Has anyone been following this story?
It started with a woman whose son was killed by a cop in a car who hit him. It may have been a genuine accident but then the police just buried him in an anonymous grave and never contacted his family despite having the information. Now this story has exposed the fact that there are maybe between 200 and 500 bodies behind a jail some of whom apparently have family that was never contacted living right in the area.
Furthermore apparently some of these uncontacted families are from victims in some 20+ homicides that went unreported to the public last year. The police just buried the bodies of all these homicide victims anonymously and sat on it for a year I guess?
Really chilling stuff. Just a complete systemic failure.
The banality of evil gets lost in the high octane news stories.
Itâs enraging and disgustingâŠ
Thatâs really at the heart of it, yeah. So much of modern, mass society rests on this very idea, that people are disposable, especially if theyâre not of a particular, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etcâŠ
Ok, that article is a little unclear on whatâs going on. First of all, he wasnât charged with murder. Heâs been charged with manslaughter. Itâs still bullshit, but there is a big difference. Second, the article implies that the judge declared him incompetent because he canât speak English or Spanish, but only his native language. Thatâs not why the judge declared him incompetent. They can get translators even for that language, and, in fact, they have. The issue is that he only has a 6th grade education, and just answers âyesâ to every question heâs asked, even with a translator, and canât seem to retain information. He canât demonstrate that he understands even the most basic elements of whatâs going on or why heâs under arrest and being held in custody.
Procedurally, though, being found by a judge to be not competent to stand trial doesnât mean you immediately get released and the charges dropped. The post you linked implies that the prosecution is just ignoring the judgeâs decision. Thatâs not whatâs happening. When someone is declared not competent, depending on the reasons for that, they can be given treatment to see if they can become competent, which is whatâs happening here.
So, the whole thing is still bullshit, itâs just that some of the bullshit described in that post isnât accurate bullshit. This article has more accurate bullshit.
Oh great, weâre back to raiding gay bars to enforce âmoralityâ. Do they not remember Stonewall?
Not the way it actually happened, no⊠Or maybe not at allâŠ
Police said the carâs licence plate had matched the number of a stolen vehicle but from a different state.
Sounds like a slap on the wrist compared to, yâkno, torture, but still good.
the Los Angeles Police Foundation, which says it is âone of two exclusive holdersâ of intellectual property rights relating to the Los Angeles Police Department, including the right to âthe word âLAPDâ as an acronym/abbreviation,â sent a nastygram on April 11 to a company selling a T-shirt that read âF*CK the LAPD.â
[âŠ] the lawyer does not yet seem to have mastered certain other skills, such as researching arguably relevant questions like âcan a government agency trademark or copyright its nameâ?
The targetâs lawyer, Mike Dunford, does know the answer to that question, which he expressed in just two words as shown above. He could have cut one of them, but in this case less would not have been more.
There was no evidence that linked her to the crime other than a confession she gave under heavy sedation in a psychiatric hospital, a review into her case found.
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The review found that local police ignored evidence that directly pointed to one of their own officers - Michael Holman â who later went to prison for another crime and died in 2015.
The incident in the early hours of 6 July began when Ms Massey called police to her home in Springfield, 200 miles (320km) south of Chicago, to report that she believed someone had broken into her property.
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In the video, Mr Grayson sees a pot sitting on a stove, gestures towards it and says, âwe donât need a fire while weâre hereâ. Ms Massey walks to the stove to remove the pot. She and Mr Grayson appear to laugh over her pot of âsteaming hot water,â before she twice says: âI rebuke you in the name of Jesus."âYou better [expletive] not or I swear to God Iâll [expletive] shoot you in your [expletive] face,â Mr Grayson says. He then draws his pistol as he shouts for her to drop the pot.
âOK, Iâm sorry,â Ms Massey is heard saying before she ducks.