I don't think this is a good one to use as agitprop. Read these facts from the perspective of someone who is sympathetic to the left, but who isn't all the way there yet:
Bible said the girl gave Beaver Falls police a fake name, Mae Wilson, and a fake birthday that indicated she was 18 years old. Although, she told officers several times she was a juvenile. Police told the girl they would release her to her parents, but she claimed she was homeless and from the Pittsburgh area.
"Beaver Falls police called Beaver County CYS when she disclosed she was from Pittsburgh. They contacted Allegheny County CYS to try to find any information on her, but since she gave a fake name, no one had any records of the individual,” Bible said.
Note that one big reason people give fake names upon arrest is that they know they are wanted for more serious crimes.
There are things to criticize here, but it's a bad example to push when there are a million other much clearer miscarriages of justice out there.
If "13 year old in jail for 2 weeks" doesn't radicalize someone I don't think much breath needs to be wasted on them. What the fuck are you talking about
I'm saying it's bad agitprop. It's bad agitprop because there are a lot of important facts beyond "a 13 year old was in jail." If you present a story as a horrible injustice but someone clicks through and reads "she told police she was an adult, waffled on that so it was guaranteed she was lying about her ID one way or the other, and never gave any real info that could be verified," you look like you didn't read what you shared, or you look like you're exaggerating.
There are factually innocent people in prison. People keep getting beaten by cops at the drop of a hat. You have cops catching themselves on video lying. This is what we want to use as agitprop, not "the cops kept someone in jail for two weeks because they didn't know who they were, and they didn't know who they were because the person lied to them."
Have you considered that not everything that is shared is shared because of its usefulness as agitprop? That people communicate for reasons other than winning internet arguments?
I don't think this is a good one to use as agitprop. Read these facts from the perspective of someone who is sympathetic to the left, but who isn't all the way there yet:
Note that one big reason people give fake names upon arrest is that they know they are wanted for more serious crimes.
There are things to criticize here, but it's a bad example to push when there are a million other much clearer miscarriages of justice out there.
If "13 year old in jail for 2 weeks" doesn't radicalize someone I don't think much breath needs to be wasted on them. What the fuck are you talking about
I'm saying it's bad agitprop. It's bad agitprop because there are a lot of important facts beyond "a 13 year old was in jail." If you present a story as a horrible injustice but someone clicks through and reads "she told police she was an adult, waffled on that so it was guaranteed she was lying about her ID one way or the other, and never gave any real info that could be verified," you look like you didn't read what you shared, or you look like you're exaggerating.
There are factually innocent people in prison. People keep getting beaten by cops at the drop of a hat. You have cops catching themselves on video lying. This is what we want to use as agitprop, not "the cops kept someone in jail for two weeks because they didn't know who they were, and they didn't know who they were because the person lied to them."
Have you considered that not everything that is shared is shared because of its usefulness as agitprop? That people communicate for reasons other than winning internet arguments?
If you don't want to talk about the value of this as agitprop, don't respond to a comment talking about the value of this as agitprop.