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Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
www.dexerto.com/gaming/canada-investigating-how-skyrim-username-mixup-sent-innocent-man-to-prison-for-18-months-3396037/
DexertoCanada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months - DexertoCanadian officials are investigating how an innocent man spent 18 months in prison after police missed an underscore in his Skyrim username.
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
This why we need the 2nd.
Replying to @TIEPilot@lemmy.world
Wrong country. We don’t do that up here. Overall, we find this results in fewer unnecessarily dead people.
Let’s say he’d had a gun, and used it against the police. He would just have gotten hit with an additional charge that could have been anything from resisting arrest to first-degree murder, depending on how good a shot he was. So he’d still be in prison even after being proven innocent of the original charge. Real smart.
Replying to @nyan@lemmy.cafe
Or maybe if you had the 2nd they wouldn’t be so quick to arrest the wrong guy ad actually did their fucking job and investigated… No no that to lofty of a concept in canada…
The 2nd protects the 1st and you don’t have free speech.
Replying to @TIEPilot@lemmy.world
Or, you know, you’d end up dead on your doorstep for trying to invoke your 2nd amendment to the fucking cops. That’s a good way to end up getting a Darwin award.
Replying to @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
Some say its “Better to die on my feet than die on my knees.”