Littlejohn lives in a gated community near Orlando, where there are TONS of cheesy Brits with similar views, and you can buy the Mail in convenience stores all over the state, wherever there are tourists and second-homers.
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Friday, 10 January 2014 11:20 (ten years ago) link
the justification that duggan was carrying a gun and was a nasty gangsta sort
If I see that phrase "Live by the swrod, die by the sword" again I'll punch a Daily Mail reporter
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 10 January 2014 13:02 (ten years ago) link
More like "live within racism, die by racism" unfortunately.
― Branwell Bell, Friday, 10 January 2014 13:06 (ten years ago) link
The CPS has declined to prosecute an armed office in another case (in Manchester) because they apparently didn't think a jury would convict:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/16/greater-manchester-police-health-safety-unarmed-anthony-grainger
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Thursday, 16 January 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
The background to that shooting is unsurprisingly murky as fuck http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315777/The-memory-stick-killing-When-police-lost-data-card-names-1-000-informants-questioned-father--cleared-Two-months-later-shot-dead.html
― oppet, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Ha, saw that earlier & thought of this thread. police being basically collectively prosecuted for killing someone under health&safety was so nakedly absurd w/ the jean charles de menezes case I am amazed they're doing it again
― ogmor, Thursday, 16 January 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
I think the difficulty in both cases was trying to find someone with enough individual responsibility to prosecute. That's not easy to do when you have a string of incompetent or dodgy decisions by a large number of people.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
That's not easy to do not allowed when you have a string of incompetent or dodgy decisions by a large number of people police officers.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
There's an element of that too, of course, but it's not much easier going after a rail company for corporate manslaughter after an avoidable crash, etc. Health and Safety regs are often used there too.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link