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Last edited Mon Jun 24, 2019, 12:39 PM - Edit history (2)
Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) Tweeted:
THEY got toothpaste. https://t.co/fWfKLbfZTE
Link to tweet
Top left, Dylan Root, even got hot food.
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#TrumpCamps
Freethinker65
(11,203 posts)Surprised Trump did not find some way to donate them at an inflated price, take a hefty tax write off, and declare himself the most compassionate conservative in the universe.
lpbk2713
(43,296 posts)It would be a good idea otherwise. But for now it goes on the back burner.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,296 posts)demmiblue
(39,941 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)an officer went to the burger shop and acquired food which Roof ate in cuffs at the jail.
The Snopes article gives several reasons for it, notably to withold food would violate his civil rights and complicate any prosecution.
Everything else in your post is dead on.
irisblue
(37,915 posts)And in that article..." A post-arrest rights violation checklist published on FindLaw details circumstances under which an individual could later claim their rights were violated, one of which is a withholding of food:
A criminal suspect is entitled to humane treatment, no matter how heinous the alleged crime. If you were not treated humanely, for instance if you were deprived of food and water or if you were beaten either during police questioning or while in a holding cell, your rights may have been violated."
Huh. Imagine
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IronLionZion
(51,550 posts)since that's the real crime that must be punished according to some folks
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)MAGA!!!!!!!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Demovictory9
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