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Got past the paywall for the body of the article, big issue I'm hitting here is that the article is dated from 2016, I'm guessing whoever posted the screenshot Cheshire grabbed clipped the date off on purpose, someone did at least, not a Cheshire thing to do to REDUCE the amount of information on a post after all.

That said, here's the body of the article.

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 8, 2016

In response to the mistrial of a former South Carolina police officer accused of murdering a fleeing black man, the editor of a prominent legal site is calling on black jurors to acquit black defendants accused of, among other things, murdering white people.

Elie Mystal, editor of Above The Law, said acquitting black defendants regardless of guilt would “put the shoe on the other foot for a change.”

“Maybe it’s time for black people to use the same tool white people have been using to defy a system they do not consent to: jury nullification,” Mr. Mystal said in the op-ed published Wednesday. “White juries regularly refuse to convict or indict cops for murder. White juries refuse to convict vigilantes who murder black children. White juries refuse to convict other white people for property crimes.

“Maybe it’s time minorities got in the game?” he continued. “Black people lucky enough to get on a jury could use that power to acquit any person charged with a crime against white men and white male institutions.”

Mr. Mystal, a graduate of Harvard Law School, said the severity of the crime makes no difference.

“Assault? Acquit. Burglary? Acquit. Insider trading? Acquit,” he said. “Murder? … what the hell do you think is happening to black people out there? What the hell do you think we’re complaining about when your cops shoot us or choke us? Acquit.”

The blog post comes days after a jury deadlocked in the case of Michael Slager, a former police officer who was caught on video fatally shooting Walter Scott, who was fleeing from the encounter following a traffic stop. The prosecution says it intends to retry the case.

There is precedent for the idea of intentionally deadlocking juries as a form of protest.

Mr. Mystal cites the work of Georgetown University Law professor Paul Butler, who said jurors need to “take the law into their own hands.”

“If they think that the police are treating African Americans unfairly — by engaging in racial profiling or using excessive force — they don’t have to convict, even if [they] think the defendant is guilty,” Mr. Butler wrote in The Washington Post earlier this year.

Refusing to acquit black defendants “could make a difference,” Mr. Mystal said.

“The stench of it will choke the system until it is willing to change,” he said. _____________________________________

Man made it through harvard law and isn't smart enough to realize that encouraging this kind of behaviour will give prosecutors ammunition that can be used to to remove people from juries or to challenge rulings.

Then again looking the guy up he might call joy reid and the whole cast of the view racist and antiblack.

Washington Times isn't encouraging this behaviour which is good because that's legally dubious, if you're on a jury and suggest it to the rest of the jurors there's a good chance you'll trigger a mistrial and a bit of jail time for yourself too, lawyers that do it are in even more trouble.

reoigh

Isn't white juries not convicting white people for killing blacks why capitol crimes became federal?

They're not federal unless they reach a certain criteria, one of the biggest ones being crossing state lines.

Capital just means that it's a case that could conceivably result in the death penalty being handed down.

There's guidelines on the racial makeup of juries because of the whole 'jury of your peers' bit, problem comes in when you get people in the jury selection flat out telling the lawyers that the can't be impartial like they did with the Anthony case, there's only so much that can be done on that front. and pushing for this kind of thing will make things worse, also can wind up getting people chucked in jail in some cases

godlessondheimite

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

nobodys-odyssey

Taylor Swift does this

godlessondheimite

no she doesn’t

nobodys-odyssey

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

generallemarc

Me when I call someone else an idiot for not believing that my favorite singer is secretly gay based on my made-up reasoning. And also she's dating a man.

thememedaddy

fireflies-and-whiskey

How much money do you give? And do you hold everyone else to that same standard? Bernie Sanders? Obama? Your favorite stars and musicians in Hollywood? Because I only see people calling out Elon for this. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.

the-davest-of-uncles

Leftists are very generous with other people's money.

he doesn't have a trillion dollars, so there's that too

mornington-the-crescent

How much does the federal government spend every year? Why don’t they solve world hunger?

euronymous4e

There's children starving in my country, we gotta do something!

Oh wait you mean foreigners... 🥱

#stupid #capitalism #kris straub #chainsawsuit #socialism #communism #lolgic #ai #penny arcade

It's even more ironic if you know a lot of food aid is lost due to local infrastructure issues.

You know, things the government is responsible for.

NTS: pin this post

#Youtube

Depending on which definition you use, the earliest known form of capitalism was dudes in caves with shiny rocks, or it started sometime between the 14th and 18th centuries.

Charles Babbage didn't create the difference engine until the 1820s. That was the distant precursor to modern computers.

Is Kris and Sam saying the original goal of capitalism is for out of touch investors to jump on a tech trend about devices that didn't exist at time time?

Because there's been a lot of those through the centuries, and capitalism is still going strong.

#uma musume #genderbaiting #major feminist issues #bait #lolgic #stupid #gold ship #my little pony

If you want to play that, let's look at the four attempts on Trump (including 2016), plus Charlie Kirk.

#liar #texas #guns #stupid #trump

shadowfromthestarlight

idle-drifter

I had this little conversation last month. I don't know where they calculate the 85%. But I do get paid for my time and labor. Otherwise, I would quit. The nice thing about not owning the business. I'm not attached to any debt incurred by the owners.

I own a store, I pay people $20 hr to work there, if the store makes money I make money and my employees get paid $20 an hour, if the store breaks even I make no money and my employees make $20 an hour, if the store loses money I make negative money and my employees make $20 an hour. AC unit exploded, we need to replace it now, all the profits for the week are now in play replacing the AC unit, I make no money, my employees make $20 an hour.

If I make a shit ton of money I may give my employees a bonus, or I may squirrel it away for another potential store loses money time in the future.

Would my employees like to join me in the gamble of making money with the potential risk of making negative money, or would they like to be able to keep a steady stream of revenue?

brosef-von-dudehomie

If a guy tells you he'll give you 99¢ of every dollar you make a company but he keeps 1¢, then makes that same deal with 1,000 other people, you don't get to bitch that he's making more than you.

yourtoradorasextendedwarranty

Profit is what you have after expenses and liabilities.

Which includes paying employees.

This isn't even remotely addressing brosef's point.

Bosses can still make more than employees even if the employees get to keep the vast majority of their "labour value".

#long #lolgic #stupid #money

jardinssteve

the-davest-of-uncles

When NYC's economy utterly collapses...and it's inevitable that it will...and they come to the Feds for a bailout --

They should be told no.

Not only should they be told no, but it should be publicly broadcast by the White House the absolute failure and that is their socialist ideals. Because they can blame whoever they want to but the fingers pointed at them first and every failure that led up to it it's a lot harder for them to climb their way out.

pussybitchasscons

Obviously that money would be better spent on the epsteinclass

yourtoradorasextendedwarranty

Ah yes. Another moron that doesn't understand how economics work.

Actually, it's worse. Think about it this way. The Miniapolis Day Care Scandal.

There's a system out there, actively working to aid in allowing for child care so that small families and families without support can get daycare easily so that parents can work and keep up with the cost of living.

Instead, the money was being misdirected into criminal cartels and financial scams, and few if any children were getting care. And that's just one aspect of a pretty large scandal.

And people like that yahoo responded to a thing that was taking money AWAY from kids who need care, from the sick, from the disabled, and from the dying. Money being stolen from the most vulnerable people, seized by people who only care about benefiting themselves.

Any failing system is going to fail the people in need, and benefit abusers. People like that yahoo? Do not care about those people in need, who will have less support and aid in their times of trial.

They only say they do to feel smug about themselves. They care far more about tallying up points for some kind of political scorecard than about people actually in need.

pointingatretards

Yeah I definitely care less about poor people than mr "I dont trust Muslims" yourtoradorasextendedwarranty over there.

You're actually so fucking retarded it's sad.

Buddy.

When presented with even the concept of poor people having systems fail them, your immediate response is instead to attack others for not sharing your morals.

If your response to 'this is a bad thing' is to immediately attempt to change the fucking subject AWAY from the bad thing? You don't actually care about the bad thing.

pointingatretards

Omfg you're pathetic

Again, making a very notable point here.

You are, even as of this moment, unwilling to acknowledge that tax dollars were spent, not to support the community or the downtrodden but were rather diverted to serve other people's greed?

This is very much the point here, that you seriously do not actually give a fuck where the money is spent, or if people in need get the support they need, nearly as much as posturing your pretended moral superiority over others.

You've done NOTHING to prove that you think any other way.

pointingatretards

Sorry if im not taking a post that looks like this seriously lmao

It's understandable, that fucking image and and it's source is rather a joke.

But you don't take any of this seriously. When presented with serious details, you still insist, EVEN NOW, to refuse to actually consider the point being made.

It's not a big thing to even note! All you had to do in order to prove me wrong was to once, even ONCE, respond with 'we shouldn't allow tax money to be diverted from those in need'.

You had three chances. You squandered all of them. Now it's too late, because I literally spelled out the ONE thing that would have made you NOT look like what you are.

Someone who cares more about political points than anything else.

throwitonthepilethesecond

You know what? Fuck it, that idiot's not worth replying to but I'll make another addendum.

Thing being told in dumb AI MEME form is that the original planned child care fund was proposed to be at 4.5 billion. Now, the actual price tag has raised to 11.8 billion, because they keep tacking on more things to it, and grabbing more funding across the state.

This is a concern, because government programs like this, that are formed quickly and balloon quickly tend to have project drift and to be less than selective in how they place that funding.

Source is a joke, but the concern is real.

not that guy but if their concern is "the money ends up with The Poor, no matter if they're fraudulent or not" and/or "taxation is clawing back the wealth stolen (definitionally) by the rich, not maximizing it is allowing the poor/working to be stolen from without recompense" then it is perfectly cromulent as a position

i think it is at minimum "motivated by spite" in either case, but it is self-consistent

That could be a position, but considering their actual responses? Well, as I pointed out, when offered the chance to care even the least bit about where the money spent?

They chose instead to attack someone.

It's hard to argue 'they are motivated by tax based punishment' as a framing when their actual position seems to be 'they are motivated by making hideously inaccurate personal attacks'.

They're motivated by trying to distract from any given criticism of the left in any way, and to get a rise out of "right-wingers" (defined here as anyone criticizing the left, ever).

They are just a distraction troll.

#troll #long #stupid

A hilarious way to frame "don't attack cops and you won't get shot"

Coming from the same people who would call the cops immediately to come protect them from criminals or to retrieve their stolen property.

Do you, by any chance, live in a Democrat-run city or state where judges let thieves go without bail or trial, so that the police know that trying to do their job won’t matter?

Don't feed the (sad, pathetic) troll.

hamstergetten

If we were hostages you couldn't criticize the damned cops, mock them, and sometimes call for them to be killed, the acab folks would be constantly being visited by the police all the time. Living in a free democracy does not mean never to ever have to listen to other people. Know your rights, do not let cops violate them, but for heavens sake stop acting like a cop telling you to put your hands behind your head when they catch you trying to trespass into someones property as some evil act of oppression. It's not hard to not put your hands in your pockets.

Heck, in 2020, government officials were openly giving BLM rioters passes.

Not to mention how "act sensibly so you are less likely to get hurt by other people" is very common life advice, even when it doesn't involve cops.

These people just invent a rationale from thin air because they'd rather let people die than admit anyone other than the cops bore even the slightest bit of responsibility for a situation.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that particular troll once outright lied about cops being visually identifiable by pretending the blurry low-res ID patches on video were blurry IRL.

Not to mention their general tactic of "never admitting a single person on the left has ever been wrong".

#long

A hilarious way to frame "don't attack cops and you won't get shot"

Coming from the same people who would call the cops immediately to come protect them from criminals or to retrieve their stolen property.

Do you, by any chance, live in a Democrat-run city or state where judges let thieves go without bail or trial, so that the police know that trying to do their job won’t matter?

Don't feed the (sad, pathetic) troll.

Noticing you chose to respond to this one and not the one with examples of people getting brutalized by the police.

Interesting

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A hilarious way to frame "don't attack cops and you won't get shot"

Coming from the same people who would call the cops immediately to come protect them from criminals or to retrieve their stolen property.

Do you, by any chance, live in a Democrat-run city or state where judges let thieves go without bail or trial, so that the police know that trying to do their job won’t matter?

Don't feed the (sad, pathetic) troll.

Jesus did warn against throwing pearls in front of swine. When someone is already so obviously set against your message, it does no good to point out they're wrong. If they were approaching the issue with a mind open to change, they wouldn't speak as though the matter were already settled.

It's just so sad to watch them march eagerly into a hell of their own making. And worse, because a hell on earth is one we have to suffer with them.

Sometimes disagreeing can show onlookers how your opposition is wrong.

In this case, it's just an obvious troll, so why even bother?

generallemarc

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has hit Colombia, with a known death toll of 111 that will undoubtedly rise

Here are all the direct links to help that I could find. If you know of a major organization like the Red Cross that would usually send aid to these situations, they'll likely have a page up no more than a day or two after I post this(August 10th), but right now I'm only linking to pages that have donation links specifically to help with search and rescue/aiding survivors for this disaster. The charities are:

Convoy of Hope

Catholic Relief Services

DirectRelief

UNICEF USA

@otakuvampyre @siryouarebeingmocked @beardedmrbean @al-not-dead @apintofguinness1 requesting signal boost

psa

sunbound-photo

Repaired this COOLPIX S3000 which had a cracked gear in the autofocus motor. This was once a family camera my mom gave me, together with a couple other old digicams we’d had over the years.

After getting the new gear in, cleaning the sensor & rear lens element well, and reassembling everything, I then took it out for a spin to see how well it worked.

So far, so good. It’s not the fastest (early 2010) and still can’t quite lock on properly in low light or at certain distances, but it’s focusing much more efficiently than before.

Another fun project that I may bring out from time to time, if I’m feeling like a vintage digicam look.

A hilarious way to frame "don't attack cops and you won't get shot"

Coming from the same people who would call the cops immediately to come protect them from criminals or to retrieve their stolen property.

Do you, by any chance, live in a Democrat-run city or state where judges let thieves go without bail or trial, so that the police know that trying to do their job won’t matter?

Don't feed the (sad, pathetic) troll.