Well, first I personally think he was guilty, just not of felony assault, as the intent wasn’t there. Discharge in a compact area for sure, but the state doesn’t have any charges above assault and below felony assault, so I can see why the state had no choice except to charge ADW.

Do I think you’d have the same outcome had the defendant been some mid 30’s average male? I’m not sure.

My line of thinking was that he as an off duty officer was that he would have been found guilty because he should have know it was stupid. Which he certainly had to have thought.

But they acquitted him, which makes me think they might have found my hypothetical defendant not guilty as well.

But I also think the jury might have, as a group, given Dolan more slack merely due to the recent bullshit the police have had to deal with over the last few years. Almost as if this was an opportunity to make things fair.

But it’s also well within the possibilities that if the defendant was a lay person, the jury would find that they had made a gross mistake, but lacked the intent as well.

You truly never know how the juries will go without having sat on a jury before.

Interesting comment, since I’ve been doing this for over a decade and it seems to pay me.

Sounds like I do have a real job.

If that’s your argument, then he shouldn’t have been suspended since the incident happened outside of his shift.

But he was suspended, charged and acquitted.

If this was some teacher accused and found not to be guilty, you’d probably not be singing the same tune.

Jury of regular people said otherwise.

Victim was driven to the hospital, gotta save money on the ambulance fee.

You’re better off in New Haven.

You won’t have any form of public transportation after a night out as RIPTA ends before midnight, and you genuinely wouldn’t want to be drunk and on a RIPTA bus with the locals who use it as a hangout spot.

You’re honestly better off living in Westerly. You’re commute will be less, and the actual quality of life will be dramatically better.

Illinois has solid gun laws, as does Maryland and California.

Yet California has a gun violence per capita of 8.5 of 100,000, Illinois is at 14.1, Maryland sits at 13.5

Rhode Island is only higher than Massachusetts, with the rates at 5.1 and 3.7 respectively.

Every other state is higher than us in the region.

So if CT and the other above states have stronger gun laws than us, than why is their rates so much higher?

Gun laws don’t prevent people from dying from guns, it’s the people who own them.

Every person arrested for a gun charge this year will commit those crimes regardless of any law that’s passed. You could outright ban the ownership of all firearms in this state and you’d still have people breaking the law and shooting each other.

So no, we don’t need more gun control in this state that will just fuck the law abiding gun owners.

Yeah, RI is really leading this country in gun violence.

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Obviously Milano’s Pizza, the highest quality place around town.

Ah yes, the untested kits that sit at the DOH who have no connection to any police department and are a separate entity.

Oh, and the state of Rhode Island doesnt have thousands of backlogged rape kits. As a matter of fact, we have none.

Has it been proven?

Seems like a rush of judgement in the court of public opinion.

You’re wording sucked, but I get your point.

Here’s my point, they might as well all be false due to the fact no one has filed a complaint or lawsuit, which would require them to show evidence or provide testimony.

Anyone could make this allegation falsely and have no skin in the game. Since no one is willing to do any of the above mentioned steps, then it’s moot. It doesn’t count.

And what if they’re all lies?

A stampede of accusations started due to someone’s spurned incident?

How about the US Federal lawsuit that was filed and withdrawn; without settlement, all in the time span of a month?

Obviously if that person was a victim of a crime with such patterns, why didn’t they pursue their case?

Don’t you think maybe, if any of this was true in todays age, someone would start an investigation against him?

The fact it hasn’t happened makes me think it’s not as true as it’s being made to be.

For what? Following criminal procedure?

Or would you like people to be able to be arrested without a complainant, purely based of speculation?

Or do you think the 6th Amendment doesn’t belong?

And has anyone pursued legal action? Means nothing unless someone does.

OJ was alleged to have killed his wife.

Found not guilty.

Allegations without conviction mean nothing.

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What part of my last comment did we not like which caused your reaction to it?

Oh my reading comprehension is fine, I know you’re a upset they did their own investigation, which is exactly what they should have done.

You’re upset with their findings. And did you forget that Shea is doing their own? As well as RIIL? So you’re getting a three for one deal here.

So will you still be upset when all three come to the same conclusion, if that’s the result? Will your opinion on someone doing their own investigation change? Or will everyone have to have independent investigation by a world class investigator for every small incident?

You’ll never get a “good amount” from selling to a dealer since they intend to resell it at a higher price later. They need to make room for a profit.

Where as selling it privately, the buyer is more likely to pay higher since they’ll be the end user.

Should they not have investigated?

Should they have called the FBI, ATF, DHS and Wyoming Department of Public Safety?

Let’s be honest here, you’d be more upset if they didn’t investigate this incident, but since they found out it wasn’t as bad as reported, you’re mad.

But here you are, strictly believing the words of someone who wasn’t there and has less experience than a janitor who attended the game to clean up afterwards.

An investigation is based on facts, and it would appear that the facts do not support the claim as of what has been released today.

Or you can go conspiracy theorist and think that the town of Tiverton is full KKK and this is just a coverup and BIPOC are unsafe in the east side of the state.

Going to AAA really just makes the actual application easier, not the backend process.

Tiverton has done their investigation, and unless something else comes up, it’s complete.

Shea conducted their own, according to the Tiverton Superintendent Sanchioni. But according to his statement, he used the term “conducted”, which would imply theirs is done as well.

RIIL is conducting their own as well, but the way it’s worded in the article could be read as they did theirs already, or are doing it still.

I should have said Shea did their own.

It would appear that the other side of this incident, Shea, is doing their own investigation in conjunction.

Have they said it was substantiated as well?

And don’t you think in todays age, there would be video of this on SnapChat or Instagram of all these students being racist?