If you cave and talk the cops out of fear or weakness, I have sympathy. If you talk at length to the cops because you know you are just the bro to stand up to tyranny, and you talking at length to the cops is fighting the power, you’re a dipshit.

This is getting a fair amount of scorn, and I’d say it deserves it. The hidden premise is that “corruption” requires the specific proof that the Supreme Court has decided (controversially) is required for certain very specific federal criminal statutes. /1 https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreifsae5d6od5f4zndoiicmbxjzu7p2vgt7u5atzlf2fwqsxqpx537a

Masked thugs kidnapping people off of the street are not heroes. RE:

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I am pretty fervent about some injustices but I will never be as incandescently outraged and committed to change as some white people are about the fact that the n-word lands differently depending on who uses it and the context

OK, I’m told the feds released Mayor Barka rather than holding him over the weekend on the pretext they couldn’t get him before a judge. I am pleasantly surprised, through I suspect the decision was made on a lower level and that the people who made it may suffer.