Comment by dTal 12 hours ago Rule of law? Innocent people are being shot. 9 comments dTal Reply account42 12 hours ago Wile I don't think they deserved to loose their lives over it, calling them "innocent" is quite dishonest. They were at the very least intentionally being a nuisance and in most cases breaking actual laws in the process. JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago > They were at the very least intentionally being a nuisance and in most cases breaking actual laws in the processPretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.There is lawbreaking in that videos. But the felony-level stuff is all from folks in uniform. (Which, thankfully, they’ve started wearing.) zahlman 2 hours ago > Pretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.Does an ongoing protest empower civilians to stand in the middle of a road that has not been closed to traffic by local authorities? mexicocitinluez 9 hours ago > calling them "innocent" is quite dishonestYou're not actually arguing that American citizens shouldn't be able to film the cops are you? That would be pretty un-American. zahlman 2 hours ago That is not at all the argument being made. 1 reply → maxehmookau 9 hours ago Being a nuisance is not illegal. In the eyes of the law, someone being a nuisance is, indeed, innocent - and to say so is not dishonest. kdkirsch 10 hours ago So now being a nuisance is justification for summary extrajudicial executions?! If people on HN believe this then we’re toast. zahlman 2 hours ago That is not at all the argument being made.
account42 12 hours ago Wile I don't think they deserved to loose their lives over it, calling them "innocent" is quite dishonest. They were at the very least intentionally being a nuisance and in most cases breaking actual laws in the process. JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago > They were at the very least intentionally being a nuisance and in most cases breaking actual laws in the processPretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.There is lawbreaking in that videos. But the felony-level stuff is all from folks in uniform. (Which, thankfully, they’ve started wearing.) zahlman 2 hours ago > Pretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.Does an ongoing protest empower civilians to stand in the middle of a road that has not been closed to traffic by local authorities? mexicocitinluez 9 hours ago > calling them "innocent" is quite dishonestYou're not actually arguing that American citizens shouldn't be able to film the cops are you? That would be pretty un-American. zahlman 2 hours ago That is not at all the argument being made. 1 reply → maxehmookau 9 hours ago Being a nuisance is not illegal. In the eyes of the law, someone being a nuisance is, indeed, innocent - and to say so is not dishonest. kdkirsch 10 hours ago So now being a nuisance is justification for summary extrajudicial executions?! If people on HN believe this then we’re toast. zahlman 2 hours ago That is not at all the argument being made.
JumpCrisscross 10 hours ago > They were at the very least intentionally being a nuisance and in most cases breaking actual laws in the processPretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.There is lawbreaking in that videos. But the felony-level stuff is all from folks in uniform. (Which, thankfully, they’ve started wearing.) zahlman 2 hours ago > Pretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.Does an ongoing protest empower civilians to stand in the middle of a road that has not been closed to traffic by local authorities?
zahlman 2 hours ago > Pretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.Does an ongoing protest empower civilians to stand in the middle of a road that has not been closed to traffic by local authorities?
mexicocitinluez 9 hours ago > calling them "innocent" is quite dishonestYou're not actually arguing that American citizens shouldn't be able to film the cops are you? That would be pretty un-American. zahlman 2 hours ago That is not at all the argument being made. 1 reply →
maxehmookau 9 hours ago Being a nuisance is not illegal. In the eyes of the law, someone being a nuisance is, indeed, innocent - and to say so is not dishonest.
kdkirsch 10 hours ago So now being a nuisance is justification for summary extrajudicial executions?! If people on HN believe this then we’re toast. zahlman 2 hours ago That is not at all the argument being made.
Wile I don't think they deserved to loose their lives over it, calling them "innocent" is quite dishonest. They were at the very least intentionally being a nuisance and in most cases breaking actual laws in the process.
> They were at the very least intentionally being a nuisance and in most cases breaking actual laws in the process
Pretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.
There is lawbreaking in that videos. But the felony-level stuff is all from folks in uniform. (Which, thankfully, they’ve started wearing.)
> Pretti was breaking zero laws. You’d have to do some prosecutorial voodoo to conjure up a misdemeanor.
Does an ongoing protest empower civilians to stand in the middle of a road that has not been closed to traffic by local authorities?
> calling them "innocent" is quite dishonest
You're not actually arguing that American citizens shouldn't be able to film the cops are you? That would be pretty un-American.
That is not at all the argument being made.
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Being a nuisance is not illegal. In the eyes of the law, someone being a nuisance is, indeed, innocent - and to say so is not dishonest.
So now being a nuisance is justification for summary extrajudicial executions?! If people on HN believe this then we’re toast.
That is not at all the argument being made.