I don't think you'll ever get a concrete answer on this because different people treat even basic numbers differently none the less assigning value to them. I like upvoted/downvote view because I like being able to see what's controversial. It means a comment is both important to show a dividing line but also might be misleading.
Edit: note of course, I'm saying this while on an instance that doesn't even federate downvotes at the moment.
That's never going to happen. The best you could hope for with any military is a court martial. And even that's never going to happen.
Maybe a truth and reconciliation commission after the parents are long dead.
It's the note that really did it for me.
I'm surprised the white house doesn't just host a mastodon server. I'm sure they consider using unvetted software to communicate to be a security risk, but it's no less a risk to put your communication channels in the hands of a third party.
If the case gets that far they lose. It's always about proximate cause and I promise you, a jury will decide that the raid was proximate cause. Surviving motions to dismiss based on immunity or venue and other stuff is where this case really will be decided. And where the appeals will be directed.
Mostly it seems to be because they're making a federal civil rights complaint. Gross negligence and civil rights complaints tend to defeat immunity, though I don't know if that'll be successful against the city itself.
If they can prove malice on the city's part, immunity goes out the window. And they may be able to do that.
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/meyer-vs-marion-complaint-usdc-kansas.pdf
The filing reads more like an investigative journalist report than a legal filling. It's like a small town version of the Wire. The gang in this instance, of course, are police and their sychpohants.
It also goes full blast on the judge and calls her essentially a lazy drunk who can't follow basic legal procedure. What makes that funny is she isn't even a party to the case, because she obviously has qualified immunity even if she's a lazy drunk.
While Chief Cody did not turn off his body camera while relieving himself, he apparently chose to turn it off while he reviewed Gruver’s confidential investigative file on him, for the Marion Police Department did not produce any body camera footage from Chief Cody of him looking through Gruver’s file on him
Included with that quote is a picture of Cody in the pisser, lol.
Humorously enough, they weren't going to run the story on the sheriff. He was hired as sheriff after getting enough complaints to get him fired in the big city. There sheriff knew they had investigated it though and was sure to dig up their sources on it during the raid.
Story sure got ran after the raid though.
What I find interesting is that this is a federal filing, I'm going to see if I can find the filing to b figure out why.
Could you imagine a law code written by this guy? You'd need a lawyer to cross the street because you wouldn't know how to interpret it.
It needed breaking anyway. Let's make some rainbows.
They sure don't seem to, considering they never even explicitly threaten to use that leverage. Even the call, based on a situation that supposedly left Biden anguished, was still an implicit threat. At least based on what's published.
If Biden wants to actually get any change done he should damn well know that getting rid of Bibi is the only way to do that. The best way to get rid of Bibi is to make the Knesset realize he's an existential threat to Israel because he's about to cause the US to cut off support.