*grumble*

WOW I watched the video, and the newsreport, and its just ridiculous

I have no words. Shit like this makes me sick

Especially when people who have committed violent or immoral crimes may face less time for a far more serious charge...

That is so...wrong. Slap him with a fine or something, this is NOT cause for federal incarceration

MENS REA PEOPLE.

Also, it's partly a shock value story - faces UP TO 16 years. He's not been sentenced to that and it's very unlikely that he will be

but the fact that jail time is even a possibility is sickening! I dont think the case will hold, or atleast it better not.

But all the same the average reader doesn't understand these things and it provokes uninformed speculation and outcry

a plain clothes officer pulled a gun on a man before declaring he was a cop. And the cop says he was worried for his life when the man

backed his bike up. NO SHIT HE BACK ED UP, YOU PULLED A GUN ON HIM.

FORTUNATELY they're trying to pass this: thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/q...:

which im 100% behind and need to write my congressman about..

brown.house.gov/Contact/... *note for later)

do it!

BUMP