• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    We know you’re dirty, because most of us have had to deal with you and we know you are just as likely to ruin us as to help us.

    There are good cops, I’ve met a few and I love them. However, the low bar for entry and their authority leads to a lot of ruthless thugs wearing the badge.

    They had a much better reputation before they were forced to wear cameras (sometimes). It’s odd, almost every time I’ve investigated a case (i.e. read up on something that happened years ago, long after the case is over), the cops are dead-ass lying about what happened, and only the footage reveals the truth.

    I am staunchly pro-union, but US police demonstrate what happens when unions are at their worst. No accountability. If only the rest of us had unions that fought half as hard for us…

    good luck on discovery

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      I have completely forgotten about what exactly Streisand was trying to hide. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the actual media she was embarrassed about.

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          I find it hilarious that I know what her house looks like but don’t know a single one of her songs. Given that she wanted to hide the former and as an artist, probably wanted everyone to be exposed to the latter.

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            I grew up listening to her music because my parents liked it.

            Now I also know that on a personal level she’s probably a whiny little bitch

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            This may be generational. There is not likely to be much intersection between the group of people who listened to Streisand and those who listen to Swift.

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              To be fair I don’t listen to Swift either, but yes, I’m closer to her fans in age probably.

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                I’m somewhere in the middle. I am aware of both but really payed no attention to either.

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          If the picture were cropped to be just her house, it’s not even a particularly high resolution.

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            Keep in mind this was 2003 when it was absolutely not the norm to be able to see the aerial view of any given celebrity’s house, which also tells a lot about layout and entry points.

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          Anytime i see a link to that article, i like to click over and take another look at that house. I like to think of it as doing my part keeping the Streisand effect strong.

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          Two years later, Masnick coined the name when writing about Marco Beach Ocean Resort’s takedown notice to urinal.net (a site dedicated to photographs of urinals) over its use of the resort’s name.

          I guess that exists

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          It’s interesting to read that, now that we have more of a bird’s eye view of the whole situation. Streisand claims she never even wanted the image taken down, she just wanted her name removed from the image.

          It’s pretty funny in retrospect, if removing her name was her goal, she probably could have made it happen if instead of filing a lawsuit, she just called the webmaster for that site and asked nicely.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    Gee, sure sounds a lot like what they did to Afroman. This must be a new tactic spreading amongst the police union to crush public criticism since just not committing crimes as police officers seems to be too lofty of a goal.

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      It’s the current right wing bitch move where they sue anyone that is critical of them. Most judges will throw it out but there’s a chance that they will get a MAGA judge that will bend over backwards with flimsy excuses for the right wingers.

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          It’s just intimidation. Those idiots have little to no understanding of the English language for purposes other than parroting what their masters tell them to parrot.

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    I mean, discovery should be fun. “I need all body cam footage from all cops.”

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    Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are being sued through their production company, Artists Equity, over their latest Netflix crime thriller, The Rip, which Miami police allege falsely depicts them as “dirty.”

    You know how shit most movies are now? If the MPD wins, movies will get even worse. Just bland, milktoast, safe bullshit, because they won’t be able to get insurance for anything even mildly edgy.

    But, last time I checked the First Amendment was still in effect, and people are free to criticize and parody authority figures. So, I don’t think this will go anywhere.

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      If some random Redditors are to be believed the film actually paints the police in a semi positive light. There are a few bad cops but supposedly at the end most of the cops are shown to be acting with integrity.

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        Okay.

        But the thing about defamation lawsuits is that the plaintiff (Miami PD) has to show and demonstrate that it’s in fact defamation. Mostly that comes down to lying about it and causing reputational harm.

        The defendants (or rather a team if interns owned by their lawyers,) gets to go into the the plaintiffs records to discredit those claims.

        In other words, the lawyers will get an all-access pass to Miami PD’s normally confidential files detailing extensive corruption. Because let’s be honest, there’s corruption there.

        They’ll drop it before it gets to discovery.

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          Or they will just not comply with discovery, and also demand the case be sealed. As is tradition lately.

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    These cops are either idiots or they are trying to reveal a lot of dirt on their colleagues. Either way, I’m looking forward to it.

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      or they are trying to reveal a lot of dirt on their colleagues. Either way, I’m looking forward to it.

      That would be kinda brilliant, but id be shocked if they were trying to pull that off.

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        My guess is they’re actually the scumbagiest of scumbag cops, but also stupid and offended and they’re telling on themselves.

        Every accusation is a confession.

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          Should start a betting pool, we’re the people who asked for this case to happen themselves corrupt.

          Edit: even more hilarious if the news picked up on it

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    The idea that the police must be held above suspicion and assumed heroic is one of the worst things that can happen to good law enforcement. Good law enforcement requires the public to always be scrutinizing the cops.

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    But for some reason they didn’t mind the TV show Dexter?

    Their lab geek was a proficient serial killer.

    Debra was a murderer and covered up crimes. Often violated constitutional rights including shoving a gun in a kids face.

    Doakes was a murderer. Often violated constitutional rights.

    Quinn was dirty, stole crime scene money, took bribes, tampered with evidence, and covered up murdering someone. Often violated constitutional rights.

    LaGuerta was dirty and violated constitutional rights.

    Batista knew of cop crimes and often looked the other way. Beat a man because of his words and put him in hospital. Several times violated constitutional rights.

    Harry Morgan fucked his CI’s and taught his son to murder and avoid the law.

    Matthews fucked prostitutes, violated constitutional rights, and was generally dirty.

    Seems like the only character that wasn’t a criminal was Masuka. His only crime was he liked to fuck.

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      Masuka almost certainly has committed some sort of sex crime. There’s no way he’s clean whether that was shown in the series or not. Dude has sex pest written all over him. No way he wasn’t stalking or touching women without consent. Even if only as a joke, I could see him desecrating some victim’s corpse. Dude had no chill and no filter or inhibitions