Tuesday, September 19: Pigs Being Pigs
Sooner or later, innocent or guilty, they find a way to take lives
Folks, it appears we’re no longer safe minding our business in our own homes. A jury in Mississippi has rejected a civil lawsuit seeking financial damages from two murderous police officers who shot and killed a man while serving a warrant at the wrong house.
According to a report by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, Ismael Lopez was in bed on July 24, 2017, when pigs knocked on the door of his trailer. These bumbling officers were intending to serve a domestic violence warrant on a neighbor across the street, but got the addresses confused, likely due to their double-digit IQ’s.
These piglets told the state investigators that they knocked on the door without identifying themselves, which seems like a terrible idea if you’re police. The door opened and a dog ran out, quickly shot and killed by officer Samuel Maze. Shortly thereafter, in quick succession, officer Zachary Durden fired multiple shots at Lopez, with a bullet entering the back of his head and killing him.
A federal court jury in Oxford, MS ruled last week that Southaven officers Durden and Maze hadn’t violated the civil rights of Ismael Lopez when Durden shot him to death. The verdict came after a four-day trial in a lawsuit by Claudia Linares, the widow of Lopez, who sought $20 million in compensation.
The case is especially notable because the city of Southaven, MS previously unsuccessfully argued that Lopez had no civil rights to violate because the Mexican man was living in the US illegally and faced deportation orders and criminal charges for illegally possessing guns. I guess when a person breaks a law in this country, they’re no longer protected by any civil rights and it’s fair game to murder them. Seems legit.
Side Items
Indian Assassination in Canada: Canada kicked a top Indian diplomat out of the country yesterday as it continues to investigate the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar was an outspoken critic of the Indian government and a Canadian Sikh activist, and the allegations swirling suggest that India’s government was directly linked to his assassination. Canadian prime minister/occasional brownface enjoyer Justin Trudeau said in parliament that Canada’s intelligence agencies are investigating these allegations after Nijjar, a strong supporter of an independent Sikh homeland known as Khalistan, was murdered on June 18 outside a Sikh cultural center in British Columbia. If it’s true that India is assassinating critics on foreign soil, it’ll make for an interesting dynamic between the two nations going forward
Antarctic Danger: In yet another sign of the end of days for humanity, satellite data shows that the sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level. This is a troubling reminder that global climate change won’t operate on any man-made schedule, and the ripple effects are impossible to predict. Less sea-ice means more exposed water, which attracts more sunlight and in turn melts more sea-ice; it’s a self-sustaining and quickening process. Anyone who thought the Antarctic was immune or resistant to global warming was fooling themselves
Methane in Turkmenistan: Speaking of global climate collapse, methane leaks from Turkmenistan’s two major fossil fuel fields caused more global heating last year than the entire carbon emissions of the United Kingdom. Satellite data produced by Kayrros found that the western fossil fuel field in Turkmenistan, on the Caspian coast, leaked 2.6 million tons of methane in 2022. Meanwhile, the eastern field emitted 1.8 million tons. Together, these two fields released emissions equivalent to 366 million tons of CO2, more than the UK’s annual emissions, which are the 17th-highest on the planet