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I think a lot of people understand why this is bad, but in case some don’t let me explain.
The nation was horrified by the recording of George Floyd being murdered. But what if it had never been recorded? Would Derek Chauvin still be out? Would they have tossed the case due to insufficient evidence?
Look, the 2020 protests resulted in laws being passed to hold police accountable. Were they fully successful? No. Does more need to be done? Yes. But there was more being done than I’ve ever seen.
Now, in the space of a few months we have
The SCOTUS ruling prisoners don’t have the right to an appeal.
The SCOTUS ruling that cops can’t be sued for failing to Mirandize people.
The SCOTUS rule the government can charge nonIndigenous people for commiting crimes on tribal land, stripping Native Americans of tribal sovereignty.
And in Arizona, people can’t record cops within 8 feet of an arrest.
This is not an accident or a coincidence. Conservatives are sending a message that no matter what cops do, they will back cops up. They are saying that they don’t like cops being held accountable. These rulings should be taken as retaliation for any policy passed that protects BIPOC and hold police accountable.
For anybody who looks at this and goes “8 feet? That sounds reasonable, you might be getting in their way at that distance” Please follow this through to it’s logical consequence.
Imagine You are filming a cop do something the cop doesn’t want filmed, one of his cop buddies now starts aggressively walking at you or telling you to come to him, now you are either:
A) Fleeing from a cop or refusing to obey a command from a cop, a thing they can, *have*, and *will* kill over.
B) Filming a cop from closer than 8 feet, which they can now arrest you over.
“Americans are dying younger, saving corporations billions,” ran an Aug. 8, 2017, Bloomberg headline. It continued: “Life expectancy gains have stalled. The grim silver lining? Lower pension costs.”
That was over two years before the COVID-19 pandemic killed 6.6 million people worldwide. In the United States—where over a million people have died of the coronavirus — average life expectancy dropped by almost three years. It fell from 78.8 years in 2019 to 76.1 years in 2021.
But healthcare would be too expensive anyway here’s our fleet of bomb and arms shipping satellites that cost more than a lot of nations GDP to maintain
[ID: The video begins with a person showing the package for a padlock. Over the video is a TikTok comment which reads “master lock has a bounty on this mans head”. The person making the video begins narrating: “You won’t believe this lock’s special feature. It’s a Master Lock model 570 maximum pick resistant pad lock. It has 5 pins, including some security pins and, if you look carefully inside the key weight, you can actully see where they put the disappointment.” The video ends with the person jamming a pick into the lock, which opens it instantly. end of ID]
As a lockpicking hobbyist: it really is like that.
I have many padlocks (and other, uh, lockable devices) to which I probably have the keys somewhere but it’s frankly quicker to pick (or in some cases, technically bypass but what most people would still call picking) the lock than find the right key.
And usually yes, that quickly.
And those tiny padlocks, to go on luggage (or, uh, other things that need tiny locks)? No need even for lockpicks, a paperclip will suffice to open it in 0.1s
