#manslaughter

[fenrislorsrai]

Seven months of searching for her lost son brought Bettersten Wade to a dirt road leading into the woods, past an empty horse stable and a scrapyard. The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said.  It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue. 

GEE I WONDER IF THESE ARE RELATED

The decision to call the police was difficult for Bettersten. She did not trust them. In 2019, her 62-year-old brother died after a Jackson officer slammed him to the ground. The officer was convicted of manslaughter but is appealing.  Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing Jackson officers of excessive force and attempting to cover up their actions, and accusing the city of failing to properly train and supervise the officers. The city has denied the claims and said it isn’t liable for what happened. The officers’ lawyer said they acted responsibly and lawfully. A federal judge dismissed some of Bettersten’s claims; others remain pending in state court.  Bettersten said her mother advised her not to call the police about Dexter.

The whole thing is worth reading, its not that long. But other key points: the coroner IDed Dexter within a few days and gave the info to the police to notify the family. After months of no info, officer in charge of missing persons retired. Within two weeks, the replacement officer notified her of the death and took her to fetch the body from a paupers field where coroner buried unclaimed bodies.

[thydungeongal]

I love it when men laugh. There's something so vulnerable about it. Every time a man laughs I fall in love with them a bit.

Let's get #manslaughter trending, tell us about a moment when you made a man you love laugh,

[hopiufame]

This is from a tiktok

[fandom-madness69]

I can't mansplain, manipulate or malewife my way outta this one.

Manslaughter it is

[psychologeek]

Free!

"Leave our country alone!" they say "This isn't your land - go back to where you came from!"

And as my brother's being shoot, And my sister's being paraded naked - For their great sin of: living [Re'im, Israel, 2023]

As my great-grandfather was pushed down in the streets And his beard was brutally shaved As they raped and enslaved and murdered- [Birkenau, Poland, 1943]

[just like in 1941 Farhud, Iraq ; Jedwabne pogrom;  1945 Tripoli pogrom, the 1946 Kielce pogrom, and the 1947 Aleppo pogrom]

In 1934 there were pogroms against Jews in Turkey and Algeria.

Other parts of my family were lucky enough to survive the 1929 Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots. [Mandatory Palestine under British administration]

In 1919, soldiers marched into the center of town accompanied by a military band and engaged in atrocities under the slogan: "Kill the Jews, and save the Ukraine." They were ordered to save the ammunition in the process and use only lances and bayonets during the Proskurov pogrom.

[Proskurov, Ukraine, 1919]

[100 years, and nothing changed, huh?]

You know, my grandma's arab. I still remember sitting in class in high school, hearing about the 1840 Damascus affair, and thinking: hu.

I'll skip several years and countries, but:

Their grandparents were there to witness as the outbreak of violence against Jews (Hep-Hep riots) occurred at the beginning of the 19th century.

The 1821 Odessa pogroms marked the beginning of the 19th century pogroms in Tsarist Russia

That's  Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648–1657 in present-day Ukraine.

So they said, during the attacks against Jews also took place in Barcelona and other Catalan cities during the massacre of 1391.

Their ancestors were cast away and murdered in Spain, 1492.

The same way we were banished and cast away from  Bern (1427) and Zürich (1436) for almost 400 years?

Let us not speak of  the alaughter on Holy Saturday of 1389, a pogrom began in Prague that led to the burning of the Jewish quarter, the killing of many Jews, and the suicide of many Jews trapped in the main synagogue; the number of dead was estimated at 400–500 men, women, and children.

Brussels massacre of 1370.

Or - do you want to hear about the 510 jewish communities that were destroyed? (1348-1350)  including in Toulon, Erfurt, Basel, Aragon, Flanders[16][17] and Strasbourg.[18]

Just like Rhineland massacres in 1096

Some of them made it to England, around 1060. It took less than 30 years for the first Podrom in 1189-90 in England, 

Oh, and let us not forget 1066 Granada massacre [again, in Spain].

Or the  Alexandria in the year 38 CE, followed by the more known riot of 66 CE.

The Jewish population of the land on the eve of the first major Jewish rebellion [66 CE] may have been as high as 2.2 million. The monumental architecture of this period indicates a high level of prosperity.

In 66 CE, the Jews of Judea rose in revolt against Rome, sparking the First Jewish–Roman War. The reverse seized control of Judea and named their new kingdom "Israel"

The revolt was crushed by the Roman emperors Vespasian and Titus. The Romans destroyed much of the Temple in Jerusalem and took as punitive tribute the Menorah and other Temple artifacts back to Rome. Josephus writes that 1,100,000 Jews perished during the revolt, while a further 97,000 were taken captive. The Fiscus Judaicus was instituted by the Empire as part of reparations.

[And here we come to a full cycle of blood, land, and pain].

And those are only those I found out about. Only those we have a record of. Only those we know to this day. They were so massive, or left enough impact so we still remember.

[I could go on, this is just a short list.]

It seems like no matter what we do, we'll always be accused for

Let me know, please - where can I be a jew, and just

Live?

[your-local-jedi-commander]

Manipulate

Manslaughter

Manwhore

Midas

[rhysandsbiggesthater]

Enid: i don’t think we can manipulate, mansplain or malewife our way out of this.

Wednesday: Manslaughter it is 🔪😀

[deliciouswastelandgoddess]

Mutant Christian Allegory where John and Alecto are God and the Holy Spirit but also Adam and eve because he creates her body from his own flesh, blood and bone except in this case Eve's body is not a gift of existence from Adam but a prison to hold her. In this case, Eve existed before Adam. In this case, EVE CREATED ADAM, MADE HIM A NECROMANCER BUT ADAM IS SO FAR UP HIS OWN ASS THAT HE CALLED HIMSELF GOD WHILE IMPRISONING THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY WAS A GOD, A LITERAL PLANET, WHO BORE NOT ONLY HIM BUT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING THAT CAME BEFORE HIM, ENTIRE CIVILIZATIONS AND LIFE FORMS, MUSHROOMS AND SHARKS AND WHAT NOT, EDEN'S BLOOD ALRIGHT, AND CALLED HER A MONSTER. THE FUCKING AUDACITY OF THIS DUDE.

[coopmillandmarch]

Fredric March photographed for Manslaughter (1930).

[didyou-just-smell-me]

innocent bbygirl 🫶

[mothmanperson]

Dazai: I can't mansplain, manipulate, manwhore my way out of this one boys

[name]: manslaughter it is then

mein gott ich fühl mich zu witzig haha (translation: i have severe issues and undiagnosed adhd)

[depressed-fanperson]

Came for the gays stayed for the manslaughter.

[rhube]

Morecambe Bay cockling disaster

So, I like reading about scary water things, and people losing their lives through not respecting nature, sometimes. Intentionally giving myself the willies and the sads. I don't really know why, but experience suggests others also have that compulsion.

So when I read that post about dangerous beaches and one of them was Morecambe Bay and the poster said 23 people died in 2004 but they weren't going to say anything about it because it was too sad, I was like - ooooh, I'm definitely gonna read up on that later.

No one in the notes said anything about what happened, they were just chuckling about the fact it's called a 'cockling' disaster. So off I went to Wikipedia when I had a quiet moment to find out more.

And.

I'm actually kind of mad.

This was presented as some kind of natural disaster. That foolish people walked into because they didn't respect nature. Or maybe the council didn't do enough to protect people and warn of the dangers.

No.

That's not what this was.

This is no Bolton Strid where people die of misadventure.

This was fucking murder.

Or, to be legally accurate: manslaughter.

This was 30 undocumented immigrants who were trafficked in by organised crime to harvest cockles for £5 per 25kg bag. (Some escaped. 21 definitely died. 23 are thought to have been killed.) They didn't really speak English and were not warned of the dangers by the evil fuckers making them do manual labour in a dangerous place. They didn't have a fucking chance, and none of this was their fault.

It's not a sign that the beach itself is shockingly dangerous. I mean sure, it is, but not the way the others on the list are. It doesn't regularly kill dozens of people, and I would argue that neither the beach nor the town are really responsible here.

This 'disaster' was not a natural disaster. It was a crime perpetrated by Lin Liang Ren, amongst others [edited because I misread and originally attributed the manslaughter to David Antony Eden Sr and David Antony Eden Jr, who bought cockles, although they were still only paying £5 per 25kg, so not exactly innocent]. One for which they have been convicted.

And to leave that out because 'it's too tragic' without at least indicating that this one is not like the others does not, I feel, do right by the people who died.

[blzbear]

Currently reading Ben Barres works,

And it is incredibly disheartening to read his hopeful heartwarming estimates for the future of transgender youth in 2017. And his optimism for physiological treatments, psychological support, and societal acceptance.

Our societal regression is extremely shameful.

Ben promoted all trans individuals to live true to themselves. He knew the risk of suicide for closeted transgender youth face was significant. Now it seems there's a high risk of mortality even for our youth who are brave enough to show themselves.

Say their name, Nex Benedict

[planeclaw]

𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚝 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝚊 𝚟𝟸 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚒 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝

:]

𝚑𝚎'𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝚌𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚢 𝚒 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢

[odieclipse]

had a crazy dream where i was in a creator clash with Markiplier and i said "well you cant hit me, im mist". and he punched me and his fist phased right through me because i was, in fact, made of mist. but because he punched me i dissipated and died and he was arrested on charges of manslaughter