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comments made were in fact tasteless and dumb, but nobody should get in trouble over saying dumb shit online. Good move.

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Hmm, sounds like the judge disagrees with the all Reddit Experts from last week.

Totally agree. I think she's an extremist too, but the things she said did not rise to the occasion of being specific enough to warrant an arrest for threats.

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Zapp is elected trash the county refuses to kick to the curb so he just festers like a malignant dumpster tumor.

His brother was involved in the Cash For Kids shit out in eastern PA a while back.
 
https://archive.triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/pittsburgh-man-files-suit-in-kids-for-cash-scam/

She was delinquent with paying 5k in electronic monitoring fees and the motion to detain got her to pay up. Nice job Zappala

Son of a late state Supreme Court justice of the same name, appointed to fill a vacancy before perpetually reelected.

I thought you agreed with him in this instance? You were very eager for her to be jailed over her words. Not on the DAs side now?

"Monitoring fees" are immoral.

Why? It's an alternative to being in jail and it needs to be paid for somehow.

For the same reason we don't charge prisoners rent for being in prison.

The state imposes and enforces the law. The state can pay for it.

Monitoring fees, probation fees, and things of the like can prevent someone from getting their life together - and create new "crimes" out of not having enough money.

Being broke should NEVER be criminalized.

They do charge prisoners rent!

https://whyy.org/articles/paying-rent-to-your-jailers-inmates-are-billed-millions-of-dollars-for-their-stays-in-pa-prisons/

https://apnews.com/article/840d5544c20e4d2db261ad0f8608eaed

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/12/paying-rent-to-your-jailers-inmates-are-billed-millions-of-dollars-for-their-stays-in-pa-prisons.html

FBI: plz don't lock her up she rats on dozens of people for us every year

Judge: you got it dude

Zappala and Dawson? To me they're on the same side trying to trigger the same war. You think the DA was dumb to kick off his reelection effort by persecuting an arsonist who can't stop spouting death threats? He must see her as a gift that keeps on giving. But I NEVER said I wanted her jailed; jail could only make her worse, and make her a martyr making everything worse. I only wanted people to stop defending her actions.

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That 1st officer is really really red. Someone get that man some sunscreen

As I said in the first post, it’s highly unlikely anyone under the age of 50 would say “off the pigs”. Young people just don’t use “off” to mean murder. It’s far more likely that she typed “eff the pigs” and it autocorrected to “off”.

Nope. She confirmed it in another post. Chitlin refers to pigs

“In what appeared to be a subsequent social media posting, Dawson again posted on Facebook ‘Kill all these chitlin (expletives). I said what I meant,’ ” the prosecutor wrote.”

https://triblive.com/local/da-pittsburgh-woman-posted-threatening-anti-police-messages-after-brackenridge-chiefs-killing/

That’s a dangerous statement my friend

Maybe Dawson and people like her are correct about what a shithole this nation is.

stand by it. I don’t determine “getting shunned by people” as getting in trouble, but nobody should go to jail for shitty sentiments on a facebook page.

None of those are criminalizing being broke as they are all only applicable to people duly convicted by their peers. Criminalizing being broke would be like charging money for a public defender (but they are free). They owe a debt to society in a similar way that someone who parks in a fire line and gets ticketed does.

Fines and tickets are one-time fees based directly on the violation.

Charging someone a monthly "monitoring fee" in a system where people convicted of a crime can only get the lowest-paying jobs is completely immoral.

Charging them with further crimes for their inability to pay those monitoring fees is disgusting.