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Someone tell the Grim Reaper he’s right fucking there.

Low hanging fruit.
Easy pickings.

C’mon.

Do it, you coward.

He wasn’t even adjusting anything he was walking calmly when they opened fire on him

I've received some information from a local about the individual accused of being the SLC shooter (who did not fire, was shot by 'official' security who also hit and killed an unrelated person

He'd done armed protesting before. Dressed more radically. Was a little awkward. no more than that

Here's some pictures of him at a protest in 2020 dressed similarly to yesterday. Per my source,

"In my circles, we are currently thinking he was dressed too militantly for a liberal march and scared jumpy "security" while adjusting kit."

Gamboa has carried a weapon to other protests in the past, as is legal in Utah.
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The shooting at the Salt Lake City protest is strange. The guy with the AR never fired it, and instead appears to have been engaged by "peacekeepers" or protest "security" in yellow security vests?

The problem with everyone carrying guns is that anyone gets to claim they saw imminent danger and fire at anyone else pulling a gun.

Anyone seeing the yellow-vest guy raise his gun and point it at a crowd could have shot the yellow-vest guy (and they'd have saved an innocent bystander's life btw).

Arturo has apparently been doing community defense since at least 2021. The post millennial 🤮 was pretty quick to dig up his posts which seem to suggest he was an antifacist who was there to protect people thepostmillennial.com/salt-lake-ci...

Yeah see? They have their comments off. This is a fucked up situation and indications might point to the cops trying to railroad the guy who didn't fire a shot

The public statements attributed to people claiming to be 50501 protest organizers, praising the shooters' actions, are NOT smart.

Careless public statements ratifying the actions tend to strengthen "respondeat superior" claims and may even, rarely, provide an *independent* basis for liabilityz

If it turns out that the Utah 50501 protest organizers officially sanctioned these armed yellow-vest security volunteers, then I would not be surprised if organizers get sued under a "negligent supervision" theory of liability — by all victims who experienced either physical or psychological harms.

Context:

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Periodic reminder that every day is STFU Friday, and that you should not provide evidence on Instagram to help someone sue you for negligent supervision in a ruby red state

I love all the handwringing about Zohran’s lack of experience when a 19 year-old called Big Balls has recently been made a permanent federal employee with the title Senior Advisor at the GS-15 pay grade in the General Services Administration.

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office.
How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

In books the cops always stake out the funeral in case the serial killer shows up

Would also like to read it. Would love to know how the "crackdown on speech is affecting writers" in a paywalled article at the gatekept conference. I can say whatever I want and Taco Bell hasn't sued me yet. What can't they say at AWP?

just remembered how the entire political press just shrugged when jd vance openly said he would like to their faces — to say nothing of the public — in order to tell the story he wants to tell

Fairly undeniable at this point that abolish ICE was always the only reasonable position

Trump is doing exactly what the voters elected him to do: give everyone measles, crash all the airplanes, and destroy the economy.

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

It sounds hyperbolic but I actually don’t know how to bridge the gulf that appears to exist between people like me, who prefer that their children be alive, and people like this, who I guess don’t

Judge REYES on a tear, telling DOJ she won't be "gaslit" by effort to say their ban on transgender people in the military isn't actually a "ban."

She notes SecDef Hegseth literally called it a ban on X.

"You're saying one thing in public. You're saying a different thing in court," Reyes said.

there's a real fun "emperor's new clothes" aspect to all this where everyone in politics is sort of standing around avoiding each other's eyes because if any of them actually admit to the level of crisis currently taking place, they might have to do something about it

The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit.

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Reminder - Social Security is *your* money. You pay into it so you can collect it later. If the government shuts it down on a whim, without paying you back, that is theft.

lmao, literally 1984 shit

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we believe we are special and we simply are not