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  • queermunist she/her
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    1 year ago

    lol

    But seriously, prisons are unsafe places where vigilante “justice” is openly accepted and this is a bad thing.

    spoiler

    but also lol

      • Helmic [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        In an abstract sense, I don’t want any murderers killed like that. I don’t want prison to be a thing. But for once the people exempted from the prison industrial complex are subjected to the same shit as everyone else.

  • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Floyd, who was Black, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pressed a knee on his neck for 9½ minutes on the street outside a convenience store where Floyd was suspected of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.

    the fuck is this phrasing

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        Very often writers will defend their “officer involved shooting” BS by saying something like “oh he’s innocent until proven guilty”

        Motherfucker, this guy is CONVICTED. You’re allowed to say without ambiguity that he murdered George Floyd because that is the official opinion of the US Government on the matter unless it gets appealed and overturned.

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      The dick-riding fascists do to the end and beyond for cops is amazing.

      “Floyd was murdered by Chauvin…” use that terminology. He’s been fucking convicted. There’s no liable suit potential here. You don’t have to allege it or pretend that Floyd just suddenly became no longer alive. A court of law found Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd. Honestly an amazing feat in our shit hole racist country and they still use the ambiguous wording that “he died.”

      I fucking hate “journalists.”

      If I see any comments about style guides that demand passive voice or blaming editors (who also suck) I will shake my head in disappointment. I’m preparing to shake!

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I could almost see it as an author who is trying to acknowledge that the outcry was that black lives matter and, as such, the murder had a racial element to it. I’d probably get rid of everything after store because the topic of the piece isn’t about what Floyd was doing. You might also consider being more explicit about your motivations for bringing up race and making it two sentences: one about how Chauvin murdered Floyd and another about how the white on black murder sparked a big conversation about race. That would, of course, be giving the benefit of the doubt which is a hehexd kind of situation.

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd’s killing,

    He’s convicted of second-degree murder and they still can’t bring themselves to say that an officer killed someone

  • 420stalin69@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    If he didn’t want to get stabbed he should have just done what the other prisoners wanted him to do

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    1 year ago

    Awe he came so close to becoming a good cop. Maybe he will get lucky and the same fellow who was helping him can get him all the way to being a good cop.