…as long as they retain a sense of invulnerability lent by the lack of aggressive prosecutions.
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I’m just waiting for someone to call it “piling on.”
Like two hundred pounds on his neck for nine minutes.
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I’m for wrongly. He should be made an example of. As should every member of the department that allowed a stone-cold killer to continue to serve anything other than a prison sentence.
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Perhaps the DOJ can look into this too:
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I’ll take Defining Overkill for $1000, Alex.
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There was a story in The Guardian a couple of days ago about Houston authorities seeking a posthumous pardon for George Floyd.
It turns out that Floyd was busted for 0.03 g (not a typo) of cocaine in 2004, based on the word of a cop named Goines. Floyd served 10 months in jail for it. Now, it turns out this Goines and 10 other cops are under indictment for lying in something like 160 cases, including Floyd’s. The Houston DA says Floyd plead guilty to a crime “he almost certainly did not commit,” to avoid a trial where he almost certainly would have gotten 10 or more years.
So, then Floyd had a felony record, making it hard to get a job, etc.
This guy Goines is real peach, too. In 2019 he killed two people in a no-knock raid. Turns out he had been buying coke from them and wanted to shut them up, so he arranged the raid. He’s now up for those as murders.
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Would I have a police union on my side?
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Quite literally. Minnesota has no death penalty. The federal government does.
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The only reason Mitch would be upset is if the investigations started hurting the chances of taking the house or retaking the Senate. Mitch won’t be all that upset unless Garland’s DOJ investigates the actions of Elaine Chao during her time in the Cabinet. I think he found the previous administration to be useful to him in his quest to pack the courts, but he didn’t really like them or approve of their antics. He uses people who are useful to him, and the previous occupant was. Garland’s investigations may shut down some of the most absurdly stupid and venal members of Congress (looking at you, Matt Gaetz), but I doubt that Mitch gives a hoot about any of them.
I won’t argue that about the other members of the caucus, but I kind of think that Mitch won’t be upset until it gets personal.
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Send them away… plesse… all of those who brutalized Floyd.
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So long as a Democrat is in the Oval Office.
I think they are.
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This may well be correct. Mitch doesn’t do anything that doesn’t benefit him personally, either financially or in enhancing his power. It would be delicious, though, if the DOJ found reason to investigate Chao.
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I will often wear a hoodie while shopping. That way, if I don’t know the location of an item that I wish to purchase, I need only turn around and ask directions from the store employee who is following me.
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No. The RWNJ now have control of the Supreme Court for 20 years, and they will be able to stop nearly all progress. That’s what Moscow Mitch cares about. He doesn’t give a shit about Trump or Giuliani or Chauvin.
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Which is why we’re seeing all these new laws about protesting. Republicans are trying to make everything a felony, thus reducing the pool of eligible voters.
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That’s why I added the last sentence.
I think this will make law enforcement think twice before violating someone’s civil rights. At least for the next four years anyway.
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I agree Mitch doesn’t care about Trump or Giuliani. My guess is that he hates them. Still, I hope the fact that Garland is in one of the most powerful positions in the country irks him, at least a little bit.
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Privilege …
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And this is the reality of justice all over America for poor folk who can’t afford a) a lawyer and end up with PD’s for defense; b) bail to get out of jail and continue to work while fighting the false charges.
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