I wonder what effect (if any) it would have to alter HN so that flagged posts include a list of usernames that flagged the post. Surely nobody would be ashamed of their flagging behavior.
Additionally/alternatively, you could even AI-summarize their post histories to display similarities in other sentiments.
If there is video evidence it should be easy to decide for the court.
https://youtu.be/s7jsQKRoNEY?si=gmHgnnxBrbgXR525
It was clearly not a protest but obstruction by others. And he was not taking part of the obstruction, just documenting it.
I can understand DOJ charging him with conspiracy if he took part of the planning, but arrasting him was probably not needed (whether conspiracy took part or not), as he didn't seem to disrupt the church.
The DOJ just wants to scare people out of protesting or reporting on crimes, score some points with their religious base, and "own the libs" by turning the FACE act around, probably in retaliation for the (IMO overcharging) of the "Pro Life Grandmother" aka Paula “Paulette” Harlow:
>“[The defendants] forcefully entered the clinic and set about blockading two clinic doors using their bodies, furniture, chains, and ropes,” the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said.
This is the kind of crap minorities always have to put up with in the US. Cops can arrest you for things that are absolutely against the law and have you prove your innocence. It doesn't matter what the court thinks at Trump will field a huge range of lawyers to ensure the process is as painful as possible. His idea of justice is if you piss off the king he should have the right to behead you.
How charmingly naive: the courts will follow the law in deciding.
> In an unusual move that drew a rebuke from the chief federal judge in Minnesota, Patrick Schiltz, the Justice Department filed emergency applications to get Schiltz and then the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to overrule the magistrate judge. Schiltz told prosecutors that if they disagreed with a magistrate judge's decision, they must instead seek an indictment from a grand jury in order to arrest Lemon.
> In a letter filed in court records, Schiltz wrote that Lemon and his producer "were not protestors at all."
> "There is no evidence that those two engaged in any criminal behavior or conspired to do so," the chief judge wrote.
The quality of work Don does has gone down over the years but this was particularly stupid and pointless. Encouraging people to protest inside white churches feels deeply unproductive.
Only a jackboot-lover would see strong similarities in peacefully protesting government actions, and violently attempting to overthrow Congress.
> Encouraging people to protest inside white churches feels deeply unproductive.
Wow, unabashedly racist, too.
This whole ICE thing is a psychological operation. It's media manipulation and all the people violently protesting are useful idiots falling for it, or they're feds in disguise instigating more violence to turn around and give more crackdowns.
Don Lemon is one of the chosen media elites. He can sexually assault people and nothing happens. He's a terrible human being, but nothing will come from this. It's all smoke and mirror.
Go outside and turn off your phones people.
To me this arrest looks like lawfare. It looks like the administration abusing its power to violate the first amendment.
No, it's real. The media didn't make it up, the people in the streets aren't crisis actors. Sometimes things actually happen. Sometimes what the media reports on is actually real.
I have to imagine it's people with a Christian identity who sense on some base level that this is all deeply wrong, but can't reconcile their politics with the actual tenants of their faith. So they just fume and try to hide the uncomfortable truth from view. (I say this as a Christian who is utterly aghast at the state of the country. At least the Catholic leadership has the right idea.)