Inside the article:
In 1851, Secretary of State Daniel Webster demanded the death penalty in a treason prosecution against 38 defendants who had resisted slavecatchers near Christiana, Pennsylvania. The governmentâs failure in that case (in which a slave owner had been killed) did not deter the Fillmore administration. Federal troops were repeatedly deployed to enforce the act, especially in cities like Boston where there was profound popular resistance. Fillmore celebrated the âtriumph of the lawâ when a fugitive was returned to Georgia at bayonet point.
Thatâs my favorite scene from that movieâŚespecially because he gets his winnings from a subordinate around the same time.
Part of me wants to say âNO SHIT Sherlockâ but not to you, of course. But an awful lot of people need to grasp this and I wouldnât want to interfere with the population grasping something thatâs been bleeding (literally) obvious for a long time.
Defund the fucking police.
(NOTE: all emphasis in the below pull-quotes is mine)
Potential prolific offenders are first identified using an algorithm the department invented
The manual says peopleâs scores are âenhancedâ â it does not say by how much â if they miss court dates, violate their probation or appear in five or more police reports, even if they were listed as a witness or the victim.
Cops running around harrassing people who might offend is well known in Black and even other POC communities. This story shows how organized and deliberate it is. This isnât rogue cops. This is literally the system. This canât be reformed , only dismantled.
It says people are on the list because they were arrested, not convicted, just arrested. So people they donât like are arrested for nothing, and put on the list.
It also says property theft is down, even though violence is up. Well thatâs good, because we all know property is more important than people.
So, this is sounding a LOT like Stalinâs RussiaâŚonly warmer. Well, in spots.
naturally, this caused COVID-19 to spread.
Roderick Walker, 26, was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by deputies for an alleged broken rear light.
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Mr Walkerâs lawyer, Shean Williams, said his client had been a passenger in the lift-share car with his girlfriend, their five-month-old child and his stepson when police pulled them over.Mr Walker became upset when he was asked for his identification as he hadnât been driving the car, Mr Williams said in a statement quoted by ABC News.
âHe informed them that he did not have any ID and that he didnât need any since he was not driving a vehicle,â he said.
âWhen they didnât like his question, they then demanded that he get out of a vehicle that he wasnât driving. It escalates to him being beaten on the ground, being tased, and almost dying. And they take him to jail.â
This is the same Republican Secretary of State that tried to privatize our vote-by-mail system after being appointed to fill out the term of the previous Republican Secretary of State.
fuck.