Brickbat: Have a Drink on Me

Video recently released by Kentucky's Louisville Metro Police shows two officers throwing slushies on random people on the street from inside unmarked police vehicles. The video was shot by those officers or by others on cellphones in 2018 and 2019. Officers Bryan Wilson and Curt Flynn pleaded guilty in 2022 in federal court to violating the rights of citizens through arbitrary use of force while on duty. Flynn was sentenced to three months in prison, while Wilson received 30 months in prison, with each sentence to be followed by three years of probation.

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[Stuck in California]

This is horrible. And sort of hilarious, like something Broken Lizard would write into a movie.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

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[Adans smith]

Seems they went over the ’thin blue line’.

[Chumby]

The brain freeze defense must not have worked.

[Don't look at me!]

A straw man argument?

[Chumby]

There wasn’t enough of a slush fund to pay for effective representation.

[Adans smith]

They committed a 7- 11.

[Chumby]

They had to super big gulp back their tears during sentencing.

[Dillinger]

Icee what you did there.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"What are you in for?"

[Adans smith]

Child like behavior.You?

[Dillinger]

drugs?
thank you, no. I'm straight.
I mean, are you in here for drugs?
what are you in here for?
drugs.
I don't know why I'm here.
why don't you go home?

[Stuck in California]

That scene was tellingly prophetic.

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[Dillinger]

I think I still love Jeanie/Shauna

[Davy C]

30 months seems kind of severe for that...

Wilson also pleaded guilty to cyberstalking charges

Ah. I know you keep these short, but that seems relevant.

As for Flynn, the 3 months was less than the 18-24 months in the sentencing guidelines, but more than the prosecution was asking for (they just wanted the extended supervision.)

[Randy Sax]

Even 3 months seems like a lot. Fired + can't ever be a cop again + 160 hours community service seems more right to me.

[sarcasmic]

I read the original article and it didn't specifically say that they'd been fired or that they can't be cops again.

[Don't look at me!]

That’s what Randy wants.

[sarcasmic]

I'm just saying I didn't see anything about it in the article. Could have been overlooked, or they could still be drawing a paycheck.

[Don't look at me!]

Holy crap.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

He has a history of fighting against honest discussion.

https://reason.com/2023/12/15/in-godzilla-minus-one-government-wont-save-anyone-when-the-crisis-comes/?comments=true#comment-10359235

[sarcasmic]

Just what I need. Another idiot cherry picking things out of context and claiming they mean something other than what they say. Only think I can figure is you think JesseAz is brilliant when he’s got fewer lumens than a wet match.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Rebut it? No, you can't. Bring in other unrelated commenters? Sure, that's the only thing you know how to do.

[sarcasmic]

There's nothing to rebut. Unless you want the definitions of 'red herring' and 'non sequitur'.

[mad.casual]

Ah. I know you keep these short, but that seems relevant.

So, the other definition of "brickbat" defines it as a projectile being hurled and specifically notes that the projectile is only a piece or fragment of a larger object.

It's never been clear to me that Reason isn't leaning into this definition in a kind of journalistic version of throwing slushies out the car window at people. It's not meant to actually inform anybody of anything or persuade them to do something else, it's just Reason writers editors flinging shit out the window for their own amusement and/or to burn Koch's money.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

Officers Bryan Wilson and Curt Flynn pleaded guilty in 2022 in federal court to violating the rights of citizens through arbitrary use of force while on duty. Flynn was sentenced to three months in prison, while Wilson received 30 months in prison, with each sentence to be followed by three years of probation.

Wait, throwing a slushie on someone got 30 months in prison? Wow, ok, there are a whole bunch of mostly peaceful protests that occurred between 2020 and 2022 involving... um, "milkshakes" that we were told weren't serious assaults.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

Well, per the thread above about burying the lede... I guess the 30 months in prison wasn't for a marijuana violation, it was for shooting his girlfriend.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Yeah, this is the thing that finally results in jail time for a cop?!

Madness.

[Social Justice is neither]

Should a just thrown milkshakes with cement mix in them to get the antifa treatment of zero repercussions.

[Dillinger]

>>from inside unmarked police vehicles.

dudes. everybody knows it's you.

[AT]

In some incidents, the officers could be heard on police radio saying, “Someone was thirsty” or “Thirsty fam,” before speeding off.

Come on, that's kinda hilarious.

[ObviouslyNotSpam]

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