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Foreign criminals have a right to stay in UK
Britain may be prevented from deporting dangerous foreign criminals if the healthcare system in their homeland is not as good as the NHS.

A bombshell ruling from the Supreme Court means killers, rapists and drug dealers may be able to exploit controversial human rights laws to stay in the UK if they can argue they would be denied top-quality care if they were sent home.

The landmark judgment – which risks throwing the Government’s deportation policy into chaos – has already delayed the case of gang rapist Yaqub Ahmed, whose deportation to Somalia in October 2018 was blocked by a mutiny among plane passengers at Heathrow.
 
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Airedale260

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The Ahmaud Arbery murder. It was basically a lynching. There is an argument that can be made that it wasn't racially motivated, but everything else fits. A bunch of white men try to falsely arrest a black man, then kill him while he tries to escape. Then somehow the people go two months without being arrested. The fact pattern didn't change because of the video, they could have been arrested by their own statement.

I made the mistake of actually digging into it on another board and got slammed as a white person trying to justify the shooting of a black man, instead of, say, trying to figure out what the hell actually happened. It’s a mess and I find it highly problematic, but there are so

Essentially Georgia law apparently allows for private citizens to make an arrest of a suspected felon even if they’re not in hot pursuit of the suspect, but they see him the next day. The victim and the shooter had prior encounters back when the shooter was still working as a cop & investigator, so saying he could positively ID the suspect wasn’t a stretch.

The two issues with it are: 1) Excessive force, since if he tried fleeing they should have pursued and tackled him (that they appear to be far too out of shape to do that doesn’t mean lethal force is okay). I think they simply were upset he was going to get away and fired. Also, 2) The fact that you can subsequently make an arrest for a crime you don’t see committed in your presence (McMichael seeing the video apparently counts as “immediate knowledge” under Georgia law).

So these idiots need to be charged with manslaughter at the very least, possibly second-degree murder, and Georgia needs to amend its law so private citizens, even retired cops, can’t play vigilante.
 

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Essentially Georgia law apparently allows for private citizens to make an arrest of a suspected felon even if they’re not in hot pursuit of the suspect, but they see him the next day. The victim and the shooter had prior encounters back when the shooter was still working as a cop & investigator, so saying he could positively ID the suspect wasn’t a stretch.
Legally, it's likely felony murder (a death that happens during the commission of a felony). Their arrest was likely a false arrest, because for the arrest to be a citizens arrest, the guy would have to have known that Arbery committed a felony, not just trespassing.

Morally, it's a lynching. I'm wildly in favor of self defense, but not expanding vigilantism.

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The Ahmaud Arbery murder. It was basically a lynching. There is an argument that can be made that it wasn't racially motivated, but everything else fits. A bunch of white men try to falsely arrest a black man, then kill him while he tries to escape. Then somehow the people go two months without being arrested. The fact pattern didn't change because of the video, they could have been arrested by their own statement.
I made the mistake of actually digging into it on another board and got slammed as a white person trying to justify the shooting of a black man, instead of, say, trying to figure out what the hell actually happened. It’s a mess and I find it highly problematic, but there are so
This is all pointless theorizing when there is a video of the confrontation publicly available.
Here's one, from a pro-Arbery lawyer source in fact, - this one is tolerated by twitter as it doesn't show the last part of it with the third shot and Arbery becoming incapacitated, but it shows what is the most contentious part, and the full one is also available to whoever wants to find it.


Long story short, it's going to be a pretty nasty and politically charged case with a contentious argument about what exactly happened in roughly 1 second before the first shot was fired during which little is visible on the video, after which the shotgun guy and Arbery ended up fighting for control of the shotgun.
 

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This is all pointless theorizing when there is a video of the confrontation publicly available.
Here's one, from a pro-Arbery lawyer source in fact, - this one is tolerated by twitter as it doesn't show the last part of it with the third shot and Arbery becoming incapacitated, but it shows what is the most contentious part, and the full one is also available to whoever wants to find it.


Long story short, it's going to be a pretty nasty and politically charged case with a contentious argument about what exactly happened in roughly 1 second before the first shot was fired during which little is visible on the video, after which the shotgun guy and Arbery ended up fighting for control of the shotgun.

It doesn't matter how Arbery died if the stopping was a felony (which, if it wasn't a completely legal citizens arrest, it then is a felony). Felony murder is a death during a felony. It really doesn't matter if the killing was a complete accident or not, or who precisely caused it, as long as the defendants had something to do with it.

Even if it had been a legal citizens arrest, I don't think they would be allowed to use a self defense case anyway, as they initiated the conflict. At that point, it becomes a manslaughter case. But I don't think they will get there.
 

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It doesn't matter how Arbery died if the stopping was a felony (which, if it wasn't a completely legal citizens arrest, it then is a felony). Felony murder is a death during a felony. It really doesn't matter if the killing was a complete accident or not, or who precisely caused it, as long as the defendants had something to do with it.

Even if it had been a legal citizens arrest, I don't think they would be allowed to use a self defense case anyway, as they initiated the conflict. At that point, it becomes a manslaughter case. But I don't think they will get there.
-Did they initiate the conflict in the sense of initiating a physical fight?
-Did they even get to the stage of physically attempting a citizen's arrest (rather than just planning that), whether screwed up or justified? The audio in the video is not good, but other sources suggest they were yelling at him to stop and talk... That's not a felony, and not a citizen's arrest either.
 

Airedale260

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It doesn't matter how Arbery died if the stopping was a felony (which, if it wasn't a completely legal citizens arrest, it then is a felony). Felony murder is a death during a felony. It really doesn't matter if the killing was a complete accident or not, or who precisely caused it, as long as the defendants had something to do with it.

Even if it had been a legal citizens arrest, I don't think they would be allowed to use a self defense case anyway, as they initiated the conflict. At that point, it becomes a manslaughter case. But I don't think they will get there.

Essentially it boils down to them using excessive force while trying to make a citizens arrest. The elder McMichael allegedly saw video of a burglary the day before and ID’d Arbery from that (being a retired cop with prior cases involving him, he’d know him well enough to correctly ID him). So he sees Arbery out jogging the next day and rushes to make the arrest, which is legal in GA.

My guess is that they tried saying he attacked them and ran because even with reason to detain him, you can’t use deadly force when arresting someone. Or at least not unless they escalate first, which Arbery didn’t. He tried running away.

So that’s likely why when the cops showed up, McMichael claims Arbery attacked them and started running, because that would give a veneer of legitimacy to it being a valid shoot. The cops likely didn’t press him even with possible questions because McMichael was a brother officer and then a county detective in the DA’s office, especially when the victim is someone with a less than stellar reputation in the community.*

*-That said, he didn’t deserve to die for resisting arrest. And that’s even assuming McMichael did make a valid ID.

Anyway, my point is, it appears to be a bit more complicated than “two white rednecks gun down random black man in cold blood.” It’s still wrong, but there’s a bit more to the story.
 

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