• dragongloss [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    28 days ago

    The “crime of jaywalking” is the equivalent of mistakenly using a dinner fork when you were supposed to use a salad fork. But this is Florida so it is treated like worst thing ever.

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        Yeah, the article rightly points out there is no such thing in a residential neighborhood. Cop was probably just rolling around looking for someone Black or otherwise marginalized to terrorize for no reason

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    28 days ago

    Alternate headline: Cop gets a paid vacation after being caught assaulting someone nuerodivergent.

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    “I remember watching that video and that’s not the person I want to be, that’s not the person I believe I am.”

    MacPherson also wrote a letter of apology to Cash, according to records in his file obtained by the News Journal.

    he felt so ashamed and even wrote an apology. but not ashamed enough to quit being a cop and do something else that doesn’t result in people getting dragged out of their houses and assaulted when he feels disrespected. he literally says “thats not who I want to be” but then does nothing to change who he is.