Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · edit-28 days agoShe called 911 to report domestic abuse. Then Houston police called ICE on her.www.houstonchronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square124linkfedilinkarrow-up1637
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minus-squareisolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days ago Hey, totally unrelated, isn’t it great how convicts are so heavily vilified for life? murders someone in cold blood WhY dO yOu HaTe Me sO mUcH
minus-squareKickforce@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoIt’s not just murderers that get that though. Even if you went to jail for something like driving while black, you are a dangerous ex-con for life.
minus-squareisolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoi understand the systemic racism in police but “driving while black” isn’t an actual crime, let alone one that can put you in jail
minus-squareKickforce@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoIt’s only a way of starting an interaction, it escalates easily with things like “illegal possession”, “resisting arrest” and “assaulting a police officer” . Which are all things that might happen without the suspect doing anything really.
minus-squareisolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoassaulting a police officer without doing anything is a new one to me…
minus-squareKickforce@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoHappens regularly often the police officers find themselves compelled to kill their passive aggressor in self defense.
minus-squareisolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoof course… regularly often… like in the recent case of…
It’s not just murderers that get that though. Even if you went to jail for something like driving while black, you are a dangerous ex-con for life.
i understand the systemic racism in police but “driving while black” isn’t an actual crime, let alone one that can put you in jail
It’s only a way of starting an interaction, it escalates easily with things like “illegal possession”, “resisting arrest” and “assaulting a police officer” . Which are all things that might happen without the suspect doing anything really.
assaulting a police officer without doing anything is a new one to me…
Happens regularly often the police officers find themselves compelled to kill their passive aggressor in self defense.
of course… regularly often… like in the recent case of…