Gangs
They have their calling cards, don’t they?
Rufus F.
Rufus is an American curmudgeon in Canada. He has a PhD in History, sings in a garage rock band, and does many things. He is the author of the forthcoming book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (early 2021).
From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
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Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
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Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
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I cannot imagine how in the heck we got here.
How many lodestones did it take to get our moral compasses to point *HERE*?Report
Fucking with suburbanites’ dogs — this is how you lose public support for the WoD. It’s almost like they’re trying to appear thuggist, out of control and out of touch.Report
The operative word being “suburbanites”. The same threat made to someone living in a project makes him a good, tough cop.Report
This touches on the main problem I’ve kept running into over and over again. Even in the Missouri case, which featured a white dude in a suburban-looking house. Folks think that this sort of thing wouldn’t happen to them. It’s the sort of thing that happens to bad people, who we need the cops to protect us from. Surely, if the cops are busting down their door, they did something to bring it on, right?
Jose Guarena had that picture under his bed. That’s just not right.Report
Yep. If the WoD is to be reformed or ended, it’ll have to be preceded by many more “good” people being mistreated.Report
I’ll admit I was taken aback by it, but not because of where the guy lives. When they shoot the dogs, I sort of hoped that they do it because the person might have a rotweiller or pitbull and they have some fear of being put in danger. But telling someone cooperate with us or we’re going to go to your house and shoot your dog? Just sounds like intimidation.Report
Intimidation is a large part of what cops do; thus the objections to Miranda and other brakes on how much they can do it. But they’re only supposed to intimidate the sort of people who need to be kept in line, not people like us.Report
And new laws against videoing cops.Report
Read Balko for a few months, you’ll start feeling surprised they only threatened to kill the dog instead of just doing it.Report
This one though, probably won’t get larger traction outside those who already give a darn about this issue. He’s a Hispanic hippie musician, not a nice middle aged white lady (or even an Iraq war veteran whose nontheless Hispanic).Report
You’d think by now if someone like Michael Moore wanted to do a documentary about the War on Drugs, he’d have more than enough material.Report
“COPS is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.”Report