Gang Rape Story's Credibility Blasted, Garner Grand Jury Denied Options, Supreme Court to Consider First Amendment and License Plates: P.M. Links

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Credit: coolmallu / photo on flickr Some of the information presented about the horrific gang rape described in Rolling Stone has been contradicted and the magazine is now acknowledging that there are discrepancies in the story it published.
- The district attorney who brought the officer who killed Eric Garner in to the grand jury left off the possibility for the jury to indict the officer with reckless endangerment. They were only presented the options of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
- Everybody is resigning from The New Republic, unhappy with the Internet-jargon-spewing leadership that pushed out its top editors.
- China's former security chief has been arrested for corruption and expelled from the Communist Party.
- The Supreme Court will hear a case considering whether the content or symbols on vanity license plates are protected by the First Amendment and cannot be censored because of concerns about offensiveness.
- Drink up! Today is the anniversary of the end of the Prohibition. Just don't smoke at the bar because it's illegal.
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...and the magazine is now acknowledging that there are discrepancies in the story it published.
Taking a bit of a hit, journalism-wise?
Whatever serves the cause, bro.
If that was their hand I think they overplayed it.
Yes, doesn't this bullshit story raise the one thing they don't want focused on, that a decent number of rape claims are made up? That's been a serious issue with rape trials all along, of course.
Oh, my. Very few claims are fabricated, we are told. What's the stat being tossed around on how many women are sexually assaulted in college? Something like one in four?
I think there are plenty of rapes, sexual assaults, and even gray-area moments. I also think a decent number of the above that get claimed are claimed falsely. Some women seem to think they should be able to withdraw consent after the fact.
Hello.
Cracked is more credible than crazy Rolling Stone mag.
New Republic is more credible... oh wait, oops...
Cracked is too left/SJW these days.
Cracked in Firefox manages the feat of crashing my display driver.
So I stopped going there. No other site ever caused the problem.
China's former security chief has been arrested for corruption and expelled from the Communist Party.
Corrupt party member? Never!
Expelled? He's going to have to attend private school.
Or worse, homeschooled. You know how socially awkward homeschooled apparatchiks can be.
China's former security chief has been arrested for corruption and expelled from the Communist Party.
This implies that being expelled from the Communist Pary is a punishment.
Its like being fired from the cops. Its worse than death.
Is Communist "Pary" the Stolex of political organizations?
Mumble grumble....
In communist china, being out of the communist party means you're shut out of any government employment, and any business that might hire won't pay the rates you're used to. It's one step away from being made a non-person.
Still better than NoKo
They'll probably execute him.
Expelled from a building and into a yard that has a firing squad.
Where does he go from there? What's worse than communism?
Nichole?
Getting expelled from the Communist party is like a good start.
Just don't smoke at the bar because it's illegal.
Which Amendment says that?
The "Fuck You, That's Why" Amendment.
I just ran out of TP. Guess it's time to hit the local bookstore to buy Rolling Stone magazine!
Don't give them the money, Hiawatha.
My sister in law somehow got some free magazine subscriptions, and signed us up for RS. The first two issues are still sitting unopened.
A few issues of New Republic will suffice.
Orlando cops assert their privilege to shoot people who have guns in their cars.
Probably before the suspect was aware of their presence or able to explain whether he had a reason for having a gun.
What do you mean "reason"?
Good point, this could just be totemic. After all, any gun can just "go off" near police. Better to point theirs at this guy.
At least Yahoo gives you a link to the hottest NFL WAGs to go with that nut punch.
http://www.pressroomvip.com/26.....estnflwags
I wouldn't kick any of them out of bed, but there quite a few that were less attractive than what I would expect an NFLer to land.
That better not be a slideshow list!
So the 2nd amendment means what, exactly?
Only the right to keep and bear MUSKETS.
The right of the police to shoot someone shall not be infringed?
Wait till he finds out that it was an undercover cop....won't that make this years Christmas party awkward!
The New Horizons science mission to the Pluto-Charon system is about to begin
This is probably old news around here, but I just think it is neat.
But is it an interplanetary mission?
Very well-done.
If you went to public school in the '80s, Pluto is a planet.
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies GOD DAMN IT
Never heard that one, Jesse. Thanks.
Many Visitors Enter My Jail, Some Use No Passkey
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
Roy G Biv
From February 18th,1930:
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies
After August 24th, 2006:
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Necterines
Favorite T-shirt seen recently:
BRONTOSAURUS
IS STILL A PLANET
Very geeky.
How do you describe it now that Pluto is disenfranchised? Intersolar jaunt? Mission to a planetoid?
So, we're probing it as a consolation prize for demoting it?
Better to probe Pluto than ------- oh, hell, these jokes write themselves.
The New Horizons science mission to the Pluto-Charon system is about to begin
So exactly what do you think they are going to find out there? It's like 400 below zero farenheit. It's almost worse than Canada! There can't possibly be sentient life or any habitable regions.
Just like Canada.
I agree. Some risk involved too as it turns out the Pluto system has more debris than earlier thought.
Drink up! Today is the anniversary of the end of the Prohibition.
Wish I'd realized this when I had my morning coffee.
Who's the Moron Who decided that we still need Corks for Bottles!?
I can't get into my mead because the stupid things are corked and I can't turn up a corkscrew. I did get into the hard cider because it turns out there's a bottle opened on my can opener (another design I'd love to be rid of is the non-resealable cottlecap) But I really wanted to try the mead.
Do you have a shoe?
Sorry, but if you're over 18, there's no excuse not to have a corkscrew at hand.
Wine tastes like rot. Almost every bottle I have can be opened by modern methods and not having to resort to knifing or battering it.
And the multitool I own dowsn't have a flimsy workscrew attachment.
If only you had a knife like Swiss Servator...
This, find the type with a beer bottle opener on it, too.
Just throw it in your back pocket when you go to parties and it's a great way to meet people. The host's opener generally disappears.
The first time my dad went back to the old country to visit our relatives, he brought along one of those two-prong wine bottle openers which he swore by. (Don't ask me why he brought it along.)
The first time he tried to open a bottle of wine with it, he puched a bunch of pieces into the wine bottle. The German relatives teased him unmercifully for it.
You know who else is from Germany?
Make that Austria.
Freud?
Uter?
Patricia Rhomberg?
Barbara Schett?
Ah-nuld?
The Wicktenstein family suicide squad?
I love the cork-puller. My parents have one of those rabbit-type corkscrews and I consistently manage to cork the bottle with it.
I thought the rabbit was something else...
I just don't know how one would open a wine bottle with one of these.
Maybe that's to stop the bottle after it's opened?
Just spitballing here......
This is a rabbit.
Admit it Jesse, that's actually a sex toy.
That would certainly explain why it's terrible at opening bottles.
Anything can be used as a sex toy if you're kinky enough.
They are nearly free and sold in bodegas, drug stores, supermarkets, and liquor stores. All of which should be within walking distance of anyone who doesn't live on a farm.
Outside my place is a street that is suicidal to walk on.
I'll pick one up after my test tomorrow. I just want to bitch about the stupidity of closing bottles with tree bark when there's so many better options available now.
Just push the cork into the bottle.
Just unscrew the cap.
/Mogan-David is 'fine' wine
Not enough slack space. The mead goes to maybe a half inch below the cork up in the bottle neck, there's nowhere for the air to go.
It's always something with you.
If I can't Kvetch, what good is it?
Anyway, "Sombie Killer" hard cider rates a 'drinkable'. It smells like wine to me, but I'm sensitive to some chemical most of you yutzes are oblivious to, so don't take my word on that. It doesn't taste as bad as wine, and if I don't breathe when lifting the glass, it's okay.
How am I making so many typoes, I'm not drunk yet!
That's exactly what an alcoholic would say.
I've had maybe 250 mL of 5?v cider. It's not sat in my system long enough to full absorb that. My stomach was full before I started drinking.
At my mass (fat bastard) I could finish the whole bottle and not face impairment.
I have no idea what they did to my 5% abv there.
At my mass (fat bastard) I could finish the whole bottle and not face impairment.
It took me a few seconds to realize you weren't talking about the communion wine.
How pressurized does the bottle have to be for the saber method to work? I've done it with champagne...
I think that also requires that ring they have molded into the mouth of champagne bottles.
Ah yes, I guess that's what it catches on.
So how about the pistol method?
It seems to work on a can in this instructional video I found.
This documentary works well also
Who uses corkscrews? I'd go sabrage on it.
Damn, too late.
Everybody is resigning from The New Republic...
And moving on to all those news organizations that are hiring now?
RS should have some openings soon
Heh.
I flipped through a copy of Foreign Policy yesterday.
Surely there's a place in that magazine for them.
That shit was full of sterilize-everyone anti-humanity elite-thinker claptrap.
In fairness to them, it's how I found Hit and Run. I was flipping through it years ago and there was some profile in the back and their recommended blog was HyR.
(I'd subscribed to the print mag years before but lost track with other things in life.)
I'd subscribed to reason years before but lost track with other things in life. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Virginia Postrel ran things.
Drink!
The district attorney who brought the officer who killed Eric Garner in to the grand jury left off the possibility for the jury to indict the officer with reckless endangerment. They were only presented the options of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Of course. Even when they go through the motions of a criminal investigation or criminal prosecution they deliberately botch things. Because once you're tried you can't be re-tried.
Its interesting how the prosecutor also asked them to try the crime, not just see if there was enough evidence to justify a trial.
My understanding is that a Grand Jury, once empanelled, can do all types of things. I seem to recall a case where one GJ even hired their own lawyer and went completely off the rails (as far as the prosecutor was concerned). But most GJ's don't know this.
I'm surprised the FIJA and other nullification groups haven't jumped on this, too.
Any trial lawyers have any commentary on this?
Ha! You think that license plate is funny? Check out Florida's unfortunate screw hole:
http://www.myfloridaspecialtyp.....ancer.html
Thank god there's no prostate cancer plate.
LUVTITS
So, a Bird watcher, eh?
Thats almost as good as this one
Also from florida
http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/license.asp
The Supreme Court will hear a case considering whether the content or symbols on vanity license plates are protected by the First Amendment and cannot be censored because of concerns about offensiveness.
What if my personalized plate is FIRE! and I drive my truck into a crowded theater? You're claiming that's going to be legal now???
I remember a bruhaha (no, I don't know how to spell it) in Florida years ago when a guy had "ATHEIST" on his tag. Don't know how it ended up, but I do rememember a wrench flying onto his hood while he was driving around -- probably thrown by a peace loving Christian.
See? Had they banned that offensive plate they guy wouldn't have had to have bodywork done to his bonnet.
Cops: It was all Garner's fault.
He didn't obey. How hard is this? If you don't obey, you die!
I don't have the stomach to watch all these videos where people are killed. Can someone tell me what Garner really did? Because every still from the video shows him with his arms out, palms open, etc.
Cop goes to grab his wrist, he pulls away, arm around neck, he's on the ground, face being pushed into the concrete, knee on back, 2 or three other guys on the ground around him, he desperately complains he can't breathe...
If the state can force people to make cakes for gay weddings we can certainly force the state to print words it finds objectionable.
Wow, the butt-hurt never stops, does it?
Everybody is resigning from The New Republic, unhappy with the Internet-jargon-spewing leadership that pushed out its top editors.
I kind of can't blame them. Sort of.
Oh hey, in other news, have you heard the one where progressives openly abandoned the notion that the War on Drugs disproportionately affects blacks and minorities?
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-.....a-requests
IRS refusing to turn over emails that show various White House hacks illegally accessed tax payer files.
It is too much to hope that Holder or any of the big fish ever go to prison. But some douche bag like Austin Goolseby? That could actually happen. At some point they are going to have to offer up someone to take the fall for all of this.
Take the fall? Why? It's clearly a fake scandal.
They're going to give him the Gruber treatment, i.e. he was just the front man for the media and had nothing to do with it.
Good time to distract every with "racist cops" stories.
Fuck it...
Song of the day.
Ugh, I checked some of the Welchjacket AMA... good reminder that if there aren't any nudie pics, stay away from Reddit.
Drink up! Today is the anniversary of the end of the Prohibition.
I'm already making some nog!
Oh God... I need to close the tab, but it's too good!
Welch brings up the deregulation of airlines and television. One response: "He just chose spectacularly bad examples where it's very evident that the deregulatuion of both industries has been a loss for consumers."
Flying and entertainment sure do suck now that we have so many more options.
Dressed to Suppress
A long-form article about the relationship between how police gear up and the way they relate to the community. The intro discusses how badly executed the current militarization of police has been (no surprise to anyone here) and some of the details of the Obama initiative to control it.
?5 is particularly interesting with a quick history on why police uniforms are blue. I like learning about the historical quirks that define mundane details of our lives.
So, we need to start dressing our cops in desert camouflage then. To make them more in keeping with the armed conflict.
Already doing it, what I found interesting from the article was that dressing cops more casually was also associated with a deterioration of community relationships. Apparently keeping things a nice traditional blue is the right balance.
Casual wear and people realize the schlub is just an asshole and the built in defference to authority from the human brain doesn't kick in. Over-tacticooled and they look like an enemy.
The two extremes also affect the way police see themselves. There's a bit about the Milligram study in there. Women dressed in Klan hoods gave higher shocks than women in nurse uniforms or something.
The pigs should wear stripes so they are ready for their later lives.
Yes, those fucking short-shorts they wear have got to go. They look like something directly from IngSoc.
I left work early for some sympathy after getting into a heated argument with my cop-sucking coworkers, who are convinced that everyone a cop kills has brought it on themselves. Even had one tell me the kid with the airsoft gun brought it on himself, by walking down the street with something that looked like a weapon. "How is the cop supposed to know he's not a threat!?"
I hope they never commit the crime of living at the wrong address and have their kids burned by a flashbang as their "welcome to the party, pal" moment.
"How is the cop supposed to know he's not a threat!?"
A cop not knowing is now cover for the death sentence? Aren't you supposed to KNOW before you pull the trigger?
According to her, no. It is the citizen's duty to ensure he/she does not look like a threat to an armed agent of the state heroically standing between civilization and chaos.
Sorry, Gojira. I just don't discuss things like that at work, just seethe quietly when the progs go off. I'm sustained by the thought that some day the carpet will be squishy wet with their tears, perhaps sooner than thought.
I wish it was that easy, but there's one single black person on our team, and I couldn't sit there and listen any more while these white women were smugly blanket-condeming all these people right in front of her. I was really about to hit someone.
Pandora, dude. Drown it out.
Good for you.
Sorry, bro.
And these are the smug stupid fucks that will only ever consider that there is excessive police violence through the lens of racism.
Just don't smoke at the bar because it's illegal.
Sucks to live in Prog City. You can still smoke in much of the REAL AMERICA
FIFY
Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban Government-Mandated Backdoors Into Americans' Cellphones and Computers
Yes. Make this a law 15 years ago!
I love that Wyden sounds like a doctrinaire libertarian whenever this topic comes up (un-sarcastic use of the word "love").
There's a positive shout out to Thomas Massie at the bottom.
Kotaku gets what it wanted, pretends to act dismayed.
Penny Arcade's current comic is about it.
Interesting twist on the Garner story: the sergeant in charge, a black woman, stood by the whole time and never intervened. That's going to complicate the racial narrative.
How can a black person be racist?
Comments are gold.
Holy shit, some idiot questions whether Mugabe's prejudice against white people can be called racism (under that fucking definition of racism=prejudice+power). Apparently the ruthless dictator of a country does not have sufficient power to count as racist.
Even in the movies they scream "that's enough, insert name" when a cop is going over board.
Garner to me is a clear cut case of cops using excessive force ESPECIALLY in relation to the alleged crime - selling fucking cigarettes.
And De blasio has is not blameless since he ordered the crack down on illicit cigarette sales because the government wanted their damn cut.
Garner had previously been arrested multiple times for selling loosies and other petty offenses, but that's not why he was arrested this time.
From what I understand, there was a disturbance that the police were called for, but there was nobody to arrest. Supposedly Garner had broken up the fight that was the reason for the call, and the cops were familiar with him from previous arrests, and decided they had to arrest somebody, and it was his lucky day.
It is a color thing,blue against every one else you boot licker
RIP MS Office clipart
Things that died alone and unloved for a thousand, Alex
You seem to be trying to make a droll, sarcastic comment. Would you like some help with that?
Noooooooooooo
I'd like to see the NYPD try to arrest Bill Cosby: after being satiated, blood would be pouring from every cop's holes.
The Ohio Sheriff's Facebook page (Yes, they have one. No, I have no idea how it got shared on my feed) is sharing this picture. of a fully functional shotgun disguised as a nerf gun toy. Only a matter of time before some 9 year old gets blown away and toy guns banned now. The comments contain some of the messiest pants shitting you're likely to see.
a better weapon, but a very poor link
And an incorrect description as well. It looks like a super soaker, not a Nerf gun. I haven't been posting as much recently and am wayyy off my game.
Since I SF'd the link
https://www.facebook.com/sheriffdeputiesofohio
I'm glad they're sharing that picture, because you SF'd it.
Oh, NOOOOOO!!!
Khalessi is Sarah Connor! Was she sent back in time to an alternate universe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Y7QuepK20
I don't know much about this movie, but is the idea that Skynet wanted to make an update to the T-800 model and just for kicks made him old and fat?
Not for nothing, but wasn't Cersei Sarah Connor, too?
Public figures tweeting is an endless supply of delightful fail.
This is BS legally: recklessness is a higher standard of mens rea then negligence. If there was enough evidence to establish probable cause that the officer was 1) behaving recklessly and 2) thus commited a crime, then there must necessarily be probable cause to support the criminally negligent homicide bill.
Unless the grand jury somehow thinks Eric Gardner is actually still alive.
Exactly. Reckless endangerment is for cases where the victim doesn't die. There was no reason to present it as an option.
Or if I am choking you but before you die episiarch comes up and shoots you I would be guilty of reckless endangerment.
Double-tapped.
True story. Thomas Friedman was in front of me at Starbucks yesterday. I can't tell you the number of dickish things I thought about saying or doing. Instead, I let the man get. His latte in peace I guess I am not the asshole I hoped to be.
Don't worry, ATLAH Ministries guarantees me that there's ultrapowerful synthetic sodomite semen in his latte. You don't have to do anything.
They're making synthetic sodomites now? Like, Nexus series, Roy Batty type models?
Jesse is natural. He prefers his sodomites to be organic.
The semen is synthetic (mostly). But it's sodomite semen.
This man seems to have thought surprisingly deeply about the power and quality of semen produced by sodomites.
Video
"Admit it, you're not here for the hunting lattes, are you ?".
So if your girlfriend is willing to let you go back door, does your seaman change into special sodomite seaman?
You'd have to ask Dr. Manning. All I know is that if you drink it, it'll get you pregnant. It's THAT potent:
Has this guy ever even had sex?
seaman
That's a good one.
Why do they call camels the ships of the desert? They're full of Arab seamen.
I had a latte. Does that mean I am now in the gay club? Do I get to go to the meetings now? Get let in on the conspiracy?
You get a makeover.
That is at least something.
"Man, this Starbucks is hot, flat and crowded"
I am being China for a day. Excuse me while I cut in line and take your latte.
Hangin with Friedman, crushin a bucks
Why couldn't you have accidentally tripped and punched him in the back of the head?
That license plate is hilarious.
Someone earlier today on the Linnekin thread wondered about why Pilsner Urquell in the US tastes bad. The brewery knows about it and has been trying to fix it.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news.....98805.html
Fucking green bottles.
ALL beer in green bottles tastes bad!
After several years of bitching about unpaid internships, proggies are beginning to realize that unpaid internships are actually only common in media, journalism, and politics. Their response?
An Even Longer List of Tech Internship Salaries That Will Make Your Eyes Water
Look at those evil tech companies evilly paying their low level employees!
...proggies are beginning to realize that unpaid internships are actually only common in media, journalism, and politics.
That's odd. All lefty industries. And they all love exploiting free labor.
But the economy is BOOMING according to today's report. (haha, NOT)
Maybe lots of 3-somes?
Why does it married whether the unemployed are married or not?
Kinda annoyed by the frequent implication by many conservatives that single people are subhumans whose suffering doesn't really matter.
My best friend's mother-in-law makes $85 /hour on the internet . She has been out of work for 5 months but last month her pay was $16453 just working on the internet for a few hours.
Visit this website ????? http://www.jobsfish.com