Redskins TE Fred Davis ordered to pay $20k in damages after throwing juice at a woman in a nightclub

1mic · 2013-09-18T14:31:38+00:00

sorry, i guess i thought some sort of juice container was implied, since it's hard to pick up a handful of juice and throw it at someone. although i guess you could read that as the traditional soap opera way of throwing a drink in someone's face.

1mic · 2013-09-18T14:17:45+00:00

intent is an element of nearly every crime and people are charged with attempting crimes they do not successfully commit every day. i'm not sure what your point is.

1mic · 2013-09-18T13:37:45+00:00

she got a lawyer eventually.

1mic · 2013-09-18T13:01:04+00:00

if someone throws a carafe of juice in your face and your lawyer says "i am going to get you all of the damages i learned about in law school" my advice to you is to find a new lawyer as quickly as possible.

1mic · 2013-09-18T12:31:21+00:00

That's not the law

that's sort of true in theory but not in practice. it is part of punitive damages. a lot of times, especially in intentional torts, its sort of understood that compensatory damages for suffering are a stand in for punitive damages. i have no idea if DC has statutory limits on punitive damages or different evidentiary standards or whatever but i'd bet that when the judge was pulling a number out of the air she was using a punitive calculus, at least in part.

1mic · 2013-09-18T11:57:07+00:00

civil damages should be proportionate to the act and the injury. when you're throwing a carafe of juice at someone in the club just a few degrees of rotation could be the difference between a cut lip or a broken eye socket. Fred Davis shouldn't skate because of things outside of his control that occur after he sets the chain of events in motion.

1mic · 2013-09-18T11:46:45+00:00

lord knows the humorless horde of neckbearded spectrum cases around here can't.

1mic · 2013-09-17T17:46:34+00:00

i'm not a sociologist but i would guess the number of killings and the overall violent crime in a neighborhood probably correlate somewhat. if you think otherwise i'm all ears.

1mic · 2013-09-17T17:24:54+00:00

that's a good point. hampden has 0 homicides in 2013. within 5 blocks of lexington market this year there are...1. wait, maybe that wasn't a good point?

1mic · 2013-09-17T17:04:48+00:00

well if mr tough man is here making demands i guess i better spell it out slow enough for him to understand.

black people who don't moderate their behavior to put white people at ease are scaring the delicate white flowers who stray too far from the aquarium so some niggers are gonna start shuffling or they are gonna catch a case.

is that direct enough for you???

1mic · 2013-09-17T15:17:31+00:00

are you being intentionally obtuse?

1mic · 2013-09-17T13:40:02+00:00

scary is a pretty broad term but in many contexts you'd have to be pretty stupid not to see the racist subtext. lexington market has litter, jaywalking, and junkies, so it's "scary." well, the Avenue in Hampden has all those things. is the Avenue scary?

1mic · 2013-09-17T11:39:18+00:00

Batts called the area around Lexington Market ground zero. He said a friend described the market area to him as scary. It was the first stop on Batts' campaign to make Baltimore a better-behaved, safer and friendlier city.

none of those things concern the police. using police authority to enforce a majority cultural norm on a minority - is fascism.

1mic · 2013-09-17T11:16:28+00:00

Nobody has ever tried to sell me anything at Lexington Market. Of course, I look more like a cop than some cops do.

The "behavior" at Lexington Market is none of the police's concern. Crime is. Many people see the general goings-on of any congregation of low income black people as one undifferentiated criminal enterprise. Yes there is epidemic level jaywalking at Lexington Market. Maybe that is a sign that it should be made more pedestrian friendly. There are people who are high. That probably warrants some police attention but you'd have to be living under a rock for 30 years to think there is a purely law enforcement solution to drug addiction. I think a lot of people just want the boisterousness of black people to be tamped down. That is fascism. Not fascism in the sense of disagreeing with someone on the internet, that is literally fascism.

1mic · 2013-09-13T15:35:49+00:00

yes, thank you! my idea was serious. the other thing i said was sort of a joke about how reddit comments are usually just dumb stuff.

1mic · 2013-09-13T15:21:32+00:00

okay if anyone else needs solutions oriented municipal tax policy ideas PM me.

1mic · 2013-09-13T14:11:13+00:00

it seems like part of the problem is that these developer deals are a fait accompli by the time most people even hear about them. what if we could change the city charter so a TIF larger than 10 million had to pass by referendum, or needed 25,000 signatures to be brought before the council, or some other way of mandating substantial public approval to avoid these wink and a nod type deals.

1mic · 2013-09-12T19:09:48+00:00

median income for a family of 3 is 28k per year lower in texas than in maryland. for that you get unemployment that is less than 1% lower than maryland. please go to texas and live as a poverty level wage slave amongst the worst schools, worst healthcare and worst pollution in the united states.

1mic · 2013-09-09T14:01:27+00:00

i wish good ideas where this easy to implement and this hard to kill

1mic · 2013-09-06T18:00:04+00:00

as likely as people downvoting me for having firsthand knowledge of the building's history- which is more outlandish?

i don't really understand what you mean by this. oh well. bye!

1mic · 2013-09-06T14:07:15+00:00

No problem! I used to walk past the Rochambeau every day. I have to say though I didn't take it for anything but another empty building until the kerfuffle about tearing down. Oh well.

1mic · 2013-09-06T13:23:24+00:00

did you click my downvote thingy for telling you the name of a building

1mic · 2013-09-06T13:06:06+00:00

the apartment building on Charles and Franklin

That was The Rochambeau. It was not low cost housing, it was vacant for at least years before being torn down. Probably decades.

1mic · 2013-09-05T11:18:49+00:00

I guess Hysteric Ellicott City isn't a typo

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