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I would have liked to see harsher penalties for all involved, but a cop getting real prison time for his involvement in killing an innocent person under color of law is encouraging.
Perfect is the enemy of good. Maybe these "bad apple" cops I keep hearing about will commit less hate crimes against their community after sentences like these.
Why is the rest of that saying not used?
It goes, "One bad apple spoils the bunch."
They're all bad.
ACAB, brother.
ACAN, All Cops Are Nazis
Both
96% of the planet - checks notes - doesn't have american cops running the show.
Hey, didn't Canada kill off a fuck ton of indigenous peoples?
Why is the full understanding of that saying not used when completing it fully? You remove bad apples from the bunch so that the rot doesn't spread. They all become bad if you don't do that. Not saying that's the case for cops in any of these digestions, one way or another. But just saying, sayings.
Our idiom fluency will have to pull itself up by its own bootstraps one supposes
Right wing people are either stupid or dishonest. The stupid ones don't understand the saying and never thought to look it up, and the dishonest ones don't care.
They’re all bad because no one ever plucks out the bad ones before they spoil the rest. This bad apple has been plucked out. Just left on the counter and will probably be back in three years but at least it was removed before it spoiled more
Even if this guy is imprisoned, it's the cop equivalent of martyrdom.
I will be unsurprised if orangeboi pardons this fucker.
Is this a federal charge?
Even if it’s not, I wouldn’t be super shocked if he tries it anyways to see if he can make it stick, regardless of whether or not he even has the legal power to
He'll get a suspended sentence and serve less than a year at best, if he doesn't get off on appeal, just you watch.
Yeah, not that it should be the case that the insides of prisons are kinda torture but, cops usually don't have a very good time behind bars
"Real prison time?"
Go find out what a black person gets for murder 1 against a white person. Then come back and spew some more bullshit about "real prison time"
Being in prison is real prison time. Yes, people of color get disproportionately more time (of they live), but prison time is prison time.
This guy didn't shoot anyone.
Go spend the better part of three years in prison and tell me it isn't real prison time.
Sorry... I try not to break the law