Too many of the potential jurors said that even if the defendant, Elisa Meadows, was guilty, they were unwilling to issue the $500 fine a city attorney was seeking, said Ren Rideauxx, Meadows’ attorney.

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      10 months ago

      With a lot of right-wing voters, it’s “fuck you and me, someone else got theirs”

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      Worse: they think they got theirs but didn’t. The group most likely to experience homelessness? Boomers. The group most entering the workforce? People over 75 years old.

      An entire generation worked so hard to put their vision of the world out there but couldn’t see that they were destroying their own future in the process.