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It’s such a joke that we pretend we’re a country of laws applicable to everyone. (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Video. I cued it up to when the audio starts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk1JcMchHBY&t=25s

She's a DA in New York State. She wouldn't pull over for a traffic violation and she drove all the way home as the cop followed her.

Doorley belligerent in traffic stop video, berating officer that she was the DA and didn't care | WXXI News

District Attorney Sandra Doorley repeatedly ignored officer commands when stopped for speeding in Webster this week — telling them she was the DA, didn’t care about the reason for the stop and that they should leave, footage released by the Town of Webster shows.

“I am the DA of Monroe County,” she told the officer at one point in the interaction captured by the officer’s body worn camera. “...I don’t really care. You know what, if you give me a traffic ticket, that’s fine. I’m the one that prosecutes it, OK? Just go ahead and do it. Go ahead. Go ahead.”

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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 75 points 7 months ago

Of all the times for a pig to not get jittery and mag dump into an unarmed person. Smh.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

She doesn't seem to have a political skin color, so it's understandable.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 60 points 7 months ago

Why don't Americans simply send people like this to the countryside and work among the peasant proletariat as recompense/rehabilitation?

Are they stupid??

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

You already know we are 😢

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 42 points 7 months ago

Pig on pig violence

But dam what a disgusting ghoul she is

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 41 points 7 months ago

Doing this should be one of the few things that gets you locked up for a long time

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

i know about harsher penalties not stopping petty crime that's caused by poverty, but i wonder if it would stop this kind of power trip breach of the public trust kinda shit that pigs and public officials do?

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

Exactly. The other part is that there's no question whether they did or not, as opposed to some fucking pig who is literally incentivized to make arrests saying he saw someone do something

[-] JayTwo@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

ACAB applies to this guy too but now I wonder if they're gonna find a way to push him out of the job somehow.
If he doesn't become an ex officer or at the very least transfers over to a precinct in another county in the next year or two I'll be pretty surprised.

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

The only law the USA recognizes, both domestically and internationally is the law of the jungle: "Might Makes Right".

[-] newmou@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

But she’s right — there’s some articles on this yada yada and nothing will happen to her right?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

Is there a legal reason she's so adamant about not going to the back of the vehicle and staying firmly inside her house? Seems like she has a reason for doing it.

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

Idk if a cop needs a warrant to go into her home and arrest her for all the laws she's breaking

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Because she wants to pretend like the traffic stop didn't happen

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

The American dream is being above the law.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

we pretend we're a country

In linguistics, clusivity^[1]^ is a grammatical distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person pronouns and verbal morphology, also called inclusive "we" and exclusive "we". Inclusive "we" specifically includes the addressee, while exclusive "we" specifically excludes the addressee; in other words, two (or more) words that both translate to "we", one meaning "you and I, and possibly someone else", the other meaning "me and some other person or persons, but not you". While imagining that this sort of distinction could be made in other persons (particularly the second) is straightforward, in fact the existence of second-person clusivity (you vs. you and they) in natural languages is controversial and not well attested.^[2]^ While clusivity is not a feature of standard English language, it is found in many languages around the world.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

In Chinese there's 咱们（zanmen) as an explicit inclusive we.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

All the English-derived creole languages of Melanesia have clusivity in a really nice way. They inspired how my conlang handles clusivity, and are an interesting look at what the future daughter languages of English might look like when empire falls and this tongue goes the way of Latin. I only learned about these languages' clusivity because Vanuatu's national anthem is called what else but "Yumi, Yumi, Yumi".

Key:

mi = me
yumi/iumi/yum = you (and) me
tu = two
tri = three
pela/fala/pla = fellow

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

What does 咱 mean without the 们?

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Apparently just I or me. Although all the examples I can find never have it being used on its own.

This is a great site for this sort of stuff.

https://dictionary.writtenchinese.com/worddetail/zan/11558/1/1

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, ik some chars dont have a standalone meaning, but I've also never seen 们 used with a character that doesn't stand on its own. 咱俩 seems useful in some situations over 我们 or 咱们.

This site is dope. Bookmarked. Thank you!

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

On one hand, fuck her for her elitist attitude and clearly trying to live the American dream of being above the law... On the other hand she's fucking with a pig, and I feel like that American dream wouldn't be so prominent if policing wasn't a draconian military occupation....

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