NYPD Officers Doused

[Cow Poke]

In Chicago, a community block party had a pinata in the shape of an ICE agent. The group that brought it denied that this promotes violence against anybody. Yeah right.

https://www.newsweek.com/surprise-ic...-party-1450968

One of our biggest pro-police advocates (a fellow police chaplain) is a black from New Orleans who grew up hating police, and with his friends, devising ways to harass them. They would actively phone in prank calls so they could commit crimes on the other end of the city, throw rocks at police cars from the woods, and generally show their contempt - but nowhere near as brazenly as we're seeing today. He says "even as a thug, I realized there was shame in what I was doing".

These people feel no shame.

[Sparko]

One of our biggest pro-police advocates (a fellow police chaplain) is a black from New Orleans who grew up hating police, and with his friends, devising ways to harass them. They would actively phone in prank calls so they could commit crimes on the other end of the city, throw rocks at police cars from the woods, and generally show their contempt - but nowhere near as brazenly as we're seeing today. He says "even as a thug, I realized there was shame in what I was doing".

These people feel no shame.

Except when they have been arrested and stand before a judge at arraignment. You can be sure they will pretend to be contrite then.

[Cow Poke]

Except when they have been arrested and stand before a judge at arraignment. You can be sure they will pretend to be contrite then.

That's the sad part --- I'm not in court NEARLY as much as I used to be, but I do make appearances for various reasons related to people we're working with, and I'm amazed at the defiance of some of these thugs even in court.

When we were kids, and did stupid stuff, and got caught, we "fessed up" and "faced the music". These kids? Wow... they'll continue to lie, blame, pitch a fit, cuss.....

[Sparko]

That's the sad part --- I'm not in court NEARLY as much as I used to be, but I do make appearances for various reasons related to people we're working with, and I'm amazed at the defiance of some of these thugs even in court.

When we were kids, and did stupid stuff, and got caught, we "fessed up" and "faced the music". These kids? Wow... they'll continue to lie, blame, pitch a fit, cuss.....

They might do that once or twice, but once they find out the judge has no sympathy for jerks and sets a trial date, they tend to learn at least to pretend to be sorry.

I was sitting at a motion hour here one time, waiting for our trial to start, and they paraded prisoner after prisoner before the judge with their public defenders trying to get deferrals or dismissals, or drug treatment, etc. - nearly everyone was "I recognize what i did was wrong and I need help" - and generally the judges here are pretty lenient on first and even second time offenders, but there was this one girl, couldn't have been more than 20, and she apparently was there for skipping out on court ordered rehab for like the 2nd or third time. Judge was not happy with her. He basically set a trial date and said if she didn't show up he would issue a warrant on her. She was crying when they led her out.

[rogue06]

They might do that once or twice, but once they find out the judge has no sympathy for jerks and sets a trial date, they tend to learn at least to pretend to be sorry.

I was sitting at a motion hour here one time, waiting for our trial to start, and they paraded prisoner after prisoner before the judge with their public defenders trying to get deferrals or dismissals, or drug treatment, etc. - nearly everyone was "I recognize what i did was wrong and I need help" - and generally the judges here are pretty lenient on first and even second time offenders, but there was this one girl, couldn't have been more than 20, and she apparently was there for skipping out on court ordered rehab for like the 2nd or third time. Judge was not happy with her. He basically set a trial date and said if she didn't show up he would issue a warrant on her. She was crying when they led her out.

Around here there would be no chance of her missing trial since she would have had her bail revoked.

[Sparko]

Around here there would be no chance of her missing trial since she would have had her bail revoked.

I am assuming she didn't have any really big charges against her and the judge was going easy on her because of her age. But he was not happy with her at all. He was pretty stern and made her cry. I think he got through to her. At least I hope so.