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These dumbasses tried to falsify evidence with an eraser? A fucking ERASER? And they couldn't even do that right?

This would be funny if it weren't so rage-inducing.

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Just another day in der Amerikanische Reich.

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Some stories would indicate that they're that already.

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Yup. Pretty much the way I think of it.

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The thing in his hand pretty much guarantees he doesn't.

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Soviet America

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I learned decades ago to treat any pepper I didn't recognise from my local grocery store with GREAT wariness.

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They have only existed since 2003, as the "deportation" arm of Homeland Security. They are completely unnecessary, and have always been a nascent Gestapo. They need to be disbanded and the entire building fumigated.

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Though I find myself doubting that there'll ever be a 'when.'

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But of course. He's working from the original Goebbels playbook. All non-whites ARE animals to him. People still are underestimating his true basic barbarism and savagery.

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Yo, Dok, you really need to clean up this article, where you flip the names "Martinez" (the judge) and "Ramirez" (the victim) willy-nilly throughout. I worked with Ricardo Martinez when we were both King County Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys in Seattle in the early 1980s. Please fix this. He was a good guy then, seems to remain a good judge now.

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dear dipshit old white racists,1992 called, they want their crime statistics back.

gangs aren't a problem now, they were then. you know all the complaints about gentrification? that's because white people are moving into neighborhoods that were traditionally full of people of color because it's safe there now (I know I live in one) gangs were pretty much put out of business, here's why 1. the internet. people don't have to buy drugs or prostitutes from gang bangers on the corner anymore, you find them on craigslist or you buy them at a dispensary legally, so that source of revenue is gone.2. what kind of drugs are popular now. gangs used to make a lot of money selling crack in cities, then people figured out crack was a terrible idea, and that source of revenue dried up. now white trash wants meth or opioids. inner city gangs are not going to relocate to rural arkansas to sell it to them. 3. sanctuary cities. when immigrant communities aren't afraid of the police deporting them, they call the police when gangsters are in their neighborhood, or when they try to run a protection racket.

gangs are a business, kids in poor communities join because they see the one person in their neighborhood with a nice car and money and they want to be like them. now that there's no money in gangs, there's no incentive to join. that's why 20 years ago my neighborhood was the headquarters of the avenues gang who ran the whole mexican mafia, and now my neighborhood has some of the highest property value increases in the country.

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Ramirez had a tattoo on his arm: a nautical star and the words “La Paz—BCS,” and if that’s not an obvious gang tattoo, then what is? ICE ignored Ramirez’s insistence that he had never been in a gang, and that the tattoo simply meant “La Paz, Baja California Sur,” the city and state of his birth, because as everyone knows, gang members are all liars (experts later testified, during the appeals process, that Ramirez’s tattoo doesn’t resemble any known gang tattoos).

I'm a northern California gringo and I know "BCS" is the normal abbreviation for "Baja California Sur", a Mexican state that includes the city of La Paz.

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It was on local news a couple months ago that ICE pulled this shit on a high school kid on Long Island. I have to imagine it's widespread. Does my dragonfly tattoo mark ME as a gang member, or does skin color underneath the tattoo protect me?

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WTF? La Paz means peace. What gangbanger is going to have peace as a tattoo?

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^^^ This. My hometown of Denver has been going through gentrification and now the town I live in, Durham NC is doing the same. In both, areas I’d have avoided once upon a time are now where the places to go are.

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