Take it to a jury!
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The defense attorney should explain why these are a fascist violation of all of our rights.
You know, so that they're all well informed before they decide whether or not to convict.
Just returning them. Awesome. 🤣
No crime
They don't belong to the Sheriff's dept...
Hopefully he gets a slap on the wrist.
There's no intent to permanently deprive if you literally take something to the authorities for disposition which is a key plank of theft. Not criminal mischief if they're not damaged either.
Don't quit your day job.
I appreciate this kinda armchair lawyering. I aspire to speak this confidently about things I have an approximate knowledge of.
Ya this is on par with saying I wasn't shoplifting I was going to take it home to make sure it works then return it to the store because I am such a good samaritan.
Why do you folks think that joyriding and grand theft auto are different statutes? Mens rea in theft is very important and it has to have an intent to deprive. A jury wouldn't believe your example, but this dude actually DID bring them to the sheriff. You could argue civil tresspass to chattels or some local level minor property charge for unauthorized use if they didn't think they were depriving someone of their property. But it's not theft.
A jury would go for it I bet.
How can she slap?
I hope they don't bother to prosecute the case.
Tax payer dollars, tax payer property.
He was just picking up the ones that randomly fell over due to shoddy materials. He should be applauded for picking up so much litter.
A true patriot
I'm pretty sure I was in the pub with him at the time...
Breaking Good
what cameras, hes collecting them like e-bikes and e-scooters.
Plot twist: he's a flock contractor on a job.
Is there a GoFundMe link for him? He needs to bail out and lawyer up
Real American Hero o7
Don't take a plea deal. Get a jury trial and watch the jury nullification.
A bold strategy Cotton...
Headline should read "Albuquerque starts arresting municipal volunteers who clean up the city"
Jesus Christ, what a fuckin hero in dark times this guy is.
"Hero arrested..."
Oh you know me I’ll be quirky.
PSA: Just destroy them in place and leave them. Taking them with you can easily elevate charges to a felony theft/possession. Plus it gives the police and flock contractors more shit to haul off.
After some thinking, one of those handheld propane or map gas torches strapped to a long stick would probably, be the cheapest, quietest way to get rid of probably any pole camera. Not even a bulletproof metal one would stand up to even a few minutes of a torch. I would target only the lens area though. There is a lithium battery in them and overheating it would likely cause it to explode, drawing attention, and possibly shrapnel.
Truly an hero.
He was just being nice and bringing them back to their rightful owners.. Us, the people who's taxes were used to pay for 24hr surveillance of us.
He probably voted for trump but in this moment I love his ass. Fucking GOAT
Making up for past mistakes.
Voting for Trump doesn't make a person a bad person, for many it just means they were duped or pressured, or simply saw the other party as the shittier of shit options. Definitely not an America-only problem.
Giving the praise and bringing back the "Were in this together" comradery is the basis for the US healing and recovering. Like when humanity bands together in an alien invasion movie. Then y'all can go back to squabbling in a few years when times are good again.
Voting for Trump doesn't make a person a bad person
No it just means they were already a bad person. Or stupid. Really really stupid. Almost as stupid as Trump.
To think that way of your fellow countrymen, it's very damaging for your society. It is fuel for the social division you have all been played into.
The damage to society is caused by the bad people who voted for the unconscionable moron.
Do you think the current situation is what they wanted? If they are bad people, they would be very happy with the outcome of their actions right now. Public opinion and general attitude strongly disagrees with that idea and therefore your opinion. However, it does fit well into the divisive tribalism sewn into your society's culture in the past 8 years.
I highly doubt your opinion will budge. So, 'very well done' to your shepherds. You're playing your part as planned. The person identical to you but splintered and steered into the other pen, doing their part just the same.
A society should show more concern for those that align with division than those that try to cause it. It means the wolves have found an exploitable 'in'. It means you're already diseased with the idea but only an ad populum fallacy can get through, weirdly.
Do you think the current situation is what they wanted?
I agree with you about division but the answer to this question is yes. Unfortunately there is a not insignificant number of Americans who would be completely happy with the current situation if it was only affecting the “others” they were told it would.
It’s important to understand there is a difference between those people who are upset because of what’s happening, full stop, and those people who are upset because it’s happening to them.
Yep. I think the point is, all hands should be shaking and starting action, not pointing fingers. The time for that is long gone and it's something the wolves are really depending on people to keep doing. It's a passive, non-threatening, waste of energy. It just It's divide and conquer 101.
Those participating in it are fuel to their own fire. They are not helping themselves or their fellow Americans in anyway. Accountability can come later if it really is needed, but there's bigger problems than a random Joe Smith that "voted for this" and socially ridiculing them is the perfect shot in one's own foot. Gotta be really gullable to fall for that.
Never will I ever shake hands with people who think it's okay to let pregnant women die, shove "others" into concentration camps, weaponize the government against dissidents and political opponents in bad faith, and rig elections, or be complicit in the rigging of elections, among other issues. Sorry not sorry.
Enjoy, then.
yup, many are accelerationists' promoting a new civil war. and the rest are simply racist fucks who thought trump would be racist, but not drive the bus off the cliff.
fuck both of those crowds.
If they are bad people, they would be very happy with the outcome of their actions right now
Many of them very much are. In many ways it may not be but in some of the most important ones, it absolutely is. You can see this when all of Trump's endorsed candidates in the recent primaries won.
Public opinion and general attitude strongly disagrees with that idea and therefore your opinion.
In general? Sure, somewhat. Amongst his voters? Nah.
Counter: The USA has a two party system.
I will elaborate if you want, but otherwise, no notes.
Most of them are just ignorant and poorly educated and they got duped. That doesn't make them irredeemably evil, they can learn to be better when approached the right way. They live in the most heavily propagandized nation to ever exist. Their reality is distorted and that distortion is reinforced every minute of every day by mainstream media corporations.
Trump is a different kind of stupid and he's surrounded and being used by people smarter than him with agendas that are worse than "make Trump look good" (which is Donnie's primary goal as he nears his end).
In a blue state, and taking down flock cameras. WHY would you assume he voted for Trump?
Truck is mighty big for a leftist. Might this be bipartisanaly based and goated?