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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
The police should not be allowed to release edited versions of bodycam footage. All of it, or none of it. Here, the NYPD cut out the part where the officers *started the fight*. This sort of selective editing is what any political institution—which the police inarguably are—would do.
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New Videos Contradict NYPD Account of Lead-Up to Times Square Attack on Cops
Police said Yohenry Brito was disobeying a lawful order to disperse when an officer tried to arrest him, triggering a melee with nearly a dozen men. But footage released today shows he was walking awa...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Hey, let’s read about Shelby Foote, the pretend historian whose novelistic works a Supreme Court justice invoked in an effort to understand the true facts behind the Fourteenth Amendment
Foote concluded that most historians are "so concerned with finding out what happened that they make the enormous mistake of equating facts with truth...you can't get the truth from facts. The truth is the way you feel about it".
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grsmith1.bsky.social @grsmith1.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Happy New Year!
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