throwaway040922

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by throwaway040922 4y ago
This story is specifically about a man that members of the U.S. government were lobbying to come and testify at the ICC ("...after months of behind-the-scenes lobbying by U.S. lawmakers, human rights activists and international lawyers
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by throwaway040922 4y ago
Thanks. I just checked The Washington Post and USA Today. The Washington Post has three articles on Lemp and one that mentions him in passing. They're all in the local news section (the shooting happened in a suburb of Washington D.C.)
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by throwaway040922 4y ago
Indeed. If I'm advocating for a project that will bring $10 million in to Town A that has a population of 5,000, and $50 million in to Town B with a population of 50,000, I'm going to be telling both Town A and Town B how the proj
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by throwaway040922 4y ago
> The Lemp case has a number of pertinent differences. You were comparing the Locke case to the Abou-Khatwa case in the article (about a white collar criminal the FBI was going after, where guns weren't involved) and the Rittenhouse
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by throwaway040922 4y ago
I think the fact that you have to go to alternative media like Reason to find articles about it speaks volume. Check out searches of mainstream news sites: Google search for "Duncan Lemp" site:nytimes.com[1]: Two articles, neither
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by throwaway040922 4y ago
> You said "This kind of violence affects everyone" and this is disingenuous when we look at the ratio of black vs white being murdered by police. If you want to argue that this kind of violence affects certain races more, that
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by throwaway040922 4y ago
Duncan Lemp was white, and was similarly awoken in the middle of the night by police, reached for a gun, and was shot dead (unlike Locke, I don't think he even pointed the gun at them). It actually happened the day before the Breonna T