• Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Lol put this in front of a jury. Id never convict in a million years. These fat fuck federal politicians want to charge us for putting our hands up while they’re shooting us with ammunitions. The fact there’s even a law to charge for this tells me how broken our system has become.

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      This is why jury trials are super important. They’re one of those last-ditch safety measures against a police state.

      That’s why the people ICE arrests usually don’t get to have a trial. They’re trying to make a new system where they just get to decide what happens to people.

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      We have this law in Germany too. It’s illegal to bring protective items or face coverings to a protest. When the cops start beating people you’re expected to just sit there and take it. It’s totally fucked up.

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    Prosecutors allege Orellana was helping protesters withstand less-lethal munitions being deployed by Los Angeles police officers and Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies after an unlawful assembly had been declared. […] Asked how handing out defensive equipment was a crime […], Essayli insisted Orellana was specifically handing out supplies to violent demonstrators. “He wasn’t handing masks out at the beach. … They’re covering their faces. They’re wearing backpacks. These weren’t peaceful protesters,” he said.

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Remember kids: safety is a crime, you have no future!

      Also

      they’re wearing backpacks. These werent peaceful protestors"

      What the fuck? Fucking cop brain.

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        Ah, that explains why Uvalde cops sat around keeping people out during the school shooting. All the unarmed kids getting shot weren’t peaceful students with their backpacks.

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          That shit was so disgusting…

          Imagine blocking parents from doing their biological imperative to protect their kids from bodily harm.

          When your government shows you what it is, believe it folks.

          We are under a brutal occupation

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    They want to push us until we start handing out more dangerous things than face shields. Then they’ll just start shooting at every protest.