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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jury nullification should become routine in this country. The media should be discussing this openly, and encouraging it.

We should make it very clear that the citizens will NOT tolerate this bullshit in our courts.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're literally arresting people for touching chips of peeled up sealant. Doesn't take much to find somebody Not Guilty for that

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They just wrote all those people checks for false arrest and defamation and they will be quite large ones indeed.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, give it ten years and the government will try to quietly settle for a large sum. Generally you can't sue the government for damages except for cases of actual malice.

[–] darvocet@infosec.pub 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

There are many forms of media.

[–] cookiecoookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The people watching them are too

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

Casual discussion of jury nullification is not weird

[–] SouthEndSunset@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Everytime being English/British embarrasses me I remind myself USA exists.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just don't forget the apple didn't fall far from the tree!

[–] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

"The shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree Randy"

[–] No1@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I fear we (Aussie) and you are just lagging 20 years behind the US. Maybe not even that much....

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Please don’t follow our lead. The stupid… it hurts.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I bet it's not the people who fucked it up that got arrested. Just the bystanders launching at it.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

I love the shirt.... Its Walmartman! Or Walmanart!

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tell us about the reflecting pool, without lies

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It was the aliens, I have video evidence I'll show in court

Edit: I meant extraterrestrials. Only after clicking send did I remember that the trump crowd uses the word alien for immigrants. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I knew what you meant. Lol let's ignore the collapsing spacecraft on top of us!