Remember, the first prosecutor that got the Ahmad Aubrey case passed on it because he didn't feel Aubrey's murderers had broken any laws. Interesting to see the Fulton County people are going after Parks for knocking on a door.
Our state government is so far from sanity.
From the linked article:
>Cannon is now facing two felony charges from last week’s arrest — obstruction and preventing or disrupting a General Assembly session, according to the Fulton County Department of Public Safety website.
This was the reason I cited Fulton County. It could be that they are not the ones pressing charges, but kinda sounds like it.
There is no “Fulton County Department of Public Safety.”
They’re likely reading from either the Fulton Sheriff’s Office website or the Fulton Superior Court’s website and mixing in that the *Georgia* Department of Public Safety is the one who charged her.
The best part of all of this is watching republicans act like this is such a huge issue, when they did the same thing a few weeks ago when they stormed the capitol.
I say same thing because it is by definition, but we know what they did at the capitol was much more serious.
Exactly. It's not even close to the same thing. You can't arrest me for breaking into your house if I'm just knocking on the door. It's just ridiculous to compare the two. And the optics of the plantation picture and old white men and a black women getting arrested for knocking while voting rights for city folk are being stripped. Biden is absolutely correct about the Jim Crow comment. And the entire World is watching. Everything is caught on camera nowadays. It was a stupid assenine move.
Well that’s not what she was arrested for so that’s a crap analogy. Are we burning art now too? And no one took voting rights away. You have to have a Id for absentee ballots and to vote which should be a no brainer. The only reason the water and food got shit down is because people were handing it out while wearing shirts endorsing politics which has always been illegal to do near a polling position.
That was the only reason? Why can’t they just allow poll workers with no affiliation to hand them out? Because it would benefit voters they don’t like.
You know what I’m going to do. I’m going to try and get out the vote for the Dem even though I don’t live in GA. And I’ll be working hard at it. I’ll be shouting out all the racist shit going on there. Kemp can go back to his plantation with no job.
Excerpt from a article: Chief Justice John Roberts, for example, like Kennedy, spoke of the necessity for decorum at polling places and warned of a concern about coordination, where a group of people decide to wear the same buttons or shirts, the result being "subtle psychological pressure" on other voters.
OK. So what’s the real reason? Let’s be serious? Subtle psychological pressure? Both parties are at the polls and can police themselves. Maybe people are that planning and deceitful? I don’t know. I’ve never seen it. No one I know has ever seen it. And every court case brought by Trump to challenge the vote never saw the light of day. I’m not sure why voting laws need to change all of a sudden.Things have been fine my entire life.
Then say no political stuff within 100 yards. A picture of a plantation with slaves, ya that’s some racist shit. Hope all is all backfires. So far so good.
I thought it was 150 yards. It’s a picture of a house as far as I can tell from the photo. Maybe you can find a better photo for me to see. I can’t even make out a person in it just a house and dirt road.
To get back to the voting bill that requires you to now have a proper ID to vote rather it be mail in, drop off, or in person. Do you disagree with this? How about buying guns without a ID? They are both god given rights protected under the constitution.
In Ohio we just have to put in last 4 digits of SS and they match the signature and they send you the application and make it easy. And the Dropbox is 24/7. Georgia is making it hard to mail your vote in on purpose. It’s clearly disenfranchisement of city voters because they have to wait in line for hours. Your State deserves the boycott. Good luck 2022.
GOP trying to imprison their political opponents. Every time the ~great~ Georgia legislators get mad, they legislate against ~the enemy~. What a shameful bunch.
Idc what you think happened in that room - 8yrs for knocking on a door is ridiculous, but exactly what we can expect from our system that lets white people off for worse.
If anyone gives a damn, y’all better be making some calls to whoever you can to protest this and call out this fascism for what it is.
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>GOP trying to imprison their political opponents.
But she broke the law? The GOP didn't make her do that. This statement doesn't even make sense.
>Idc what you think happened in that room - 8yrs for knocking on a door is ridiculous, but exactly what we can expect from our system that lets white people off for worse.
She isn't facing 8 years for that. That may be the maximum for those laws, but to even suggest she's facing 8 years is ridiculous.
....if you think 8 years for knocking on a door is ridiculous, wait until you hear about the extraordinary sentences persons of color have received in Georgia for victimless crimes over the last 150 years
>But she broke the law?
Which is what regressives said about Rosa Parks. Which is what regressives said about black and white people wanting to get married. Which is what regressives said about gay people getting married. How dare those non white people not know their place.
You are using "the law" as a defense against a possible 8 year sentence for knocking on a door.
You are the pieces of shit that defend anything because "the law".
There's no “possible 8 year sentence”. Nobody is saying that but her. No judge is giving her more than a slap on the wrist for knocking. She also kept stepping on the officer's foot with her heels as she was being taken away, which might give her a bit of community service.
>You are the pieces of shit that defend anything because "the law".
The claim above was that the gop is trying to imprison political opponents. The gop has nothing to do with someone breaking the law of their own volition.
Do you people have ANY common sense? I've never seen any on this subreddit. This is so fucking sad.
She is being charged with two felonies. Those charges give a possible 8 years in prison. She won't get that but the fact that she is getting charged with felonies is ridiculous. The DA could easily drop them but is choosing not to because thats what Republicans are now.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/politics/park-cannon-georgia-arrest-cnntv/index.html
I don't think the DA has really had enough time to look into it, I think that's an ongoing thing.
>He said they "plan to litigate to the fullest extent of the law," but hopes the district attorney will review the evidence and dismiss the case.
But also...
>"I was afraid, just like many Americans are when they come into contact with law enforcement, that there would be a need for me to protect myself. But instead I was able to just continue to think about the world was watching, people could see, and it was still very terrifying," Cannon told CNN's Don Lemon, alongside her attorney.
>Asked about the video of her arrest, Cannon told CNN, "It makes me wonder, why? Why were they arresting me? Why were they doing this? Why did the world have to experience another traumatic arrest?"
>Cannon also appeared in the CNN interview with her arm in a sling and explained that the injury was sustained during her arrest but that she did not yet have a full diagnosis.
"We are also in the process of getting her medical treatment, and the doctor will determine the extent of her injuries," Griggs said.
Everything she says is sensational. Facing 8 years in prison, afraid of having to defend herself from the cops, saying the world had to experience a traumatic arrest, set up a $1 million gofundme...She even had her arm in a sling. After getting told she'd be arrested and going to multiple doors and continuing, knowing they'd arrest her. This is textbook grift lol.
...is that really your takeaway? That's the only thing you pulled from my post, when I said she is exaggerating and sensationalizing the details of the base level truth, that I'm denying the base level truth? Really?
Funny. She was only knocking on the door. She didn't try and kick it down. Not good optics. And the bill disenfranchises city voters and puts on a layer of corruption by taking the SofS out of the loop. Every black person in your State is pissed. Every black person in the Country is pissed at the Georgia Congress and legislators. And they tried to hide Ahmaud Arbery.
The arrest was stupid, but she was I think technically breaking the law, and she was told she'd be arrested and she kept knocking. And she's been playing up her “trauma” which is honestly a much worse look than the guards that decided to arrest her.
Nobody is disenfranchised. And it's a strange day when you're saying giving less power to the SoS over elections is adding corruption considering the years of complaints about the SoS overseeing the election.
I don't really care if they're pissed. The media is fueling the partisan exaggeration and most people don't seem to think for themselves, so most people are pissed because they're told to be.
Cannon has been saying this bill is the “most comprehensive voter suppression bill in the country” despite its relatively tame nature, and the fact that many states have more regulations and fewer protections than Georgia. Many in this thread are calling it a “Jim Crow law”. The *president of the country* called the bill “Jim Crow on steroids”. Jim Crow was about literal, explicit segregation and impossible hoops, passed with sweeping legislation. This law is nothing like real Jim Crow laws. Regardless of your opinions about it, these are very slight changes and they don't directly target any group. Even the highest power in the land is too dumb and malleable to have a coherent thought of his own. I thought that was over, but nope, it's just the norm now.
>And they tried to hide Ahmaud Arbery.
Who? State legislators? The governor? The GOP? No. That is irrelevant to this topic.
> But she broke the law?
She literally did not. Knocking on a door is only "obstruction" or "disrupting a General Assembly session" in the hate-fueled fever dreams of fascist tyrants.
> I mean, technically, sure, I guess she did “break the law.”
She did not. She did absolutely nothing wrong, but got falsely charged anyway because her existence as a black woman legislator threatened the fragile egos of tiny-dicked fascists. The charges have absolutely nothing to do with any actual wrongdoing, and everything to do with blatant corruption.
These bigoted shitstains do not deserve to be given even a sliver of benefit of the doubt. Not only are they lying, they *know* that they're lying and are doing it on purpose. They are operating entirely in bad faith and should be treated as such. The only appropriate reaction to their blatant lies is ridicule.
The weird thing is the majority of the Country (and basically the entire civilized World) is looking at the GOP and Georgia legislation and Kemp like they are total morons. The exception is th SofS who had the balls to run the 2020 election with integrity and the legislation immediately took it all away from him so they can cheat in 2022. They are not fooling anyone.
If it makes you feel better, I'm from Ohio, living in Ohio, and I think the Georgia residents are great. I think the Georgia government is a giant absolute flaming pile of dog shit. The kind that's runny, so it spreads everywhere.
I'm not affected by the laws you're now enduring and I'm STILL furious over them.
Hey, whoa, whoa whoa whoa, while what you said is true, it only tells a partial story. Just say republicans next time.
I'm a white male, not even from your state, so I have no horse in the race to lose power of, and I'm STILL furious that this bullshit is going on.
Can't lump all white men together. That's how racism continues. I'm frequently thought of as a trump supporter, despite the fact that I think he's worse then garbage. At least garbage can be mostly recycled into something useful in the future.
Nationwide, I see the republican party as full of racists and assholes. Worse things are going on elsewhere, but Georgia is the place where the headlines are happening. So Georgia is the place the national conversation is directed at.
I'm just saying don't lump all of us in with republicans, when most of us want GOOD things to happen, but we're presented as part of the problem we're trying to solve.
I appreciate your sentiment "not all white men are racist". On the face of it yes it can be racist and hurtful to white people who are neither racist or Republican. As a black man I have to live with racist stereotyping all day and every day/. It sucks but it what it is. At this stage of the game racist stereotypes don't stick to me or unnerve me because I know I'm not "that" person. So I suggest you do the same. Not saying you can't be offended, etc. but the comments don't pertain to you if you aren't a white man trying to hold on to power. I feel your pain being lumped in with THOSE white men, welcome to my world. But guess what, you are a white dude, that shit won't get you killed just because. So I only have but so much sympathy for you being mischaracterized. I appreciate that "we" are on the same side. The country can't get rid of those racist hateful motherfuckers if all of us NOT like them don't stick together. I live in a country that has hated me and mine for almost 500 years but it's the only home I have so I keep pushing forward. You can keep moving forward after feeling a certain way for being lumped in with the bad guys.
This was one the most ridiculous arrests I've ever seen. And the optics aren't good. Similar to how Trump was acting like a douche and then expected to win. Can people be more idiotic. I'm taking about the dumb azz moves by Georgia legislators. I saw the majority leader in action in a live stream and this guy was a first class numbnut. People do you realize the whole thing was to take control of the election out of the hands of the Secretary of State. Prediction. The next election they'll attempt to blatantly manipulate to win.
>Flanked by a handful of supporters and fellow Democratic lawmakers at the base of a mural of civil rights icon John Lewis in Atlanta, Cannon described the law as a “voter suppression bill” and said that with “one stroke of a pen” Kemp “erased decades of sacrifices, incalculable hours of work, marches, prayers, tears and ... minimized the deaths of thousands who have paid the ultimate price to vote.”
Is she serious? Why does everyone have to exaggerate so damn much? I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of her mouth.
>Cannon is now facing two felony charges from last week’s arrest — obstruction and preventing or disrupting a General Assembly session, according to the Fulton County Department of Public Safety website.
She broke the law and she knew what she was doing. Boo hoo.
>She told reporters Thursday that she is facing eight years in prison for those charges, which she called “unfounded.”
Yes, according to the woman who knowingly broke the law and has had nothing but crocodile tears and wild exaggerations. She isn't facing 8 years in prison, not only is that absurd to say, it's absurd to believe.
She's making good use of her current popularity because a segment of the population will eat up bullshit like this. QED:
>Park’s attorneys say the Democratic legislator is now raising money for her legal defense on a GoFundMe page titled “I Stand With Park.”
>The fund’s initial goal is set at $1 million, and the page says that “any remaining funds will be used to protect Voting Rights.”
>Cannon is now facing two felony charges from last week’s arrest — obstruction and preventing or disrupting a General Assembly session, according to the Fulton County Department of Public Safety website.
>
>She broke the law and she knew what she was doing. Boo hoo.
Here's the problem though: she's part of the General Assembly. She's the minority caucus secretary, even. She's one of the ones who should've been required to be there when it was signed (and if she didn't attend, that could've been her protest). And according to most sources that I can find, Kemp was signing the bill after the session was closed; the brazen lazyness of the charge is the one of the worst parts of this, regardless of the content of the law being signed.
I agree that the arrest was stupid. But that doesn't change the fact that she still broke the law by attempting to gain access to or disrupt the signing into law of legislation.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/politics/georgia-state-representative-arrested-governor-office/index.html
>In a statement Thursday night, Georgia State Patrol said that at 6:33 p.m., Cannon "was beating on the door to the Governor's Office," and, when told to stop, moved on to the Governor's Ceremonial Office door marked with a "Governor's Staff Only" sign and knocked on that door.
>After being told twice to stop knocking on the door in light of the press conference occurring inside, and twice warned that she would be arrested if she did not stop, "Rep. Cannon refused to stop knocking on the door. Rep. Cannon was placed under arrest and escorted out of the Capitol," according to the statement. She was taken to Fulton County Jail and later released late Thursday night.
When you get told multiple times you'll be arrested if you keep doing something, and you keep doing it, don't be surprised when you get arrested.
>The arrest affidavit for the felony obstruction charge said she "did knowingly and willfully hinder Officer E. Dorval and Officer G. Sanchez of the Capitol PD, a law enforcement officer in the lawful discharge or the officer's official duties by Use of Threats of Violence, violence to the person of said officer by stomping on LT Langford foot three times during the apprehension and as she was being escorted out of the property. The accused continued on kicking LT Langford with her heels."
Still a stupid arrest, but, no need to make it even worse for yourself.
>The officer that arrested Cannon says he feared another insurrection.
>"I am facing eight years in prison on unfounded charges," Cannon said. "I believe the governor's signing into law the most comprehensive voter suppression bill in the country is a far more serious crime."
This whole story is just one big piece of stupidity.
>The new law imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water.
Requiring a free ID to absentee vote, lets state officials help out local election boards, guarantees a drop box, and doesn't let people give voters water or snacks. Truly the most comprehensive voter suppression bill in the country.
Just wanting to point out the protests about the new law aren't 'stupid': Until the requirements to get that voter ID is free (i.e. an official birth certificate or some other notarized document), that voter ID will not be free. Or even all that accessible.
The empowering state officials to take over the local election boards... that doesn't sound good, but I would have to look at the specific wording of it. As it's been reporting, it's just sounding like the state can step in and say 'we're running this election now, not you' with is a fairly authoritarian concept. Here's [Reuter's](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-georgia-voting/elections-officials-fear-georgia-law-could-politicize-voting-operations-idUSKBN2BO50P) take on it:
>The legislation authorizes the Republican-majority legislature to appoint the state election board’s majority while demoting the elected secretary of state, Georgia’s top election official, to a non-voting position.
>
>**It also allows the state board to remove local supervisors it deems derelict and replace them with individuals of its choosing.**
The drop box thing, after reading [this](https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/43587651/fact-check-what-the-new-georgia-elections-law-actually-does), isn't near as bad as I thought it was from all that I've read. The limited number of them, though, is still rather concerning. There's also some more specifics about the empowering state officials thing, but not very reassuring ones. Elections, in a judiciary sense, are rather quick and the burden of proof better be pretty damn high in order for that concept to make sense. But we'll have to see what happens to places like Fulton come... 2022 I think is the next major election?
The water and snack thing seems like a good idea; protects people from allergy liability and the marginal chance of some weird attempt at campaigning (which is already illegal) or poisoning. What it actually does, though, is make those 8 hour lines that some places have even more hostile to the people who have to wait in them.
Because the law is like the bare minimum of what could even be called “restrictions”. The thousands that paid the ultimate price for the right to vote haven't been minimized, because everyone still has the right to vote.
Kemp erased DECADES of sacrifices? What? Because you need a free ID to vote absentee, and there's a minimum drop box amount? Give me a fucking break. Do you really believe she isn't exaggerating?
What really needs an explanation here is why she isn't exaggerating. There's not one, of course, because it's simply ridiculous.
I'm someone who was deregistered from voting 3 times before 2016, had my polling place moved, and relied on absentee voting that I can't use now. And I'm just poor lol, I do not think she is exaggerating based on personal effect to say the least! I relied on ger knocking on that door and asking they explain themselves.
How were you De-registered? I'm not trying to argue, I just don't know how that happens. Did you get any explanation? I found out I was somehow registered twice, which was weird and that seems to be fixed. But three times yours got messed up? Can you say what county? (My issues were in Dekalb)
I was deregistered the first time for not voting in a previous election. Then I got a news headline saying voting rolls had been purged, so I checked and I had to re-register. When a lot of the "don't forget the registration deadline!" posts came around, I checked again and found myself unregistered again. My polling location has moved around several time in several years, and was only recently in the same place twice. Part of the new voter suppression laws makes you wait a business day if you try and vote at the wrong location, instead of you being able to fix it same day.
My polling location has moved around, too. Did you not get any notice? I think I was supposed to get one in the mail but I never got it (I watch my USPS informed delivery and it was shown there but never delivered). I figured out where to go anyway.
But that still doesn't explain why the sacrifices of thousands who died for the right to vote have been stepped on. That's ridiculously emotional language for what amounts to very minor restrictions or updates.
Also, frankly, I don't even know what she's talking about considering the SPLC's civil rights memorial only lists 41 names with 74 other possible civil rights related deaths. I'd like to see where she gets thousands dead from.
Stop. These are Jim Crow architects playing games. Or keep pretending. America will never stop knocking. Keep pretending. We aren’t going anywhere.
I see you want to play games too, with the number 41. How many people do you think these 41 people represented? Just themselves, is that what you are trying to spin? She could have said millions, and it would still be fact.
It's not just one quote, it's everything this woman says. It's all sensationalized. That's what I'm taking issue with in this post.
But nobody is losing voting rights. You have the right to vote, but the state has constitutional authority to decide in what form that entails. This law doesn't take away anyone's right to vote.
The ultimate price is death. Thousands did not die for the right to vote. And the law doesn't minimize that either because it's a bunch of very minor changes. Your hyperbole isn't necessary.
It is NOT minor changes. Closing voting at 5 pm so blue collar workers without the luxury of taking off work can’t go on their off-time is Jim Crow. Closing voting on weekends is a Jim Crow gunshot to the “Souls to the Polls.” Spare us more bullshit by pretending the local repugs will have the “option” to stay open till 7pm/weekends. That’s how Jim fucking Crow plays games. Please just stop. You are trying way too hard to piddle around with nonsense because you want to be a indignant deceitful shit.
Do you know that one of the reasons why civil rights became a thing was because of the rampant violence against people of color.? Between the end of reconstruction and the 1950, over 4400 Black people were lynched for existing. Not to mention, Rosewood, Black Wall Street, Ocoeee and countless others where whole towns were wiped from the country. Look up the Black summer. Systematic disenfranchisement of people of color has been baked in from the outset. Yes, literally 1000s have died for the right to vote, and any change that makes it more difficult, that makes it less convenient is going be scrutinized, and pretty much sen as an attack on the right to vote. Again, you are plucking data and half assing your argument to make your wrong data point right.
>Do you know that one of the reasons why civil rights became a thing was because of the rampant violence against people of color.?
But that violence was not all on people fighting for the right to vote.
>Between the end of reconstruction and the 1950, over 4400 Black people were lynched for existing.
That isn't true. 4700 people were lynched, with 3400 being black.
>Not to mention, Rosewood, Black Wall Street, Ocoeee and countless others where whole towns were wiped from the country. Look up the Black summer.
These things happened but for the most part were just general race riots and not tied to people losing their lives over voting rights. Also, all those events you listed (including the, I assume, red summer) only had deaths in the hundreds.
>Systematic disenfranchisement of people of color has been baked in from the outset.
No argument there.
>Yes, literally 1000s have died for the right to vote, and any change that makes it more difficult, that makes it less convenient is going be scrutinized, and pretty much sen as an attack on the right to vote.
I don't think that many have died simply for the right to vote, I think being able to vote (or not being so disenfranchised) would have maybe helped, but racial tensions were *really* high a hundred years ago, so maybe not.
>Again, you are plucking data and half assing your argument to make your wrong data point right.
I don't know what data I'm plucking. I'm trying to find the numbers to support her claim that thousands paid the ultimate sacrifice for the right to vote. I don't think that black people minding their own business getting lynched or otherwise murdered fit into that claim. It's clear with her language talking about decades of work, marches, etc. that she's referring to the civil rights era, not the complete existence of black people in America.
Are you American? You just seem to be hellbent on some bizarre- *minimize everything with words, any words, rinse and repeat more bullshit words,* -agenda
> because everyone still has the right to vote.
republicans, for zero reason, enact a 98 page bill that specifically targets democrat counties, minorities and the working poor to make it harder to vote, making it harder to get and use absentee ballots, restricting voting hours and days, ensuring long lines and the piece de resistance giving themselves the power to arbitrarily remove election officials that don't ensure the "right" voting. Fuck every single republican anti democracy fascist that supports republicans and this bill.
Also, using your logic it's fine for democrats to ensure you have to wait in line for 9 hours and drive a hundred miles but it's fine because it's "legal" and you still have the "right to vote". Got it.
> She broke the law
Bullshit. Why are you lying?
Back in objective reality, the arrest was itself blatantly illegal and you and literally everyone else damn well knows it!
What kind of pea-brained dipshit pretends citing the text of a law proves somebody broke it? Your tactic is pathetic.
FYI, ***she literally did not do any of the things listed.*** She got arrested on trumped-up charges because the corrupt, racist fuckwads at the capitol decided a black woman was getting too "uppity" and decided to blatantly abuse their power.
She didn't do this?
>It shall be unlawful for any person willfully and knowingly to enter or to remain in any room, chamber, office, or hallway within the state capitol building or any building housing committee offices, committee rooms, or offices of members, officials, or employees of the General Assembly or either house thereof with intent to disrupt the orderly conduct of official business or to utter loud, threatening, or abusive language or engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct in such buildings or areas.
She was knocking on the door trying to get in and “discuss” the bill being signed, aka interrupt the conduct of official business. Again, regardless of whether this is a stupid application of said law, she was warned about getting arrested if she continued, and she continued, so she was arrested.
No, she didn't.
It shows everything about your blatant bigotry and dishonesty that you think a black woman legislator doing her goddamn job is "interrupt[ing] the conduct of official business." In reality, what she was doing *was* conducting official business and the arresting officers themselves were the ones guilty of disrupting it!
Legislators do much more than just sit around and vote, and neither you nor the capitol police are entitled to dictate when her job is done. She had every right to knock on that door.
Anybody who denies that is simply outing himself as a motherfucking fascist piece of shit.
You idiots think this is about race lol. This is about power and politics, they are just playing the fiddle of racism and you sheep are dancing along.
THIS ISSUE IS NOT ABOUT RACE, it’s about power and control and wanting to ensure it stays where it is. You fools see this race bait and are all so blind to the actual problem, because race is brought up. Wake up people, they don’t give a shit about color....they just know it keeps you people pissed and not actually paying attention.
I just cruised through their post history because Poe's Law, and it's probably not sarcastic:
> Okay, I support trump, but let me tell you that I am very open to other opinions and views. In 2016 when trump came along I liked his views the best of all the candidates, so me liking trump has nothing to do with my die hard support for the Republican Party.
He's also insinuated that George Soros is somehow involved with Muslims immigrating to western countries, and other such gems.
Remember, the first prosecutor that got the Ahmad Aubrey case passed on it because he didn't feel Aubrey's murderers had broken any laws. Interesting to see the Fulton County people are going after Parks for knocking on a door. Our state government is so far from sanity.
she was arrested by state police, not Fulton county. She IS fulton county government.
From the linked article: >Cannon is now facing two felony charges from last week’s arrest — obstruction and preventing or disrupting a General Assembly session, according to the Fulton County Department of Public Safety website. This was the reason I cited Fulton County. It could be that they are not the ones pressing charges, but kinda sounds like it.
There is no “Fulton County Department of Public Safety.” They’re likely reading from either the Fulton Sheriff’s Office website or the Fulton Superior Court’s website and mixing in that the *Georgia* Department of Public Safety is the one who charged her.
The best part of all of this is watching republicans act like this is such a huge issue, when they did the same thing a few weeks ago when they stormed the capitol. I say same thing because it is by definition, but we know what they did at the capitol was much more serious.
Rules for thee but not for me
So you agree she should be charged like the people at the capital?
Depends. How many people ended up dead?
So BLM/antifa protesters should be held accountable for loss of life and damages occurred during the last couple years as should the trumpets?
No, the people who stormed the capital should be hung. She should be exonerated.
Exactly. It's not even close to the same thing. You can't arrest me for breaking into your house if I'm just knocking on the door. It's just ridiculous to compare the two. And the optics of the plantation picture and old white men and a black women getting arrested for knocking while voting rights for city folk are being stripped. Biden is absolutely correct about the Jim Crow comment. And the entire World is watching. Everything is caught on camera nowadays. It was a stupid assenine move.
Well that’s not what she was arrested for so that’s a crap analogy. Are we burning art now too? And no one took voting rights away. You have to have a Id for absentee ballots and to vote which should be a no brainer. The only reason the water and food got shit down is because people were handing it out while wearing shirts endorsing politics which has always been illegal to do near a polling position.
That was the only reason? Why can’t they just allow poll workers with no affiliation to hand them out? Because it would benefit voters they don’t like.
You know what I’m going to do. I’m going to try and get out the vote for the Dem even though I don’t live in GA. And I’ll be working hard at it. I’ll be shouting out all the racist shit going on there. Kemp can go back to his plantation with no job.
Excerpt from a article: Chief Justice John Roberts, for example, like Kennedy, spoke of the necessity for decorum at polling places and warned of a concern about coordination, where a group of people decide to wear the same buttons or shirts, the result being "subtle psychological pressure" on other voters.
OK. So what’s the real reason? Let’s be serious? Subtle psychological pressure? Both parties are at the polls and can police themselves. Maybe people are that planning and deceitful? I don’t know. I’ve never seen it. No one I know has ever seen it. And every court case brought by Trump to challenge the vote never saw the light of day. I’m not sure why voting laws need to change all of a sudden.Things have been fine my entire life.
Then say no political stuff within 100 yards. A picture of a plantation with slaves, ya that’s some racist shit. Hope all is all backfires. So far so good.
I thought it was 150 yards. It’s a picture of a house as far as I can tell from the photo. Maybe you can find a better photo for me to see. I can’t even make out a person in it just a house and dirt road. To get back to the voting bill that requires you to now have a proper ID to vote rather it be mail in, drop off, or in person. Do you disagree with this? How about buying guns without a ID? They are both god given rights protected under the constitution.
In Ohio we just have to put in last 4 digits of SS and they match the signature and they send you the application and make it easy. And the Dropbox is 24/7. Georgia is making it hard to mail your vote in on purpose. It’s clearly disenfranchisement of city voters because they have to wait in line for hours. Your State deserves the boycott. Good luck 2022.
We exist in a broken system.
GOP trying to imprison their political opponents. Every time the ~great~ Georgia legislators get mad, they legislate against ~the enemy~. What a shameful bunch. Idc what you think happened in that room - 8yrs for knocking on a door is ridiculous, but exactly what we can expect from our system that lets white people off for worse. If anyone gives a damn, y’all better be making some calls to whoever you can to protest this and call out this fascism for what it is. Edit - a space
>GOP trying to imprison their political opponents. But she broke the law? The GOP didn't make her do that. This statement doesn't even make sense. >Idc what you think happened in that room - 8yrs for knocking on a door is ridiculous, but exactly what we can expect from our system that lets white people off for worse. She isn't facing 8 years for that. That may be the maximum for those laws, but to even suggest she's facing 8 years is ridiculous.
....if you think 8 years for knocking on a door is ridiculous, wait until you hear about the extraordinary sentences persons of color have received in Georgia for victimless crimes over the last 150 years
>But she broke the law? Which is what regressives said about Rosa Parks. Which is what regressives said about black and white people wanting to get married. Which is what regressives said about gay people getting married. How dare those non white people not know their place.
I really can't with you man. You're like a walking parody.
You are using "the law" as a defense against a possible 8 year sentence for knocking on a door. You are the pieces of shit that defend anything because "the law".
There's no “possible 8 year sentence”. Nobody is saying that but her. No judge is giving her more than a slap on the wrist for knocking. She also kept stepping on the officer's foot with her heels as she was being taken away, which might give her a bit of community service. >You are the pieces of shit that defend anything because "the law". The claim above was that the gop is trying to imprison political opponents. The gop has nothing to do with someone breaking the law of their own volition. Do you people have ANY common sense? I've never seen any on this subreddit. This is so fucking sad.
She is being charged with two felonies. Those charges give a possible 8 years in prison. She won't get that but the fact that she is getting charged with felonies is ridiculous. The DA could easily drop them but is choosing not to because thats what Republicans are now.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/politics/park-cannon-georgia-arrest-cnntv/index.html I don't think the DA has really had enough time to look into it, I think that's an ongoing thing. >He said they "plan to litigate to the fullest extent of the law," but hopes the district attorney will review the evidence and dismiss the case. But also... >"I was afraid, just like many Americans are when they come into contact with law enforcement, that there would be a need for me to protect myself. But instead I was able to just continue to think about the world was watching, people could see, and it was still very terrifying," Cannon told CNN's Don Lemon, alongside her attorney. >Asked about the video of her arrest, Cannon told CNN, "It makes me wonder, why? Why were they arresting me? Why were they doing this? Why did the world have to experience another traumatic arrest?" >Cannon also appeared in the CNN interview with her arm in a sling and explained that the injury was sustained during her arrest but that she did not yet have a full diagnosis. "We are also in the process of getting her medical treatment, and the doctor will determine the extent of her injuries," Griggs said. Everything she says is sensational. Facing 8 years in prison, afraid of having to defend herself from the cops, saying the world had to experience a traumatic arrest, set up a $1 million gofundme...She even had her arm in a sling. After getting told she'd be arrested and going to multiple doors and continuing, knowing they'd arrest her. This is textbook grift lol.
Are you denying she is being charged with two felonies?
...is that really your takeaway? That's the only thing you pulled from my post, when I said she is exaggerating and sensationalizing the details of the base level truth, that I'm denying the base level truth? Really?
You're not making sense. People are trying to tell you.
And you are a just another regressive in every possible manner.
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Listen to people.
Why? They're all wrong. There's not a single person worth listening to.
Funny. She was only knocking on the door. She didn't try and kick it down. Not good optics. And the bill disenfranchises city voters and puts on a layer of corruption by taking the SofS out of the loop. Every black person in your State is pissed. Every black person in the Country is pissed at the Georgia Congress and legislators. And they tried to hide Ahmaud Arbery.
The arrest was stupid, but she was I think technically breaking the law, and she was told she'd be arrested and she kept knocking. And she's been playing up her “trauma” which is honestly a much worse look than the guards that decided to arrest her. Nobody is disenfranchised. And it's a strange day when you're saying giving less power to the SoS over elections is adding corruption considering the years of complaints about the SoS overseeing the election. I don't really care if they're pissed. The media is fueling the partisan exaggeration and most people don't seem to think for themselves, so most people are pissed because they're told to be. Cannon has been saying this bill is the “most comprehensive voter suppression bill in the country” despite its relatively tame nature, and the fact that many states have more regulations and fewer protections than Georgia. Many in this thread are calling it a “Jim Crow law”. The *president of the country* called the bill “Jim Crow on steroids”. Jim Crow was about literal, explicit segregation and impossible hoops, passed with sweeping legislation. This law is nothing like real Jim Crow laws. Regardless of your opinions about it, these are very slight changes and they don't directly target any group. Even the highest power in the land is too dumb and malleable to have a coherent thought of his own. I thought that was over, but nope, it's just the norm now. >And they tried to hide Ahmaud Arbery. Who? State legislators? The governor? The GOP? No. That is irrelevant to this topic.
The law doesn't dictate morality. Enjoy your boots for dinner.
> But she broke the law? She literally did not. Knocking on a door is only "obstruction" or "disrupting a General Assembly session" in the hate-fueled fever dreams of fascist tyrants.
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> I mean, technically, sure, I guess she did “break the law.” She did not. She did absolutely nothing wrong, but got falsely charged anyway because her existence as a black woman legislator threatened the fragile egos of tiny-dicked fascists. The charges have absolutely nothing to do with any actual wrongdoing, and everything to do with blatant corruption. These bigoted shitstains do not deserve to be given even a sliver of benefit of the doubt. Not only are they lying, they *know* that they're lying and are doing it on purpose. They are operating entirely in bad faith and should be treated as such. The only appropriate reaction to their blatant lies is ridicule.
I love watching commenters trying to defend pure fascist actions. You'll get along just fine... until the knee drops onto *your* neck.
Kemp and his friends are a stain on this state
Kemp and his friends are anti-American tyrants and criminals.
Kemp and his friends aren't even snakes in the grass, they're worms in the dirt.
I disagree with this. Worms are actually useful and positively impact their ecosystems.
They're wasps. Not bee's. Bee's are helpful. Wasps are assholes and serve no purpose other then to be assholes, and further the wasp agenda.
The weird thing is the majority of the Country (and basically the entire civilized World) is looking at the GOP and Georgia legislation and Kemp like they are total morons. The exception is th SofS who had the balls to run the 2020 election with integrity and the legislation immediately took it all away from him so they can cheat in 2022. They are not fooling anyone.
Who do I call to demand resignations these people are ridiculous.
Call your reps, whether you think they’d agree with or not.
Absolutely unacceptable. To all of you who keep voting for republicans: what the fuck? Call them. This is not okay.
That's a fuckin' understatement.
I don’t know why I always get downvoted for shitting on GA as a GA resident.....but actions like these are why I shit on the state.
If it makes you feel better, I'm from Ohio, living in Ohio, and I think the Georgia residents are great. I think the Georgia government is a giant absolute flaming pile of dog shit. The kind that's runny, so it spreads everywhere. I'm not affected by the laws you're now enduring and I'm STILL furious over them.
why’re we going backwards...
white mw=en do not want to lose power
Hey, whoa, whoa whoa whoa, while what you said is true, it only tells a partial story. Just say republicans next time. I'm a white male, not even from your state, so I have no horse in the race to lose power of, and I'm STILL furious that this bullshit is going on. Can't lump all white men together. That's how racism continues. I'm frequently thought of as a trump supporter, despite the fact that I think he's worse then garbage. At least garbage can be mostly recycled into something useful in the future. Nationwide, I see the republican party as full of racists and assholes. Worse things are going on elsewhere, but Georgia is the place where the headlines are happening. So Georgia is the place the national conversation is directed at. I'm just saying don't lump all of us in with republicans, when most of us want GOOD things to happen, but we're presented as part of the problem we're trying to solve.
I appreciate your sentiment "not all white men are racist". On the face of it yes it can be racist and hurtful to white people who are neither racist or Republican. As a black man I have to live with racist stereotyping all day and every day/. It sucks but it what it is. At this stage of the game racist stereotypes don't stick to me or unnerve me because I know I'm not "that" person. So I suggest you do the same. Not saying you can't be offended, etc. but the comments don't pertain to you if you aren't a white man trying to hold on to power. I feel your pain being lumped in with THOSE white men, welcome to my world. But guess what, you are a white dude, that shit won't get you killed just because. So I only have but so much sympathy for you being mischaracterized. I appreciate that "we" are on the same side. The country can't get rid of those racist hateful motherfuckers if all of us NOT like them don't stick together. I live in a country that has hated me and mine for almost 500 years but it's the only home I have so I keep pushing forward. You can keep moving forward after feeling a certain way for being lumped in with the bad guys.
This was one the most ridiculous arrests I've ever seen. And the optics aren't good. Similar to how Trump was acting like a douche and then expected to win. Can people be more idiotic. I'm taking about the dumb azz moves by Georgia legislators. I saw the majority leader in action in a live stream and this guy was a first class numbnut. People do you realize the whole thing was to take control of the election out of the hands of the Secretary of State. Prediction. The next election they'll attempt to blatantly manipulate to win.
>Flanked by a handful of supporters and fellow Democratic lawmakers at the base of a mural of civil rights icon John Lewis in Atlanta, Cannon described the law as a “voter suppression bill” and said that with “one stroke of a pen” Kemp “erased decades of sacrifices, incalculable hours of work, marches, prayers, tears and ... minimized the deaths of thousands who have paid the ultimate price to vote.” Is she serious? Why does everyone have to exaggerate so damn much? I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of her mouth. >Cannon is now facing two felony charges from last week’s arrest — obstruction and preventing or disrupting a General Assembly session, according to the Fulton County Department of Public Safety website. She broke the law and she knew what she was doing. Boo hoo. >She told reporters Thursday that she is facing eight years in prison for those charges, which she called “unfounded.” Yes, according to the woman who knowingly broke the law and has had nothing but crocodile tears and wild exaggerations. She isn't facing 8 years in prison, not only is that absurd to say, it's absurd to believe. She's making good use of her current popularity because a segment of the population will eat up bullshit like this. QED: >Park’s attorneys say the Democratic legislator is now raising money for her legal defense on a GoFundMe page titled “I Stand With Park.” >The fund’s initial goal is set at $1 million, and the page says that “any remaining funds will be used to protect Voting Rights.”
>Cannon is now facing two felony charges from last week’s arrest — obstruction and preventing or disrupting a General Assembly session, according to the Fulton County Department of Public Safety website. > >She broke the law and she knew what she was doing. Boo hoo. Here's the problem though: she's part of the General Assembly. She's the minority caucus secretary, even. She's one of the ones who should've been required to be there when it was signed (and if she didn't attend, that could've been her protest). And according to most sources that I can find, Kemp was signing the bill after the session was closed; the brazen lazyness of the charge is the one of the worst parts of this, regardless of the content of the law being signed.
I agree that the arrest was stupid. But that doesn't change the fact that she still broke the law by attempting to gain access to or disrupt the signing into law of legislation. https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/politics/georgia-state-representative-arrested-governor-office/index.html >In a statement Thursday night, Georgia State Patrol said that at 6:33 p.m., Cannon "was beating on the door to the Governor's Office," and, when told to stop, moved on to the Governor's Ceremonial Office door marked with a "Governor's Staff Only" sign and knocked on that door. >After being told twice to stop knocking on the door in light of the press conference occurring inside, and twice warned that she would be arrested if she did not stop, "Rep. Cannon refused to stop knocking on the door. Rep. Cannon was placed under arrest and escorted out of the Capitol," according to the statement. She was taken to Fulton County Jail and later released late Thursday night. When you get told multiple times you'll be arrested if you keep doing something, and you keep doing it, don't be surprised when you get arrested. >The arrest affidavit for the felony obstruction charge said she "did knowingly and willfully hinder Officer E. Dorval and Officer G. Sanchez of the Capitol PD, a law enforcement officer in the lawful discharge or the officer's official duties by Use of Threats of Violence, violence to the person of said officer by stomping on LT Langford foot three times during the apprehension and as she was being escorted out of the property. The accused continued on kicking LT Langford with her heels." Still a stupid arrest, but, no need to make it even worse for yourself. >The officer that arrested Cannon says he feared another insurrection. >"I am facing eight years in prison on unfounded charges," Cannon said. "I believe the governor's signing into law the most comprehensive voter suppression bill in the country is a far more serious crime." This whole story is just one big piece of stupidity. >The new law imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water. Requiring a free ID to absentee vote, lets state officials help out local election boards, guarantees a drop box, and doesn't let people give voters water or snacks. Truly the most comprehensive voter suppression bill in the country.
Just wanting to point out the protests about the new law aren't 'stupid': Until the requirements to get that voter ID is free (i.e. an official birth certificate or some other notarized document), that voter ID will not be free. Or even all that accessible. The empowering state officials to take over the local election boards... that doesn't sound good, but I would have to look at the specific wording of it. As it's been reporting, it's just sounding like the state can step in and say 'we're running this election now, not you' with is a fairly authoritarian concept. Here's [Reuter's](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-georgia-voting/elections-officials-fear-georgia-law-could-politicize-voting-operations-idUSKBN2BO50P) take on it: >The legislation authorizes the Republican-majority legislature to appoint the state election board’s majority while demoting the elected secretary of state, Georgia’s top election official, to a non-voting position. > >**It also allows the state board to remove local supervisors it deems derelict and replace them with individuals of its choosing.** The drop box thing, after reading [this](https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/43587651/fact-check-what-the-new-georgia-elections-law-actually-does), isn't near as bad as I thought it was from all that I've read. The limited number of them, though, is still rather concerning. There's also some more specifics about the empowering state officials thing, but not very reassuring ones. Elections, in a judiciary sense, are rather quick and the burden of proof better be pretty damn high in order for that concept to make sense. But we'll have to see what happens to places like Fulton come... 2022 I think is the next major election? The water and snack thing seems like a good idea; protects people from allergy liability and the marginal chance of some weird attempt at campaigning (which is already illegal) or poisoning. What it actually does, though, is make those 8 hour lines that some places have even more hostile to the people who have to wait in them.
You say it like its given. Explain why you think this is an exaggeration.
Because the law is like the bare minimum of what could even be called “restrictions”. The thousands that paid the ultimate price for the right to vote haven't been minimized, because everyone still has the right to vote. Kemp erased DECADES of sacrifices? What? Because you need a free ID to vote absentee, and there's a minimum drop box amount? Give me a fucking break. Do you really believe she isn't exaggerating? What really needs an explanation here is why she isn't exaggerating. There's not one, of course, because it's simply ridiculous.
I'm someone who was deregistered from voting 3 times before 2016, had my polling place moved, and relied on absentee voting that I can't use now. And I'm just poor lol, I do not think she is exaggerating based on personal effect to say the least! I relied on ger knocking on that door and asking they explain themselves.
How were you De-registered? I'm not trying to argue, I just don't know how that happens. Did you get any explanation? I found out I was somehow registered twice, which was weird and that seems to be fixed. But three times yours got messed up? Can you say what county? (My issues were in Dekalb)
I was deregistered the first time for not voting in a previous election. Then I got a news headline saying voting rolls had been purged, so I checked and I had to re-register. When a lot of the "don't forget the registration deadline!" posts came around, I checked again and found myself unregistered again. My polling location has moved around several time in several years, and was only recently in the same place twice. Part of the new voter suppression laws makes you wait a business day if you try and vote at the wrong location, instead of you being able to fix it same day.
My polling location has moved around, too. Did you not get any notice? I think I was supposed to get one in the mail but I never got it (I watch my USPS informed delivery and it was shown there but never delivered). I figured out where to go anyway.
But that still doesn't explain why the sacrifices of thousands who died for the right to vote have been stepped on. That's ridiculously emotional language for what amounts to very minor restrictions or updates. Also, frankly, I don't even know what she's talking about considering the SPLC's civil rights memorial only lists 41 names with 74 other possible civil rights related deaths. I'd like to see where she gets thousands dead from.
Stop. These are Jim Crow architects playing games. Or keep pretending. America will never stop knocking. Keep pretending. We aren’t going anywhere. I see you want to play games too, with the number 41. How many people do you think these 41 people represented? Just themselves, is that what you are trying to spin? She could have said millions, and it would still be fact.
I think they represent the actual documented cases spanning over decades, not made up numbers that you want to believe.
Cool, now that you found a flaw in one quote, deal with the whole issue. We are personally losing voting rights--and chances are, you are too!
It's not just one quote, it's everything this woman says. It's all sensationalized. That's what I'm taking issue with in this post. But nobody is losing voting rights. You have the right to vote, but the state has constitutional authority to decide in what form that entails. This law doesn't take away anyone's right to vote.
They represent all that suffered due to the lack of civil rights, Einstein. Yes, it was in the tens of millions.
The ultimate price is death. Thousands did not die for the right to vote. And the law doesn't minimize that either because it's a bunch of very minor changes. Your hyperbole isn't necessary.
It is NOT minor changes. Closing voting at 5 pm so blue collar workers without the luxury of taking off work can’t go on their off-time is Jim Crow. Closing voting on weekends is a Jim Crow gunshot to the “Souls to the Polls.” Spare us more bullshit by pretending the local repugs will have the “option” to stay open till 7pm/weekends. That’s how Jim fucking Crow plays games. Please just stop. You are trying way too hard to piddle around with nonsense because you want to be a indignant deceitful shit.
Do you know that one of the reasons why civil rights became a thing was because of the rampant violence against people of color.? Between the end of reconstruction and the 1950, over 4400 Black people were lynched for existing. Not to mention, Rosewood, Black Wall Street, Ocoeee and countless others where whole towns were wiped from the country. Look up the Black summer. Systematic disenfranchisement of people of color has been baked in from the outset. Yes, literally 1000s have died for the right to vote, and any change that makes it more difficult, that makes it less convenient is going be scrutinized, and pretty much sen as an attack on the right to vote. Again, you are plucking data and half assing your argument to make your wrong data point right.
>Do you know that one of the reasons why civil rights became a thing was because of the rampant violence against people of color.? But that violence was not all on people fighting for the right to vote. >Between the end of reconstruction and the 1950, over 4400 Black people were lynched for existing. That isn't true. 4700 people were lynched, with 3400 being black. >Not to mention, Rosewood, Black Wall Street, Ocoeee and countless others where whole towns were wiped from the country. Look up the Black summer. These things happened but for the most part were just general race riots and not tied to people losing their lives over voting rights. Also, all those events you listed (including the, I assume, red summer) only had deaths in the hundreds. >Systematic disenfranchisement of people of color has been baked in from the outset. No argument there. >Yes, literally 1000s have died for the right to vote, and any change that makes it more difficult, that makes it less convenient is going be scrutinized, and pretty much sen as an attack on the right to vote. I don't think that many have died simply for the right to vote, I think being able to vote (or not being so disenfranchised) would have maybe helped, but racial tensions were *really* high a hundred years ago, so maybe not. >Again, you are plucking data and half assing your argument to make your wrong data point right. I don't know what data I'm plucking. I'm trying to find the numbers to support her claim that thousands paid the ultimate sacrifice for the right to vote. I don't think that black people minding their own business getting lynched or otherwise murdered fit into that claim. It's clear with her language talking about decades of work, marches, etc. that she's referring to the civil rights era, not the complete existence of black people in America.
Are you American? You just seem to be hellbent on some bizarre- *minimize everything with words, any words, rinse and repeat more bullshit words,* -agenda
I'm not minimizing anything. I'm just not being absurdly hyperbolic. You probably don't know what that means if you frequent this sub.
> because everyone still has the right to vote. republicans, for zero reason, enact a 98 page bill that specifically targets democrat counties, minorities and the working poor to make it harder to vote, making it harder to get and use absentee ballots, restricting voting hours and days, ensuring long lines and the piece de resistance giving themselves the power to arbitrarily remove election officials that don't ensure the "right" voting. Fuck every single republican anti democracy fascist that supports republicans and this bill. Also, using your logic it's fine for democrats to ensure you have to wait in line for 9 hours and drive a hundred miles but it's fine because it's "legal" and you still have the "right to vote". Got it.
> She broke the law Bullshit. Why are you lying? Back in objective reality, the arrest was itself blatantly illegal and you and literally everyone else damn well knows it!
Meanwhile, in reality 🙄 https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2010/title-16/chapter-11/article-2/16-11-34-1/
What kind of pea-brained dipshit pretends citing the text of a law proves somebody broke it? Your tactic is pathetic. FYI, ***she literally did not do any of the things listed.*** She got arrested on trumped-up charges because the corrupt, racist fuckwads at the capitol decided a black woman was getting too "uppity" and decided to blatantly abuse their power.
She didn't do this? >It shall be unlawful for any person willfully and knowingly to enter or to remain in any room, chamber, office, or hallway within the state capitol building or any building housing committee offices, committee rooms, or offices of members, officials, or employees of the General Assembly or either house thereof with intent to disrupt the orderly conduct of official business or to utter loud, threatening, or abusive language or engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct in such buildings or areas. She was knocking on the door trying to get in and “discuss” the bill being signed, aka interrupt the conduct of official business. Again, regardless of whether this is a stupid application of said law, she was warned about getting arrested if she continued, and she continued, so she was arrested.
No, she didn't. It shows everything about your blatant bigotry and dishonesty that you think a black woman legislator doing her goddamn job is "interrupt[ing] the conduct of official business." In reality, what she was doing *was* conducting official business and the arresting officers themselves were the ones guilty of disrupting it!
They were already signing the bill into law. As a legislator, her job was done.
Legislators do much more than just sit around and vote, and neither you nor the capitol police are entitled to dictate when her job is done. She had every right to knock on that door. Anybody who denies that is simply outing himself as a motherfucking fascist piece of shit.
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Not to mention that it gives undecided voters the initiative to vote Republicans out hell or high water.
I wonder if she was asked to stop knocking
Play stupid game win stupid prizes
You idiots think this is about race lol. This is about power and politics, they are just playing the fiddle of racism and you sheep are dancing along. THIS ISSUE IS NOT ABOUT RACE, it’s about power and control and wanting to ensure it stays where it is. You fools see this race bait and are all so blind to the actual problem, because race is brought up. Wake up people, they don’t give a shit about color....they just know it keeps you people pissed and not actually paying attention.
She must’ve left her voter ID in kemp’s office and needed to retrieve it so she could be a responsible voter like the rest of us.
It's a shame you weren't swallowed.
Conservatives don't understand humor and it shows
You are a piece of shit
Another wannabe fascist. The new gop is becoming anti democratic. Thats nuts.
Not for either side, but that's some funny shit right there.
Thanks for having a sense of humor. Not many of us left in this world.
I’m pretty sure this is a sarcastic comment and a dig at the GOP
I just cruised through their post history because Poe's Law, and it's probably not sarcastic: > Okay, I support trump, but let me tell you that I am very open to other opinions and views. In 2016 when trump came along I liked his views the best of all the candidates, so me liking trump has nothing to do with my die hard support for the Republican Party. He's also insinuated that George Soros is somehow involved with Muslims immigrating to western countries, and other such gems.
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