Come on lets call a spade a spade: DC COPS ARE PRICKS!
I don't ever want to be agreeing with them.
I don't ever want to be agreeing with them.
Snowball Justice Has Been Achieved
And since we're calling a spade a spade, this will never be a felony charge. With no outstanding warrants (or series of previous arrests) this will be pled down to a misdemeanor and sentenced to community service. It will take the cops longer to do the paperwork then it will to do the community service - ridiculous waste of taxpayer money.
Vansmack, you left out "and because of the efforts of the expensive lawyers her parents will get her."
Apparently she does have a history of prior arrests though. From the inevitable Facebook fan page that has sprung up:
"Maria, I hope you are OK, I am thinking of you!! You are so brave, having been arrested so many times for bullshit reasons!!!"
Apparently she does have a history of prior arrests though. From the inevitable Facebook fan page that has sprung up:
"Maria, I hope you are OK, I am thinking of you!! You are so brave, having been arrested so many times for bullshit reasons!!!"
I can't believe I agree completely with Doctor Doom (well, minus the wealth bashing). I'm sure, whatever the outcome of the trial, that idiot won't throw a snowball at someone who doesn't want to be in a snowball fight again. Only sad thing is that the police have to teach people the class and civility the rest of us were taught in our exclusive pre-K classes.
i like it when people are taught lessons in life. life is good like that. it teaches you where others have failed.
Doctor wrote:
Vansmack, you left out "and because of the efforts of the expensive lawyers her parents will get her."
I don't think so. Even a decent Public Defender can get this pleaded down to a misdemeanor - District Attorney's are not likely to push for felony here given the circumstances - again assuming there's not a long list of priors.
Julian, wrote:
I can't believe I agree completely with Doctor Doom (well, minus the wealth bashing).
I can put your mind at ease – I have nothing against wealth, I just think it's worth pointing out that the type of people who scream "oppression" loudest are usually society's most privileged. You can bet that if a cop arrested a kid for snowballing in the neighboring housing projects, there wouldn't be multiple blogs going on about it and a Facebook fan page set up.
There would be a bad-ass mural tagged on a neighborhood wall, though.
Doctor wrote:Julian, wrote:
I can't believe I agree completely with Doctor Doom (well, minus the wealth bashing).
I can put your mind at ease – I have nothing against wealth, I just think it's worth pointing out that the type of people who scream "oppression" loudest are usually society's most privileged. You can bet that if a cop arrested a kid for snowballing in the neighboring housing projects, there wouldn't be multiple blogs going on about it and a Facebook fan page set up.
Doctor wrote:And as I pointed out a thousand times in Julian's America, the reason for this phenomenon is that when something bad happens to the upper class, the other 90% of the population often acts like they had it coming. Robin Hood, hero or terrorist?Julian, wrote:
I can't believe I agree completely with Doctor Doom (well, minus the wealth bashing).
I can put your mind at ease – I have nothing against wealth, I just think it's worth pointing out that the type of people who scream "oppression" loudest are usually society's most privileged.
Julian, wrote:Doctor wrote:And as I pointed out a thousand times in Julian's America, the reason for this phenomenon is that when something bad happens to the upper class, the other 90% of the population often acts like they had it coming. Robin Hood, hero or terrorist?Julian, wrote:
I can't believe I agree completely with Doctor Doom (well, minus the wealth bashing).
I can put your mind at ease – I have nothing against wealth, I just think it's worth pointing out that the type of people who scream "oppression" loudest are usually society's most privileged.
And that's probably why I don't read "Julian's America." I would argue that if you throw stuff at cops, you *do* have it coming.
Doctor wrote:No, I agree with you on this. This "presumably" rich person (and I'm more willing to bet it's a hipster doofus then an actual trust fund kid, just offhand) had it coming. But all rich people do not.
And that's probably why I don't read "Julian's America." I would argue that if you throw stuff at cops, you *do* have it coming.
???
Julian, wrote:
hipster doofus
Julian, wrote:Doctor wrote:No, I agree with you on this. This "presumably" rich person (and I'm more willing to bet it's a hipster doofus then an actual trust fund kid, just offhand) had it coming. But all rich people do not.
And that's probably why I don't read "Julian's America." I would argue that if you throw stuff at cops, you *do* have it coming.
Hipster doofi, almost by definition, come from wealth. It takes money to live in the city, ride a fixie, sit at a cafe with your Macbook, and work part time at a vegan laundromat. Maybe living in a group house in the city was cheap 30 years ago, but those days are long gone.
Doctor wrote:Oh no no no no. I can't even begin to tell you what's wrong with that characterization. We'll get into it tomorrow, I'm going home now.
Hipster doofi, almost by definition, come from wealth. It takes money to live in the city, ride a fixie, sit at a cafe with your Macbook, and work part time at a vegan laundromat. Maybe living in a group house in the city was cheap 30 years ago, but those days are long gone.
Hey, folks! Feeling a little blue and even a bit anti-climatic now that the Snowpocalypse Pt.II has departed?
Never fear. Keep a look out for on or about Feb. 15th and Feb. 19th.
Just in case, you know. ;)
Never fear. Keep a look out for on or about Feb. 15th and Feb. 19th.
Just in case, you know. ;)
there's also this. not sure if it will really happen or not
vansmack wrote:
And since we're calling a spade a spade, this will never be a felony charge. With no outstanding warrants (or series of previous arrests) this will be pled down to a misdemeanor and sentenced to community service. It will take the cops longer to do the paperwork then it will to do the community service - ridiculous waste of taxpayer money.
You're an idiot. The fact she's being charged with a felony instead of a misdemeanor is going to cost her thousands, that's in FOUR FUCKING FIGURES, of dollars more in legal fees. So, it really doesn't matter if the charge is going to get knocked down or not because SHE'S GONNA PAY FOR IT.
Dumbfuck.
Didn't any of you dipshits watch the local news coverage of the storm? Of course not, you were all out throwing snowballs at unwilling participants, just to have a little fun. The news coverage of the snowball felching in Dupont Circle showed moving vehicles being PLASTERED with snowballs left and right. The reporters who were reporting from Dupont were getting ASSAULTED with snowballs. And not just in the back, but in the fucking head! Where the fuck were the police here?
Seriously, if it were a bunch of minorities, they'd be busting out the non-lethal weapons and tear gas to break it up, but since it's a bunch of yuppie white kids, the police waste taxpayers' money "observing" the situation.
You people make me fucking sick.
Seriously, if it were a bunch of minorities, they'd be busting out the non-lethal weapons and tear gas to break it up, but since it's a bunch of yuppie white kids, the police waste taxpayers' money "observing" the situation.
You people make me fucking sick.
i think TMUL needs a hug.
and a life.
and a life.
At the very least, a BJ.
sweetcell wrote:
i think TMUL needs a hug.
and a life.