Brickbat: Freeze Frame

In England, Swansea Crown Court Judge Geraint Walters wanted to know why prosecutors dropped charges against photographer Dimitris Legakis on the eve of the trial. Legakis had been arrested for taking photos near a crime scene and charged with assaulting an emergency worker, obstructing or resisting a police officer, and using threatening or abusive words or behavior. A prosecutor said charges were dropped because the officer's original statement differed from a later one. But Walters said that after reading the record, he believed that Legakis was arrested because a police officer "took offence" to him taking photos. He said he believed prosecutors knew early on that "there was no evidential basis" to charge Legakis.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

But Walters said that after reading the record, he believed that Legakis was arrested because a police officer "took offence" to him taking photos.

And that's the end of that matter.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Ought to be considered perjury, and the appropriate punishment for the police and prosecutors would be whatever maximum punishment could have been dished out.

[mad.casual]

False.

The two most important issues in this case?
1. Everyone’s skin color.
2. Whether Legakis was within 8 ft. between 8 and 25 ft. or outside of 25 ft. at the time the photos were taken.

Without these two critically essential pieces of information, liberty evaporates, society collapses, and police state fascism (with bodycams!) ascends.

Your trifles about actually enforcing responsibility and manifest actions having material consequences and in objectively equal or reciprocal manner is just you putting your white, male, racist bigotry ahead of everyone else’s lived experiences.

Edit: And before you make the typical conservative point that *I'm* the one missing the point. No you.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Hey no fair Waaaaaaa!

[sarcasmic]

Pretty sure that phrase has been copyrighted by Trump.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Pretty sure such off-topic nonsense has become some kind of common law trademark of the drunk sarc. Hitting the bottle early, are you?

[sarcasmic]

You sure took offense at that. Must be true.

[Medulla Oblongata]

The process is the punishment.

[Longtobefree]

This is not a brickbat, this is the way things are now.

[Think It Through]

Why were the charges dropped? FYTW.

[n00bdragon]

You can beat the rap but you can never beat the ride.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

This, forever.