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2021-04-15 at 2:53 PM UTC in Anyone wanna play minecraft?sprout tower really? from pokemon wow
sounds cool
didn't it have a fire or somethingThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-15 at 2:41 PM UTC in Chauvin is beyond fuckedKudos to this officer for doing the job the right way even at great expense to herself. Great to see her vindication!
The Guardian
New York judge reverses firing of officer who fought colleague over chokehold
Richard Luscombe
A judge in New York has overturned the firing of a long-serving Black former police officer who fought with a white colleague as he placed a suspect in a chokehold.
State supreme court judge Dennis Ward praised Cariol Horne’s intervention during the 2006 incident, which led to her dismissal by the City of Buffalo two years later and a lengthy legal fight for compensation.
In an 11-page ruling, Ward pointed to deaths of Black men during confrontations with law enforcement, including George Floyd and Eric Garner, and the role played by other officers in attendance.
“Recent events in the national news, including the death last year in the City of Minneapolis of George Floyd, who died from unreasonable physical force being applied for over nine minutes, have sparked national outrage over the use of this practice,” Ward wrote.
Cariol Horne said: ‘My vindication comes at a 15-year cost, but what has been gained could not be measured.’
“One of the issues in all of these cases is the role of other officers at the scene and particularly their complicity in failing to intervene to save the life of a person to whom such unreasonable physical force is being applied.”
The ruling to reinstate the former officer’s pension, back pay and other benefits, Ward said, was based partly on the City of Buffalo’s 2020 adoption of Cariol’s Law, which obliges law enforcement officers to intervene if a colleague uses excessive force.
“To her credit, Officer Horne did not merely stand by, but instead sought to intervene, despite the penalty she ultimately paid for doing so,” Ward wrote.
Horne said she tried to prevent fellow officer Greg Kwiatkowski from placing a suspect in a chokehold during a domestic violence arrest. Kwiatkowski was cleared during an internal investigation by Buffalo police but Horne was found to have breached policy and offered a four-day suspension, which she rejected.
In 2008, an arbitrator found her guilty of 11 charges and she was fired with 19 years’ service credit, one short of the 20 required for a full state pension.
Horne, who will not return to her old job, has been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and is campaigning for Cariol’s Law, which also provides protections for officers who report wrongdoing by colleagues, to be adopted nationally.
“My vindication comes at a 15-year cost, but what has been gained could not be measured,” she said in a statement issued by her attorney. “I never wanted another police officer to go through what I had gone through for doing the right thing.”
Horne’s lawyer, Ronald Sullivan, said in the statement: “She saved a life that day, and history will now record her for the hero she is.”The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-15 at 2:33 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMediaite
Chris Christie Reportedly Buries Trump in Closed-Door Speech to GOP Congressmen: I Warned Him to ‘Knock Off Some of This Crazy Stuff’
Joe DePaolo
Chris Christie is pinning the blame for the Republican party’s defeat in the 2020 election squarely on former President Donald Trump.
According to RealClearPolitics, the former New Jersey governor performed something of a 2020 election autopsy on Wednesday, while charting the course forward for the Republican party in a closed-door address to the Republican Study Committee — a group comprised entirely of current GOP House members. And in his remarks, Christie attributed the party’s two losses in the Georgia Senate runoff elections to Trump’s focus on what he falsely deemed to be a “rigged” presidential vote in the state.
“[F]rankly, if my friend had gone down there and talked about Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and not about Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, we would be in the majority in the Senate right now,” Christie said — in a clear reference to Trump without mentioning him by name.
The former New Jersey governor added, “We lost because we were looking in the rearview mirror at what happened on general election day, not what was going to happen on runoff election day. We were telling them it was rigged, and so they said, ‘Hell, why should I go to a rigged election? My vote’s not gonna matter anyway.’”
Christie then went a step further — putting Trump on the hook not only for the GOP’s loss of control in the senate, but also for its defeat in the presidential race.
“We didn’t lose the White House because the American people disagree with our ideas and support what [Democrats] are trying to do right now,” Christie said, per the RealClearPolitics report. “We know why we lost. We know why we lost, and so does President Trump.”
And in case it wasn’t clear to those present, the former New Jersey governor spelled it out fully.
“I told the president 131 days out, if you don’t knock off some of this crazy stuff, your behavior is going to obscure your accomplishments,” Christie said. “And if this becomes an election for student council president, we don’t win because [President Joe Biden] doesn’t offend anybody as a category.”The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-15 at 2:07 PM UTC in Is it possible to live your whole life without having a car accident?Tell me you started yelling at the backpack and referring to it by name as Jansport. Appease me.
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2021-04-15 at 1:28 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMaking
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A man charged with beating a police officer at the Capitol riot has been forced to stay in jail before his trial because he tried to flee to Switzerland, judge says
wbostock@businessinsider.com (Bill Bostock)
Jeffrey Sabol, 51, is charged with beating a police officer at the Capitol riot.
Sabol has been detained since January. Earlier this month a judge denied him pretrial release.
The judge said Sabol was a flight risk and had tried fleeing to Switzerland days after the riot.
A man charged with assaulting a police officer at the Capitol riot has been denied pretrial release because he had tried to flee to Switzerland, a Washington, DC, judge has ruled.
In the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, Jeffrey Sabol, 51, drove to Boston from his Colorado home with a plan to fly to Switzerland, District Judge Emmet Sullivan said in an April 7 ruling published by CNN.
In interviews with law-enforcement officers, Sabol, a geophysicist, said "he planned to ski while in Switzerland to make his trip 'look natural,'" Sullivan wrote. The judge said Sabol abandoned his plan, however, after spotting police officers at the airport.
Last week, Sullivan denied a request from Sabol for pretrial release. Sabol has been in jail since his January 27 arrest, CNN reported, and has yet to enter a plea.
Sullivan wrote in the ruling: "If released, Mr. Sabol may again try to flee or otherwise attempt to prevent his prosecution from moving forward."
Sabol has been given numerous charges, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon on January 6, according to a Justice Department indictment.
Prosecutors have accused Sabol of taking a baton from a vulnerable Metropolitan Police Department officer, and Sullivan wrote that he "subsequently wielded it while helping drag another officer into the violent mob where he sustained prolonged beatings."
Sabol was then seen placing the baton on the back of the immobile officer's head, Sullivan said.
Sabol first alerted the police on January 11 that he had been at the January 6 riot, after he was pulled over for driving erratically in New City, New York, Sullivan said.
In the car, officers found Sabol "covered in blood from severe lacerations on his thighs and arms," the court ruling said.
Sabol told officers he had attempted to kill himself, and said he was part of the Capitol riot while being questioned, the judge said.
After returning from Washington, DC, to Colorado on January 7, Sabol destroyed his electronic devices by putting them in a microwave, Sullivan wrote, and hid two guns at the house of an associate.
"Mr. Sabol's willingness to act violently during what he perceived to be a 'battle' and a fight against tyranny is extremely troubling," Sullivan said in the ruling.
"That he acted violently against law enforcement protecting the peaceful transition of power based on a belief that the 2020 Presidential Election was stolen is also very alarming."
As of Tuesday, 414 people had been charged with participating in the January 6 riot.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-15 at 6:32 AM UTC in Hey theists, convince me into believing in God.I've talked about this with a friend before, someone who grew up in something between a church and a cult
considered throwing myself at a religion, full-force to see if I'd find any meaning in it
but he told me I shouldn't bother, the people that try never really convince themselves and get nothing out of itThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-15 at 6:19 AM UTC in Watching a video but the subtitles don't match the language they're translatingit was more that a minute-long conversation over whether it was an accident, suicide or murder was condensed to "he fuck himself up"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-15 at 5:57 AM UTC in Is it possible to live your whole life without having a car accident?only bad one I ever had was when I thought it was a good idea to drive to work on scopolomine and kept getting mad at my backpack in the passenger seat because I thought it was my girlfriend and she was giving me the silent treatmentThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-15 at 5:03 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sNBC News
No charges for Capitol Police officer who shot Jan. 6 rioter, Justice Department says
Tom Winter and Dareh Gregorian
The Justice Department has determined it won’t file charges against the U.S. Capitol Police officer who fatally shot 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt during the storming of the Capitol on January 6th.
In a press release announcing the decision, the Justice Department said the investigation did not find evidence that the officer had violated any federal laws, and there was nothing to contradict that he believed it was necessary to shoot at Babbitt "in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber."
“Officials examined video footage posted on social media, statements from the officer involved and other officers and witnesses to the events, physical evidence from the scene of the shooting, and the results of an autopsy” and “based on that investigation, officials determined that there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution,” the release said.
The probe found "Babbitt was among a mob of people that entered the Capitol building and gained access to a hallway outside 'Speaker’s Lobby,' which leads to the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives. At the time, the USCP was evacuating Members from the Chamber, which the mob was trying to enter from multiple doorways."
It also gave a harrowing account of what the officer, who was not identified, was facing at the time of the attack.
"Members of the mob attempted to break through the doors by striking them and breaking the glass with their hands, flagpoles, helmets, and other objects. Eventually, the three USCP officers positioned outside the doors were forced to evacuate. As members of the mob continued to strike the glass doors, Ms. Babbitt attempted to climb through one of the doors where glass was broken out," the statement said.
The officer "fired one round from his service pistol, striking Ms. Babbitt in the left shoulder, causing her to fall back from the doorway and onto the floor," the statement said. "A USCP emergency response team, which had begun making its way into the hallway to try and subdue the mob, administered aid to Ms. Babbitt, who was transported to Washington Hospital Center, where she succumbed to her injuries".
The Justice Department said the focus of the investigation was to determine whether the officer violated any federal laws, including federal criminal civil rights violations.
It noted that in federal court, “evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of intent required” under the law. The announcement also said that Babbitt's family had been notified that the case is closed.
Babbitt was an Air Force veteran who was a decorated security forces controller and served multiple Middle East tours from 2004 to 2016, according to Air Force records.
Babbitt was a loyal Fox News watcher, according to thousands of tweets to Fox News hosts, and also engaged on social media with the conspiracy site InfoWars. In 2020, Babbitt began to tweet with accounts and hashtags associated with QAnon. The day before the rally, she tweeted, "Nothing will stop us....they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours....dark to light!”
Babbitt was one of five people, including a Capitol Police officer, to die as a result of the riot.
More than 300 people have been charged with taking part in the riot, which happened as a joint session of Congress was tallying the Electoral College vote count.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-15 at 12:40 AM UTC in Anyone wanna get degenerate in a video chat?fuck that site.. I tried to type hello and it tells me to donate.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-14 at 10:47 PM UTC in Alcohol Discussion ThreadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-14 at 10:04 PM UTC in Anyone wanna get degenerate in a video chat?
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2021-04-14 at 9:54 PM UTC in Are you vaccinated?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-14 at 9:53 PM UTC in What’s the hell is the difference????The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-14 at 7:47 PM UTC in We are living in the era of stupidThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-14 at 7:18 PM UTC in Petition to have problematic users banned.Petition to have cookies and milk at 3pm everyday.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-04-14 at 5:10 PM UTC in Corona virus vaccines are killing people
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I say if people are stupid enough to inject this garbage, let them. Just means less low-intelligence morons on the planet, which is a good thing, not a bad thing.
I say if Republicans don't want to get vaccinated, that's just fine.
That just means that many more dead Republicans.
A win-win situation for all!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-14 at 2:29 PM UTC in People who get caught commiting crimes are low IQWhen I did meth I knew a lot of people that did crime and got locked up. They would break into houses and hang around the pawn shop all day acting like the biggest heat scores and when they had money they would instantly start partying until it ran out and then commit more crime to keep it going.
Those people didn't like me because I just wanted to do drugs, go home and do my drugs and I didn't need to stand in front of a pawn shop or walk around the neighborhood all day and night to abuse drugs. I see these people after they get clean and they are like "man drugs suck I just walked around outside all the time going through peoples trash bins"
like what the fuck. Most tweekers are complete retards that operate on the most basic of thought processing. You know how amphetamines make you want to talk to people and shit sometimes? That doesn't mean GO STAND OUTSIDE ALL DAY TALKING TO EVERY PERSON YOU RECOGNIZE
Everyone always wants to get high outside and when they go inside it's straight to the bathroom. I fucking hate drug addicts they are all retards which is why I rob them because they are too stupid to go to the police -
2021-04-14 at 1:10 PM UTC in Corona virus vaccines are killing people200k+ die from virus: "It's nothing, its a cold that affects virtually no one"
Handful die from vacc complications: "THE VACCINES ARE DEADLY KILLERS"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-04-14 at 1:02 PM UTC in We are living in the era of stupid
Originally posted by POLECAT no cure for cancer or aids,, until they cure them they cant be trusted,, all the rona virice did was prove the dr's and scientists are in it for the money not the cure.
all u lefty cunts can go jump off a cliff,, its scientifically proven if you jump off a cliff you will never get the rona
You're such a retarded, useless hick. Go inhale more paint fumes and destroy more of your house with firearms with your faggot boyfriend.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
