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Post by spaniardx on Jul 26, 2017 21:58:16 GMT -5
California teacher held at border checkpoint:Ok, since one apparently does not need a passport to travel south of the border, why not just start with the ole license and vehicle registration, please? Ya'll decide if this was a good cop or not. Its disturbing that now that we citizens seriously feel that we have to have video proof of almost every interaction between ourselves and badges.
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Post by vitugglan on Jul 27, 2017 6:51:55 GMT -5
You don't need a passport to go south of the border but you need one to come back north of it. This all happened after 9/11. We now need to prove we're US citizens when returning from either Mexico or Canada. It sucks. That doesn't mean we should torment border patrol agents who didn't make the rules. California's been in super-sayan jerk mode since the election. They're bent out of shape because they can't determine the election for the rest of the country. California cops have stated they refuse to help border patrol. California cities have sworn to protect 'their' 'undocumented aliens.' This woman, who is in a very liberal profession (appx 75% of teachers are Democrat v. appx 25% Republicans - down near the bottom, just use 'edit - find - teaching' to get to it, click on the word 'teaching' to see the breakdown by type of teacher: verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/index.html ) and meant to harry the border patrol person for her political leanings so I call foul on her. She wouldn't like the border patrol to come in and disrupt her class, she shouldn't go to their workplace and disrupt their work. ETA: Imagine how cranky these patrol people would have been after dealing with her. The next people suffer for her high-handedness.
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Post by spaniardx on Jul 29, 2017 22:47:49 GMT -5
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Post by vitugglan on Jul 30, 2017 7:14:27 GMT -5
He needs a new badge: "Monster Squad."
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Post by spaniardx on Aug 1, 2017 1:49:20 GMT -5
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Post by vitugglan on Aug 1, 2017 9:09:50 GMT -5
Good on the cop and his wife. Bad on the top commenter as of my reading - both a stupid outlook (those kids shouldn't have been with that woman because she didn't have car seats) and poor grammar (should of).
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Post by spaniardx on Sept 4, 2017 14:43:41 GMT -5
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 4, 2017 20:15:39 GMT -5
That had to be a lot of cold syrup. The brand won't be too happy about this. Weird. I suppose part of his defense will be that they didn't check for intruders at the time - they probably should have.
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Post by spaniardx on Sept 6, 2017 21:11:15 GMT -5
Turns out, it might be plausible? And he said he used more than he should have of Coricidin Cough & Cold HBP medicine. I have a box of that on my desk because if I come down with a cold/flu, everything else runs my BP up uncomfortably high (as in bad headache, heart palpitations).
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Post by spaniardx on Sept 6, 2017 21:22:21 GMT -5
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 7, 2017 4:16:18 GMT -5
For one thing, this sounds like the infamous Twinkie Defense. 'I took cold medicine, I blacked out, I murdered my wife.' That would be fine if they had some history of people taking Coricidin doing whacked-out things but they don't. Some people in the comments on the other articles you posted mentioned that Coricidin makes them do weird things, but no one confessed to murder. It sounds fishy. For another thing, the death penalty or life imprisonment are the two major possibilities, not definite outcomes. It would all depend on the trial, the testimony, evidence, how the jury takes things, and so on. Those two possibilities could be discounted at some point during the trial based on whatever the judge is hearing.
I think the police need to do some more investigating to make sure there was no one else in the house. Phelps stated that he had a dream and woke up to find his wife dead. IMO, his defense team can use that as proof he didn't do it - he was asleep, people don't usually murder in their sleep. Another possibility mentioned in the second video associated with the article is, 'Coricidin made me falsely confess.'
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Post by spaniardx on Sept 16, 2017 8:13:58 GMT -5
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 16, 2017 18:18:59 GMT -5
Acting Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzales has publicly condemned ICE for staking out courthouses, saying at a recent press conference that the practice makes witnesses and victims of crime feel it’s unsafe to come to court.Snip The men were ICE officers, and the agency confirmed that it made four arrests at the courthouse on Thursday, all of them involving undocumented immigrants suspected of participating in criminal gang activity. According to Gothamist, the four arrestees had come to the courthouse Thursday morning to face misdemeanor charges stemming from a trespassing incident in July.Snip Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the State of New York Office of Court Administration, told me in an email that statewide protocol requires all law enforcement agents, including ICE officers, to inform courthouse personnel when they show up to make arrests.Snip When I asked what they were doing at the courthouse, they declined to respond, and Ryan told me I should call the DA’s office if I wanted more information.First, Federal law supersedes state law. The state should probably take it up with their elected representatives and with ICE. There shouldn't be an adversarial relationship between state and federal governments. They have the same goal - to make society safer and to make its running smoother. Second, the ICE agents aren't being outed for arresting witnesses or victims of crimes, only illegal immigrants accused of crimes. Another article from March talks to a detainee who was in court for a misdemeanor assault charge (not sure if NY has simple and aggravated assault or if it has assault - not touching - and battery - touching - language) but who had several convictions for selling drugs and for domestic violence. Link: www.nydailynews.com/new-york/federal-immigration-agents-showing-nyc-courts-article-1.3010003 That article also supports an adversarial relationship between the NYC legal system and federal agents: City laws forbid the Department of Correction from complying with ICE “detainer orders” pertaining to inmates held on many less serious offenses.If ICE isn't telling the courts they are there, why was the questioner referred to the DA's office for further information?
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Post by spaniardx on Sept 19, 2017 2:46:23 GMT -5
There shouldn't be, but there is. Unfortunately, that Hollyweird trope of federales and state/county/city not getting along is rooted deeply in fact. More often than not (at least from what I've seen) local boy meets federale and Alpha Male whizzing contest ensues as both whip out their badges to see who has the bigger one.
Because they (ICE) know the DA's office doesn't know squat and it's ICE-Speak for "go away, kid, ya bother me"?
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 20, 2017 1:55:02 GMT -5
Maybe. I've been following the Los Angeles saga on this whole immigration thing and the city and county are very adverse to the feds. They refuse to follow federal guidelines, they call the illegals 'their' immigrants, even the police and sheriff's office will turn a blind eye to immigration status and outright say they'll refuse to work with the feds on this problem. I suspect these Brooklyn courts are the same.
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