• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Please, marginalized people get more explicitly threatening crap said to them all the time and people rarely get arrested or charged for that. She’s being charged because the system wants to make an example out of her. The judge basically said so himself at the bail hearing,

    “I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point,” the judge said.

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      19 hours ago

      Ouch. “This place is a shit show,” the judge said. (Not really, just fixed it for him).

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      19 hours ago

      Not saying you are wrong about the marginalized, but in this case she said, what could be considered threatening, a call to a health care provider that was not only actionable, but entirely recorded.

      “The system” won’t make an example out of her, “Exhibit A” will. That’s the difference.

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        8 hours ago

        It’s both.

        $100k bond for a threat that is neither specific nor credible is absurd.

        If it were a first time offender threat against a normal person (which is more specific), at most it would result in probation and a restraining order.

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          18 hours ago

          In Trump’s case it would be on 5th avenue in broad daylight.

          Just a joke though.