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SeaJ , in Police in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities say

One of them fled and pointed what appeared to be a handgun at the officers, according to a statement by the Utica Police Department.

If the footage confirms this, it makes sense that the officer shot him. Don't point guns or gun replicas at people.

But they were fleeing and pointed a gun at him? Either the reporting is shitty or it did not happen like the police say it happened.

Frozengyro ,

You can run and point a gun backwards/shoot in their general direction.

FlyingSquid ,
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And unless you're some sort of trick shot marksman, you won't be any danger to the cops.

Frozengyro ,

Dumb luck happens, plus could hit an innocent bystander. It's honestly a shit situation all around.

Thetimefarm ,

I mean shooting randomly is always dangerous to someone. People get hit by stray bullets literally every day in america.

FuglyDuck ,
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This isn’t entirely accurate.

First, just because they’re only slightly less accurate than most cops… doesn’t mean they’re not able to get lucky.

Secondly, I’m reminded of an incident I saw security recordings of, from a guy running across a light rail platform (warehouse district in Minneapolis,) dude was spraying behind him. While running.

Missed all of the people he was aiming at, killed 4 people all the same.

ACAB, so I’m not saying the cops didn’t fuck up. (Or even plant the damn pellet gun…) but yeah. There’s a reason that’s the narrative.

Texas_Hangover ,

Patsy Parisi over here.

Resonosity , in DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting

I think the analogy would be a plant-based burger from Beyond or Impossible, but I totally agree with the sentiment!

Drusas , in Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlife

Exactly as anticipated.

FlyingSquid ,
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And MAGA people never cared to begin with.

555_1 , in The Boeing saga has reached a new level of absurdity | CNN Business

BOEING KILLED JOHN BARNETT

Viking_Hippie , in Oklahoma schools head Ryan Walters: Teachers who won't teach Bible could lose license

The goal is, here, to have an accurate view of American history

By teaching bronze age fairy tales set in the Middle East.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/41f1d51a-b8cb-4dc1-b4ae-268436bdb6e8.jpeg

reddig33 , in Supreme Court Rules for Jan. 6 Defendant Who Challenged Obstruction Charge

The Epoch Times is a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

cashsky , in Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appeal.

4 months is a pitiful sentence for this rotting bag of feces.

enleeten ,

He's got more trials coming up...

Chocrates ,

I thought he got pardoned?

enleeten ,

Really doubt Biden is pardoning that fuck stick

Chocrates ,

It was Trump, but I guess for previous crimes.

MNByChoice ,

Trump pardoned him for different acts. After the pardon he did more shit.

KillingTimeItself ,

it's only contempt, from my understanding of law it's not uncommon for contempt of court, and inter court violations to be anywhere from like 2 weeks of jail time, to a few months.

MyOpinion , in Oklahoma schools head Ryan Walters: Teachers who won't teach Bible could lose license
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I am sorry no. I don’t want this garbage taught in schools.

randon31415 , in U.S. proposed new language in effort to reach Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal

Does it lead to the death of all Hamas? If yes, Hamas will not be on board. If no, Israel will not be on board.

gedaliyah OP Mod , in Iranian reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili head to runoff presidential election
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Iranian elections are generally considered fair, although the candidates must be approved by the Supreme Leader, and wield very limited power, so it almost doesn't matter if the elections are rigged or not.

If the Reformist candidate wins, it would be the first time that the president and Ayatollah are not in lock step. It could be interesting.

Karyoplasma ,

Didn't Khamenei already address this and say that regardless of who wins there won't be any substantial changes to the status quo?

gedaliyah OP Mod ,
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Of course. Iran is more like a monarchy. The king is still the king, but if the people are unhappy enough, the king might be compelled to give up influence to parliament.

Not a perfect analogy by any means, but I think it helps.

Monument , in Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appeal.

He’s getting the Independence Day he deserves.

TrainsAreCool , in Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.

AI, at it again.

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

AI can be very useful, the problem here is humans trusting it to be accurate all the time.

In this case it should be used to narrow down results, but even then the police need to do their job.
They need to do an actual investigation to gather evidence that they have the right person before even attempting to make am arrest.

Even removing AI from the picture entirely doesn't solve this problem. Just look at wrongful arrests that have been made simply because a wanted criminal has the exact same name as someone else.

Delonix , in Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlife

Terrible, I hope all those involved with it suffer like the wildlife..

JimSamtanko , in Oklahoma schools head Ryan Walters: Teachers who won't teach Bible could lose license

Oh I can’t wait for the lawsuits to follow this bullshit.

Chocrates ,

I'm still pissed we are spending tax payer money defending this shit. We are doing something similar in La.

PsychedSy ,

As much as it sucks, at least it's being adjudicated.

Chocrates ,

I fear what the fedsoc six will do with it. They already want a theocracy.

PsychedSy ,

Get a poverty pony and some ammo.

Chocrates ,

Poverty pony?

PsychedSy ,

Inexpensive AR. Typically bought in pieces. You can get a basic rifle pretty inexpensively.

GroundedGator ,

Looking at recent decisions, it's going to go badly for those of us who believe in the anti-establishment clause.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Congress shall make no law, this actually could be interpreted quite literally by the courts that it is perfectly acceptable for a state to not only establish a religion but to criminalize other beliefs.

I think this would be a 5-4 decision with SCOTUS. I think Barrett would be against it, because she is Catholic and would see that her beliefs may not be the ones promoted. Kavanaugh and Roberts could be a toss up.

chiliedogg ,

Kavenaugh has been better than expected (still bad). Actually, all of the Trump appointments have been less-bad than Alito, Thomas, and Scalia. If it weren't for the fact that Kavenaugh replaced Kennedy and Barret RBG it wouldn't be so bad.

The good news is that the next 2 up for replacement are probably Thomas and Alito. If we can hold onto the White House we may be able to unfuck this.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Congress shall make no law, this actually could be interpreted quite literally by the courts that it is perfectly acceptable for a state to not only establish a religion but to criminalize other beliefs.

Reading one piece of the Constitution or the text of any specific statute is kind of useless in our legal system. Other parts of the Constitution, the laws, and the case law that's been established over centuries and decades also have parts to play.

This particular legal situation has been argued before, and it's very settled law (at least for now.) Specifically, the 14th Amendment has been viewed to expand many of the Constitutional provisions that originally only restrained Congress to apply to the state governments as well.

It's most likely to be slapped down in district court, slapped down in the appellate court, and then declined by SCOTUS.

exanime ,

So it can get to the Supreme Court and be overturned there?

teawrecks ,

The Superintenant of OK apparently stated plainly that he believes Trump's appointment to the SC were specifically done to protect states doing this.

JimSamtanko , in Police in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities say

If the police were also armed with pellet guns, this never would have happened.

gedaliyah OP Mod ,
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The only way to stop a bad guy with pellets is a good guy with pellets.

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