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
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    4 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
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      4 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
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          4 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
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              4 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.