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[–] [email protected] 176 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A pardoned domestic terrorist with a gun and a problem with law enforcement? What could go wrong?

Here's to hoping for another 1500 "justice by traffic stops."

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I’d rather they get educated/rehabbed.

Especially since the people with actual power and greater culpability have only gained from the constant stream of lies that led them to believe this was okay.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

America does not rehabilitate prisoners. The U.S. prison system is entirely about retribution. So that was never going to happen.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I dunno why but this comment was the one that made me burst out laughing.

[–] leftzero 120 points 5 months ago (3 children)

ACA still B, though, even if in this particular case the victim was a terrorist.

Fascists should be getting shot because they're fascists, not because cops are violent incompetent bastards who indiscriminately murder people without consequence.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is a case of classic fascist friendly fire.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s almost as though his supporters are a bunch of violent extremists.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Have none of you any empathy? What about the feelings of this cop who had to shoot one of his brothers because the cameras were on, did you think about that?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I have a feeling cops would shoot each other all the time if they thought they could. Especially if it's a white cop shooting a black cop. The whole "brotherhood" thing is performative. I've had the misfortune of doing ride-alongs with cops working for a local TV station. They can't wait to tell you how all the other cops suck.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Thanks to lifelong mental illness I only started developing more than a marginal sense of real empathy in my 30s, and it's an extremely limited resource. So unfortunately I don't have any to spare for the police.

I'm still working on my natural tendancy to paint with a broad brush, which is more than I can say about the cops.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 months ago

On the one hand, the usual American Police Brutality. On the other hand, one Trump-loving criminal less on the street.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago

He shouldn't have resisted

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He would still be alive if he was still in jail

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He was only sentenced to six months. He’d be dead anyway.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Oh that's good

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

That's a good start, but we have to speed up that pace.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh so these guys supported Trump after all? Whatever happened to them being Antifa and BLM?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

trump pardoned all the antifas and made it terrorism at the same time

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

I don't feel good that this was my reaction, but I stand by it:

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

Just have Trump pardon the bullet out of him.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When Trump sent his mob of terrorists into the Capitol building to stop Democracy, he wasn't sending his best and brightest.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

I mean, he was. Those are his best and brightest.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

I guess this is the kind of shit that happens when you ask the Monkey's Paw to be pardoned on your last wish...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's that? If you don't want to get shot by a cop, just comply? /s

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Hey you should never celebrate cops killing somebody who...

Oh? You mean the Jan 6 terrorists who literally attacked cops and then got presidential pardons? Those guys?

Oh yeah okay then.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (22 children)

Hmm, interesting.

So I had Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes tonight. Anybody else have anything good?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (46 children)

Why in the fuck are we suddenly cheering extrajudicial killing just because, for once, it wasn't someone from our side?

... Oh, yeah okay, it wasn't someone from our side. For once.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Play stupid games; win stupid prizes. He had a gun and resisted arrest. They're the ones who promoted this society and tough guy police in the first place. People see some poetic karma.

Sorry bud, I'm not losing sleep over this one.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Nah. It's because justice was subverted and karma came in with steel chair to correct things.

Pardons used to be used (usually) terribly to forgive rich assholes who made large campaign contributions... that was awful and I hate it.

In this case the recipients literally tried to overthrow the government... it's beyond the fucking pale.

I think that pardons are a terrible tool - if there is injustice that needs correction it should be done within the system so that everyone can benefit. Pardons, in their best use, just correct individual injustices while leaving the unjust system that caused the issue unaffected.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The same reason we cheered when Luigi (allegedly) shot the UH CEO.

Some people make the world a better place by leaving it.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

I agree, arrest the cop too.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

That's one.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Good. One less piece of trash in the country

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Here's to every single one of them meeting a similar end very, very soon.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Gosh, that's....

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

should've just complied....

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

In 2023, Huttle was sentenced to six months in federal prison and a year of supervised release for taking part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

back to being a riot again is it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Hope he's somewhere hot right now.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Police violence is still Police violence even when it's against insurrectionists. I don't know the exact details here, but if it's like previous police shootings, there was probably a less violent solution.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Oh noes!!

Anyways.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Trump directly killed this man, if he didn't pardon him then none of this would have happened.....

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

hahahahahahhahahahahaha.

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