• Naja Kaouthia@lemmy.world
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    “You don’t have anything to fear from the police if you’re not doing anything wrong” Really? REALLY? They are literal terrorists. I give you, exhibit….what do we do when we run out of letters anyway?

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    There is an in-group that the law protects, but does not bind. There is an out-group that the law binds, but does not protect.

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      He was convinced and his leniency is due to lack of direct involvement and being young. His sentence is house arrest.

      All of this is in the article.

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        Lack of direct involvement? He showed up! He stole a riot shield! He maced people! He pushed towards breaking into the capitol!

        What more do you need???

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          Well if he had tweeted about arming yourself to defend our nation from an insurrection he’d get years, like another Floridian: Daniel Baker.

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          I am telling you what the judge considered in his judgment, not what I think about this person.

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            Yes, we can read. We don’t need you to repeat it. Don’t espouse views you don’t hold. It makes you look like an idiot

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              “What’s an explanation” the confused person thought. “Explanations make me angry!”

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        a “lack of direct involvement” would be something like showing up to the Capitol to protest, happening to be right in the gray area between the peaceful protestors and the violent ones, and getting rounded up by the capitol police who mistook you for one of the violent ones.

        Stealing a riot shield and macing people is the textbook definition of direct involvement.

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        Kids will be kids! They do dumb stuff all the time like busting mailboxes, tagging grafitti, stealing road signs, and stealing a riot shield during an insurrection.

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        It’s a line from the Rage Against The Machine song Killing In The Name, inspired by the 1992 Rodney King killing and subsequent riots

        It also contains the powerful line “those who die are justified, remember your badge and your chosen whites”

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    WHEN (not if) these right wing fucks try to over throw the government again, we will only have ourselves to blame for it.

    These traitors should have been given the harshest penalties possible - put them up as an example to deter others. Instead, example after example, these POS are given slaps on the wrist. We are essentially encouraging others to try again because the general public has forgotten about this event, the media never took this as seriously as they should have, and various government agencies not escalating the punishments being levied.

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    Cooper went on to say that Bensch hopes to start a career in law enforcement, adding that it’s “not beyond the realm of possibility” that he could do so even with his misdemeanors. Bensch is currently working for a pool cleaning company, and the conditions of his sentence will allow him to leave his home for employment during his 60 days of home detention.

    So he’s not even actually being detained at home for any length of time. He just has to stay at home after work and on weekends for a few weeks. The horror.

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    Huh. A MAGAt rioter that wanted to undermine due process and civil rights also wants to be a cop.

    Whoda thunk?

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        This is the chicken and egg problem. Too many of the people who would make very good cops do not wish to become cops because of the racist and abusive people on the force. I wouldn’t be at all shocked if there’s also a factor of the job itself grinding down it’s workers and leading some to become racist and abusive as well

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          You make a great point. My cousin was a good cop. That’s why he quit after a few years and became an insurance salesman.

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          From what I understand, when people that are good become cops and try to hold fellow cops to the same standards, they end up getting hung out to dry and forced out.

          Check this case out: https://archive.is/2jzIx, and then consider that this kind of thing is only slightly extreme.

          Cops that stay in enable the shitty cops or become shitty themselves, good cops get forced out. The entire system is rotten, and needs to be entirely reformed. I think that it probably needs to be handled in a way similar to the way that Reagan handled striking air traffic controllers: fire every single cop, use National Guard MPs on a temporary basis while entirely new cops are recruited and trained, and have iron-clad oversight and standards established before the new cops take their positions.

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    Looking at the actual article, it was more that the judge saw he was a dumb kid who wasn’t old enough to go to college yet. We should be encouraging judges not setentising people under 21 to adult sentences, since the Republicans have been pushing 16 year old life sentences since “they look old”.

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      See this is the type of crap we don’t need here. Grow up and be civil instead of trying to start things with others.

      You’re allowed your opinion and everyone else theirs. There is 0 need to the name calling though.

      Legally that kid was an adult at the time he went to the capital. Also in that article he admits that his group went through firearms and hand to hand training before going to the capital.

      I would likely agree with you if not for that fact that he admitted to, along with engaging in the rioting and stealing government property.

      Once he actively engaged in the disruption, he stopped just being a protestor and became a rioter and thief/looter.