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Disappointingly his lawyer wasn't Harvey Birdman

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This whole kerfuffle really irks me. The police did something wrong. They got called out on it. Then they sued. It's vindictive and horrible. And you fucking KNOW that if he sued them instead of making the song it very likely wouldn't have gone anywhere and they'd get to wave their qualified immunity all over. But that wasn't enough for them. They just couldn't stand someone besmirching their perfect name.

The sheer irony of this whole thing is that I had forgotten. I imagine many of you did too if you even saw those videos he made after it happened a few months back. They totally Streisand effected (Streisand affected? lol) themselves. Absolutely disgusting to see them sue him over this. Very glad he won.

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Somone pleas correct me if im wrong, but he had a counter suit and everything got thrown out almost immediately because the judge was essentially gobbing the cops knobs.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Gobbing the cops knobs, cops have qualified immunity, what's the difference.