George Floyd Protests

Meltdown99

The kid is not a very good at white supremacy considering he shot 3 white people.  He’ll likely get his white supremacy privileges revoked.  

mace1229

Gern Blansten said:

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

I heard some discussion this weekend about how the defense had tried to get the gun charge dropped prior to the trial. That the judge waited until midway through the trial to drop it does seem very prejudicial now.

He dropped the charge last Monday, shortly before the closing arguments. It wasn't mid trial 

Regardless....dropping it during the trial seems very prejudicial now

I didn’t hear the reasoning behind not dropping it sooner, but I did see the video of when he actually did. It sounded like it was the first time the defense brought up the statute and barrel length. The judge asked everyone if the barrel length was disputed and the prosecution said no. So if that is how it played out then that was a tactic on the defense, not the judge. And if anyone thinks dropping it at the end of the trial benefits him then that’s why defense attorneys are so expensive.

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Merkin Baller said:

facepollution said:

Merkin Baller said:

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Merkin Baller said:

facepollution said:

Merkin Baller said:

facepollution said:

Merkin Baller said:

facepollution said:

Merkin Baller said:

Were the deceased proven to have been rioting or looting at the time Rittenhouse engaged them? 

If not, it’s a curious double standard for the judge to allow them to be referred to as rioters & looters, but not victims. 

Well, Rosenbaum certainly was, and if we're going to get technical here, they all engaged him.  Even if Rittenhouse did somehow engage in a confrontation with Rosenbaum initially, of which there's no proof that he did, he chose to run away to avoid the confrontation and Rosenbaum chased him down and lunged for his gun.  Huber was hitting him with a skateboard, and Grosskreutz aimed a gun in the vicinity of his head.

I'm not debating how Rittenhouse shooting them was considered self defense, I'm curious as to why the judge allowed the deceased to be referred to as rioters and looters, but not victims. 

If they were indeed proven to have been rioting & looting, it makes sense, but if not, then it is a double standard. 

I'd imagine the word 'victim' holds a specific legal meaning?  It was also the central point of the case - were they perpetrators of violence against Rittenhouse, or were they victims of his? As I said before, Rosenbaum is caught on video behaving in an aggressive and destructive way, using racial slurs etc.  The second two individuals, it could be argued, were taking the law into their own hands by trying to apprehend Rittenhouse.  

"Rioters, arsonists & looters" also have specific legal meanings. 

They're also unambiguous terms, either they were or weren't partaking in certain behaviours.  Once again, Rosenbaum was clearly shown behaving in a way that most reasonable people would describe as 'rioting'.  It was far less clear whether they were 'victims', hence the trial.  .

It's a curious decision for the judge to make when they could have simply referred to those who were shot by their last names. 

I heard them referred to by their last names by the defence, prosecution and judge, to be fair.

I don't know if they were referred to with the labels in question, I didn't watch the trial. 

Regardless, on its face, the decision to disallow the label "victim" while at the same time allowing those other labels in the absence of the three men having been convicted of those crimes strikes me as odd, to say the least. 

I've not watched all of the coverage, but I didn't hear any of the key players refer to those people specifically in that way.  I take your point, but I'd still assert that the entire case was to decide if these people were in fact victims, not whether they were rioters, arsonists etc, those are the descriptors of behaviour.  Frankly, given the collective criminal histories of those shot, I'd suggest being falsely accused of rioting would be the least of the defence's problems in terms of upholding their reputations. 

My point still stands, it was a curious decision made by the judge if he was, in good faith, concerned about specific labels influencing the jury. 

Yeah, I'd agree, it could be a curious decision, though I'm not sure at this point whether those terms were used specifically towards them.  I'll take it in good faith that they were though, maybe someone who's seen more of the trial footage could enlighten us.

HughFreakingDillon

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

mrussel1

Meltdown99 said:

The kid is not a very good at white supremacy considering he shot 3 white people.  He’ll likely get his white supremacy privileges revoked.  

Haha... that's pretty funny

Ledbetterman10

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

mace1229

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

Haha, I remember the ass-hole thing. Also if you made that sign somewhere not obvious and someone saw it, you got to hit them.

Ledbetterman10

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

Haha, I remember the ass-hole thing. Also if you made that sign somewhere not obvious and someone saw it, you got to hit them.

How we did it was you'd hold it down at your side and say "look," and if they looked, then they were in fact, an asshole. 

HughFreakingDillon

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

I've seen LOADS of pictures, usually group photos of proud boy/proud boy types. Often in military gear. 

And it's not "maybe". They DID hijack the symbol. The far left can be blamed for pointing the finger at everyone who gets their picture taken using it, but the far right are the ones who coopted it. 

I think we can all agree that far-(either side) is a problem. 

mace1229

Ledbetterman10 said:

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

Haha, I remember the ass-hole thing. Also if you made that sign somewhere not obvious and someone saw it, you got to hit them.

How we did it was you'd hold it down at your side and say "look," and if they looked, then they were in fact, an asshole. 

Same, but then you’d get punched for being the asshole. Very solid logic.

Ledbetterman10

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

I've seen LOADS of pictures, usually group photos of proud boy/proud boy types. Often in military gear. 

And it's not "maybe". They DID hijack the symbol. The far left can be blamed for pointing the finger at everyone who gets their picture taken using it, but the far right are the ones who coopted it. 

I think we can all agree that far-(either side) is a problem. 

That we can surly agree on. 

mrussel1

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

Haha, I remember the ass-hole thing. Also if you made that sign somewhere not obvious and someone saw it, you got to hit them.

How we did it was you'd hold it down at your side and say "look," and if they looked, then they were in fact, an asshole. 

Same, but then you’d get punched for being the asshole. Very solid logic.

Any excuse to punch someone in the arm was a worthwhile game.  Also the "hand slap" game where you'd pull your hand from under the other person's.  And if they flinched 3x, you got to whack them.  Genius! 

HughFreakingDillon

Ledbetterman10 said:

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

Haha, I remember the ass-hole thing. Also if you made that sign somewhere not obvious and someone saw it, you got to hit them.

How we did it was you'd hold it down at your side and say "look," and if they looked, then they were in fact, an asshole. 

i didn't actually know what you were talking about until this. haha. i remember that now. makes sense the symbol evolved from asshole to racist, now that I think about it. 

Ledbetterman10

mrussel1 said:

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

Haha, I remember the ass-hole thing. Also if you made that sign somewhere not obvious and someone saw it, you got to hit them.

How we did it was you'd hold it down at your side and say "look," and if they looked, then they were in fact, an asshole. 

Same, but then you’d get punched for being the asshole. Very solid logic.

Any excuse to punch someone in the arm was a worthwhile game.  Also the "hand slap" game where you'd pull your hand from under the other person's.  And if they flinched 3x, you got to whack them.  Genius! 

Another "let's hit the other person" game you guys may recall was "PEG" in hacky sack. So you'd do a volley with a hacky sack, and once it was hit three times without hitting the ground, a person can catch it and throw it at someone else. If you were hit, you got a "P." Get hit three times and that spelled "Peg," which meant you had to get against the wall with your back facing the other players, and the other players took turns throwing the hacky sack at your back. 

Gern Blansten

The defense had asked for the dismissal months ago and the judge denied it. The defense filed a motion for reconsideration and – while the judge still was not granting the motion to dismiss the charge – "he wasn’t definitive," Gross said.
"Nothing about the evidence at trial requires that decision," Gross said. "That should have been made six months ago. That did hurt the prosecution. ... It’s the only charge that they were absolutely going to get a conviction."

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021/11/16/why-judge-rittenhouse-trial-dropped-gun-possession-charge/8640342002/

"months ago"......

Gern Blansten

mace1229 said:

Gern Blansten said:

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

I heard some discussion this weekend about how the defense had tried to get the gun charge dropped prior to the trial. That the judge waited until midway through the trial to drop it does seem very prejudicial now.

He dropped the charge last Monday, shortly before the closing arguments. It wasn't mid trial 

Regardless....dropping it during the trial seems very prejudicial now

I didn’t hear the reasoning behind not dropping it sooner, but I did see the video of when he actually did. It sounded like it was the first time the defense brought up the statute and barrel length. The judge asked everyone if the barrel length was disputed and the prosecution said no. So if that is how it played out then that was a tactic on the defense, not the judge. And if anyone thinks dropping it at the end of the trial benefits him then that’s why defense attorneys are so expensive.

It wasn't the first time....which has been my point.

See above

mrussel1

Ledbetterman10 said:

mrussel1 said:

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

Haha, I remember the ass-hole thing. Also if you made that sign somewhere not obvious and someone saw it, you got to hit them.

How we did it was you'd hold it down at your side and say "look," and if they looked, then they were in fact, an asshole. 

Same, but then you’d get punched for being the asshole. Very solid logic.

Any excuse to punch someone in the arm was a worthwhile game.  Also the "hand slap" game where you'd pull your hand from under the other person's.  And if they flinched 3x, you got to whack them.  Genius! 

Another "let's hit the other person" game you guys may recall was "PEG" in hacky sack. So you'd do a volley with a hacky sack, and once it was hit three times without hitting the ground, a person can catch it and throw it at someone else. If you were hit, you got a "P." Get hit three times and that spelled "Peg," which meant you had to get against the wall with your back facing the other players, and the other players took turns throwing the hacky sack at your back. 

Well you got me on that one.. It's like HORSE I guess.  

mace1229

Gern Blansten said:

mace1229 said:

Gern Blansten said:

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

I heard some discussion this weekend about how the defense had tried to get the gun charge dropped prior to the trial. That the judge waited until midway through the trial to drop it does seem very prejudicial now.

He dropped the charge last Monday, shortly before the closing arguments. It wasn't mid trial 

Regardless....dropping it during the trial seems very prejudicial now

I didn’t hear the reasoning behind not dropping it sooner, but I did see the video of when he actually did. It sounded like it was the first time the defense brought up the statute and barrel length. The judge asked everyone if the barrel length was disputed and the prosecution said no. So if that is how it played out then that was a tactic on the defense, not the judge. And if anyone thinks dropping it at the end of the trial benefits him then that’s why defense attorneys are so expensive.

It wasn't the first time....which has been my point.

See above

Yes but my point was maybe the defense didn’t have a valid reason the first time. Since it appeared that the last time was the first time barrel length was brought up. I don’t know for sure, but based on the interaction that’s what it seemed like. And the barrel length was the reason it was deemed legal. So if that is correct, it’s not the judge’s fault it was throw out at the very end, but rather strategy on the defense

mace1229

Ledbetterman10 said:

mrussel1 said:

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

mace1229 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

Haha, I remember the ass-hole thing. Also if you made that sign somewhere not obvious and someone saw it, you got to hit them.

How we did it was you'd hold it down at your side and say "look," and if they looked, then they were in fact, an asshole. 

Same, but then you’d get punched for being the asshole. Very solid logic.

Any excuse to punch someone in the arm was a worthwhile game.  Also the "hand slap" game where you'd pull your hand from under the other person's.  And if they flinched 3x, you got to whack them.  Genius! 

Another "let's hit the other person" game you guys may recall was "PEG" in hacky sack. So you'd do a volley with a hacky sack, and once it was hit three times without hitting the ground, a person can catch it and throw it at someone else. If you were hit, you got a "P." Get hit three times and that spelled "Peg," which meant you had to get against the wall with your back facing the other players, and the other players took turns throwing the hacky sack at your back. 

Sounds like our game “butt ball.” A little different and with a tennis ball, but the end game being make someone stand there while you throw a ball at them. Good times.

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Speaking of this stupid white supremacy hand gesture, are you guys familiar with the Latino man that lost his job as a truck driver for having this fingers in that position? He was stuck in traffic during a George Floyd protest (this was at the height of those protests). Someone took a picture of him, and his company fired him. Yep, a Latino man lost his job because they think he might be a white supremacist. 

SDG&E Worker Fired Over Alleged Racist Gesture Says He Was Cracking Knuckles – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)

I actually donated to his GoFundMe. 

Fundraiser for Emmanuel Cafferty by Melisa Cafferty Salazar : Emmanuel Cafferty vs SDGE (gofundme.com)

yep. that IS stupid. like I said, it should be obvious when it's used in context. 

Frankly, other than that picture of Rittenhouse and his bar buddies, I've never seen this hand symbol used as a sign of white supremacy. I've heard of it being a white supremacy sign from folks on the left, but I never seen it. It's always meant "okay." 

In fact, when I was in like middle school, the sign meant "asshole." The three fingers being A-S-S and the hole your thumb and pointer-finger make being, obviously, the hole. 

I just don't like the idea of taking something that's always meant one thing, and changing it. You might say that "Well it's the far-right  white supremacists that hijacked the hand symbol." Maybe. But it's far-left type of people/beliefs that caused that truck driver to be fired. 

Haha, I remember the ass-hole thing. Also if you made that sign somewhere not obvious and someone saw it, you got to hit them.

How we did it was you'd hold it down at your side and say "look," and if they looked, then they were in fact, an asshole. 

i didn't actually know what you were talking about until this. haha. i remember that now. makes sense the symbol evolved from asshole to racist, now that I think about it. 

Well, I haven’t heard that since middle school. Maybe to those who never evolved passed middle school it evolved. My reason for even bringing this up a while ago was how commonly known is that symbol? I had no idea until this picture came out. 

And how do we know those other guys in the photo are white supremicists? This based on the fact their male, white and overweight? Or do we actually know?