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Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status
longacre writes "A man on trial in New York for possession of a weapon has been acquitted after subpoenaing his arresting officer's Facebook and MySpace accounts. His defense: Officer Vaughan Ettienne's MySpace 'mood' was set to 'devious' on the day of the arrest, and one day a few weeks before the trial, his Facebook status read 'Vaughan is watching "Training Day" to brush up on proper police procedure.' From the article: '"You have your Internet persona, and you have what you actually do on the street," Officer Ettienne said on Tuesday. "What you say on the Internet is all bravado talk, like what you say in a locker room." Except that trash talk in locker rooms almost never winds up preserved on a digital server somewhere, available for subpoena.'"
'Public announcement'?
'Sending a message to this officer'?
I seriously wish you were kidding, but I know you're not, and that's the sad part. I'm sure a police officer is using his own spare time on some chintz social networking site to post his deepest personal convictions related to his career in law enforcement via his 'mood update'. Right.
The fact that your post was labeled 'insightful' is both shameful and laughable. The fact that anyone would truly believe that line of reasoning is what's wrong with today's society...it's also why we're greeted by the astounding news that the criminal was actually allowed to subpoena anything so completely unrelated to the charge. Sorry, should have been tossed out. We don't have time, nor should we have any tolerance or patience, for this kind of nonsense.
Someone booked for DUI will always be slurring their speech, staggering, have bloodshot eyes, etc.
If it looks, waddles and quacks like a duck...
I'm just trying to remember the last time I saw someone drunk that didn't have those symptoms.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
OR . . . drunk people do actually stumble around and slur their words.
Tough call.
Thank-you, I'll take that as a compliment. And no, you can't take it back!
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
So you can go fight freedom?
Hasn't this been a fairly popular fight in numerous western countries lately ?
Lots of politicians are freedom fighters and, oddly enough, seem to be pretty proud of it.
(as an aside, I was watching a documentary on the militia that was set up during German occupation during ww2 last night and one of the tenants was "down with democracy, yay with order" - paraphrasing obviously... it was profoundly disturbing in many ways).
Oops, did I just Goodwin myself ?
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