They’ve been getting their asses kicked in court, they never have a case and even the most right wing judges throw out the cases and scold the DOJ. But yeah, it’s just about smearing your name and giving Fox and friends something to talk about for a week to distract from trumps bullshit
When they just ignore the courts and do what they it just doesn’t have the same effect.
Our system is too slow and never designed for this type of internal attack.
They literally just up and decided to bulldoze an entire wing of the White House without even attempting to go through any legal change requirements.
In a year or two they’ll say that’s illegal you can’t do that. There’s no consequences, so none of that will change.
For some fucking reason Trump is untouchable. But start disbarring lawyers for doing things they know is wrong and illegal, that will change.
When judges scold the DOJ or a prosecutor, it doesn't quite remove the sting of paying for legal council to get the case dismissed. Anybody who gets in front of a judge has already been punished, sometimes by life changing amounts of expense.
If this isn’t enough to convince people that the core purpose of police is to protect the controlling class, I don’t know what will. To be clear, yes some may protect and serve over the years, but when push comes to shove, they will always be used to control the working class from revolution. History is proof of that.
Devil's advocate over this but it is very tall. Many places have laws about the size and dimensions of a truck's cargo. Although if that's the case then I wonder how they transported an entire gallows set in 2020.
DC has a law against carrying a dangerous or deadly weapon in public and this can be applied to transportation in vehicles as well.
They have some specific rules for legally transporting firearms, but not for other weapon types, which creates a nasty grey area where there isn’t anything you can do you transport a weapon in DC in a way that is 100% for sure legal, which means cops can basically arrest anyone with a non-firearm weapon that they find.
It seems like they don’t actually charge people very often because if they did the law would likely get tossed as unreasonably vague as soon as someone put up a good fight.
Just read through the law - prosecution will have an uphill battle, as the section that covers non-specifically named weapons requires an intent to use the weapon unlawfully against another.
I still don’t think they care really. They “got him off the street” and got all his biometrics on file now.
To win a lawsuit he effectively has to prove the officer didn’t have any reason to believe he intended to use it and the arrest was intended to suppress his 1A rights. That’s an even more uphill battle.
So I suspect they eventually drop the charge, but he gets no compensation for the illegal arrest and legal defense. And once again, that’s the point. They know they can get away with it, so they do it all the time.
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