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> “This premise that there was an intent to beat the clock is ridiculous,” Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. said at the time. It has become surreal that publ
by bmitc 5y ago
> “This premise that there was an intent to beat the clock is ridiculous,” Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. said at the time.
It has become surreal that public officials can get away with blatantly lying these days.
Edit: Interestingly enough, the mayor is not white, which surprised me at first given this stance, but then I found that the mayor came up through law enforcement, was deputy chief in Inglewood, and chief of police in Santa Monica. This is what people talk about when police are viewed as the state-sanctioned gang.
- vmception 5y agoits ACAB spray painted everywhere, not AWCAB, for a reason the incentive model is broken part, and that incentive model is highly correlated with attracting recruits of different extremes, but its the incentive model under focus
- Rebelgecko 5y agoI don't think it should be particularly surprising. Inglewood is 4% white. (Although that percentage is increasing as the city rapidly gentrifies) For better or for worse people are predisposed to vote for elected officials that have the same ethnicity. I was somewhat surprised when I looked at the neighborhood by neighborhood results from the last California gubernatorial primary. You can use whether a precinct voted for Newsom, Villaraigosa, or Chiang as a pretty good proxy for that area's racial demographics. Anyways, Butts is mostly known for being a grifter who gives 6 figure jobs to his mistresses and multimillion dollar contracts to his relatives. I think it's just regular corruption, I don't particularly buy the gang argument (although maybe that explains why he drove his SUV over an LAPD officer a few years ago)