A Maryland police officer has been convicted of charges that he joined a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.

A Maryland police officer was convicted on Friday of charges that he joined a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and hurled a smoke bomb and other objects at police officers guarding a tunnel entrance.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden heard two days of trial testimony without a jury this week before he found Montgomery County Police Officer Justin Lee guilty of two felonies and three misdemeanors. The judge, who also acquitted Lee of two other misdemeanors, is scheduled to sentence him on Nov. 22.

Lee, 26, ignited and threw a smoke bomb into the tunnel entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, where a mob of rioters attacked a group of outnumbered police officers. The device struck a police officer’s riot shield and filled the mouth of the tunnel with a large plume of smoke, prosecutors said.

  • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    2 months ago

    While others will surely fill you in further, ill table this idea for ya

    • Are we utilizing an identical equivalent to racial stereotypes?

    No. because a cop stops being an “”“”“oppressed minority”“”‘’" (needs more quotes fr) as soon as they take off the badge

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      2 months ago

      Sorry I don’t really buy that logic since some shithead right-winger bigot could just say a trans person can stop being an oppressed minority the moment they stop taking their hormone medications.

      At the end of the day, the exact same sort of fallacious logic persists: A judgment of all within a population based on the perceptions of a subset of that population.

      Logically, if I prove merely one cop is a good person, then the claim of all is simply wrong.

      • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 months ago

        I don’t feel like going into the larger point of ACAB. Not that it isn’t something i don’t feel very strongly about but this chain is addressing your first bullet only.

        If i ran into some shithead right winger bigot using that argument, i would tell them this:

        "Wrong. A cop is a chosen profession.

        A trans person is a trans person no matter the state of their transition. "

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          2 months ago

          Is it morally right to judge negatively the person merely based on the profession they choose?

          Just as it’s not right to judge the person based on what identity they choose to subscribe to? After all, if everyone is free to identify as who they want, why suddenly is your career a vector from which you’re allowed to sling mud at the person, and not even based on that individual but merely because of being a part of the group?

          So, is Eugene Goodman a bastard?

            • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
              13·
              2 months ago

              Then:

              • Is Eugene Goodman a bastard?

              • No Law enforcement should exist and should be abolished tomorrow?

              Edit: Ah, not quite as quick to respond this time. I wonder why… Do you see the checkmate in 2 moves?

                • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Golly that’s awfully convenient that you’re defining the narrow parameter of your response; for when we widen the scope the entire argument collapses. I wonder why those two questions are so difficult for you to answer…

                  But sure, by your logic since gender and name are chosen, then they are fair game to cast prejudice and stereotype, yes? Of course not. But then that applies to anything that is chosen. Where you live, your religion, career, etc. Fundamental to your prejudice isn’t the matter of choice, but the statistical fallacy that is over-generalizing all within a group.