Trump pardons two D.C. officers convicted in fatal chase and cover-up
David Shurtz, an attorney representing the estate of Karon Hylton-Brown, 20, said the president’s decision was “outrageous” and “ill-advised.”
To think that the right wing can be so violent that it needs a presidential pardon of their crimes. Fucken insane time to be alive right now.
Trump has never heard of a killer cop he didn't like.
Electing this piece of shit was outrageous and ill-advised.
it was ill-advised !!!!
Not electing the alternative, if just to keep him out of office, could also be seen as that.
Why is it that this continues to be the strategy election after election when it's been proven time and time again to be a failure?
When faced with a monster of an opponent, the DNC keeps deciding to pick the blandest, unlikeable, center-right, status-quo politicians possible to run against them. If COVID hadn't happened, there's no way Biden would have won in 2020, Clinton lost in 2016, and both Biden and Harris lost in 2024. Republicans, by virtue of being Republican, always pick a monster as their candidate and we can expect them to keep winning so long as the DNC sits on their ass letting them run the show just so long as they don't have to stand for anything and jeopardize their own comfy seats in office.
Fuck, DC is gonna burn...
Police response to the protests of the murder of Karon Hylton-Brown was heavy handed to say the least. With the upcoming protests already planned, this was either completely tone deaf and ignorant of the significance of the pardon. Or could be an antagonizing effort to show "riots" to justify more police violence and show the "left" as violent extremists.
Shit like this is how we get a Reichstag fire type event to allow a concentration of power and a justification for martial law or worse.
They will first wait until some horrific crime or terrorist action is commited to declare martial law on that, then try to rig the 2026 midterms to get Orbán-style supermajority (get ready for zero adspace and social media reach for the Democrats), then comes the reichstag fire.
Or could be an antagonizing effort to show “riots” to justify more police violence and show the “left” as violent extremists.
They shouldn't riot then, very easy. Own Trump with this one simple trick.
They should riot, but not when or where expected.
What benefit does a satirical account have when the content is just repeating the talking points of those you're satirizing?
So he does back the blue after all - just the wrong shade of blue.
The really red shade of blue. The one with the white circle in the middle with a black swastika.
He does seem to like orange and black and white stripes though.