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ABUSE OF AUTHORITY? Internet Censorship death sentence. Life sentence for stealing 50 cents of donuts. Ban fat people from restaurants.  Interesting stories today.

• ABUSE OF AUTHORITY? I think so: Cops look for 6 men who assaulted man with baseball bat — instead pull over a van with a woman, 2 15yos, a 12yo, an 8yo, and a 4yo on the way back from a girls bacsketball game — And they beat the 15yo.
  Real nice. They look for 6 men, pull over a vehicle that is very obviously NOT who they are looking for, and end up beating a minor.
  Were they under arrest?
  of COURSE the victims don’t seem to be white…
  (tags: politics AbuseOfAuthority police brutality policeBrutality beatings vehicles wrongVehicle dumbasses MigdaliaIrizzary basketball teeth braces MarkWodell charges aggravatedAssault ResistingArrest PeterE.Warshaw NormaM.Hobbie OverlyHarshPunishments)
• TECHNOLOGY WAR, CENSORSHIP, RELIGION: Internet Censorship on the rise — first death sentence
  It’s a good thing we’re spreading such great democracy to the world!Afghanistan has sentenced a journalism student to death for downloading and sharing a report criticizing the treatment of women in Islamic countries.
  (tags: politics TechnologyWar censorship religion Islam Sharia deathSentence death sentences Afghanistan students journalists women sexism Slashdot news articles OverlyHarshPunishments)
• OVERLY-HARSH PUNISHEMNTS: Man faces life sentence for stealing 50 cents of donuts
  This is precisely what’s wrong with 3-strikes laws.Ed Jagels strikes me as particularly zealous.
  (tags: politics OverlyHarshPunishments stealing robbery theft donuts doughnuts RobertFassbender 3Strikes ThreeStrikes KernCounty EdJagels)
• KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY, OR MUCH-NEEDED ENCOURAGEMENT: Mississippi lawmakers seek to ban fat people from restaurants
  Just desserts?
  (tags: politics obesity fat restaurants Mississippi politicians legislation bills HB282)