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Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
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Re: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
#132The sheriff that arrested him should face criminal charges for misuse of authority. That he doesn't reflects a structural weakness in US law. In most European legal systems a law enforcement officer overstepping his legal authority would face criminal charges for it.
In a sane, fair, and (crucially) long-term stable system, persons given privilege and authority over others are subject to a higher standard for their own behavior. The long-running US trend of the inverse (additional legal protections for positions of authority) is incredibly destructive. This is a moral and values judgment, yes, but it's not just that -- it communicates to the population at large that they should f…
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Re: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
The UK has different speech laws than the United States. Presumably, the actions of the police making those arrests are within the scope of UK law. Even if 90% don't result in a conviction, the police may still be operating within the scope of their authority in those arrests.
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UK voted not to be a part of Europe. Well, at least the England part of the UK did.
Re: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
The death penalty should be reserved for people who violate a position of public trust and authority.
Hot take, but I feel like no humans should be killed as a punishment... But I'm also probably too European to understand the true value of death penalty.
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Re: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
#135I’ll be honest this seems low for what he’s been through.
I would say it seems unbelievably high! I've known people t-boned by Semi Trucks that ran a red light and they couldn't get 1/10th of that because you can only prove so many actual damages. A single month in the slammer caused this guy $835k in proven damages? You'd probably lose your job, go into arrears on rent/car/mortgage, but it's hard to believe that every day in prison was costing this guy $22k
This was settled out of court. Nothing was proven. For the county to settle for this much, there must be some things going on behind closed doors that the people involved do not want to be made public.
Re: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
The outcome wasn't guaranteed; that's the scary part. If Trump had decided to take a hand then it could have been drawn out for months at a minimum.
At some point, barring him getting beaten to death in jail, this was always going to get in front of a judge who'd go "uh what the fuck?!" It's about as slam-dunk of a situation as you could come up with.
I could say that about a litany of court cases in the previous decade, yet here we are, our president winning immunity for all tax evasion, in the past and future, for his whole family, and getting seditious white supremacists paid while doing it.
Re: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
#137Why's everyone picking (rightfully) on the sheriff alone and ignoring that he got a legal warrant from a judge, and that the defendant was then later kept in prison by a judge?
Re: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Public trust should be lost, because these institutions were never trustworthy. I am not both sidesing. I'm saying that there are better reform options than adding additional criminal statutes that are likely to be abused. Put simply, do you want the Trump administration to be able to bring criminal charges against any prosecutor or judge that they can argue brought a bad case?
You could make this argument about anything. We should have no laws, because they might be abused by a malicious prosecutor. Utter nonsense.
We should indeed get rid of many laws because the benefit is outweighed by the abuse.
America has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world (used to be #1) but suggest that maybe we're overcriminalized and you must be talking nonsense.
Re: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
#139I’ll cut against the grain here and say it’s ABSOLUTELY appropriate for taxpayers to pay the bill here. It’s pretty toxic that people don’t want to take responsibility for their own government in a democracy. In this case, it’s especially bad, given the sheriff is elected by the people directly. But I’d go even further and say even where control is less direct, we need incentives for voters to take this stuff serious…
Taxpayers should get a line item on their tax bills that specifically counts the amount of their bill that went toward settlements arising out of police misconduct, so they can see in numeric terms what they're voting for.
This is a country where people are fine with more of their taxes going into police budgets every year.
Adding a line item to their property tax bill showing how much is paid into settling lawsuits will not make people think that they should demand more accountability. They will think that it should be harder to take legal action against the police.
Re: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Linehan was arrested for making this post: > If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls This seems like a straightforward call to violence to me. And he was released after police ascertained that he had no intent to act on these statements. If someone made posts along the lines of "Christians…
yes, actually, it would be suprising if CBP took them aside for further questioning. That's not really how it's "supposed" to work.