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[-] simontherockjohnson@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Everyone's libing out hard over this. I've seen this my entire fucking life.

Watch any municipal or state town hall where it's an issue with real stakes where the cops have shot someone, where there's an unequal land deal with developer money behind it, or literally just like be black in America.

The only difference here is that your status as Mr. Senator no longer protects you. These types of arrests and laws have existed in America and have always been used this way. This is why disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and and vagrancy laws are often only criminally enforced on those who cannot afford good lawyers or plead out. These cases get dropped upon challenge because most applications of these laws won't pass a smell test, and the jurisdictions don't want to lose them.

Likewise most courts won't per se strike down these laws because this kind of stuff is really where the rubber meets the road with liberal legalism.

These laws are basically what makes that cop saying "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride" possible.

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