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Protester. FTFY you fucking commie.

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WHEN (not if) these right wing fucks try to over throw the government again, we will only have ourselves to blame for it.

These traitors should have been given the harshest penalties possible - put them up as an example to deter others. Instead, example after example, these POS are given slaps on the wrist. We are essentially encouraging others to try again because the general public has forgotten about this event, the media never took this as seriously as they should have, and various government agencies not escalating the punishments being levied.

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Longer sentences don’t deter crimes. What deters crimes is certainty of being caught. We need to get them ALL, even if it’s for a little bit.

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf

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It’s reconstruction all over again.

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They’ll all wear their prison sentences as badges in 5 years. You’re looking at future senate candidates.

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It would have been a massive difference if those fucks were getting 10 or 20 or more sentences.

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we will only have ourselves to blame

“We” who? I didn’t vote for any of these dicks.

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But did you vote against them?

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Looking at the actual article, it was more that the judge saw he was a dumb kid who wasn’t old enough to go to college yet. We should be encouraging judges not setentising people under 21 to adult sentences, since the Republicans have been pushing 16 year old life sentences since “they look old”.

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He knew exactly what he was doing. There should be no leniency for people who commit crimes knowing full well what they’re doing.

That’s how you end up in a society where kids are cool with killing teachers over bad grades.

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We already do give kids reduced sentences, at least white kids like that rapist Brock Turner.

Maybe we could advocate for reduced sentences for minorities convicted of petty crimes instead of people who actively tried to overthrow the government.

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Unfortunately, Brock Turner’s judge was lenient to everyone – and civil rights groups actually liked and approved of him for his lenient sentences across the board, even to minorities. Hence firing him ultimately did more harm than good.

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I’m definitely biased and I can’t read the article (SSL issue on archive.is?) but I think that attending a deadly political coup should probably exempt you from being in law enforcement, no matter how old you were.

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Cooper went on to say that Bensch hopes to start a career in law enforcement, adding that it’s “not beyond the realm of possibility” that he could do so even with his misdemeanors. Bensch is currently working for a pool cleaning company, and the conditions of his sentence will allow him to leave his home for employment during his 60 days of home detention.

So he’s not even actually being detained at home for any length of time. He just has to stay at home after work and on weekends for a few weeks. The horror.

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He’s getting a head-start in being above the law.

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He’s got what pro-capitalists call “moxy”

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I wish they would’ve given harsher sentences to all the people that burned Chicago during the protests

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I don’t understand why some approve of the beer-gut-putsch, but that’s all white.

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i don’t know if you know this, but chicago is still standing today. nobody burned it down.

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Here’s the anti-american magat with their famous whataboutism. Yawn

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