• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    “You people are next…”

    “… to hear from my lawyer!”

    “… to get bad press once I go to the newspaper.”

    “… <insert anything that doesn’t mean physical violence.>”

    I hope we don’t jail people based on what we think they meant.

    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 hours ago

      police jail people for even less than that, they will lie and frame innocent people to put them in jail

      She repeated the phrase written on the bullet casings used in the killing of an insurance CEO and then said “you people are next” on a phone call with her insurance - it’s clearly a threat given the context of the phrase and the killing. Denying that context is one of the less defensible positions here. What is more defensible is that her threat is clearly empty and the law has stricter requirements about what constitutes a crime.