JudCrandall

If a pretty bizarre set of circumstances with the PI (operating as a driving instructor) and the non-criminal lawyer hadn't come together these kids would still be incarcerated. How fucking scary is that?

Eleven days after the shooting, Rayford and Glass were at a Highland High School basketball game. A teacher walked up to Glass and took him to a deputy. Rayford walked over to see what was happening. Both teenagers went to jail that night and didn’t get out for nearly two decades.

At the sheriff’s station, Glass remembered seeing a bulletin for his arrest on the wall, devil horns drawn with red ink on his photo. He said there were darts in the poster.

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“I was shocked, confused, scared, nervous. I couldn’t see myself going to jail for something I hadn’t done,” he said. “I always assumed … everything was going to iron itself out. I would have bet a million dollars I was going home that day.”

Prison was tough on the two lifers. As a juvenile, Glass started in county jail and eventually was sent to a Level 4, high-security, state correctional facility. There were nights that Glass went to sleep praying he wouldn’t wake up.

Subjecting two innocent kids to a 20 year nightmare. Imagine yourself at 17 suddenly thrust into this situation. Fuck the police and the prosecutors in this case.

If you see a cop stopped on the side of the road and their hood is up, they're blocking their dashcam. Record them.

I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but I am 100% for recording ALL of your interactions with the police. Up until recently (2020) in my state the police were abusing an anti-wiretapping law to prevent citizens from recording them, but since then:

This right was established in a case brought by ACLUM, Martin v. Rollins, 982 F.3d 813, 827 (1st Cir. 2020), which was consolidated with another case, Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rollins. There, the First Circuit said the Massachusetts Wiretap Statute’s criminalization of the secret recording of police officers in public spaces violated the First Amendment.

You're within your First Amendment rights to record police and your interactions, surreptitiously or not, at any time. State law cannot supersede the Constitution. You benefit because the police are often intentionally slow (see any number of articles posted here in this community) to release their own bodycam footage, and often go weeks if not months or years providing a false narrative to the public. Record it yourself.

Dude, do not get me started on bullshit copaganda shows. I have rants.

Truly words to live by. :)

Instead it's the opposite. Just this year in my little area of the world, four BPD officers were acquitted of embezzlement basically under the basis that they didn't know it was illegal.

But they love to tell you that ignorance of the law is no excuse.

“These charges are extremely troubling because there is no place for corruption in the NYPD,” Police Commissioner Edward Caban said.

Bruh, corruption is practically all the NYPD does these days.

Welcome, Jordan! Thank you for stepping up!

And Doug, good riddance to bad rub-- just kidding. You've done something amazing with this community here and we all owe you a debt of gratitude. :)

Officer Jacob Lee Marsh. Watch out for him on the road if you live in CO.

“I think that we learn from our mistakes. We teach others about our mistakes and we move on that’s what I truly believe,” said Cordova, before adding, “In the long run to be to totally honest, I’m glad it was me and nobody else.”

The victim here is a genuine class act. I think he gives too much credit to the cops who are trying to weasel their way out of paying his medical bills, though.

If this piece of shit didn't have such a lukewarm IQ then a lot of the falsely accused could have spent upwards of 20 years in jail, per heroin distribution laws in NC. Multiply that by the 23 (THAT WE KNOW ABOUT) and that's 460 years. Fucking give him that.