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Definitely but in the interview she was asked did you approach everyone and she gave a not real conclusive answer.
I dunno, she seems super sweet to me.
She's 22, so presumably Daddy is funding the lawyers.
Aww, that's not fair to Soho, is it? She's from California.
Ponsetto has a history of run-ins with the law including 2 DUI busts in 2020 and getting arrested with her mom in February for allegedly being drunk in public at the Peninsula hotel in Bev Hills.
Stylishly dressed brunette invoking the Manager to attack an uninvolved black teen is absolutely trading on her whiteness.
(Major American historian:)hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:27 pm If you’re going to release a report that basically condemns any attempt to bring up our sometimes racist history in schools , doing so on Martin Luther King Day seems a little odd.
...did I say odd? I meant appropriate for this administration.
Or as my friend said yesterday it felt like a very intentional middle finger to POC.hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:27 pm If you’re going to release a report that basically condemns any attempt to bring up our sometimes racist history in schools , doing so on Martin Luther King Day seems a little odd.
...did I say odd? I meant appropriate for this administration.
I know someone who was out there. They said the police kept pushing them in certain directions and then would charge at them at random. It probably wasn't random. Some person probably hit some legal trip wire such as step into the street. Block an intersection. Etc. The NYPD essentially has turned crowd control into a method of 'forcing errors' and then applying unreasonable force on protesters.
I can't say what did or did not exactly happen at the moment outside of what we see in these videos - which I actually specifically talked to. However, we have plenty of evidence to know enough about the NYPD and their tactics to describe what the larger scale problem is - which is what I actually commented on. What I was implying is that the police version is most likely exaggerated and/or constructed to justify their response. That is how they work. That isn't speculation. We have mountains of evidence and there are dozens of stories in major publications to back that.stimpy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:30 am How can any commentary be made based off that video?
Did he hurl something at one of the cops right before the video starts?
You say yourself the situations aren't competently recorded, then make a judgement on a situation based on a situation that wasn't competently recorded.
We have become a society of speculators.
No doubt.malchior wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:36 amI can't say what did or did not exactly happen at the moment outside of what we see in these videos - which I actually specifically talked to. However, we have plenty of evidence to know enough about the NYPD and their tactics to describe what the larger scale problem is which is what I actually commented on. What I was implying is that the police version is most likely exaggerated and/or constructed to justify their response. That is how they work. That isn't speculation. We have mountains of evidence and there are dozens of stories in major publications to back that.stimpy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:30 am How can any commentary be made based off that video?
Did he hurl something at one of the cops right before the video starts?
You say yourself the situations aren't competently recorded, then make a judgement on a situation based on a situation that wasn't competently recorded.
We have become a society of speculators.
So his final message is:
Yes but there is a secret message encoded in there. I'll translate. "When I run for President in 4 years - remember they called me the Worst Secretary of State in history. It is because I stood up for *you* against *them*"
Good lord...such an utterly garbage human being.
I hate to use the word "charisma" in association with Trump, but he has this in spades when dealing with his target audience. They thrived on a particular blend of rule-shattering, hate-mongering, fearless ignorance that very few people (if any) in the political world can match. I don't see that particular platform taking off again without someone very much like Trump at the helm. Fearless, idiotic, ignorant, racist, outspoken, authoritative, and pre-existing celebrity with enough scandal in his past that anything he does that causes a fresh uproar is normal.
Historians responded with dismay and anger Monday after the White House’s “1776 Commission” released a report that it said would help Americans better understand the nation’s history by “restoring patriotic education.”
“It’s a hack job. It’s not a work of history,” American Historical Association executive director James Grossman told The Washington Post. “It’s a work of contentious politics designed to stoke culture wars.”
The commission was created in September with a confusing news conference featuring Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. The 45-page report is largely an attack on decades of historical scholarship, particularly when it comes to the nation’s 400-year-old legacy of slavery, and most of those listed as authors lack any credentials as historians. While claiming to present a nonpartisan history, it compares progressivism to fascism and claims the civil rights movement devolved into “preferential” identity politics “not unlike those advanced by [slavery defender John C.] Calhoun and his followers.”
Boston University historian Ibram X. Kendi tweeted: “This report makes it seems as if slaveholding founding fathers were abolitionists; that Americans were the early beacon of the global abolitionist movement; that the demise of slavery in the United States was inevitable.”
“It’s very hard to find anything in here that stands as a historical claim, or as the work of a historian. Almost everything in it is wrong, just as a matter of fact,” said Eric Rauchway, a history professor at the University of California at Davis. “I may sound a little incoherent when trying to speak of this, because the report itself is not coherent. It’s like historical wackamole.”
Several historians said it was particularly offensive that the report was released on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and included several photos King and quotes they said were taken out of context.
“The suggestion that affirmative action programs are somehow antithetical to the vision of Martin Luther King Jr. is simply ludicrous,” said Princeton historian Kevin M. Kruse. “King was alive when the Johnson administration launched its affirmative action programs and publicly declared his support, specifically noting that it was a logical extension of the struggle for black equality. The document ignores King’s record of support for affirmative action, lamely pointing to the one line conservatives know from his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech and ignoring the rest of his radical record. The fact that this historical distortion of King’s life and work was released on MLK Day makes it even worse.”
Kyle Rittenhouse failed to inform the court of his change of address within 48 hours of moving, Kenosha County prosecutors alleged in a motion filed with Judge Bruce Schroeder. The motion asks Schroeder to issue an arrest warrant and increase Rittenhouse’s bail by $200,000.
Rittenhouse’s attorney, Mark Richards, countered in his own motion Wednesday that death threats have driven Rittenhouse into an “undisclosed Safe House.” Richards said he offered to give prosecutors the new address in November if they would keep it secret but they refused. He said Rittenhouse has stayed in constant contact with him.
Live by the gun...hurts donit?
The court ruled today that he only needed to provide his address but didn't actually need to reside there. Wait. Really? Is it really your address if you don't reside there...for the purposes of tracking a *murder* defendant?!? The sheriff is in the loop about where he really is at least but this feels...strange.Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:31 am
Spoiler:Kyle Rittenhouse failed to inform the court of his change of address within 48 hours of moving, Kenosha County prosecutors alleged in a motion filed with Judge Bruce Schroeder. The motion asks Schroeder to issue an arrest warrant and increase Rittenhouse’s bail by $200,000.
Rittenhouse’s attorney, Mark Richards, countered in his own motion Wednesday that death threats have driven Rittenhouse into an “undisclosed Safe House.” Richards said he offered to give prosecutors the new address in November if they would keep it secret but they refused. He said Rittenhouse has stayed in constant contact with him.
Kyle Rittenhouse, who is charged with killing two people during unrest in Kenosha, Wis., last summer, will remain free on $2 million bond despite prosecutors’ efforts to have him rearrested because he violated the terms of his release.
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder denied the motion at a virtual hearing Thursday that included statements from the man who survived being shot by Rittenhouse and the father of a man who did not. Rittenhouse appeared virtually, wearing a surgical mask as he sat in an office next to his attorney Mark D. Richards.
Schroeder acknowledged that the 18-year old had failed to keep the court apprised of his residence but disagreed with arguments by Assistant District Attorney Thomas C. Binger, noting that Rittenhouse’s release conditions require only that the defendant provide the court with his address, not that he actually reside there.
“To issue a warrant now for a defendant that has appeared at every hearing would be breaking the law, and I’m not going to do it,” Schroeder said, adding that he lacked the authority to issue the kind of warrant Binger requested.
The legal battle about Rittenhouse’s release terms is just the latest flare-up in a case that has become politically polarizing — with Rittenhouse as the divisive central figure. Several pro-gun and conservative groups have embraced the 18-year-old as a hero; critics, meanwhile, assail Rittenhouse as a dangerous vigilante who broke the law and is being shielded from consequences that non-White defendants rarely avoid.
In debate over secret safe house, prosecutor says Kenosha shooter’s ability to ‘roam freely’ is ‘extremely rare for an accused murderer’
Kenosha County prosecutors petitioned the court last week to rearrest Rittenhouse and increase his bond by $200,000 after they said he did not properly disclose his address; Rittenhouse’s attorneys responded that he moved to a safe house at an undisclosed location because of threats against his life.
In virtual court Thursday, Schroeder ordered Richards to provide the address where Rittenhouse is actually staying and said it would be kept secret from everyone but the judge, the court clerk and the sheriff. Schroeder said the decision was in the interest of safety, though Binger, whose office was excluded from the disclosure, objected to the arrangement.
Improving police performance and behavior requires more funding, not de-funding? Who knew?Protests influence local police agencies…. Agencies with protests become more likely to obtain body-cameras, expand community policing, receive a larger operating budget...
The city's STAR (Support Team Assistance Response) team was given the power to handle 911 calls that didn't appear to deal with criminal issues. Calls related to mental health or social issues were routed to STAR, allowing cops to handle actual crime ...
In its first three months, STAR handled 350 calls -- only a very small percentage of 911 calls. But the immediate developments appeared positive. A supposed indecent exposure call handled by STAR turned out to be a homeless woman changing clothes in an alley. A trespassing call turned out to be another homeless person setting up a tent near some homes. Suicidal persons were helped and taken to care centers. Homeless residents were taken to shelters. No one was arrested. No one was beaten, tased, or shot.
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Dismissed.Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 3:44 pm CNN
PDF of lawThe woman who was caught on video accusing a Central Park birdwatcher of threatening her will be prosecuted, the Manhattan district attorney said Monday.
Amy Cooper, the White woman who was filmed accusing a Black man of threatening her, faces a charge of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree, according to the DA.
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Cooper has been issued a desk appearance ticket and is scheduled for arraignment October 14.
NY SenateUnder our law, a person is guilty of Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Third Degree when, knowing the information reported, conveyed or circulated to be false or baseless, he or she initiates or circulates a false report or warning of an alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of a crime, catastrophe or emergency under circumstances in which it is not unlikely that public alarm or inconvenience will result.
NY Office of Mental HealthFalsely reporting an incident in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor.
Upon conviction of a Class “A” misdemeanor, a court may sentence an individual to a maximum of one year in jail or three years probation. In addition, a fine of up to $1,000 or twice the amount of the individual’s gain from the crime may be imposed.
Amy Cooper, a white dog owner who was at the center of a controversial encounter with a Black man bird-watching in New York's Central Park last year, had her misdemeanor charge stemming from that incident dropped on Tuesday.
The woman had been facing a charge of falsely reporting an incident to police after she told them Christian Cooper, who is not related to her, threatened her and her dog. He did not.
"Given the issues at hand and Ms. Cooper's lack of criminal background, we offered her, consistent with our position on many misdemeanor cases involving a first arrest, an alternative, restorative justice resolution," Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi told a Manhattan judge, according to a statement provided to NPR.
I hate to say it, as I strongly dislike Doxxing, but it least she lost her job. She did not get off scott free in that respect. Otherwise I'd be looking for my pitchfork rather than simply strongly disapproving.restorative justice resolution
LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:43 pm Do I need to read to find out what this means
I hate to say it, as I strongly dislike Doxxing, but it least she lost her job. She did not get off scott free in that respect. Otherwise I'd be looking for my pitchfork rather than simply strongly disapproving.restorative justice resolution
Illuzzi said Cooper completed a total of five sessions and that her therapist described it as a "moving experience," adding that Amy Cooper "learned a lot in their sessions together."
Because Cooper completed the restorative justice sessions to the prosecutor's satisfaction, the Manhattan District Attorney's office moved to dismiss the charge.
It also noted that Christian Cooper [the victim] declined to participate in the criminal justice process, but added the District Attorney's Office went forward with the proceedings because it determined the offense was not just against Cooper, but also "a threat to the community if allowed to go unchecked."
The program, Illuzzi explained, is "designed not just to punish but to educate and promote community healing."
Illuzzi said Cooper completed a total of five sessions and that her therapist described it as a "moving experience," adding that Amy Cooper "learned a lot in their sessions together."
Because Cooper completed the restorative justice sessions to the prosecutor's satisfaction, the Manhattan District Attorney's office moved to dismiss the charge.
For the first time, the Cherokee Nation is asking Jeep to change the name of its Cherokee and Grand Cherokee vehicles.
“I’m sure this comes from a place that is well-intended, but it does not honor us by having our name plastered on the side of a car," Chuck Hoskin, Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, told Car and Driver in a written statement responding to our request for comment on the issue. "The best way to honor us is to learn about our sovereign government, our role in this country, our history, culture, and language and have meaningful dialogue with federally recognized tribes on cultural appropriateness."
Jeep has been building cars that wear the Cherokee Nation's name for more than 45 years. In that time, the company has gone on the record several times defending its decision to use the name of a Native American nation on its cars. Over the past eight years, since the reintroduction of the Cherokee nameplate to the U.S. market in 2013, the Cherokee Nation has gone on the record, too, but it had never explicitly said that Jeep should change the cars' names.
In a slightly darker timeline, the man she reported would have at least been arrested and potentially even killed by the cops and she'd have been responsible. I'm very okay with her having learned a lasting lesson and not just getting a finger waggle.LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:43 pm Do I need to read to find out what this means
I hate to say it, as I strongly dislike Doxxing, but it least she lost her job. She did not get off scott free in that respect. Otherwise I'd be looking for my pitchfork rather than simply strongly disapproving.restorative justice resolution
Enough