General Law and Lawsuits

[Ben-Prime]

I think there's a realistic difference between stopping to lean on a railing and catch one's breath or quietly take in a view with one's own eyes and being that human who either deliberately or by passively taking advantage of the courtesy of passersby not to photobomb your shot whips out a camera or phone and stops people in a zone around you because, again, they are being courteous.

This was actually a HUGE problem when I was in London. So many damn people would whip out cameras on London Bridge (f'r'ex) and then get pissy when you kept walking in their shot and held up their ability to take a clean photo. It's like "My dude, are you seriously expecting the 20 or 30 other people in your vicinity to all stop dead while you decide to take this shot? No. Just no."

[ETA: even worse than London Bridge? Westminster Bridge. A number of times, I was pushed *into the street* so that people could take shots of the London Eye from the bridge]

I am the guy who usually stops. Like, in a courtyard or something where there's legit room to move around, I go out of my way NOT to photobomb people. But there's some traffic flows where it's just not acceptable to expect people to be on that kind of good behavior.

*All* of that said, I also disagree with making this anything more than a simple traffic fine like situation. Jail time? Naw.

[keith]

I completely agree with the part describing the ends of escalators as no stopping zones.

GET OUT OF THE FACACKING WAY YOU UTTER MORONS!

[raison de arizona]

As a former denizen of NYC, people who suddenly stop walking make me nutso. In NYC, it is mixed use business and tourism though, so it is what it is. At first blush, I'm inclined to think that the business of the Strip IS tourism, so maybe misguided? But I haven't walked the mean street of Vegas for a few years, so I dunno the 411.

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[Rolodex]

Not sure where to put this since it's a sentencing hearing. I have not heard of this guy before and haven't done any research to see when this happened and when his trial happened. Stealing secrets and then putting them on Wiki and wherever else. DoJ is asking for a life sentence. going on now with our ICP buddy live tweeting.

[Rolodex]

Hoo boy this Shulte guy is a real piece of work. Based on his wiki page, he already had a shady background before the government ever hired him. How do these awful people make it through background checks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schulte

[Maybenaut]

DOJ was asking for a life sentence. He got 40 years.

[raison de arizona]

DOJ was asking for a life sentence. He got 40 years.

Was that on the classified info or on the child porn?

Edit: It is on the child porn.

[Maybenaut]

DOJ was asking for a life sentence. He got 40 years.

Was that on the classified info or on the child porn?

Edit: It is on the child porn.

It was on both, I think.

[raison de arizona]

DOJ was asking for a life sentence. He got 40 years.

Was that on the classified info or on the child porn?

Edit: It is on the child porn.

It was on both, I think.

Yeah, oops, I think you're right about that.

DOJ sentencing memo: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... 1123.0.pdf

[Rolodex]

Yeah I asked the ICP guy who was live tweeting and he said it was for both CSAM and the WikiLeaks/stealing info.
It's worth reading that thread to see what this guy had to say in his sentencing. He's a real piece of work.

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Canada

[keith]

I have some thoughts about that video, but I'm not sure they are immediately coherent.

She mocks some activists for inquiring about how they can remove colonialist thought from mathematics. Yes, they certainly need mocking, but she misses the reason why, even though she skirts the issue without being able to tease it out into the open.

There is no colonialist or racist thought in mathematics, there is only colonialists and racists who misuse mathematical concepts to justify mistaken viewpoints.

It is not mathematics that needs to be rid of colonialism/racism, it is colonialism/racism that needs to be rid of misused mathematics.

[Sam the Centipede]

Something like this?

Colonial Arithmetic Test
Question 1
(a) If it takes ten slaves ten hours to pick ten acres of cotton, how long will it take twenty slaves to pick fifty scres of peanuts, if it takes two-thirds the time for one slave to pick an area of peanuts as it would take to pick the same area of cotton?
(b) If the plantation owner beats his slaves they will work 15% faster. How long would it now take to pick the peanuts?, in part (a)
(c) The plantation owner can employ an extra overseer to administer the beatings, but an overseer's wages cost the same as fifteen slaves. Should the owner employ an overseer? Why?

[keith]

Was that question on the Canadian teacher's qualification test?

Get real.

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Jim Rogers Taser case did not merit homicide charge, Zappala says

Justin Vellucci
JUSTIN VELLUCCI | Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024 3:31 p.m.

A Pittsburgh police officer was “wrong” but didn’t commit homicide when he repeatedly shocked a homeless man with a Taser, which preceded the man’s death, the officer’s termination, and a $8 million civil lawsuit settlement with the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Tuesday.

Jim Rogers, 54, died on Oct. 14, 2021, a day after being shocked by Keith Edmonds, a former police officer who was fired for his role in the incident on Bloomfield’s Harriet Street.

Edmonds delivered at least 10 electrical bursts on Rogers within three minutes and 15 seconds, according to a 15-page executive summary of an internal Pittsburgh police critical review board investigation.

“Clearly, what the officer did … was wrong, was contrary to training,” Zappala said at a Tuesday press conference. “I was expecting changes in how officers were trained.”

A spokeswoman for Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said policy and response changes were made after the incident.

Zappala stressed, though, that he felt Edmonds’ actions that day didn’t rise to a homicide charge.



https://triblive.com/local/jim-rogers-t ... pala-says/

Family of Jim Rogers, who died after police tased him, reaches $8 million settlement with Pittsburgh

By Chris Hoffman
April 27, 2023 / 10:43 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The family of Jim Rogers, who died after he was tased by Pittsburgh police in 2021, has reached a settlement with the city.

Attorney Todd Hollis said the city paid out $8 million after Rogers' family filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit. Hollis said it's the largest civil case settlement in the city's history.




https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news ... -the-city/

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

Not so friendly in Mr. Rogers neighborhood

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Mississippi Auditor Sues Brett Favre Over Unpaid Interest Tied to Welfare Scandal

BY A.J. PEREZ
UPDATED FEBRUARY 05, 2024 | 05:26 PM

• Shad White, who has spearheaded the case against Favre in Mississippi, seeks $729,000.
  That money is tied to $1.1 million in payments for services Favre never ended up carrying out.

Days before last year’s Super Bowl, Brett Favre sued Shannon Sharpe, Pat McAfee, and Mississippi State Auditor Shad White over statements each made about the Hall of Fame quarterback’s ties to a massive and ongoing state welfare scandal in which Favre allegedly has ties to tens of millions of dollars in welfare funds being misappropriated.

White returned the favor Monday.

White filed a countersuit in Hinds County (Miss.) Circuit Court against Favre seeking nearly $729,000, which includes $437,000 in principal and $292,790 in unpaid interest related to the $1.1 million in welfare funds Favre received. That money was paid to Favre—through a scheme that led its plotters to plead guilty to fraud charges—in exchange for his performing speeches, signing autographs and recording a public service announcement.

“It boggles the mind that Mr. Favre could imagine he is entitled to the equivalent of an interest-free loan of $1.1 million in taxpayer money, especially money intended for the benefit of the poor,” White said in a statement.

Investigators for the Mississippi State Auditor Office found that Favre “did not speak, nor was he present for those events.” And in the end, Favre was still paid, with the money sourced from the federal government Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, funds Mississippi received to help the most impoverished families in the poorest state in the union.

Favre has denied any wrongdoing in the case and has not been charged criminally. After White made public the payments to Favre, in April 2020, Favre eventually repaid the $1.1 million in two installments: $500,000 (in May ’20) and $600,000 (October ’21).




https://frontofficesports.com/mississip ... e-scandal/

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‘I have no words for it’: Man handcuffed by police for so long his hand needed to be amputated, lawsuit says

DAVID HARRIS
Feb 6th, 2024, 3:35 pm

Cops in Alabama handcuffed a man so tightly and for so long that he had to have his left hand amputated, according to a lawsuit that is set to go to trial in federal court in April.

Judge Anna M. Manasco of the Northern District of Alabama wrote a memorandum opinion on a motion for summary judgment, which outlined the incident.

It occurred on Feb. 16, 2020, at a home in Pinson, northeast of Birmingham. Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies received a shots fired call at the home where Giovanni Loyola lived. Deputies Christopher Godber and Ashanti McKinney, named defendants in the lawsuit, arrived and knocked on the door.

Loyola answered and eventually came out to speak with the deputies, where he denied firing any gunshots. Godber claims Loyola was drunk and pushed him, which caused Godber to put Loyola in handcuffs. Loyola stated he was handcuffed for no reason. Godber said Loyola was resisting arrest and trying to get up, so he struck Loyola several times to gain compliance. Godber never turned on his body camera, while McKinney’s camera was partially blocked.

Both parties agree that Godber hadn’t yet double-locked the handcuffs, preventing them from tightening without using a key. Deputies say they are unable to do so when someone is resisting arrest. After Godber placed Loyola into custody, McKinney’s bodycam became unobstructed.




https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/i-have- ... suit-says/

[John Thomas8]

[raison de arizona]

Favre is so, so bad. Really quite a slime bucket. Sad.

[sugar magnolia]

Favre is so, so bad. Really quite a slime bucket. Sad.

Yes he is, and a shitty tipper to boot.

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Black family who was removed from car at gunpoint and handcuffed by police receives $1.9M settlement
Brittney Gilliam sued the city of Aurora, Colorado, and police officials, alleging that officers searched them at gunpoint without probable cause or evidence of a crime.

Feb. 6, 2024, 4:37 PM CET / Updated Feb. 6, 2024, 4:58 PM CET
By Minyvonne Burke

The city of Aurora, Colorado, reached a $1.9 million settlement with a Black woman who was removed from her car at gunpoint with her underage family members after police officers mistakenly thought she had stolen her vehicle.

The woman, Brittney Gilliam, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and police officials in 2021, alleging that officers searched her and her family members at gunpoint without probable cause or evidence of a crime. She said in the lawsuit that they were targeted because they are Black.

David Lane, an attorney for the family, said Tuesday that he hopes the settlement will lead to changes in how law enforcement handles similar situations.

"Aurora cops need to spend less time on the gun range and more time in the law library. Our hope is that police officers all over the country learn that law enforcement needs to use common sense, especially when dealing with children," Lane said in an emailed statement. "A robo-cop mentality will lead to huge liability."

He added: "We believe that inexcusable racial profiling was involved in this case as well. When the race of the occupants of a vehicle causes guns to be drawn, a line has been crossed which will result in huge consequences for the police."

City spokesperson Michael Brannen said, "The Aurora Police Department remains committed to strengthening the relationship with the community through accountability and continuously improving how it serves the public."




https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bl ... rcna137444

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comment by TheCivilRightsLawyer including parts of the recorded incident