Legal Eagle

Someone mentioned insurance, and I believe that is the right answer. Police departments should have to carry liability insurance, as anything other than routine policing is highly likely to damage private property, and it's unfair to force the owners of that property to carry the burden of the damage that law enforcement does.

The other problem, of course, is that US police are, as a generalization, poorly trained. There were several options available to them besides 'blow up house,' but nothing occured to them because they weren't trained to behave in any other way.

New video, covering the gassing of a crowd so Trump can go get a photo-op done.

Ohhh, he's mad.

And he fucking should be. We should all be mad.

I was going to say it's no worse than our typical day of protests against Macron… but even Macron didn't send the fucking military against protesters (not that he didn't entertain the idea). And the whole thing with the church and kicking out the priest… What the hell.

Hmm, yeah, after months of covid eclipsing every other news, this is one hell of a wake-up call. =[

Oh God I’m ashamed we elected this idiot. The kind of egotistical-ass motherfucker.

I really hope he doesn’t get a second term, this is both is ridiculous & embarrassing,

Monkey's paw: the news has stopped talking about coronavirus but the story replacing it is somehow even worse for the psyche.

It infuriates me (granted, not as much as the bs stunt Trump pulled), that conspiracy nuts are using Coronavirus' "disappeance" from the news media as "evidence" that the virus is a fake.

Even, Rachel Reenstra, a comedian I used to really like, got on the "Covid is a hoax" bandwagon a couple months ago.

As for the latest Legal Eagle video, I feel that if anyone knows someone in law enforcement, make them watch this video. At the very least the last 5 minutes of it.

Those people are morons. The news and the state officials here are both still talking about the coronavirus and how to keep oneself safe from it while participating in protests.

A couple new videos today:

His explanation of the different murder charges and additional thoughts.

Video on Trump's war on Twitter.

Edited by Ayasugi on Jun 6th 2020 at 10:03:16 AM

So, if I get this right…

• first degree murder = premeditated intentional homicide
• second degree murder = non premeditated intentional homicide
• fellony murder = causing the death of someone while committing another fellony
• third degree murder = unintentional murder though dangerous behavior?

That's pretty accurate, although the precise definitions can vary by state. Note that felony murder doesn't require that you kill someone, only that someone die as a consequence of your actions. If you rob a bank and someone has a heart attack of fright, that is still felony murder even though you didn't do anything to directly cause it.

Note that an important distinction that our friend makes here is that you can't charge someone with felony murder if the original crime is killing that person. Example: you get in a fight and accidentally kill someone. You're charged with manslaughter. The DA says, "this guy is accused of manslaughter, so he was committing a crime, therefore it's second degree murder." Nope.

Edited by Fighteer on Jun 6th 2020 at 12:45:06 PM

"How to Reform the Police"

Police Unions - he went there. That surprised me as the first part of the video was a bit wishy-washy.

The 1033 program is low hanging fruit. If the 1033 program survives 2020, I'll be surprised.

He did go there - the amount of laws and that minor infractions have led to police overreaction.

The elephant in the room is qualified immunity, but that could be a video itself (those of you outside the US should visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity )

But it's still a good video.

This dude is now suing the White House, CIA and Department of Justice.

Edited by Druplesnubb on Jun 25th 2020 at 2:19:40 PM

Holy Shit. This year just keeps getting more nuts.

And go Legal Eagle!

Well, he wouldn't have to worry about attorney's fee at least.

I suppose "never represent yourself in a court" applies here too?

Man this guy is a Goddamn madlad.

For context, he's suing because of a Freedom of Information Act Request went unanswered and he's been stonewalled. He's not just going like "screw you, government!"

The goal here is largely to get portions of Bolton's book that have been redacted out in the open. It's really interesting.

Also, Youtube. Fuck your ad algorithm. Before the video I got an ad from trumpmakeamericagreatagain.com or something, and after I got the goddamn Epoch Times. And during the video, there was an on-page ad about "Free defend your home classes" from presumably some paranoid shitjob.

There's a way to get into Google's list of things it thinks you are interested to look at ads; turning off politics helps stop those ads from appearing.

Words cannot express how much I love adblockers. They're a human right, not a privilege.

Follow up to the above video. Where he goes over Bolton's book.

Edited by Ghilz on Jun 25th 2020 at 12:30:21 PM

Not if you want to keep having websites, like this one. Ads, subscriptions, or subsidies: there ain't no free lunch. You exercise your "privilege" on the backs of other people.

I run an adblocker but only to protect against malicious ads. For sites that I visit frequently, I whitelist them as long as they don't wreck my computer.

Edited by Fighteer on Jun 25th 2020 at 12:58:33 PM

Yeah. Generally I consider a few seconds of annoyance the bare minimum to the sheer amount of free content I get from the internet.