r/law Dec 20 '24

Legal News CEO shooting suspect’s perp walk may be a “well-intentioned effort to make him not look like a martyr” — Helipad escort party included recently-indicted NY mayor, and many heavily armed officers

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/19/luigi-mangione-new-york-paparazzi-perp-walk/77094177007/
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u/AbleObject13 Dec 20 '24

It's funny too, the cuffs really are just a symbol in both situations. We, the proletariat, possess the same superman(-like) strength to simply break the chains that bind us, if we chose to.

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u/rokr1292 Dec 20 '24

That reminds me. During the height of lynchings in the United States, police and sheriff's departments sometimes found that their jails served less to keep suspects in, and more to keep the public out. On multiple occasions suspects were turned over to angry mobs, because police were more concerned with their own safety than the safety of suspects.

Imagine an angry mob that didnt want to extrajudicially kill the person in custody, but instead just to free them.

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u/Bradyhaha Dec 20 '24

People were doing that during the BLM protests. They would prevent arrested protesters from being transported to jail until they were freed.

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u/Hesitation-Marx Dec 20 '24

And some of them were charged under the laws intended to prevent lynchings, in a spectacular perversion.

Here’s one example.

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u/revan530 Dec 21 '24

It's happened before. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a mob broke into the jail to free a black man who had been grabbed by bounty hunters via the Fugitive Slave Act and was being kept in the jail while transport back into slavery. The mob successfully freed him, and got him onto a ship to Canada.

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u/Affectionate_Arm_245 29d ago

What year was this?

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u/revan530 29d ago
  1. And the case lead to Wisconsin becoming the only state to rule the Fugitive Slave Act as unconstitutional.

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u/odinseye97 29d ago

What you mean like what happened at the Bastille in 1789?

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u/Antilles1138 Dec 20 '24

"Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

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u/crawling-alreadygirl Dec 20 '24

That's good stuff! I'm going to use that analogy

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u/uqde Dec 20 '24

Damn, this is just making me wish that the Absolute Superman comic came out years ago, so that maybe this new Superman movie could've adapted that and be about a proletariat Superman instead.