It’s the same crime if someone broke a $5 3d printed piece of junk anyone else made…
Cops likely wouldn’t even write a ticket. They absolutely would not arrest someone.
Everyone who thinks that’s worth the staffing to surveil it 24/7 till someone broke it, should try calling cops and reporting something worth $999 stolen to the cops.
They’ll fucking laugh at you and refuse to even file a report for insurance.
That’s my entire point, the only point of this was to change the publics expressed political views thru threat of illegal arrest and trumped up charges.
The charges would not stick if they were charging him with destruction of property. But they’re charging him with attempted destruction of property. The difference is that if he believed he was destroying a real camera (which he admitted to them), then the attempt was real, even if he failed.
I agree it’s stupid that the police are spending time and resources to bait someone into attacking a fake camera, though. Especially when their jurisdiction is actively discussing removing them.
Bait cars are worth money, and for legal purposes are actual cars…
If you steal a bait car, you still steal car.
This guy didn’t damage anything containing electronics, and it costs a few dollars knocking out all the other felonies.
Charges should be filed on the cops for all this, because they reasonably should have known the entire thing was at minimal a wanton waste of resources.
None of the charges will stick, but cops are using bullshit arrests and trumped up charges to discourage people from defending their rights.
It takes less logical leaps to charge the cops with terrorism than it does for any of the three charges.
How’s it public property if its owned by a cop, there is no paper trail and they lack a 3d printer to even create it?
It’s the same crime if someone broke a $5 3d printed piece of junk anyone else made…
Cops likely wouldn’t even write a ticket. They absolutely would not arrest someone.
Everyone who thinks that’s worth the staffing to surveil it 24/7 till someone broke it, should try calling cops and reporting something worth $999 stolen to the cops.
They’ll fucking laugh at you and refuse to even file a report for insurance.
That’s my entire point, the only point of this was to change the publics expressed political views thru threat of illegal arrest and trumped up charges.
That’s literally state sponsored terrorism.
The charges would not stick if they were charging him with destruction of property. But they’re charging him with attempted destruction of property. The difference is that if he believed he was destroying a real camera (which he admitted to them), then the attempt was real, even if he failed.
I agree it’s stupid that the police are spending time and resources to bait someone into attacking a fake camera, though. Especially when their jurisdiction is actively discussing removing them.
How would this be different than a bait car or otherwise coordinated setup?
Bait cars are worth money, and for legal purposes are actual cars…
If you steal a bait car, you still steal car.
This guy didn’t damage anything containing electronics, and it costs a few dollars knocking out all the other felonies.
Charges should be filed on the cops for all this, because they reasonably should have known the entire thing was at minimal a wanton waste of resources.
It’s like if the bait car was made out of cake