I’m always stuck behind someone on 91 north doing 60 miles an hour in the left lane, that is until you hit Windsor and the HOV lane ends opening up another left lane. As soon as I put my turn signal on to go into the new left lane they speed right up to 80 mph

So we’re back to the gaslighting?

He was convicted of misdemeanor battery for hitting his wife in the face with a loaf of bread. Take this guy out back and shoot him already 🙄

You’re not judging the man’s actions, you’re jumping to conclusions about what his actions were. He was arrested for violating a protective order and the case was adjudicated and a conviction was never secured. That means that this man never violated a protective order. But you keep repeating that he’s violated a protective order three times. You choose to believe that someone is guilty of a crime because they were arrested for it even after the charges were dropped in a court of law, it’s preposterous. This is exactly how innocent men go to jail, people like you sit on a jury and disregard all of the evidence thinking that the police would never arrest the wrong man

I love how you’re trying to gaslight me into believing that I’m defending the guy just because I refuse to convict him off of a newspaper article. You and people who share your thought process are the reason why innocent men are in prison

I checked his court records and I see zero convictions for violating a protective order so it is factually incorrect to say that this person violated a protective order three times. I cannot tell you how catastrophic it would be for our society if we started treating arrests as convictions

I can only go by the information I have and from this poorly written article I see that in the past he’s been arrested for violating a protective order but I don’t see where he was convicted of violating a protective order, so I don’t know if he actually ever did violate a protective order, I only know that someone accused him of doing so. And again, going by the information that I have, I believe that he should be arrested, which he was, and I believe that he should be brought in front of a judge, which he will be. I guess where you and me have a difference of opinion is that I don’t believe that we should skip past his right to due process and imprison him for an indefinite period of time before he’s had a chance to mount a defense. I don’t care if the man is accused of molesting children while kicking kittens and stealing from the poor, if you deny that person’s right to due process then you no longer live in a free country. That’s a hard no from me

Why wasn’t he convicted of harassing the victim? Why did the victim obtain a protective order and not a restraining order? The answers to these two questions are that there was not enough evidence to support doing so, yet you want this guy buried under the prison. There are countries that operate their justice system in that fashion and they are not pleasant places to live

You make a great point that I missed, I thought he violated a restraining order and not a protective order. There’s a lot in this case that indicates a “he said, she said“ situation. I’m not saying it is and the guy is probably guilty but trying to hold this guy without bail is preposterous

I know it’s terrible what he did and no I don’t condone it but in order to live in a free society we can’t hold people indefinitely without bail for pushing someone up against the wall. It sucks but it’s one of those things that comes along with freedom. The minute we start presuming people guilty instead of innocent is the minute we become authoritarian. The justice system is not perfect but if we don’t allow it to work as intended the consequences are catastrophic

He sent harassing phone calls and text messages to a woman who had a restraining order against him and he pushed a woman up against a wall. Yes he should be prosecuted for these acts but apparently some people believe that we should lock this guy up and throw away the key? Jesus fucking Christ