The prosecutor is trying to give my client a year in jail for stealing a $17 dollar water bottle. Her sentencing is today. I don’t know how people go to work everyday and ask for other humans to be locked in cages for nothing and then go home and look themselves in the mirror.
It’s kind of amazing to me that Republicans still shut down any gun policy talk and say “thoughts and prayers” or whatever instead. It’s so shameless. If you can’t talk gun policy after children are murdered, when can you?
@lionel_trolling
This whole interview was full of tells like that, the Churchill thing, discussions of Nazi political culture as though it was a good thing, I’ve never seen someone so clearly a Nazi hide their power level so consistently.
Just some additional info since this is kind of blowing up. She had 7 previous theft convictions, which was why they felt they could ask for a year. We argued for inpatient treatment and probation plus credit for the 61 days she already served. The judge sided with us.
It’s a shame the mess in Iowa has overshadowed the beautiful coalition
@BernieSanders
put together to pull it off. Workers, immigrants, and students showed up and got organized. It’s proof of concept against Trump.
Bernie has a movement.
In my experience every time I have a client charged with battery on an officer/resisting arrest/obstruction its what you get charged with when the police beat the shit out of you and then make it your fault after the fact.
THREAD. As the truth comes out about the viral NYPD video, a few things are important to know. In nearly every case I saw as a public defender, an arrest for assaulting a police officer was a result of an incident in which police had attacked our client.
I finished the most contentious, heavily litigated trial I’ve ever had today, and we walked away with a not guilty. It’ll be one of my proudest career moments for a long time.
Hard to overstate how bad it is that you can just show up at protests with guns, put yourself in the middle of a tense situation, kill people, and then claim self defense. It's open season now.
If you were to ask what caused me to change my tune about President Trump from 2016 to 2020, I could give you a few reasons. But what we're seeing in Springfield really drives it home.
Housing costs skyrocketing. Communicable diseases on the rise. Car accidents, crime, and
Howard Schultz was once held up by Democrats in Washington as a model employer. Not today. His Senate appearance showed how much the Democratic party has changed since then.
Left-wing extremists help right-wing so much! 66% of this country is left-wing, according to polling on policy issues. They don't believe in defunding the police or being called Latinx or calling women "birthing people" or abolishing prisons. Anyone who claims they do is lying.
About 10 men broke into a tractor-trailer in Philadelphia this week and stole $200,000 worth of dimes, according to the authorities. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” a spokesman with the Philadelphia Police Department said.