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Smith and Huntsman approached Scott and grabbed his arms. Scott repeatedly pleaded “please” and “what are you doing” in a distressed voice, while Smith and Huntsman pulled him to the ground. At first, the officers held Scott’s arms at his sides while he was lying on his back. In this position, Scott screamed, struggled, and pled with the officers to leave him alone for over two minutes. The officers then eventually rolled Scott onto his stomach, repeatedly ordering Scott to “stop.” With Scott on his stomach and with his hands restrained behind his back, Huntsman put his bodyweight on Scott’s back and neck for about one to two minutes. At the same time Smith put his weight on Scott’s legs, restraining his lower body. Scott’s pleas turned increasingly incoherent and breathless as Huntsman applied his bodyweight. After handcuffing him, the officers attempted to roll Scott on his side, as he continued to incoherently cry out that he wanted to be left alone. When they rolled Scott over, his face was bloody from contact with the ground. Scott stopped yelling and thrashing around after a few minutes. Scott did not respond when Smith and Huntsman tried to wake or revive him. Shortly after, when the paramedics arrived, Scott was still unresponsive. Scott was pronounced dead after paramedics removed him from the scene. Plaintiffs’ expert found that Scott had died from restraint asphyxia.

One might hope that the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority would at least explain why it tossed out the lower court ruling against these officers, who seemingly murdered this man for no reason. Alas, we get nothing.

Here's that now-vacated ruling: cases.justia.com/federal/appe...

CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION 24-1099 SMITH, KYLE, ET AL. V. SCOTT, ROCHELLE, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Zorn v. Linton, 607 U. S. ___ (2026) (per curiam). Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8

Governor, your proposed social media legislation would cut many of these Hatian families off from access to lifesaving online resources.

Requiring social media companies to verify the age of every user means requiring online ID checks, which are completely unworkable for undocumented families.

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.

He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Police shoot, kill man with knife in Lexington following medical call - The Boston Globe Police responded to a home on Mason Street after receiving a call from family members that a man had injured himself with a knife, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan.

“Parents call 911 for help with mentally ill son, so cops come & kill him” is an EXTREMELY common story

But our elected officials & media live in daily terror of being branded anti-cop, so we’re not allowed to talk about it

Counterpoint: we do not in fact need to increase the police budget, and we have over 2 decades worth of staffing studies that say we have too many cops already

(We do not, for example, have any studies showing that we have too many teachers or too much housing or too many DPW workers or...)

The right wins: Democrats need to stop being so progressive

The right loses: Democrats need to stop being do progressive

For decades, men from Milwaukee voided even the appearance of cannibalism. Jeffery Dahmer is taking a different approach.

Hundreds of protestors from a coalition of organizations were arrested while staging a sit in outside of Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand’s office during an anti war demonstration demanding an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.

U.S. Southern Command: Applying total systemic friction on the cartels. On April 13, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We murdered two more people in boats today

URGENT! The Massachusetts House just passed a "social media ban" that would force YOU to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to post online. CALL YOUR STATE SENATORS! 978-485-4694

Okay bluesky I need your help

I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros

Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home"

Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Trump nicely connecting the lawless boat strikes with his illegal war against Iran.

The killing spree at sea was an inflection point as it established that the US military would in fact carry out unlawful orders and conduct patently illegal targeting.

‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’ Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it.

It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

There’s a wave of attacks on the ruling class People have reached a breaking point. American consumer sentiment is terrible, registering at the lowest level ever recorded this week. Gas prices just jumped more in March than they have in any month...

Their greed has made so many people so destitute and desperate that people across America resorting to lashing out was bound to happen.

What the rich and powerful don’t want is for you to look at the underlying causes of these acts.

www.jphilll.com/theres-a-wav...

The Massachusetts House, folks!

*I* have certainly always fought for that. Unfortunately the city has not made it a priority to include in street reconstruction, like the Washington St or Summer St rebuilds. Cost is one factor: Eversource charges about $1M per mile to underground them. But the even bigger problem...

"If Trump does something in the neighborhood of what he is threatening, there will be many with blood on their hands who will rush to declare Trump an aberration [. . .]. Such protestations will deserve nothing but contempt."

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

House proposes ban on social media use for children under 14 in Mass. The Massachusetts House of Representatives is proposing a ban on social media use for all children under the age of 14. The bill, scheduled to be voted on by the House on Wednesday, prohibits social m...

The #Massachusetts House of Representatives on Wednesday will vote on a social-media age-verification bill put forward under the guise of protecting children.

This is reactionary, moral-panic bullshit that will cause lasting harm to the open internet.

#mapoli

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

all of America's bravest elected Democrats jumping into action to post vaguely on social media about how somebody else should do something

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

Yes, you're failing us on multiple fronts

The Next Target for the U.S. and Israel Is Iran’s Economy The two allies have been steadily stepping up attacks on Iranian infrastructure and are planning to hit energy facilities.

You have to get to the sixth paragraph of this story before you read the disgracefully-phrased sentence: “Attacking civilian infrastructure risks violating international law”

Exclusive: FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Center Are you on the new center's list of 'domestic terrorism' indicators?

Trump is asking Congress for the biggest counterterrorism budget in years to implement NSPM-7, the national security directive targeting "anti-Americanism," "anti-Christianity" and "anti-capitalism"
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new-p...

lol okay now what would you do if you were a senator

not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes