Cherelle Parker could've stayed put and walked into the position.

I thought they would have been already, I can’t believe they haven’t gone to trial yet, ridiculous

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I’d bet if you dig deep enough, you’ll find ties to Philly Socialists or Socialist Party USA. The site has a very Trotsky or Lenin feel to how it’s written. Sort of “baffle them with bullshit”.

Also my local, also feel it’s hard to advocate for.

The same constitution you mention about a speedy trial also gives defendants a right to build a case, even if there is video evidence. I don’t think you’re 100% wrong, but a system that judges it’s evidence and then determines what kind of trial to have based on that evidence would not be a good system overall.

Thank you!

All of the options are bad, and legit this is completely disheartening to see which chuckle fucks are the "top four". No one with a spine will win (are there any spines in Council anyway?) and the bullshit of councilmanic prerogative will live on for another decade+. The city needs a reboot with the incoming mayor and holy shit, thinking of Kenyatta fucking Johnson as Council President does me in.

Faulty logic that undermines every law ever made. Murders don’t follow the murder laws, rapist don’t follow the rape laws, so I guess those laws are useless as well?

And the fact is, the largest worldwide studies conclude that some very simple, nationwide changes to gun laws have reduced gun violence in other countries by significant amounts.

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/2/29/11120184/2016-gun-control-study-epidemiologic-reviews-deaths

https://www.science.org/content/article/three-types-laws-could-reduce-gun-deaths-more-10

None of the proposed laws would restrict would be gun owners from purchasing guns. Just like having to register your car and get a license doesn’t actually restrict people from owning and driving cars. What it does do is link people to their weapons and make them more responsible for what happens to their guns. Responsible gun owners don’t make straw purchases and they don’t “lose” their guns or have their house broken into and their guns “stolen.”

There were far fewer guns in circulation back in the 90s than there are today.

Thought that too. It's buzzword vomit without any sort of hard definition on what they actually do.

From other sources, it looks like they probably posted the bail because they're anti-cash bail but damned if you could guess that was a stance of theirs from their website.

Agreed. And hopefully no one gets too angry at me for this but it’s great to go there before it gets too crowded with a toddler. Tons of space and loud so my daughter screaming that the next episode of Bluey isn’t coming on fast enough isn’t that much of an issue.

Well that certainly is a take

I'd be fairly surprised if wealthy suburbanites are donating to inner city black charities, especially this one

can't wait for a surveillance society that gives police more power because a very very small minority of philadelphians are fucking things up for everyone.

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Our system is one in which you are innocent until proven guilty. The purpose of bail is to ensure the accused show up for their trials, not ensure pretrial detention. If the accused is deemed too dangerous to release on bail, then no bail of any amount should be offered.

The real scandal here is how long these cases take. The constitution calls for a speedy trial. These kids are on video killing a man. There's no need to spend months putting together a case when you have incontrovertible proof of guilt. These kids should be convicted already.

Helicopters are urban buzzards in today's society.

The thing that always gets me about what you said is that those guns didn’t just appear out of midair, someone legally bought them and possessed them before the teens did. We need much better tools for pursuing straw buyers or sellers (presumably mostly private and not FFLs) who sell guns to teens and people who’d fail a background check. That should be the highest priority law enforcement action for reducing gun violence.

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He wouldn’t go there either, stop trying to make this shooting about race. Kenney doesn’t give a shit regardless of your skin color.

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It's not high profile enough for him. He's nothing more than a piece of shit grifter.

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The problem with all of these isn't when the state gets it right, and keeps a murderer locked up - but that it consistently and egregiously gets it wrong.

I haven't paid a cover fee since 1997. Put that bar on my banned list.