• Genoke@piefed.social
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    3 months ago

    Where’s the story here? No charges filed. Nothing happened.

    What’s the point of this story?

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You don’t find it newsworthy that a cop wanted to use his badge to (at minimum) intimidate librarians and (at worst) charge them with trumped up bullshit?

      Why is this greaseball employed if he can’t find something better to do with his time than to make sure people can’t read the books he hates?

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      3 months ago

      The point is to try to stop taxpayer money directly funding fascism. Unfortunately it’s Texas, so there’s no real way around that given the current state government.

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      3 months ago

      Sure sure. Two librarians were harassed and one was driven out of her job because of the investigation. But there were no charges, so everything is peachy, right?

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      3 months ago

      True, cops using their power to destroy people’s lives for political reasons is not much of a story in America anymore.

      But it should be.