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[–] toiletobserver 100 points 3 months ago

Kidnapping, unlawful detainment, contempt. I hope this guy gets a fortune for government misdeeds

[–] Hobbes_Dent 85 points 3 months ago

Playing with lives for votes. At the taxpayer expense.

The Republican way.

[–] Iheartcheese 66 points 3 months ago

Only slightly the same thing nowhere near the same but.. A story I feel the need to share. One time I got arrested over a petty little warrant. Over a broken windshield. Guilty. I was an idiot letting it go to warrant. My only defense is I was a fucking stupid ass 22-year-old. This happened at like 1:00 in the morning like 20 years ago. We didn't have a working phone so I couldn't call home but as soon as I was getting arrested my friend that was with me said he would go talk to my mom and get my bail taken care of.

Less than 45 minutes after I got there the bus that was supposed to pick people up and take them to county showed up and they said... Well nobody's got you in this amount of time we're sending you to county.

And then for 3 days... They fucking lost me. My mom made my bail like 20 minutes after they bussed me away. But I was in there for 3 days because somehow in the system they couldn't figure out where the fuck I had been sent.

When they finally found me they didn't even take me all the way home even though it was only less than a mile from the original police station. They insisted that was the farthest they would go. One more fucking mile on a main road.

[–] militaryintelligence 30 points 3 months ago

I can say from experience, once you put on that metaphorical striped uniform, you are an "other" and are barely considered a human

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

What is the actual status of this? This is outrageous

[–] FlyingSquid 24 points 3 months ago

Doesn't matter how we get our slaves as long as we get our slaves.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm ashamed to be an american.

[–] theangryseal 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Where only some folks is free

And I won’t forget the men in blue

Who shoot minorities

[–] EmpathicVagrant 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When will we stand up, And fight for what we believe?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If we haven't by now I don't see that happening. And Harris wants to disarm the population.. although maybe that will actually spark a revolution who knows..

[–] theangryseal 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You messed up the song bro. I agree with you but we were singing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Awh shit my bad 😅

[–] motor_spirit 18 points 3 months ago

can always count on the fucking disgusting idiots of the south to produce such bullshit

fuck em all

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Repubs don't give a fuck so long as they can harm people.

[–] victorz 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This post is all over the place?

They are "blocking the release", but a judge did overturn the conviction?

I haven't clicked the link yet before getting confused, but I feel like this post is giving mixed signals.

[–] Maggoty 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They're appealing the ruling. And so they want to keep him in prison until that's done. Which is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

They're going to get their asses sued into oblivion. The problem is "their asses" is actually "the taxpayers" because these ghouls won't be personally liable.

[–] victorz 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, okay. Now I'm back on track. Thank you.