $400 a night to stay in a tacky, fake gold leaf tower that's in disrepair.
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