Sure, there may be a riot going on. But everyone wants to get down with the trend of the summer. And what is that, you ask? Simple: beating the record set in 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, after James Alex Fields Jr. was awarded life plus 419 years after someone died in connection with what he did driving a vehicle. That some was a 300-pound woman named Heather Heyer who had fallen over from a heart attack in connection with Fields' vehicle crashing into the crowd and colliding with another vehicle:
Challengers are now lining up to see if they can outdo Fields and beat his record; take, for example, this encounter in Bakersfield, California:
Or this encounter, in Denver:
Or this incident:
Or even this policeman, who seems determined to shatter Fields' record:
Or this policeman:
So now I ask you: had someone died in each of these incidents above, which would warrant the longest prison sentence? Would the sentence surpass the one awarded to Fields? Note that, per the U.S. justice system, the sentence should reflect whether the driver had political views that conflict with your own. As we do not know the political views of any of the drivers at this point, we are on our own. We will have to use a different criteria.
In my opinion, the first cop really put a lot of effort into it. Therefore, I would suggest a generous life sentence plus 101192 years. 101192 coincides with the digits matching the birth date of rapper Cardi B. As for this being a just model to base things off of, I think we are okay - at least, the model makes just as much sense as adding superfluous numbers to a life sentence in the first place.
Of course, it is highly likely that no policeman would ever do time, let alone serve a life sentence had somebody died in the above confrontations. The irony with that is twofold: first, the people who were endangered by the police's actions were protesting, among other things, corrupt police action; second, the justice system would probably find that the crowd was violent and the police had acted in self-defense - although, in the Fields case, the justice system had considered the protesters to be incapable of any provocation, even if information surfaced to the contrary:
Somebody is bound to lose their life if these kinds of confrontations continue. And, if the police are responsible, the streets are going to erupt in rage and violence in ways this country has never seen. I think we are really that close to a breaking point.
Challengers are now lining up to see if they can outdo Fields and beat his record; take, for example, this encounter in Bakersfield, California:
Bakersfield protest. Dammit people pic.twitter.com/YYwvhRdYQi— fry (@bfry28) May 30, 2020
Or this encounter, in Denver:
Warning: this is horrifying.— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) May 29, 2020
Tonight at a #BlackLivesMater protest in Denver a car pushed through the protesters blocking the street.
Then intentionally turned to try to run a man over.pic.twitter.com/gtFyOQFERI
Or this incident:
We were out here protesting peacefully and a stupid ass trump supporter comes and hits us with their car. They hit two innocents and sent them to the hospital. The police did not one thing to that car. Share the video for awareness!!!! #protest #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/WnNAzZbVO9— FITBOY MIKEYY (@FITBOY_MIKEYY) May 30, 2020
Or even this policeman, who seems determined to shatter Fields' record:
“NY’s Finest”. Disgusting. #BlackLivesMatter #riots2020 #JusticeForGeorgeFlyod pic.twitter.com/GP5vcXRlqy— Marco (@chieffymac11) May 31, 2020
Or this policeman:
Downtown LA is wild rn 😳 pic.twitter.com/Ox9ND1vPjx— Alex Estrada (@FknStrada) May 28, 2020
So now I ask you: had someone died in each of these incidents above, which would warrant the longest prison sentence? Would the sentence surpass the one awarded to Fields? Note that, per the U.S. justice system, the sentence should reflect whether the driver had political views that conflict with your own. As we do not know the political views of any of the drivers at this point, we are on our own. We will have to use a different criteria.
In my opinion, the first cop really put a lot of effort into it. Therefore, I would suggest a generous life sentence plus 101192 years. 101192 coincides with the digits matching the birth date of rapper Cardi B. As for this being a just model to base things off of, I think we are okay - at least, the model makes just as much sense as adding superfluous numbers to a life sentence in the first place.
Of course, it is highly likely that no policeman would ever do time, let alone serve a life sentence had somebody died in the above confrontations. The irony with that is twofold: first, the people who were endangered by the police's actions were protesting, among other things, corrupt police action; second, the justice system would probably find that the crowd was violent and the police had acted in self-defense - although, in the Fields case, the justice system had considered the protesters to be incapable of any provocation, even if information surfaced to the contrary:
Somebody is bound to lose their life if these kinds of confrontations continue. And, if the police are responsible, the streets are going to erupt in rage and violence in ways this country has never seen. I think we are really that close to a breaking point.
