• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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      4 months ago

      Why would they want to play by the rules when they got a rich white man out of trouble?

      This is the result cops wanted.

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          4 months ago

          (Northern) New Mexico is a fairly left leaning state that increasingly gets a lot of money from the film industry and a shocking number of celebrities live out near Santa Fe. Considering the long history of tragic and pointless deaths due to poor safety practices on film sets, there is a very strong incentive to not prosecute these crimes.

          But that would be the DA and prosecution, not the cops. Who are, like all cops, right wing dipshit bastards. And New Mexico has increasingly had conflicts between the government and the police with cops openly refusing to enforce laws they don’t like.

          So yeah. Kind of a shitshow all around. But for anyone to think the cops are going to bat for Alec Baldwin? Holy shit.

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          Which is why I’m surprised it seems like multiple people in the comments here seem to want him charged, unless I’m mistaken lol

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            4 months ago

            I guess, unlike cops, they don’t base their sense of justice on where or not they agree with someone’s politics.

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        4 months ago

        Really because it seemed to me the cops wanted him locked up.

        If the cops and prosecutors really didn’t want him to be charged, they could have just, you know, not charged him