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Is the Ahmaud Arbery story thread-worthy? It happened in South Georgia, but it’s really making the rounds on social media for most of my Atlanta-based friends.
Cliffs: Black man goes for a jog in a residential neighborhood. 30 year retired police officer and his adult son assume he must be running from a burglary, because there have been a lot of break-ins lately, so they grab a shotgun and a magnum, and chase him down. They confront him and attempt to detain him while they wait for law enforcement to arrive. Black man fights for the gun, white dudes blow him away.
This happened in February. The accused, with personal connections to current local law enforcement, conclude that since the black man struggled for the gun, the white guys were justified in using lethal force for self-defense.
Unrelated: the chief of police, who had connections to the accused and who’d been called upon to step down over this, in the meantime actually DID have to step down because “a narcotics officer had a sexual relationship with a confidential informant.”
Video of the incident comes out this week. Social media catastrophe, calling for justice and everyone’s jobs. Yesterday the GBI, Georgia Bureau of Investigations (i.e. state-level law enforcement), steps in and charges the white guys with murder and aggravated assault.
My facebook feed has been melting down over the last 48 hours over this.
Probably. Feel like it is just picking up steam and will be newsworthy for a while.
Apparently it’s being discussed in the gun violence thread
https://mobile.twitter.com/ClaudiaMCMo/status/1258751010941497344
https://mobile.twitter.com/benedictrogers/status/1258711558638702592
https://mobile.twitter.com/lihkg_forum/status/1258679114669555712
https://mobile.twitter.com/JessiePang0125/status/1258647496483463169
Tweets show up if you click on them. 
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Why is that guy barefoot?
You can disrespect the parliament but you can never disrespect the Dojo. 
That’s nothing. I’ve had it tougher trying to get on a bus in China.
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So apparently some nutcase in the apartment complex beside where I live is poisoning cats that wander through the grounds. Some old lady seemingly. Quite brazen about it, openly stating it to her neighbour (whose very cat she poisoned!), on the grounds that the Residents’ Committee or whatever ‘discourages pets’. I’m not fucking having it and I’m thinking about writing to this Committee. The trouble is I don’t know the person’s name (if I did, I’d write to them).
Any thoughts? It’s obviously not their responsibility, but I’d bet you anything she’s either a Committee member or well known to them.
Is Residents’ Committee some local term for the police?? If not, you should call the police!
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I doubt they’ll do anything if I can’t even name the person. I don’t want to ring them and be like, my neighbour told me that someone in the apartments said their neighbour poisoned their cat, I mean that’s heading straight for the circular file.
Should clarify the cat survived, for the record.
Does your neighbor know the name (or where the person lives)? If not, I agree you probably won’t get much traction.
If it were a man the answer would be obvious. You’re going to have to find some old cat lady to kick her ass.
I know the apartment complex. The neighbour knows the name at least of the person whose cat was poisoned.
Might give my aunt a call, I guess.
Umm. Huh?
That video bug will be patched this Sunday btw.
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Sorry, 7:54. Link is fixed to that timestamp.
It’s possible!
A man who led Louisville and Indiana police on a 45-minute chase last year is suing both departments in federal court alleging that a “feeding frenzy” of officers unnecessarily beat him and endangered the public.
Ellis stole a purse at a gas station in Louisville, according to the lawsuit. Police chased Ellis’ truck from southwest Louisville north Interstate 65, eventually crossing the bridge into Indiana.
Ellis was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for a concussion, sprains and bruises, mostly on his neck and the right side of his body, the lawsuit says.
If you’re in the area and would like to retrace his path for maximum GTA fun:
Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officers began chasing Ellis truck at 4:51 p.m. near Shively, in the area of Fitzgerald Road and Millers Lane. He moved onto Interstate 64 west, crossed the Sherman Minton Bridge and then eastbound onto Interstate 265, before he exited at Grant Line Road heading north.
Ellis drove off the road through baseball fields and past tennis courts near Indiana University-Southeast, then returned to Grant Line Road, turning onto Hausfelt, then Moser Knob and into Floyds Knobs.
It looks like his case was settled back in Nov 2018, but I don’t see the judgement.
ETA: Correction, he was sent to the slammer and has been on probation since July 2019.