PuellaBona t1_ivq6lfd wrote
Reply to comment by Rustybot in He jokingly compared covid to a zombie apocalypse. An arrest followed. by maxxspeed
Satire is protected under the 1st amendment
Rustybot t1_ivq70kr wrote
Correct. And if you know anything about satire, you know that it often, predictably gets confused for truth.
He was arrested, not convicted. The charges were dropped.
PuellaBona t1_ivqdfep wrote
Funny, you say arrested when he had a fucking swat team bust in his house. Let's not pretend this shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Rustybot t1_ivqigno wrote
Yeah, but if you reduce the headline to “Sherrif’s office slightly abuses power by enforcing marginal transgressions for personal BS reasons” this would stuck in the pile with all the others. This is the core of our police system.
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