Discussion for article #230745
Very unfortunate. This will be wall-to-wall on right wing media for weeks as justification for cops killing unarmed black teenagers.
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Wilson has nothing to fear, as long as he puts his hands up.
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For. F^cks. Sake.
Rare I’m surprised by much.
But we’ve got a kid lying dead-- with an unprosecutable killer.
And now someone to be charged with a crime for simply speaking about killing the unprosecutable killer?
Down the rabbit-hole we go…
jw1
(And please, yes, I know it’s on the books. It’s law. Still.)
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Should’ve claimed he was posting rap lyrics.
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Let’s presume it’s these threats that persuaded D.W. to resign and Jaleel (if convicted) made a worthy sacrifice to accomplish it…
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Sorry, but it’s not cool to threaten people and their family members, including children, for Christ’s sake, and take actions that make that threat look pretty serious.
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You can’t fool me–you can’t kill anyone on Facebook!
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Stupidity is its own punishment.
Though. At the time of the threats?
Wilson was unmarried and had no children.
Agree wholeheartedly in concept-- but these threats seem empty as they’re delivered from long-range.
This felon ‘attempting to purchase a weapon’ has a red-herring smell about it-- to me.
But to make it more real-- I’d need to know:
Did he have the means to travel to Ferguson?
Did he attempt to travel there?
And whyizzit?
That we hear about this Ferguson-related instance and possible legal consequences from threats of violence-- but never hear about the follow-ups, for example, when somewhat similar threats are made against the POTUS?
Advertising revenue? Again?
Milking it for all it’s worth.
jw1
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Abdul-Jabbar is an idiot, and he deserves to face the legal ramifications of his threats.
The thing that enrages me is that there are still dozens of white Christian nationalists running around free out in Nevada who aimed loaded firearms at officials of the United States government, with no legal consequences for their direct threats of violence. Their leader, Cliven Bundy, explicitly said he did not recognize the legitimacy of the U.S. government.
If Bundy and his followers were not white Christianist secessionist nutballs but were Mexican-Americans denying the authority of the U.S. government and asserting their belief in an autonomous Hispanic entity in Nevada, and then confronted agents of the federal government with loaded automatic weapons, the Bundy ranch would have been reduced to a smoking crater, and the entirety of the Fox Nation and the Republican Party would have been cheering the assault at the top of their lungs.
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You make a lot of good points. This type of thing depends on context, intent, and all that. My sister will threaten to kill you if you pick stuff out of the salad bowl before she puts it on the table, but she’s not really going to kill you or anything. She just expresses herself vividly.
So-- you still have all your digits? 
jw1
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Goddamn right. If pointing a damn rifle at someone isn’t a threat I guess I don’t know what is.
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This is the type of threat that arises when one group perceives that their members cannot expect justice from the powers that be. Witness any country in the Mideast. The best cure is to provide justice.
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For the moment, luckily. It’s not wise to get my sister riled up.
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It’s easier to prosecute threats made on the internet (or other instrument of interstate commerce). The perps provide their own prima facie evidence.
18 U.S. Code § 875 - Interstate communications
© Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Now if the people in Nevada had made a threatening phone call instead of aiming loaded firearms, their ass would be grass.
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The thing is, it doesn’t involve interstate commerce.