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There’s a name for that, SLAPP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_aga
by macNchz 7mo ago
There’s a name for that, SLAPP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
Many states in the US have laws to try to limit them by making them easier to dismiss etc.
- delecti 7mo agoYeah, the only reason I'm not quite sure SLAPP is right is that he's a fairly prominent and well-off figure and they're a pretty small department. So I guess it's an attempted SLAPP suit, but they aimed too high (poor aim not being unfamiliar to cops).
- malfist 7mo agoCops only know how to do one thing: escalate the situation. Even when it doesn't make sense too. Like suing afroman. Like shooting blindly through a house like they did when they killed Breonna Taylor. Like the time they shot Charles Kinsey who was laying on the ground with his hands in the air. Like the deadly game of Simon Says they like to play. Like any of the millions of examples where they shoot someone who was submitting and defenseless.
- ctoth 7mo agoMillions? That's... A very big number.
- throwaway902984 7mo agoCounting from the dawns of the various police forces in the country maybe? Impossible to know, but even then... Hyperbole illustrates the point pretty well though