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[-] D61@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure there's codified legal precedent that the USA Police have no responsibility to put their lives in danger to protect civilians.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

CW Violence:

Lozito v. New York City

In the spring of 2012, Joseph Lozito, who was brutally stabbed and "grievously wounded, deeply slashed around the head and neck", sued police for negligence in failing to render assistance to him as he was being attacked by Gelman.[20][21][22] Lozito told reporters that he decided to file the lawsuit after allegedly learning from "a grand-jury member" that NYPD officer Terrance Howell testified that he hid from Gelman before and while Lozito was being attacked because Howell thought Gelman had a gun.[23][24] In response to the suit, attorneys for the City of New York argued that police had no duty to protect Lozito[25] or any other person from Gelman.[23]

On July 25, 2013, Judge Margaret Chan dismissed Lozito's suit, stating that while Lozito's account of the attack rang true and appeared "highly credible", Chan agreed that police had "no special duty" to protect Lozito.[20][21][26]

Lozito later went on to give an account of the aftermath in an article published by Cracked.com in October 2013,[27] and again in October 2017 when he narrated a video, offering his perspective of the event and as a warning to others involved in similar situations. Lozito also shared his experience pertaining to the attack in an episode of Radiolab podcast titled "No special duty."[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

I think about shit like this every time they want to increase police budgets under the guise of “public safety”

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Lozito later went on to give an account of the aftermath in an article published by Cracked.com

Man no other outlet was willing to take his story? Geez lol

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Cracked.com was a pretty major part of the CIA's attempt to control internet narratives, they released a lot of listicles written by guys like Robert Evans or basically just regurgitating US state policy on other nations. (Pretty sure they had multiple "top 10 wacky things North Koreans are forced to do" articles)

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Interesting. Now recent events with a podcast I listen to make more sense. The hosts of Quorators were fired from Cracked recently because they supported Palestine and condemned Israel (off the air, on their personal accounts). Also one of them clogged the Cracked office toilet lol

[-] voight@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

immediately yeeted into the lore file

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

basically just regurgitating US state policy on other nations

This is most U.S. news outlets. Anything more concrete on a government connection?

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

For an "apolitical" "humour" magazine they sure were big fans of pushing a ton of very explicitly political articles to the forefront. My main suspicion is how Robert Evans wrote for them a lot, he's got known connections to the CIA and positions himself as a "leftist journalist" but always seems to defend the US state department line. Not sure why a humour website would post a bunch of articles promoting him. Though it doesn't need to be a direct government connection though, it could just be the owners of the site liking his content. They have shared unabashedly pro-US propaganda quite a bit though, but as you say, this could just be fairly bog standard USians being in so deep they don't even know how biased their view is.

[-] voight@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Yes their "wacky USSR stories" or "wacky nuclear stories" are all I remembered. The jokes did not last.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, there’s more than one Supreme Court decision that say police have no duty to protect a civilian from harm unless you’re in their custody or something (and obv that’s fudgible)

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

They have the duty to allow you to be eaten alive by bedbugs

or boiled alive in a prison shower

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