What the fuck does a stolen weed eater require a home raid? Like WTF.
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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A weed eater stolen from a judges home. Judges and cops worship each other. To cops its like someone stole god's weed eater.
Cops like to charge others for extra crimes when they eff something up, so now they will charge the guy who stole the weed eater from the judge with murder. And Kentucky has capital punishment...
The one part I as a non-American don't understand about this is: Is America not supposed to be a free country? Why the hell do you have people who can kill anyone with no repercussions? What the hell happened to the rule of law? And, more importantly, why the actual fuck is the whole country not up in arms over this?
Man, RATM had it figured out in 1992. 😬
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D, the E, the F, the I, the A, the N, the C, the E
Mind of a revolutionary, so clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? The "land of the free"?
Whoever told you that is your enemy
I wish it hadn't taken 30 more years before I realized how right they were.
Brother Ali says it even better:
They keep sayin' we're free
But we're all just loose
We were never a free country in any sense like you're describing. That'd just our own internal propaganda.
I agree with your last statement. There are countless reasons I can't understand why people aren't burning this country to the ground. Especially those further in poverty and struggling to just get by.
I still am shocked Occupy Wall Street wasn't more violent. It probably needed to be.
The reason we haven't burt it down is because the ones in power are really good at making the ignorant masses hate each other. Even during covid people were pissed off that unemployed people were getting a little extra help, when business owners were raking in PPE loans. Instead of focusing that anger where it really belongs. Half the country hates minorities and trans people, the other half hate maga. When instead, we should all be focusing on the bezos and musks and guillotines.
This happened in a state where the majority of residents (especially in these rural areas) feel everyone should be armed for protection. They are also overwhelmingly in favor of aggressive police tactics so when I see a rural man defending himself and being shot for it by police I can't help but sigh. I mean, anyone with half a brain could see these situations coming. Do we really need to use swat teams for non violent property crimes?
He might have been armed with a weed eater!
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"Oh don't like the cops? I guess the next time you're in trouble you'll call a crackhead?"
That does seem to have a better survival rate
If given the option of where my tax money would go, I'd give crackheads a try at this point, yes.
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I know 3 crackheads right now that would handle things with a much cooler head than the police here. And that is not an exaggeration.
They broke into his house, and he got a gun out. Which is one of the few times it is reasonable to brandish a weapon... And they use that as justification to kill him. Over a weed eater.
The police don't give a shit if someone steals your catalytic converter, your whole car, or all of your tools. But I guess if you're a judge they will kill for your weed eater.
It was stolen from a judge. So the police treated it as important. You know, the same as when a rich person is harmed
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What's it's matter about the address. We are talking about a weed eater. Chill the fuck out.
Ah, but the weed eater belonged to a judge. It wasn’t because he stole something valuable; It was because he stole from someone important.
He didn't steal anything they had the thief. It was a recovery operation. You know it's dangerous getting a weed eater from someone who doesn't know they have it.
Ok, Judge, chill the fuck out. It's a fuckin weed eater you psycho.
Why did they even do anything? Whenever something is stolen from I get told there is nothing they can do but take a report.
I'm sure "judges weed eater" had nothing to do with the enhanced police response. /s
Yeah, police are unwilling to do anything about vandalism in my neighborhood, smashed windows on homes and cars, 20+ smashed windows, everyone knows exactly who is doing it to the kid who goes around trying to jump kids in the area half their size and has been caught and witnesses red handed multiple times, ''aww jeez guys, looks like.. there's nothing we can do...'' useless.
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wtf but hey it was swiped from a judge. what a sad story
Check to see if there's a development looking to buy all the land in that area. You know. Like the last time police did this, and it got buried for years until public outcry made the legal system reluctantly look into and find out there were very rich people who wanted the home of Brianna Taylor, and got it for what $1.00 after she was murdered in her bed by a cop who snuck behind the house to her bedroom and opened fire.
I found an article verifying the price, but do you have a source that connects the rest of the dots? I'm shocked (not that shocked) this isn't on screaming front page headlines
I found these articles with a little more information.
Good stuff, key point from the BI article:
Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, head of the city's economic development foundation Louisville Forward, the city's economic development organization, told local news channel Wave 3 that the updated lawsuit "is a gross mischaracterization of the project," and said that the foundation had worked with community organizations throughout. She added that the foundation is discussing the creation of a community land trust "to ensure investment without displacement."
And yet I found more using a search of "Place Based Investigations " as the main keyword: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/metro-government/2020/07/24/breonna-taylor-shooting-what-know-police-unit-linked-case/5443452002/
it was revealed that the "no-knock" warrant police used to force their way into Taylor's apartment, leading to her death, was obtained by a member of the Place-Based Investigative team.
The dots are connected enough for me. PBI obtained the no-knock, likely on Wiederwohl's initiative. Further lead: https://www.acceleratorforamerica.org/who-we-are/
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Why the fuck do they need to raid any house for a fucking weed eater!? That is serious small time shit.
And the thief was already in custody. He had “stored” the weed eater at the address they were supposed to be searching (er, raiding), meaning whoever would have been present there wasn’t even the thief.
Because we train cops to kill and give them military surplus and they're just itching to use it.
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This dude got executed by a death squad.
Either the cops are incredibly competent (likely) or they intentionally raided the wrong home as an excuse to kill this man, perhaps under judges orders.
Either the cops are incredibly competent (likely)
did you mean to say incompetent? (genuine question)
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When you can't tell if police killed someone through staggering incompetence or deliberate malice... something is fundamentally wrong.
There is more to this story that we will never know. You raid a home over a stolen fucking weed eater. Gross abuse of power by someone
No, it's right there in the story. The weed eater belonged to a judge, so obviously someone's gonna pay.
Even if it was the correct home. They killed the guy over a fucking weed eater. Even if he'd been violent back off and fucking let things cool down. Grab him when he goes for groceries or something. Fuck.
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stealing the Weed Eater from a home of a local judge
Aha, so that's why they suddenly give a shit about property theft, because it was from a member of their little club.
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This is a repeat post, so I'll repeat one of my replies partially: I wouldn’t be surprised if a suddenly vacant lot wouldn’t suddenly be auctioned off to a cop’s relative in areas with a high predominance of this. Read up on civil asset forfeiture as well. In some places, cops are basically legalized mafias.
So police get to kill anyone over anything with the word 'weed' now? I can't think of any other reason to raid the home for a fucking $300 item.
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So they wanted to kill this man and decided to use this flimsy excuse? I mean WTF?
Is this the only profession that lets you make consistent fatal errors with impunity? I really can't think of another.
It sounds like the judge and police were working together to execute someone. I really can't tell incompetence from pure evil anymore.
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