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"The policing of online threats is hardly a new issue. The Supreme Court set a precedent last year when it ruled that prosecutors pursuing a charge of communica
by hobs 10y ago
"The policing of online threats is hardly a new issue. The Supreme Court set a precedent last year when it ruled that prosecutors pursuing a charge of communicating threats need to prove both that reasonable people would view the statement as a threat and that the intent was to threaten. Elonis v. United States dealt with a man who had posted violent rap lyrics about his estranged wife; the court reversed his conviction."
"All cops should die" is not a credible threat and should not be viewed as one, and though "you should all die" is not an actionable criticism it certainly implies the existential critique that the black people in America have for the police, eg that they kill black people for nothing and treat them as subhuman.
Arresting people for e-threats is probably not a good use of police time considering the real problems they have, it's simply a use of intimidation and overreaction to a situation they feel like they can't control.
- cLeEOGPw 10y agoWhen you encourage violence against a certain group it is incitement, simple as that. All jews should die, all white people should die, all muslims should die, this is all incitement of violence, and it is punishable act of crime. Also, white people are killed at higher rates and police are more trigger happy to kill white people than blacks, so their problem is non-existent. It serves a sole purpose - racism against whites.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoUm, that's pretty much not the case statistically. Its a meme that refuses to die?
- fucking_tragedy 10y agoIt's funny how a real actual problem faced by minorities is minimized as far as to be called 'non-existent' only to be followed up by a problem no white person has actually encountered. Unless you count feeling frightened by watching videos on Youtube as racism against whites.
- ridgeguy 10y agoHere's a publication [1] which indicates your belief that whites suffer higher rates of death by police action is incorrect. The probability of a black being killed by police is ~ 3.5x the probability for whites. Probably worth your time to read. [1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141854 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
- cpr 10y agoOn the contrary, this was just released: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evid...
- frabbit 10y agoWhat is interesting about that table is that it presents not raw counts or counts scaled to the proportions of people of color in our communities, but instead counts "per 10,000 stops". So, if one black guy gets stopped 30,000 times (because he "looked urban and suspicious") and is only shot in 5/30,000 times then he is obviously much better off than the 1 pinky-tan guy who is only stopped twice ever but gets shot to death in that 1/2 times).
- ridgeguy 10y agoThanks for the interesting link, I'll read Fryer's studies. One thing suggested by the last chart in that story is that use of force stats depends strongly on whether the data sets come from police sources or civilian sources. I guess that's not much of a surprise, but it's another confounding variable to partial out.