I understand Duante Wright was not an angel. I'm not at all saying Wright was in the right here or anything to that effect. The video clearly shows he shoved off a cop and dove into his car. A reasonable cop could have assumed he was reaching for a gun tucked under the seat or something. I fully understand that. But when a cop says "taser, taser, taser" while pulling out her pistol and shooting Wright, that seems like a clear example of "she made a mistake which resulted in the death of a person."
In Minnesota, second degree manslaughter is defined as "a person who causes the death of another by... the person's culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another."
The cop was negligent in that she pulled her pistol instead of her taser and Wright died as a result of her actions. I guess a court case will have to explain what "consciously takes chances of causing death..." means here.
It's already being reported the cop will be charged with 2nd degree manslaughter, so I'm not way off base here saying that is the likely charge. Im no defense attorney but I don't see how, given the facts of this case, you really argue that she didn't kill Wright by accident (manslaughter). If the defense is, well she meant to taze a suspect resisting arrest but accidentally pulled out her gun instead, that would seem to directly affirm manslaughter here, would it not? If I'm missing something please correct my thinking here. I'm not trying to eagerly condemn someone without due process, I'm just expressing my opinions on the case and the relevant law as I see it.
Fox oversampled Dems by ranges of 10-14 points. Their polls were off by wide ranges in the election. Then they called AZ early to facilitate the steal and to save face on their flawed polling.
I have a ton of respect for this guy. Even though I think this is an open and shut manslaughter on the hands of the cop here, he did the right thing by calling for due process. He should sue for wrongful termination. It's his job to ensure there is some kind of review process anytime someone wants an officer fired. It's highly likely that the review process would have resulted anyway in her being fired, but you don't just get to skip to the end.
Fair point.
Exactly. That's my point. Get their obstinance on the record.
This was better than I expected ngl
Get in contact with the paper now and explain these facts to them. Do so politely but firmly. State their story heavily implies a box of ammunition caused the fire when no relevant linkage exists. Get this conversation on the record because this newspapers decision to either retract or to keep implying the ammo caused the fire going forward, after you have tried to correct them, is what could establish actual malice in their false reporting. That's an important legal standard in a defamation lawsuit. The more you can do to get them on the record, the more you can get them to potentially admit they are running with a knowingly false story.
I'm not at all saying the air freshener thing wasn't a Twitter rumor. I'm saying if it has been debunked, present your evidence, and if there being an air freshener or not is somehow relevant to the shooting, elaborate. Stop getting ass blasted at me for asking questions and pointing out objective facts about this incident. I'm not trying to hurt your feelings. I'm trying to fairly evaluate this case and all relevant information.
This will go nowhere, but I like the idea of the legislation.
That's exactly it for me. I'm tired of people using their skin color to beat people over the head with their politics. The left loves that tactic and they do it a lot. It's still annoying when black conservatives do it. Making everything about race IS the problem. The solution is colorblindness. Some days Candace gets this premise, and some days she plays right into the problem.
Trump has said it's everyone's choice to get the vaccine if they want it and it should remain as such. All that said, Biden and Harris spent much of the 2020 election cycle banging him up for the vaccine and saying it won't work (creating vaccine hesitancy). Now Biden has taken credit for people getting vaccinated while he and the MSM have blamed Trump and conservatives for vaccine hesitancy. It's complete hypocrisy on their part. Given all this, I mostly think Trump is promoting the vaccine here as a way to shoot holes in the lefts narrative that he's to blame for people not getting the vaccine.
My take on the vaccine is this: People should feel free to get it or decline it if they want. No passports, no services withheld, nada. Trump should get credit for making the vaccine happen and the media should admit they lied only to damage Trump and are continuing to lie by saying he's the reason people haven't gotten vaccinated. I also believe the vaccine was an emergency tool and there are costs/benefits from developing a vaccine quickly that should be discussed honestly. The media refuses to cover those costs/benefits honestly and they are doing so to deny the potential costs of the vaccine so that they can validate forcing everyone to take it, so they can then continue to credit Biden. Twitter, Google and FB are censoring factual information about the costs of the vaccine and doing so with such a broad brush that they are incurring liability by declaring every negative report about the vaccine false. People led to believe the vaccine is perfectly safe, because these tech companies are censoring factual negative information, should be able to sue these tech companies for essentially lying to them and inducing them to take inordinate risks they wouldnt if they accurate information wasn't being censored.
It hasn't really been debunked though. People shouldn't treat not seeing an air freshener in a body cam video (taken halfway through the traffic stop) as evidence disproving that as the reason he was pulled over. That's bad logic. Maybe the air freshener was entirely irrelevant to the stop. It doesn't matter. What matters primarily is that the officer thought she was tazing a suspect but she was actually pulling out her service pistol. Doesn't really matter if the police had a great reason to stop Wright (i.e. he was driving a stolen car) or a bad reason (i.e. he had an air freshener hanging from his rear view).
My entire point is that none of the air freshener stuff is even relevant to what happens next in this case. What's relevant is that Wright initiated a struggle with police (which is a dumb idea even if the cops are pulling you over for a dumb reason) and then the cop shot Wright when she meant to take him (which basically satisfies any requirement to charge and convict her of manslaughter). All of that being said, arguing about the air freshener and acting like whether or not there was an air freshener is supremely relevant to this case or somehow puts Wright at greater fault is pointless.
Oh I definitely agree. I'm not saying it's not good that she's speaking up. I just wish she would learn some new tricks. The cultural right loves to tout people like Candace as fresh blood in the conservative movement but it's not really fresh blood if they are thinking and saying the exact same old same old. It starts to feel like you're being grifted when every new conservative e-celeb just repeats the same script.
I honestly find Candace a bit obnoxious as she's pretty cliched with a lot of her stuff, but credit where it's due, she's got more of a spine than anyone else at Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire outlet. She's only been with them a few weeks. I'm sure they'll knock off all the rough edges over time and in a few months she'll be just another Ben. But for now she's a-ok in my book.
Trump's space force plan was essentially to just rapidly repair our space capabilities gap left by Obama. Obama was busy using NASA as an ambassador program (that's what the state dept is for dillhole) and using the CIA satellites to study "global warming."
Hey Biden/MSM/lefty celebs, how's it going calling conservatives hysterical anti-vaxxers. Surely those cons are still the crazies here and not totally justified in saying "no thanks"
I mean I guess the video doesnt really show the full context of the stop. We have no idea if Wright had the freshener up but took it down after he was first pulled over. I dont really see the lack of air freshener in the video as a major piece of evidence against the narrative about this arrest.
For most of the day, after watching the video, I've just been of the opinion Wright was getting jammed up a bit by the cops but nothing would have happened to him until he fought off the handcuffs and dove back into his car. Then Officer Wrongtaser came in with her firearm instead of a taser and shot him. Wright created a situation that justified escalation in force and, in that situation, the officer screwed up. Open and shut manslaughter. Everybody screwed up to some degree here. Nobody's a winner in this case.
I mean I watched the body cam footage but I wasn't paying attention for an air freshener, but now I understand your point. Thanks.
I missed that. Can you link it? Everywhere in the media is spreading this air freshener line.
Lol. I really despise this class of type A politicians that think America is really interested in what they have to offer. Everyone knew a brown-nosing teacher's pet in school who got straight A's and said all the right stuff and reminded the teacher about homework. Haley is one of those people, grown up. Hillary Clinton is the same way. Ted Cruz is also that way to an extent though he styles himself as a bit more of a rebel . People can see that your one of those tools, in political form, and they know to steer clear.
I mean the guy didn't do anything wrong here and looking like a douchebag isn't a crime. Certainly looking douchy isn't the worst thing that happened in this video but it sort of goes to show this PD may have some problems on its hands.
It's not a conspiracy theory. It's on video. Officers have been laid off for, among other things, taking selfies with the people at the Capitol and leading them around the building. These facts will certainly get you somewhere in a court of law because they negate the narrative that people stormed into the building by force, when in fact most of them did not.
Not believing the government also does not establish a motive for violence. There is no logical connection between the two. It's a bad faith argument and should be laughed out of court for being a bad faith argument. I read plenty of legal briefs where bad faith arguments like this are shut down.
Addendum: my whole point is that the police and prosecutors are using heavy handed tactics here and your counterargument is essentially "well it happens." I like that we're in agreement to that point, but it doesn't make their actions right.
Read the exhibits in the tweets. He wasn't just pushed. He was also pulled. It's not at all obvious from either action that he was being directed towards an exit.
He was not obviously trespassing either. Dozens of people who entered the Capitol were let in by the police, which kinda negates the whole "obvious trespassing" thing. Given that he wasn't engaging in any vandalism and he had arrived at the Capitol to express a legitimate grievance with his elected officials, it is entirely likely he believed he was allowed to be there (other first amendment protests have happened at the Capitol in the past too). The argument over whether the cops were right to push him or not is also kind of irrelevant to my point.
The problem here is the reason he is being detained, for not wanting to be vaccinated. The prosecution/court is essentially saying that because he hasn't expressed enough subservience to the government, he must be jailed. He's being detained for wrong think. That's not acceptable. Doesn't really matter if the cops were in the right or not on Jan 6. He didn't hurt anyone and there's no reason he should be detained.
Wright wasn't a good person. He fought with police during this arrest and escalated this situation into what happened. That said, the cop screwed up. There's no good guy in this case.
Even without these 4 seats, do remember that the Dems lost 12 total seats this last election round. Their lead was significantly shrunk in that chamber. Picking up 4 now means the house majority is one seat away. A strong midterm turnout could put the House of Reps out of commission for the Dems for the rest of Biden's ill-gotten presidency. Who knows, maybe these 4 seats get picked up and then a red state Democrat croaks out and gets replaced by a Republican in the interim period.