Yossarian
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The men who killed Ahmaud Arbery won't be visiting Trump anytime soon - they might make it to his 100th birthday party if the judge decides their life sentences should include the possibility of parole.
Is America burning? (Black Lives Matter protests, civil unrest and riots 2020)
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8ball
Decolonise colons!
Yep, no surprises there either.
Yossarian
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They were found guilty on state charges, which Trump or a Trumpling at the federal level can't issue pardons for - their federal hate crimes trial is in February.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Tbh though even if he could pardon them I doubt he'd bother. At an individual level he's not interested in these people even if they make up a handy mob as a group.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
she's made her name forever, i'd think
www.nytimes.com
not one of the jurors played the let's-stiggit-to-the-libs game by voting to acquit. amazing work by the prosecutor.
How a Prosecutor Addressed a Mostly White Jury and Won a Conviction in the Arbery Case (Published 2021)
Linda Dunikoski, a prosecutor brought in from the Atlanta area, struck a careful tone in a case that many saw as an obvious act of racial violence.
not one of the jurors played the let's-stiggit-to-the-libs game by voting to acquit. amazing work by the prosecutor.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
she's made her name forever, i'd think
How a Prosecutor Addressed a Mostly White Jury and Won a Conviction in the Arbery Case (Published 2021)
Linda Dunikoski, a prosecutor brought in from the Atlanta area, struck a careful tone in a case that many saw as an obvious act of racial violence.
not one of the jurors played the let's-stiggit-to-the-libs game by voting to acquit. amazing work by the prosecutor.
That seems like a pretty bizarre thing to say, but your link is behind a paywall, so meh.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
don't follow quite, she conducted a brilliant prosecution in a trial with national implications and got the conviction in a place where you might not expect to, based on demographics and the prosecutors' openly racialist strategy.
Despite the evidence of racism she had at her disposal, Linda Dunikoski, the prosecutor, stunned some legal observers by largely avoiding race during the trial, choosing instead to hew closely to the details of how the three men had chased the Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, through their neighborhood.
The risks went beyond her career and a single trial. Failure to convict in a case that many saw as an obvious act of racial violence would reverberate well outside Glynn County, Ga. For some, it would be a referendum on a country that appeared to have made tentative steps last summer toward confronting racism, only to devolve into deeper divisions.
On Wednesday, Ms. Dunikoski’s strategy was vindicated when the jury found the three men guilty of murder and other charges after deliberating for roughly a day. The convicted men — Gregory McMichael, 65; his son Travis McMichael, 35; and their neighbor William Bryan, 52 — are now facing life sentences in prison. They are also facing trial in February on separate federal hate-crime charges.
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The case, from the beginning, echoed painful themes in the Deep South. The murder of a Black man by white men carrying guns, presented to a jury that included just one Black person. The rest were white. The jury had been put in place over the protests of Ms. Dunikoski, who had tried unsuccessfully to prevent potential Black jurors from being removed during the selection process by the defense lawyers. It was also a painful moment for Glynn County, a majority-white county that remains marked by the legacy of segregation.
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8ball
Decolonise colons!
Well, I guess that's a little bit more context. Will have to see if I can get round that paywall since the bits I can see appear to come with an implicit assumption that the jury was racist.
I mean sure, they came to a decision that was supported by legal context and the evidence presented, but these were white people on the jury, possibly without even a high degree of education, so it must have been an especially Atticus Finch like character that restrained their honky lynch mob leanings..
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Nope
petee
no gods, no malarkey
the defense certainly was banking on that, as the bit i quoted shows. they used their peremptory challenges exclusively to stack the jury racially. there is no suggestion about education levels by the NYT writer.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
The defense had fuck all else, frankly.
N_igma
Epistemic nuisance
I went onto Fox News Facebook page just to take a gander and see if there were any dicks complaining but was pleasantly surprised to see that even they were in full agreement these cunts were found guilty and deserved life.
There were a few out and out racists though in the mire.
teqniq
DisMembered
Can I recommend that you install the bypass paywall plugin for either Chrome or Firefox or C&P the URL into this site. Here you go....
How a Prosecutor Addressed a Mostly White Jury and Won a Conviction in the Arbery Case
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Be careful though, Fox News is now the relatively "liberal" one out of a whole bunch of right-wing US "news" outlets. I think NewsMax and One America News Network are now upping Fox in the frothing game.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Yeah. Nailed-down work laptop. It’s a bit of a pain in the arse…
Thanks for the link - will take a look.
teqniq
DisMembered
i have one of those, it is indeed a pain in the arse. Was happily using WhatsApp on it which made my job easier until they disabled it. The Home Office indirectly pay my wages and they say we can't use WhatsApp on our work computers because it is a security risk which is kinda strange considering how government ministers seem to have no problem using/abusing it.
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spring-peeper
Well-Known Member
I think this is a terrible idea.
www.cnn.com
The cost per person is over $10,000 per volunteer.
(bet my sums are wrong)
DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to reestablish a World War II-era civilian military force that he, not the Pentagon, would control.
www.cnn.com
The cost per person is over $10,000 per volunteer.
(bet my sums are wrong)
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Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
I wonder if they’ll wear brown shirts?I think this is a terrible idea.
DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to reestablish a World War II-era civilian military force that he, not the Pentagon, would control.
The cost per person is over $10,000 per volunteer.
(bet my sums are wrong)
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
He had massive previous form that was not allowed to be mentioned in court ...
petee
no gods, no malarkey
manslaughter
www.yahoo.com
Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter in Daunte Wright's death
The mostly white jury deliberated for about 27 hours over four days before finding former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter. Potter, 49, faces about seven years in prison under the state’s sentencing guidelines, but prosecutors said they...
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
I suppose here is as good as anywhere to put this extremely good piece of politics from New York mayor Eric Adams, unless we need a separate "what stupid shit has Eric Adams done/said today?" thread:
He makes a good point - sure, giving your brother a high-paying post in the police might look dodgy, but when you've got a city full of anarchists doing white supremacy, what else can you do?
He makes a good point - sure, giving your brother a high-paying post in the police might look dodgy, but when you've got a city full of anarchists doing white supremacy, what else can you do?
8ball
Decolonise colons!
It's a pretty novel situation. You need to get the right man in sharpish - City Hall can go hang!
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petee
no gods, no malarkey
that would be a long thread.
I'm actually glad he got the white supremacy talk going. let's how different a reaction he gets from the barrage of garbage rhat was thrown at deblasio when he said he'd had "the talk" with his son (about being black making him a target for attention).
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
I think this is a terrible idea.
DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to reestablish a World War II-era civilian military force that he, not the Pentagon, would control.
The cost per person is over $10,000 per volunteer.
(bet my sums are wrong)
Other state guards exist as volunteer home guard style outfits that respond to disasters or do ceremonial style stuff due to tradition. Not really secret police-style or militia outfit
No idea what he wants with them though. Best case scenario he gets lots of red necks who think they are first in line for the purge. Who end up heading out blankets and MREs next hurricane season.
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