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JMP's avatar

“It was never intended to protect Latinos from Latinos,” Bell said. “It was designed to protect them from high-crime areas.”

No, actually, it was designed to protect victims of domestic violence - that has absolutely nothing to do with whether an area is high crime or not. Rich assholes beat their partners as much as poor assholes do.

Doloras Funkette's avatar

"high-crime areas": that's dogwhistle for The Negro, right?

FlownOver, Unraptured's avatar

"It is blatant ethnic discrimination that USCIS and federal civil rights officials should have condemned in the strongest terms."

Yeah, yeah… ShouldaWouldaCoulda. Something something Free Market, sincerely held religious belief. Fuck off.

Virginia Dreaming's avatar

Yo, Bell Boy. If you live in a house with a person who may assault on any given day, you live in a high crime area. This bill was exactly designed to protect people like her.

Lascauxcaveman's avatar

Shorter Bell: "I'm too lazy to do my job."

Lascauxcaveman's avatar

Gotta trust me on this: the law specifically drafted to protect those people was never intended to protect those people from those people.

Virginia Dreaming's avatar

"I'm too racist for my job. Too racist for my job. So racist it hurts." - Lyrics from Bell's new single

BadKitty904's avatar

It will be interesting to see how quickly DA Bell explains "what he actually meant"...

Good_Gawd_Yall - Unperson's avatar

Is it just me, or is the Wonkette stuffed extra-full of assholes today?

BadKitty904's avatar

See also: "I'm a political appointee."

Left Coast Tom's avatar

You'd think the nightly "oil change" would have cleared out a few of the assholes.

Virginia Dreaming's avatar

Relax people, he is just exercising his deeply held religious conviction racial prejudice that brown people should be beaten.

BadKitty904's avatar

Some Lives Are More Equal Than Others.

OneYieldRegular's avatar

Attorney Bell seems way over on the short left side of the Bell Curve.

marxalot's avatar

Hateful schmuck abuses his position to do what?Everybody drink.