Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, on Who’s Hurt by Defunding Police
“You are eliminating one of the few tools that the city has to create middle-class incomes for black and brown folks.”

Desperation from the ruling class to trot out this line from the first black lesbian comprador

Jared had wanted to see combat, but the reality of it hit him harder than he'd imagined. He was terrified one night when his base came under rocket fire. Two of his buddies were blown up in a truck. But that wasn't the worst of it. Jared told his brother about one particular firefight where he was blasting away with the .50-caliber gun. “I don't know for sure, but I might have killed a child,” he told Jacob. He didn't want to say much more about it.

oh no the poor tortured american hero who may have slaughtered a child in a country he decided to invade

But from time to time, he still cruised dating sites, and in early September he came across the pretty blonde who said her name was Caroline Harris. The two chatted on the dating app. When she said, “I'll be 18 in a few weeks,” he replied, “Oh that's cool when will you be 18?”

and who talks to underage girls on dating sites

(skipping over: someone contacts him claiming to be the "girl"s parents, tries to get $ out of our poor amerikan hero)

Jacob bolted to Jared's door; it was locked. He fumbled a key from his pocket and burst into the room. Jared lay on his bed, wearing a mint-green T-shirt, propped up by a pillow, his face gray. For a second Jacob thought he was taking a nap. Then he saw the gun in Jared's right hand and the blood all over the wall.

Jared had shot himself within minutes of the final text from James Harris. She is going to the police and you are going to jail. He died at noon.

it's hard to tell, since the subject didn't even merit a full sentence, but i hope our poor jared was also thinking of the child he murdered when he pulled the trigger

Kathy was frightened, but she wrote back. She had already begun to suspect things were not as they appeared—why else all the insistence on money? Sure enough, over a series of messages, Angel Amongus revealed that there was no Mr. and Mrs. Harris. But this was no garden-variety con job, Angel explained. The scammers, like the anonymous informant himself, were prisoners in South Carolina's Lee Correctional Institution.

“I went down on my knees and started screaming,” Kathy says. “It was so unbelievable.” She immediately called Jared's dad, Kevin. “Our son was scammed by fucking prisoners!” she howled.

it's different if he's scammed by a bank or insurance company, you see

The pretty teenage girl Jared thought he was flirting with was, according to charges later filed by local authorities, two thickset, middle-aged, male inmates working contraband cell phones. Jared, it turns out, was just one of hundreds of US military service members and veterans suckered by a massive wave of catfishing scams launched from South Carolina correctional facilities over the past few years.

red salute to two thickset, middle-aged, male inmates

Inmates do use phones to report abuses and human rights violations to journalists and others on the outside. More often they just want to call their families and friends without prison officials listening in. But they can also put the devices to terrifying use. In Alabama, prison extortionists have sent menacing texts and photos to other inmates' relatives, threatening to rape or murder their fellow prisoners unless the family pays a ransom. In Georgia, a baby was killed in a shooting allegedly ordered by an incarcerated gang leader via phone.

killing babies is fine when white amerikkkan SSoldiers do it (as long as they're romantically tortured enough), but not when 'menacing' 'extortionst' inmates do it. also sometimes they need phones to report human rights violations but that's not important.

Whatever happens to Smith and Dobbins, Jared's family will never fully recover. Jacob lost his job after Jared's death because he was too distraught to function at work. He has nightmares every night and has had suicidal thoughts of his own. It's especially rough when Jaxon mistakes Jacob for his daddy. Kathy is so consumed with grief at times, she says, she can't cope with the basics of everyday life. She has developed ulcers she blames on the stress. She's so afraid of the scammers that she's started carrying a Taser. Kevin keeps a gun on his nightstand.

keeping a gun on my nightstand to shoot the phone if it rings.

One thing that does keep both Kathy and Kevin going is advocating for prisons to be allowed to block cell signals. “Those jammers should have been put in a long time ago,” Kathy says. “Those men were behind bars, but they were able to bully and shame and scare my son to death.” In March, several members of Congress introduced twin bills that would allow correctional facilities to jam cell phones. Kevin and Kathy are hoping to join Bryan Stirling in testifying in support of it. Neither bill has made much progress.

and of course the solution to the problem of the victimized amerikkkan soldier is to deny even more basic rights to the incarcerated. the only way this white mother's grief for her dead SSoldier SSon will be alleviated is if prisoners can't (as even the fucking article admits) use phones to report human rights violations.

in conclusion, death to amerikkka

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lol the kids named jaxon, what a stupid ass name

*was named jaxon

they changed it to jaxoff