Exusia

Exusia , 29 days ago to news in He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000

You right they quickly get prohibitively expensive. But because of the 3 year gap idk if he asked them to sue or they thought they had a good case or what that arrangement looked like.

Exusia OP , 29 days ago to memes in Just Want to Improve my Workplace

Shhh I’m pretending it’s not there so people gib updoots

Exusia , 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to news in He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000

The defense would be the state, the state failed to argue he didn’t deserve it, and the ACLU their cut. I don’t remember if the article said it was by judge or jury, but even when a jury comes out with X number a judge can still say “yeah no that’s too high, I’m awarding Y instead.” So either way it was achieved, a judge felt that this was a fair number. Idk what to say beyond that other than I wish I could make 100k off something so silly but that is a lot of bullshit to put up with to be right. ACLU deserves some cut for doing probably all this man’s legal grunt work and legal time since he likely didn’t pay out of pocket for a retainer.

But I get what you mean about tax dollars. It should have come from the department something more tangible for the state patrol to not do this again

Exusia , 1 month ago (edited 29 days ago) to news in He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000

In law it is the defense who is supposed to argue the amount is too much, and the plaintiff should ask for as much as possible because at that point it is punitive. Second, while you may not feel threatened by any single interaction with police, this officer was angry and had to have exhibited aggressive behavior. These ingredients have resulted in lots of interactions going south.

Thirdly, let’s put you in this man’s position, we will make one assumption - that you know flipping a cop off is settled law and protected free speech. You’re driving home and you get pulled over. For what? You were just driving and not speeding, what gives? “Licence and registration. Do you know why I pulled you over? Because you flipped me off”. This is not a first level offence. This isn’t being on your phone. This isn’t driving without a seatbelt or speeding. This isn’t driving erratically. This cop just told you he’s going to ticket you because you flipped the bird, but you didn’t. You try to explain you didn’t and he’s going to get mad because you called him a liar. Now you have a citation in hand and you try and NOT swear and actually flip him off. He has deprived your freedom of speech and given you a ticket for it and you know it. If you’re gonna get a ticket you may as well do the crime right? So the officer, rather than writing another citation you know will get thrown, has your car towed. He settles you with a $300 tow AND a citation OVER A GESTURE that he is legally and constitutionally WRONG about, and you know he is. He then arrests you for it, and you spend an hour at the precinct settling this. Then when you’re free to go, you have to bum a ride to go get your fucking car. A month or so later, you have take time off work to go to court. You miss making probably another $300 because a day off. It gets dismissed because it’s a first amendment issue - you knew this would be the result all along. A minor feeling of vindication because you are now out $500 for missing work and other legal fees, maybe an Uber to go pick up your car, and have been harassed by a state patrolman, spent an hour in jail instead of whatever you were driving to go do. 3 years later the ACLU says "hey so you were right, and we want to sue over it. Would you NOT say “yeah fuck that dude” and sign on for it?

Minor footnote, he won 100,000, and 75,000 went to the ACLU

Exusia , 1 month ago to lemmyshitpost in This is my 666th post. AMA

We are on different instances it’s possible yours is still federated with something that that world has blocked

Exusia , 1 month ago to lemmyshitpost in This is my 666th post. AMA

Holup

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/95865242-34e6-4a80-8ab3-ab398e721609.jpeg

For my question: What is your take on the memes here now compared to before the rexodus?

Exusia OP , 1 month ago to lemmyshitpost in Starter Guide

Plug for a list of important videos for people who may not have seen them yet

Exusia OP , 1 month ago to lemmyshitpost in Starter Guide

I’ve had this in my roll for a hot minute

Exusia , 1 month ago to lemmyshitpost in We all know it's true

Oh shit he migrated with us? Praise be to His Noodly Appendage!

Exusia , 1 month ago to lemmyshitpost in We all know it's true

Those 2 truly are the lemmyverse

Exusia , 1 month ago to lemmyshitpost in We all know it's true

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Exusia OP , 1 month ago to memes in theoretical feline

I’ve had this for a long time, nah someone drew it/did it digitally

Exusia OP , 1 month ago to memes in Master Chef in the making

A good place reference? In 2024?

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Exusia , 1 month ago to lemmyshitpost in math checks out

Now I hear it too. I hear the whole song. GET OUT OF MY HEAD

Exusia , 1 month ago to technology in All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration

It was before, too.