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    “This was unlike anything our team has ever experienced,” Nick Cocchi, the Hampden county sheriff, said of the incident, which was captured on video released by his office and posted to YouTube by MassLive.

    Oh, so let me get this straight: Six months of jail time for weaponizing apian assault on badge-wearing servants of capital, but absolutely zero consequences for the systemic, routine devastation of booting an 80-year-old cancer patient out of his house so some predatory lending vulture can liquidate his assets. The sheriff found the bee incident “unlike anything our team has ever experienced.” Yeah buddy, because you experience housing destruction so fucking regularly it doesn’t even register as anomalous anymore. It’s background radiation at this point. Just another Tuesday enforcing the financial rape of sick people. “We try to help people through difficult situations,” Cocchi said, while literally being the instrument of their most difficult situation. That’s some real I’m very sorry for this but I’m going to do it anyway energy. “We’re compassionate genocidalists” is basically what you’re saying. Rebecca Woods showed up with an actual physical manifestation of “NO” and the state’s response was to break her face into pavement and jail her for six months. But the eviction? Chef’s kiss. Totally cool, totally legal, totally normal. The fact that his statement treats getting swarmed by bees as the shocking aberration rather than, I dunno, the routine judicial destruction of someone’s life is just peak American law enforcement tunnel vision. You know what’s “unprecedented”? Actually giving a shit about the person you’re destroying. Woods failed, the guy lost his home, and everyone’s fine with that. That’s the part that should be “unlike anything we’ve experienced.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    FUCK THESE PIGS

    FUCK THIS SYSTEM

    STING ALL THE FUCKING PIGS

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    So, why are the public authorities involved in private evictions at all?

    BTW:

    The court heard that Woods was told during the encounter that some deputies were allergic to bees, and that she replied: “Oh, you’re allergic? Good!”

    🤣🤣🤣

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    Idk why she’s being sentenced to anything. It is not illegal to release bees. What the bees do after release is not the responsibility of the keeper. Nature is self balancing. Obviously the cops were upsetting the natural order and should issue a public apology and avoid evicting elderly people. Or at least wear bee keeping gear while they do it.

    Or just go jump in a fire for considering it to begin with.

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    She got 6 months but will only do 2 more weeks because she was held without bail.

    America is the toilet of jurisprudence.

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      The incident happened in 2022 and it’s only now that she got convicted? Is that what America calls “the right to a speedy trial”?

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        You have the right to a speedy trial, but most people do not invoke it because you want your lawyer to build a defense. You can waive a lot of stuff, including the right to a trial by jury itself, and just go right in front of a judge if you want, but he’s almost certainly going to find you guilty.

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    90 years ago when the sherrif showed up to evict people like this…

    The neighbors were already there with shotguns.

    If the sherrif didn’t turn around, the county was soon having to vote for a new sherrif. And they usually voted for one that wouldnt even leave their office for an eviction call.

    If anything ever went to trial out of it, juries were very unlikely to convict.

    Sometimes people need to just stop giving any fucks. And we’re kind of getting there again…

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      What’s that? A deputy is coming to evict an old cancer patient? A large influx of bees ought to put a stop to that!

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    That no one has posted either the Oprah gif or the Tommy Boy clip is extraordinarily disappointing