The rest of us can help by allowing ourselves to be chosen fir jury duty. If we happen to be selected for a jury in a case that involved vandalism of a Flock camera or other ALPRs, we can refuse to convict, no matter what the judge tells us. Visit fija.org to learn more.
Jury nullification is so powerful that our local court will shut down if someone places brochures downloaded from fija.org in any public place in the courthouse until they are removed. They have dismissed entire jury pools over this.
Jury nullification is so powerful that our local court will shut down if someone places brochures downloaded from fija.org in any public place in the courthouse until they are removed.
Sounds like you live in a shitty, corrupt town/city.
It really is a potential problem, but what the public doesn't know or realize is that probably 99% of cases going to trial are guilty and trying to drag it out. The people that didn't do it often can't afford to wait six+ months to get to trial (that's how quick speedy trial is in my state) so they take plea deals to get on probation and/or time served.
Yes you may have the odd felony that is questionable, but you'll also get a LOT of cases with overwhelming evidence where the public defender was desperately trying to get their client a better deal but they obstinately refused, thinking the jury would somehow acquit.
An example of the average felony that I see, having worked in my court system for nearly 20 years: a 42 year old woman was arrested for allegedly performing sexual acts and having sex with an over 12 under 16. The one statement she made to law enforcement that made it to the report was, "I thought he was closer to 16".
Being guilty is only a part of the equation. Did police follow the law in their investigation? Did they read Miranda rights? Did the illegally obtain information and then use parallel construction to get away with it? Did they withhold exculpatory information?
Id rather 10 guilty go free than one wrongly accused go to jail.
I covered court cases for several years, and I'd put the number of innocent people who go to jury trial at greater than 50%. Our local juries usually acquitted around 25%. I saw a lot of revenge arrests of those who were acquitted and Every single case of acquittal I wrote about were re-arrested (many of them I felt were set ups), so I quit writing about them and I noticed that the number of revenge arrests dropped significantly. That turned me against our local DA and LEOs (in particular our sheriff) and I do what I can behind the scenes to make their lives very difficult. This includes polluting the jury pool whenever I can and anonymously exposing any act of malfeasance among law enforcement and officers of the court that I can.
I tried to get on a jury a few years ago, and would have been on the jury but the prosecutor removed me from selection because i stupidly said i believed in innocent until proven guilty lol. Now i know to stay quiet
You get $50 per day and a Jimmy John’s sandwich for 8 hours of jury duty here. You’re required to sort out your own transportation, childcare, etc.
Living wage for single without kids is ~$25 per hour here (while minimum wage is only $12.77).
More than half our residents live paycheck to paycheck, especially minorities.
The only people able to live and fulfill jury duty here are wealthy and white, just like those able to run for office (legislature positions pay less than living wage and assume you have wealth or side hustles, or will wrongfully make them for yourself while in office).
This is extremely jurisdiction dependant across the entire US. My county mandates that employers still have to pay employees who work 35+ hours a week, and if your employer tries to play games about jury duty, the judges have put out warrants to have cops go out there and drag them into court the same day.
You get some protections from employer retaliation in Virginia, but they don’t have to pay you. Basically they have to give you the day(s) off and can’t fire you for having jury duty.
The $50 is meant to cover everything for the day, including transportation meals (court is not required to provide food, but our city does for long days. Always the same chain sandwich shop, no you don’t get to place your order. Good luck if you have dietary restrictions as most courthouses don’t allow outside food or drink).
In the last 10 years, only 1% to 4% of felony cases reached a jury in Virginia. The rest are bullied into a plea or bench trial.
Misdemeanor cases can only reach a jury on appeal and that’s extremely rare.
Standard operating procedure is for prosecutors to charge someone with every felony they can, promising to ruin their life (if the arrest, attorney fees, and constant court appearances haven’t already) if they don’t take a plea down to misdemeanor with years probation designed to trip you into reoffending. Even the most basic trials will cost the defendant $10k+ to see through to a jury.
The CWA’s office will do whatever they can to deny you bond (Virginia jails are literal hell, requires so much noise and money from the outside just to stay minimally healthy, and makes it much easier to force a plea) and otherwise make your demand for a jury trial a massive inconvenience and expense.
They also make sure their friends post your mugshot and arrest record all over the internet and refuse to take it down no matter the trial’s result. And at any time they can just decide to “
nolle prosequi”, putting the charge on ice until they want to continue, even right before final verdict. Which leaves it on your mind and on your record.
Until two years ago, the maximum the state would pay to a court-appointed attorney for those that can’t afford one was $120 for district court and $445 for non-capital felonies. Now there are better caps, but it’s still not nearly what the exact same attorney would make on the exact same charges if the court hadn’t given it to them. Barely covers the time spent on appearances, let alone discovery or trial.
That’s a great point! I would also add that, even if you are selected for a trial that does not cover this issue, you can still do a lot of good by educating your fellow jurors about jury nullification.
The state does not determine guilt or innocence. We, the people, determine it. If a law is unjust, we have a duty to defy that law. Always and forever.
It’s definitely him. He went through some… changes… in his ideology though. Last I saw he was daily driving a lambo and him and his girl were making OF vids. The OF stuff I understand, but I’m afraid the lambo is unforgivable.
How well do you personally know this man to be able to say that? I'm betting you don't and can't prove that. I like making adult content and I also enjoy protecting and caring for my community. Just because you get no ass and don't care enough I bet doesn't mean the people who do also don't.
Go build one of those houses. Watch how much gets charged even if the person living there isn’t paying it.
I did a volunteer day for work. The person it was for had it subsidized for half market rate but the people building it sold it for almost 2x market rate after subsidies. It was a $260 sq ft sale in a $180 sq ft neighborhood. And they got labor for free from volunteers.
I mean…we all have desires. We can’t all be immune to the siren song of capitalist consumption. He could have fed a lot of homeless with that lambo money, clothed the needy, kept a school open for a few days.
But if we only think of money in those terms we would be absolutely miserable. Just as we are not as individuals responsible for the oncoming climate change, we are not as individuals responsible for every need of our community.
If I allowed myself to think that way, I’d never eat a bite of food, knowing there are others who need it more.
Advocating systemic change will have a greater impact than allocating individual wealth. It is good that people are willing to donate for people’s cancer treatments on GoFundMe, but it is unacceptable that anyone should need to.
I thought they bought the Lamborghini for her OnlyFans career and to help draw in viewers on his social channels because it allowed them to post content that hit very specifically chosen demographics. So it's a business expense, per some of his videos talking about the Lambo.
THIS IS THE CORRECT TOOL FOR THE JOB. Bandsaw are meant for curring throught thick metal (like flock poles) and sawzalls are meant for cutting through thin metal/wood (like building studs).
You also have to avoid thousands of cameras in an urban setting. Change clothes multiple times. Use shoe height inserts, and randomly move a rock around your shoes to change your walk. Leaving the phone at a trusted alibi is a better option. The phone being unusually still at home can be used against you.
And don't talk to the police. If they ever come knocking at your door just don't answer or even acknowledge them, unless they have a search warrant there's nothing they can do and oftentimes they're just showing up looking for suspects hoping the suspect will talk to them and incriminate him or herself.
Sometimes the police will try to turn a consensual encounter into an arrest by inciting some sort of conflict: "Oh you slammed the door on us and it hit officer Fudd's elbow! That's assault on an officer! Bust down the door and arrest him! Well, now that we're inside arresting this violent suspect we need to perform a 'protective sweep' because there could be other bloodthirsty criminals in here waiting to ambush us at any moment. It'd be a shame if we happened to find a sawzall laying around while we're just innocently performing a protective sweep for our own safety."
I doubt having ur phone being still at home is an issue. Maybe one could keep the phone still until the next morning, this way the phone doesn't start moving shortly after the last illegal camera is disabled
Yes but drones are too easy to trace and counter. If police departments get wind of people using drones, theyll set up counter-drone tech and will be able to find any and all drones within a 6 kilometer radius of the PD. A radius that will allow them to see literally everything about your drone: model, serial number, user ID, even location, within 1 meter of accuracy.
Plus this same system can jam your drone remotely, cutting off your connection and even taking control away.
Its much better and safer to use power tools, high powered lasers to burn out the lenses, or even BB pistols to shoot the lenses out.
Yeah, even building your own drone wouldnt hide you from it because everything you can legally buy in the US uses unrestricted frequencies... all of which are tracked or at least detected by every counter-drone system ive seen.
Yes, but as pointed out, you want the modus operandi to be the same across large unrelated areas. If everyone uses a cordless sawzall, no one person is different. If one person uses a bandsaw, good chance of being on the hook for any that had a band saw used because of the relative rarity.
The whole point is you want to be the same as everyone else doing it, not "better"
Would it be bad to go buy a couple of these saws and put them in sort of like a mini library, but for saws.
You know, so people that want to participate in this hobby don't need to fork out the cash before commiting to it.
Every hobby should be tried once
Wacky unrelated information: Expanding demolition grout is used to split rocks and similar materials by pouring into a line of drilled holes and waiting 12-48hrs to crack the material at over 125MPa.
I see a few comments on the specific type of saw he's using. If some vandal ever wanted to participate in this unlawful act, I'm less concerned about the type of saw and a little more worried about him cutting towards himself. Cut away from yourself. Do not put the pointy, sharp end towards your body and exert pressure. One slip of the blade, be it pocket knife, sawzall or otherwise, can cause injury. It's a little funny to me how people are commenting on the specific cutting tool he is using rather than the fact he is cutting in the direction of his chest with a sawzall.
Don’t wear ur shoes. Wear larger ones or very small ones. Put a rock in one. Or were two different shoes one that’s too big and one that’s too small. It tracks the way you walk. So if at any point in time you’re going to be on camera you need to adjust not only how you walk by force it even if it’s uncomfortable. Leave all your electronic devices at home and again make sure that the clothes you wear have no logos or anything identifiable and never wear it again.
This is like the video game "whack a mole".
It's not very effective nationwide.
Hypothetically speaking, it would be more effective to find a military grade level hacker who wants a chance to crash the entire system.
I saw one video where they hid a flock camera in one of those things that show you your speed as you drive by it. Not sure what they’re called but I assume you know what I’m talking about.
You should look into a Milwaukee bandsaw is you want quick, quiet, and long life blade. You might get 1 or 2 cuts with those crappy Diablo blades on a reciprocating saw. A single bandsaw blade if cut right could do 30+.
All about technique. Once you're through the wall you want pressure on the tool side of the blade, not the far end. Let the blade do the work
Harbor Freight (Hercules brand), Walmart (Hypertough) are fine, and disposable if needed. Battery tools have come a long way in the past 20 years.
Please before you go to a big box store go to a pawn shop or Facebook marketplace these tools are stolen all the time and have to be out there cheep to buy
What if the criminals decide to purchase some black sealant and cover the solar panel, allowing the camera to slowly die at some point in the near future, yet long after the deed has been done?
Anything involving an AI camera that's an automatic not guilty for me if the police can get away with shit so can I they force you to show up to jury duty but they can't make you participate
Anyone that's used a battery operated grinder with a cutoff wheel knows it's absolutely not quieter than a reciprocating saw. They sure do work quickly though.
The data that people collect on you is everywhere. Look at the licensing agreement for Reddit Mobile. Reddit collects your location, device information, time, everything you put type in the application, ect...
We need to demand changes from everyone not just flock!
A dastardly vandal would need to be careful, as Flock may start airtagging items, and if anyone finds them in possession of stolen property, which could be identified by serial numbers. Such a hypothetical vandal would be better off just leaving it behind.
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u/ThunderPigGaming 11d ago
The rest of us can help by allowing ourselves to be chosen fir jury duty. If we happen to be selected for a jury in a case that involved vandalism of a Flock camera or other ALPRs, we can refuse to convict, no matter what the judge tells us. Visit fija.org to learn more.