So amongst the...sigh. Hold on.
If @
Kaleredar happened to trip a guy unintentionally while walking down a crowded street, maybe this would be relevant.
Problem is, the context was the murderous insurrection. And you're defending the murderers. If I intentionally rob a bank, and while doing so bump into an old lady who falls and breaks her hip and dies, guess who goes to jail forever? Me.
It's called Felony Murder. @
cubby will likely school you on the issue, but until that happens, it means "if you intentionally commit a felony and because of that felony someone dies, it doesn't matter if you killed them on purpose or even if you pulled the trigger, that's murder and you're
fucked son." It happens during crimes that are inherently dangerous, such as "breaking through a federal guarded barricade to storm the Capitol building". Oh, and since this was the Capitol, it doesn't matter which states do or don't have felony murder rules -- there's a federal one.
It's absolutely viable in exactly this context. Even those people who didn't directly murder anyone are in trouble -- they could 100% be charged and have to defend themselves. And while the death must have been in some way related to the felony, "we forced our way through federal guards trying to block the trespass and during such one of them was killed" is textbook.
I
strongly recommend your next post be "whoa, I didn't know about that" because just about anything else you type, is defending first-degree murderers. Even something like "well some of the people at the back didn't know--" and any nontroll respose to that is "They were were breaking and entering the Capitol, they knew or they're legally incompetent". No rational American adult thinks the Capitol building is open for random people to roam around in.
Neither do you.
Back down from this one. At best, you're defending traitors who broke into the Capitol, by saying "but they didn't murder anyone". That's already horrible. At worse, you're defending first-degree murderers. There is no outcome to your stance that makes you look good. Just walk away.
Back to what I was going to say: in yet another lawsuit about the murderous insurrection,
Alabamer Rep. Mo Brooks has been subpoena'd in a lawsuit about his role. Other defendents include Trump, Donnie Dum-Dum Jr, and Giuliani.
"Oh my God! They broke into his house to serve the subpoena? That's illegal!"
What? Oh, you read Brook's tweet. No, that didn't happen.
"How can you be so sure?"
Well for one, in a debate between "member of the rabid fanbase" and "carbon-based life form chosen at random" I'll choose the latter as more honest without asking if they're even sentient. But secondly and more importantly, committing a felony to serve a subpoena is catastrophically stupid. In addition to, oh,
committing a felony, you risk the entire lawsuit if you commit a felony while pursuing it. Can you imagine a judge treating the lawsuit's merits fairly after that? Also, you risk getting
shot. No, until I see the police report where Rep. Brook's wife called 911, or any other evidence, I will assume Brooks is lying.
As a reminder,
the reason the subpoena couldn't just be deliverd to Rep. Brook's office was due to security added
because of the murderous insurrection. There was even an extention granted because Brooks kept evading the serving (and this evasion was well-documented).
"Man, serving Trump must have been hard."
Oh, Trump waived the need for the subpoena. Only Brooks made this an issue by demanding a serving, then hiding like a little bitch, then claiming his house was burgled. From his actions, one might suspect he's fucking terrified of testifying. (Trump might be too, but he's just saying he'll file a motion to dismiss because of "absolute immunity" no really
those were his exact words)
"What did Brooks even
say?"
He said Antifa caused the murderous insurrection.
-- tweeted within 24 hours
"Okay that's stupid, but I
meant, what did he say that got him sued?"
"...you sure?"
Best I could find.
"That sounds pretty tame, honestly. Why didn't he just fight the lawsuit on the merits? He'd probably win. It's not like 'kicking ass' is super specific."
Well again, I think he's afraid to testify. There are direct, relavent questions he could be asked on the stand that he doesn't want to answer, such as "When you told the crowd the election was stolen, did you believe it?" If he says "no" the rabid fanbase fucks his next election to death. If he says "yes" it's safer politically but he still has that on his "permanent record" so to speak.
As I've said plenty of times, lying to the American people isn't a crime, but lying on the stand is. Team Trump is desperate to avoid any form of enforced honesty. Even to the point, apparently, of making up phantom felonies just to avoid what looks like a lackluster lawsuit that doesn't have any real teeth.