"public safety operation"

Journalists are going to sanitize their own executions. Wish we had a real Fourth Estate that would challenge political branding rather than stenograph it.

This is why one of their major targets is due process.

Everyone finishes watching the video.

Prosecutor: So, you can clearly see the assault take place. Does everyone agree?

Jurors: I didn't see anything. Did you guys see anything? Nope. Not a thing. Who wants a sandwich?

This just in: Grand Jury fails to indict a ham sandwich.

Last time I reacted to this Pirro quote by saying it was indeed very funny:

“He thought it was funny,” Ms. Pirro said of the defendant in a video posted online. “Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged with him with a felony.”

I just want to say, it has gone up a level to "hilarious" now that they can't even get a grand jury on their side

Bwahahaha. Did the officer even say thank you for the sandwich?

"Public safety operation."

Way to buy into the bullshit, there, AP.

So is the sandwich okay?

Prosecutors fail to indict sandwich thrower in Trump's Washington public safety operation

Besides the good news in the story, can we just take a moment to appreciate the absurdity of the title itself? I love it

shortly after he was fired from the Justice Department, where he worked as an international affairs specialist in the department’s criminal division

The cop, who investigates cops, was so pissed off that he just threw the first thing he could get a hold of...

I can't even come up with a proper analogy for how far off the rails this is.

Good.

Federal Prosecutors used Felony Indictment against sandwich tosser.

It's not very effective...

We need to start doing a trump hand check. Well maybe, it'll probably just give us too much hope.

On Tuesday, YouTuber Keith Edwards — a former staffer for the anti-Trump Lincoln Project — posted a side-by-side comparison of Trump’s hand during a Monday event and the hand of the late Queen Elizabeth II during an audience with then-prime minister Liz Truss.

Edwards noted that the photograph of the late Queen with Truss was taken just two days before she passed, ending more than 70 years on the British throne.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gavin-newsom-trump-hand-bruise-b2815067.html

Fuck AP for calling this a “public safety operation”. That is absolutely not a neutral way to report this. Fascist loving bootlickers. AP is a right wing rag.

Its almost as if the majority of us have decided the current trumpism is wrong. Almost.

May the sandwich of justice strike again!

In semi-related news, the DC spitter had charges reduced to misdemeanors after 3 different grand juries returned no true bill. In federal court, there is a 30 day deadline after arrest to secure an indictment or your felony charges get dismissed.

Mild doxx, I've served on a DC Grand Jury before. You're commuting to the courthouse for 3 weeks minimum, though only 3 days a week. Most of the people are not getting compensated from their job to be there, just some money for the Metro.

The standard of evidence to indict is much lower, basically "it's believable that the accused could be guilty of the charges". Caught on camera is quite believable, the key here is "the charges". If the charges don't fit the crime, a jury that's paying attention wouldn't indict . I'm 80% sure indictment is a majority vote, didn't have to be unanimous.

Generally the prosecution is presenting evidence and calling law enforcement officers to testify, the defendant sending a lawyer is optional (expensive). You get a mostly one-sided argument, but these are all people who live in DC; some well off but most kinda poor. It's DC so both categories do not like Trump. If they believe somebody is committing crimes in DC they'll happily indict; but most cases indict, it feels good to cancel the case when someone doesn't deserve it.

The grand jury 🥲

This is all hilarious of course, but that sandwich thrower would probably be dead if he wasn’t white.

Lotta great sub sandwich places in Chicago

This is going to be framed as liberal juries nullifying just to be mean to poor old President Trump.

He's being charged with Assault With a Deli Weapon.

Credit: Jimmy Dore

Suck the footlong fascists.

I wish someone would throw a sandwich at me assault me with a sandwich. I'm hungry.

8 years for spitting on a fed?!

Well. I wouldn’t expect much from career alcoholics.