Brickbat: Justice Delayed
In New York City, Judge Tamiko Amakar has overturned the 2018 conviction of Jason Serrano for resisting arrest after bodycam video showed one of the officers who arrested him appear to plant marijuana in the car Serrano was in. Serrano was charged with drug possession, resisting arrest, and obstruction. He pleaded guilty to resisting arrest to avoid a jail sentence. The video wasn't turned over to his attorney until after the plea. Tamiko also considered the disciplinary records of the two officers who arrested Serrano. One of them, Kyle Erickson, was disciplined twice in 2018 for invoice discrepancies related to drug seizures. Prosecutors did not turn those records over the Seranno's attorney. They were uncovered through an open records request by local media.
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All he had to do was relax, get cuffed, go to booking, plead not guilty, demand a jury trial.
He could’ve walked.
Instead he acted like an asshole and pleaded guilty to acting like an asshole.
Justice served.
Dumb cop, though.
In 2018, NYPD didn’t have department-wide body cams. Might’ve been his own or part of the pilot program. Should’ve just destroyed the footage and blamed it on a technical problem.
Not if prosecutors never provided the video.
DAs seem like Westmoreland and McNamara during Vietnam. Convictions and bodycounts. Who cares if they are innocent. Just have numbers showing something is being done.
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Instead he acted like an asshole and pleaded guilty to acting like an asshole…Justice served.
Under what theory of criminal justice is “act[ing] like an asshole” in front of corrupt agents of the state a crime?
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Fuck that. Cop planted evidence. At that point you don’t know how far the cop will go.
“All he had to do was relax, get cuffed, go to booking, plead not guilty, demand a jury trial.”
That’s not how most humans are wired. It’s really hard to remain calm “in the heat of the moment.”
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The day that drugs are legalized, those cops will have to have other illicit or newly illegal things ready to plant as evidence. I’m wondering if it will be firearms or just right-wing pamphlets.
“Let’s go Brandon” signs.
They’ll be planting underage girls on the victims.
Or Airdropping obscene images of same onto victims’ devices.
An absolutely unhinged, prejudicial and ideological take of the meaning of the Rittenhouse trial.
“Rittenhouse’s story is a microcosm of what America is facing, a perilous journey toward becoming something the world has never known: a fully functioning multiracial, multiethnic democracy emerging from the blood of slaves, the genocide of Native Americans and the notion that all men are created equal. No matter what you’ve heard or what you’ve been told, we aren’t there yet. We weren’t there on July 4, 1776. We weren’t there in 1865 in the smoke, ashes and shadow of the Civil War, and not even in the wake of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act a half-century ago.
If he is freed, the status quo of America’s flawed criminal justice system, in which white offenders are less likely to be convicted, can remain just a little bit longer, the inevitable merely delayed, if not denied. If he’s imprisoned, those sympathetic to his plight have even more reason to use him as an example of how their way of life could be threatened if they don’t fight, and hard. His supporters have basically guaranteed those outcomes.”
So apparently it does not matter what the facts of the case are. It does not matter of actual cases of injustice to real people that were occurring as a result of the “unrest”, arson and looting. That the unrest was dubiously predicated upon a police shooting an armed man violating a restraining order for domestic violence. Riitenhouse is a symbol of the terrible reactionary forces standing in the way of the Glorious Future Isaac Bailey envisions instead of a 17 year old on trial for his life, and so he should be condemned because that is his actual crime, not merely about an individual shooting people who were attacking him.
Race + feelingz > facts
If he is freed, the status quo of America’s flawed criminal justice system, in which white offenders are less likely to be convicted, can remain just a little bit longer, the inevitable merely delayed, if not denied.
The left, and the majority of the media covering this case is undeniably sympathetic to the left, is not even trying to avoid being racist in their anti-racism. The fact that Rittenhouse was clearly defending himself is completely irrelevant to them. If Rittenhouse is acquitted, black people everywhere have somehow not received justice? There is no rational response to such a bald-faced lie. Go fuck yourself, dude.
This is what ‘social’ justice *means*.
It’s being speculated that the judge will direct a verdict of not guilty, to take the heat off the jurors.
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Gabriel: You’re not looking at the big picture. Here’s a scenario:
You can cure all diseases, but the price…
…is that you must kill one innocent child. Could you do it?
Stanley: No.Gabriel: You disappoint me. It’s the greatest good.
Stanley: How about 10 innocents?
Gabrial: Now you get it. How about 100? 1000? To preserve our way of life.
Stanley: No man has the right to make that decision. You’re just a terrorist.
Stanley: Do *I* get to pick the kid?
Very telling that no persons of color were involved in the shooting, and yet it is somehow a racial issue…I suppose that is what intersectionality does. Conflates everything into every issue, absent any evidence, logic, or reason.
Erickson is going to jail, right?
Hah! Good one.
discovery abuse is awful do they psych-test these maniac tyrants who lawyer *against* The People?
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