Rustic_Professional
Rustic_Professional t1_j6xmlm1 wrote
Reply to An alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. It ended with FBI gunfire. by Chino_Blanco
Everyone's so busy making fun of Mormons that they're missing that this may be another case of law enforcement shooting someone who was attempting to comply with their instructions.
>One of the agents — identified only as “J.M.” in a detailed criminal complaint filed March 4 in the U.S. District Court of Nevada — opened his suit jacket and flashed his badge.
>Beasley stepped fully into the doorway. He held a loaded pistol against his head.
>“Easy, easy,” yelled J.M.
>“Drop the gun,” shouted a second agent
>As the FBI agents shouted at him, Beasley said later in an interview with The Post, he pointed the pistol toward the ground.
>He was doing what the three agents had asked of him, Beasley said, adding that “I never pointed my gun anywhere except for my head.”
>The FBI maintains in its criminal complaint, though, that he aimed the weapon at the agents. At least one opened fire, striking Beasley in the chest and shoulder.
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>He was taken to a hospital before being charged with assault on a federal officer.
I don't suppose the FBI were wearing body cameras.
Rustic_Professional t1_j865pph wrote
Reply to Family of Oakland baker seeks 'restorative justice' for her death following robbery by IAmNotARobot124
>"It definitely had an impact," said Nenna Joiner, owner of Feelmore in Oakland. "As a female body, going to work every day, how is it to own a business in the city of Oakland with some of the difficulties. It won't stop you, but it will make you pause and think about your own mortality."
Emphasis mine.
I don't understand this thing of referring to people as bodies. It's not uncommon to see activists use the phrase "black and brown bodies," or something similar, but this is the first time I've seen someone refer to themselves as a "female body."
It sounds dehumanizing: You're not a black person, or a brown person, or a female person, you're a body.