The police officers who were shot at by Lopez were sitting in the courtroom when the verdict was read and they did not look satisfied with the decision.
Ahh, yeah. Put that shit right in my veins!
"plain clothes officers" fuck off with that shit, they're not officers at that point, that's just thugs with guns
I think you’ll find that even with uniforms on, they’re still thugs with guns.
He should have never spent three years behind bars while he waited.
Will he get compo for that? Or is it more a case of "whelp, sorry we fucked your life up, have a nice day"?
"~~whelp, sorry we fucked your life up, have a nice day~~ get fukt lol"
This guy has the most amazing name I've ever heard. Fenqwavious. Glad he got justice and now lots of people know his name, me sitting here with my pathetic single-syllable name.
Not just any Fenqwavious, a Florida man named Fenqwavious. That’s like ultra shiny in Pokémon terms.
Seriously though, seems like the case is really about self defense and the judge ruled on it accordingly.
I hope Mr. Fenqwavious does make good decisions moving forward.
Definitely stealing it for my D&D campaign. Fenqwavious. Awesome.
Fenqwavious the Alert
I am surprised that a non-white male was allowed to exercise their second amendment rights without being jailed. I am also surprised the police didn't execute him on the spot.
I am NOT surprised that the NRA was nowhere to be seen.
What the fuck is up with that last line? " one of the jurors said make good decisions."
The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions
• Cops aren't supposed to be smart
• Killings by law enforcement in Canada
• Killings by law enforcement in the United Kingdom
• Killings by law enforcement in the United States
• Know your rights: Filming the police
• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of 'I can’t breathe' (as of 2020)
• Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.
• Police lie under oath, a lot
• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak
• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States
• When the police knock on your door
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• NAACP
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• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration