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    The bar is so low. They aren’t even trying to press charges against the agent for trying to kill this woman. They just want the government to retract its smears against her and they won’t even do that.

    These fascist fucks really have declared war against us all.

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    Government lawyers argued that the release of Exum’s text messages would further sully the agent and his family. The judge pushed back. “I don’t know why the United States government has expressed zero concern for the sullying of Ms. Martinez’s reputation,” Alexakis said.

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      “I don’t know why the United States government has expressed zero concern for the sullying of Ms. Martinez’s reputation,” Alexakis said.

      If the text messages for Ms. Martinez show deep remorse for the killing or immense anger with the system that put her in the position she needed to kill then I think that would reflect well on Ms. Martinez.

      If instead it shows her making jokes about the victim or boasting about the killing then, yes, Ms. Martinez’s reputation will be further sullied.

      So her lawyer is already telegraphing what the tone of her text messages are even before they are being released.

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      22 hours ago

      Lemmy user’s comment after reading a poorly written headline has been posted and read, Lemmy user says

      ~this bar can go lower, babyyyyy~

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    20 hours ago

    Can someone explain the video of this Patel posted (linked in article)? It sure looks like she was ramming the truck, so I must be missing something.