Kermode
GRAPHIC WARNING - Rochester, N.Y., police officers suspended after allegedly using pepper spray on a child
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1851366979768
"allegedly"?
They must be using a definition of the word that I wasn't previously familiar with...
Feb 3, 2021 at 5:26pmWeb
Show threadQyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍Feb 3, 2021
@gemlog
It's the whole 'innocent until proven guilty' thing. Even though a video may prove the fact, they still have to have their day in court. So until then it's 'allegedly'.
Show threadQyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍Feb 3, 2021
@gemlog
Over here you also sometimes get the news naming people, who later suddenly become nameless because the court case is happening.
Show threadKermodeFeb 3, 2021
@PhotonQyv
'Innocent until proven guilty'
'The law must be seen to be done'
'Ignorance of the law is no excuse'
and on ad nauseum...
I'm well familiar with those hoary old bromides (and lots more besides :-) ), but there were no cop cameras and citizen videos from multiple sources back then.
Not saying those sources don't need to be vetted in a court of law in the end, but the media should give us some teensy amount of credit for common sense. That's all
Also, what was that first thing? lawyers
Show threadQyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍Feb 4, 2021

@gemlog
I don't disagree with you (:*

If someone was to say, 'it's lawyers all the way down', chances are I'd believe them.

As for the media, they're still of the opinion that we believe what they say, and can't make our own minds up.

(The original 3rd paragraph was going to be a longer rant, but I'll save you the eyestrain (;* )

Suffice to say, the event happened, it's pointless to use the word 'allegedly', but the media can't help itself. Too many lawyers.

Night mate (:*

Show threadKermodeFeb 4, 2021
@PhotonQyv ha! caught the ref: turtles all the way down! :-)
Show threadKermodeFeb 4, 2021
@PhotonQyv I was more thinking about Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 as the first thing we do :-)
Anyhow...
I think we're well met.
Show threadKermodeFeb 4, 2021
@PhotonQyv I was more thinking about Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 as the first thing we do :-)
kill all the lawyers
barristers first or solicitors?
what about these articling students? they're striking for a patch
their profs?
current grads? judges, magistrates, supremes and so forth...?
clerks? odd-bodies? secretaries? Stenos?
office managers?
what about the guy that repairs the fotocopier?
The MS Windows Janitor; the network guy?
Why not just do the lot of them? I'll choose. I'm in charge