George Floyd (III): Defending Child Shooters Edition

[BaneTheBrawler]

You might be surprised to learn, then, that the councilmembers in question are accusing the police of not doing their job or straight up quitting because they can't get away with being assholes. Something that MPD, in particular, has a history of doing.

[NynJa]

If the headline is vastly misleading, then its clickbait and/or designed to rile people up.

[Tyrath]

Yes, and that's exactly what it's doing as evidenced by Day.

[BaneTheBrawler]

You say that like it's an excuse for not reading the article, Nynja.

[Byrthnoth]

https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/09/17...-organization/

Is this the thread where we discuss how Antifa is an organization? Some stupid lib got up and contradicted the self-apparent truth today.

Observe history
https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/13...=1#post7379596

[Yabby]

So it is like atheism. Most of the people think along the same lines, but they don't get together to talk or organize the movement.

That would make the right like Christians who think Atheist are coming together to turn America into Satanists

[Heavencloud]

https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status...655776769?s=21

rational joe biden voters at it again

[Meresgi]

https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status...655776769?s=21

rational joe biden voters at it again

Yup, never seen that type of shit going on with far right people, or far right types shooting people after having mommy drive them to the city.

[Byrthnoth]

Just so we are clear, the shit stirring Antifa people are likely to be nonvoters that think Biden is as bad as Trump. They are the phantom leftist votes that Bernie didn't get during the primary.

[Kaslo]

To be fair, maybe he was saving that dog from being locked in a hot car

[Dimmauk]

https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status...655776769?s=21

rational joe biden voters at it again

Probably crisis actors again.

[Zealot]

Black bloc militants, amazing. The right will eat whatever shit is fed to them, huh.

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[kuronosan]

As long as it sticks it to liberals.

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[Karbuncle]

Shit I understand you guys for once, I roll my eyes the exact same way when I see any "-phobic/-ist" word in a headline from pretty much any left-leaning news source. "Black Bloc Militants" just kinda seems like... baiting the hook with TNT ya know?

[Heavencloud]

Probably crisis actors again.

yeah sure Alex

https://twitter.com/bandpolitical/st...535815168?s=21

[Byrthnoth]

Black Bloc is an alternative name for Antifa from the 90s.

[Dimmauk]

yeah sure Alex

https://twitter.com/bandpolitical/st...535815168?s=21

More white people behaving badly? I'm shocked

[6souls]

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law...s-protest-suit
https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/...0/1?1600288304
http://citypages.com/news/mpd-blames...ests/572433561

Minneapolis PD attempt to claim immunity in a lawsuit brought by journalists who say they were targeted during the protests. MPD chief Medaria Arradondo shifts blame to the journalists for being shot by police.

Freelance journalist Jared Goyette claims a police officer shot him in the face May 27 with less-lethal ballistic ammunition while trying to make contact with an injured protester. In a separate case, photographer Linda Tirado alleges she lost an eye May 29 to foam bullets shot by police officers at the crowd of protesters.

But high-ranking officials at Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety and its State Patrol argue they should be dropped from Goyette’s lawsuit seeking damages because of the doctrine of qualified immunity. They filed a motion to dismiss Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, where the case is pending before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright.

Once the state or a state official claims qualified immunity from civil liability for alleged civil rights violations, a plaintiff is then required to show that an individual acting under the color of law violated their “clearly established” constitutional rights.

The City of Minneapolis and its Chief of Police filed an answer in lieu of a motion to dismiss, asserting qualified immunity as an affirmative defense.

The Minneapolis defendants also asserted the plaintiff journalists’ contributory negligence, assumption of the risk of injury, and failure to mitigate damages as affirmative defenses.

“Plaintiffs’ injuries or damages, if any, were caused, contributed to, or brought about by Plaintiffs’ own intentional, negligent, unlawful, and/or illegal acts or the acts of others over whom City Defendants exercise no right or dominion or control for whose actions City Defendants are not legally responsible,” the city’s answer says.

It also says the plaintiffs “suffered no irreparable harm,” and therefore are not entitled to injunctive relief, and that the "alleged use of force, if any," was legal under state law governing police officers.

Star Tribune reporters Liz Sawyer and Chao Xiong, along with three international journalists, were told that their press passes were “bullshit” and ordered to go home. Another Strib reporter, Chris Serres, was shot in the groin, tear gassed, and ordered to hit the dirt or be shot again.

[Kaslo]

That's a silly thing to criticize from a lawyer's prospective. That's the generic pleading for contributory negligence/comparative fault that every Defendant pleads.

[mallister]

-no lasting harm
-lost an eye

Seems legit.