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BonziBuddyMustDie t1_j9s88bv wrote

Reply to comment by makethemaccount-able in U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to NSA Mass Surveillance by gururururug

  1. We are all to some degree lazy and pacified. We fear what would happen if we didn't have access to our everyday conveniences.
  2. We are too pessimistic and jaded to the world around us. We cannot see how solidarity could work when everyone around us is so selfish.
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9-11GaveMe5G t1_j9s552t wrote

Reply to comment by DevoidHT in Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops by mepper

For some deranged cops (like say one that might etch "you're fucked" into the barrel of their rifle) I will agree they are just itching to kill anyone. But watch the bodycam of the cops that responded to the 911 call at Nancy Pelosi's house. Her husband Paul answers the door with the white intruder holding onto him with one hand and holding a hammer in the other. Cops don't draw a gun or even a taser. Guy starts hitting Paul in the head with the hammer and still they just run in and tackle. Never drew anything.

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Atticus_Fatticus t1_j9s1gky wrote

Reply to Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops by mepper

I'm confused... so is there an official city policy banning livestreaming or no? The article makes it seem like that's some wild mystery when it should be extremely easy to tell whether or not that's true. It should either be a city statute or there's an internal policy which is subject to Freedom of Information Act requests or legal subpoena.

If it's not true, then where the fuck is the recourse? He can't sue the city unless there's an actual city policy banning livestreaming, and he can't sue the cop because of qualified immunity? So did the 4th circuit just rule that cops can pretty much just do whatever the fuck they want and citizens have no recourse unless there's a specific city policy banning their poor behavior? That's insane.

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