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Hamilton TN County Sheriff and Facebook Standards

2022-04-20 15:48:39.496411+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Well. Facebook just restricted my account, again, because the algorithm thinks I'm promoting human trafficking with this post:

At the end of 1985, in my senior year of high school, my family moved from Newtown Connecticut to Hixson Tennessee for my Dad's job with GE Ceramics in Chattanooga. I came down, spent a week or two in school there, decided that just wasn't gonna happen and a friend's family took me in for the remainder of high school. I moved down in the summer of '86, intending to take a kind-of gap year at UTC, but stayed for a bit over 9 years. Long enough that I think I've solidly earned the label "Damned Yankee".

In the process of my time there, going from teenager to late twenties, with a large detour through long-haired whitewater hippy, I had some encounters with the local constabulary. Nothing that got me a record, but...

I have heard "here, kid, have a hit off of this, it was probably yours once anyway".

Referring to "The Dukes of Hazzard" as "a documentary" lets us dismiss "law enforcement" of that area as buffoons, rather than looking at the real genuine harm that comes from letting a bunch of armed bullies enforce the social structure.

And it surprised me very little when, shortly after the deputy who was brought up on charges for the incidents in which this woman was victimized, and in the face of various other allegations of department misconduct, the "server crashed", losing 15 months of dashcam video.

Which is to say that I very much hope the FBI gets involved here, because I don't even trust the TBI to be far enough from the corruption to give a fair and accurate accounting. And I suspect that what happened here is exactly what it looks like happened here.

https://www.wdef.com/woman-who...-baptism-found-dead-at-her-home/

[ related topics: Children and growing up Sociology Law Enforcement Heinlein Chattanooga Whitewater Video ]

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