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not 100% standard. but yeah, pretty standard. If its a rich white dude, generally the arrests are a lot gentler.
Nah bro. Don't divide us like that just before the protests. We all get fucked up. Fuck the police.
Yeah, cops are racist as fuck. But they will gladly beat up anyone. Threaten too. I remember when I was a lot younger talking to a cop (i did't know better at the time.) and suddenly he starts resting his hand on his holster and looking at me weird.
FYI, in many states that action is very explicitly defined as Assault.
What state? Nothing shows up in a quick search. That could be considered 'brandishing' in my state which is a crime but certainly not assault.
Yeah, but if I pulled my gun out and blasted his pig ass I am not going to get off on self defense.
Prosecutors would definitely take that to trial, for sure. But it also depends on your jury. Being acquitted is definitely more likely as the days go by now. A lot of people no longer give law enforcement any sort of benefit of the doubt, often the exact opposite now.
You just need 1 member of that jury to decide that way and refuse to change their position to hang the jury, and then the prosecutors have to decide whether to bother with a retrial and do it all over again. Any time the first jury is unable to decide, that weighs heavily over any subsequent trial, whether it's supposed to or not.
well it was in 2010 and I was living in a rural backwater so...
that rich white dude better respect the authorita, boy
the rich white dude is the authorita.
Not the one running that mouth, technically that's an ally
Do you recognize the genocide in Gaza?