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Imagine reading this story and thinking the cops are the good guys.
Goddamn conservatives need to be removed from society.
From Mouse Guard, by David Petersen. I just read this one last night.
This woman did nothing wrong.
Also this reveals cops have a pokemon style weakness to bugs because they can't shoot them. Honestly we should be weaponizing bug swarms more. Maybe collect some bullet ants in a container that would break if people busted down your door.
That Sheriff probably
Mwahahahahahahaha that was a great idea. Bees are a pretty good equalizer.
OH YES THE BEES! OH YES!
!! THE PAIN!!!
I got swarmed as a kid, and got several dozen bee stings. It was probably the most terrifying episode of my life, but I was fine.
I'm glad those Apes got a taste of that terror. A few bee stings never hurt anyone. They deserve it.
I agree with you but a few bee stings have definitely killed a lot of people.
So have "less than lethal" rounds. Pigs won't hesitate to use violence on you when you are in the right so why shouldn't you return the favor? If you keep letting bullies beat up kids with no repercussions do you think they have motivation to stop?
Hey I said I agree with the guy and that bees have killed people... I have no idea how they affect pigs. Probably fine, let em have it
Like that kid in my girl!
Who's in your girl?
My best friend has nearly died twice due to bee stings
“This was unlike anything our team has ever experienced,” Nick Cocchi, the Hampden county sheriff, said of the incident, which was captured on video released by his office and posted to YouTube by MassLive.
Oh, so let me get this straight: Six months of jail time for weaponizing apian assault on badge-wearing servants of capital, but absolutely zero consequences for the systemic, routine devastation of booting an 80-year-old cancer patient out of his house so some predatory lending vulture can liquidate his assets. The sheriff found the bee incident “unlike anything our team has ever experienced.” Yeah buddy, because you experience housing destruction so fucking regularly it doesn’t even register as anomalous anymore. It’s background radiation at this point. Just another Tuesday enforcing the financial rape of sick people. “We try to help people through difficult situations,” Cocchi said, while literally being the instrument of their most difficult situation. That’s some real I’m very sorry for this but I’m going to do it anyway energy. “We’re compassionate genocidalists” is basically what you’re saying. Rebecca Woods showed up with an actual physical manifestation of “NO” and the state’s response was to break her face into pavement and jail her for six months. But the eviction? Chef’s kiss. Totally cool, totally legal, totally normal. The fact that his statement treats getting swarmed by bees as the shocking aberration rather than, I dunno, the routine judicial destruction of someone’s life is just peak American law enforcement tunnel vision. You know what’s “unprecedented”? Actually giving a shit about the person you’re destroying. Woods failed, the guy lost his home, and everyone’s fine with that. That’s the part that should be “unlike anything we’ve experienced.“
FUCK THESE PIGS
FUCK THIS SYSTEM
STING ALL THE FUCKING PIGS
I think you hit on the real problem. Why does the law in that state allow for an eviction before the judge hears the case?
And why is there not a safety net that would ensure the best interests of both the rentor and the rentee? It would cost a lot less for sure. And everyone involved would be happier.
That said, these vops showed far better restraint than we usually see. Many would have just shot her immediately. Small step forward, but still a step foreward.
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So, why are the public authorities involved in private evictions at all?
BTW:
The court heard that Woods was told during the encounter that some deputies were allergic to bees, and that she replied: “Oh, you’re allergic? Good!”
🤣🤣🤣
Evictions are the sheriff's primary job.
Cause you don't want private goons handling private evictions. They would be even less accountable if thats possible.
You want landlords evicting people themselves???
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Because police protect capital, not citizens.
Yeah, but the alternative now is a private sector dedicated to forcibly removing people from places. I agree with your sentiment, I personally think cops need to be reminded of the fact they're civil servants, but I also don't want private security conducting evictions.
Sorry, no. The alternative is to not have private ownership of capital. Why do so many people who fully know how terrible capitalism is just refuse to imagine a world without it?
Looks around from atop a pile of bodies in one of the most violent cultures on earth
I'm not saying that you're not correct, but I'm not sure how how to put that rubber on the road.
Organize your community. It's super fucking hard because American's are alienated and atomized to fuck, but it doesn't even have to be political at first. Literally just get out of the house and join a group of people. Once you have some ties to your community, start talking to the group about politics. Or if you are lucky enough to live in an area that already has a socialist organization, join that. It all starts with community organization, which will take lots of time, maybe even more time than our lifetimes. But one fact is undeniably true: society will never get better if we all just keep doing our own thing.
Ok, but even granting that in theory could eventually render the how evictions work question moot, so that we don't even have to think about whether police would be in that position in not, it's not a practical answer in this specific context.
Until you get rid of evictions, of the bad options law enforcement is one of the less bad options. We shouldn't let evictions happen the worst way possible just because we are holding out for the perfect scenario where evictions don't exist.
I mean ok, but also realistically the political will to change how evictions work not only doesn’t exist, but it literally can’t exist under capitalism. The state serves money, and all of the people with money are happy with how evictions work.
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She got 6 months but will only do 2 more weeks because she was held without bail.
America is the toilet of jurisprudence.
The incident happened in 2022 and it's only now that she got convicted? Is that what America calls "the right to a speedy trial"?
You have the right to a speedy trial, but most people do not invoke it because you want your lawyer to build a defense. You can waive a lot of stuff, including the right to a trial by jury itself, and just go right in front of a judge if you want, but he's almost certainly going to find you guilty.
At least for federal cases, bench trials have higher acquittal rates (38%) than jury trials do (14%). That's based on data from 2018-2022, and there may be case selection bias.
The cops also like to keep people in jail if they think they'll lose the case, because at least the person will serve some time, even if they eventually get found not guilty. For example, Casey Anthony, who was found not guilty, but still spent 3 years in jail, which is about what she would have gotten had they convicted her of child neglect, instead of Capital murder, without even knowing the cause of death.
90 years ago when the sherrif showed up to evict people like this...
The neighbors were already there with shotguns.
If the sherrif didn't turn around, the county was soon having to vote for a new sherrif. And they usually voted for one that wouldnt even leave their office for an eviction call.
If anything ever went to trial out of it, juries were very unlikely to convict.
Sometimes people need to just stop giving any fucks. And we're kind of getting there again...
Saw your username, then read your comment, and now I'm not sure what to do with my Fucks.
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shes like that QUEEN BEE" character in supergirl series.
bees
Idk why she's being sentenced to anything. It is not illegal to release bees. What the bees do after release is not the responsibility of the keeper. Nature is self balancing. Obviously the cops were upsetting the natural order and should issue a public apology and avoid evicting elderly people. Or at least wear bee keeping gear while they do it.
Or just go jump in a fire for considering it to begin with.
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