#the parole officer (2001)

[doingthisbecauseofboredom]

Stephen Dillane as Inspector Burton in The Parole Officer (2001)

[minyard-05]

twinyards timeline but its correct this time

i reworked my original timeline because something was bugging me about it and now it SHOULD be correct

NOTE: some of these dates are approximated from generalizations made in the book– for example, nicky says andrew's letter to aaron arrives two weeks after cass calls tilda. i assume this is an general use of 'two weeks', but i've taken it literally as 14 days, which is why the letter is dated to arrive november 29th. approximated/assumed dates are marked with a *

november 4th, 1986: aaron michael and andrew joseph minyard are born to tilda minyard in san jose, california

november 7th¹*, 1986: tilda gives the twins away to foster care

november 14th*, 1986: tilda returns to the hospital and takes aaron home with her, leaving andrew behind.

november 4th, 1999: aaron and andrew turn 13 years old. aaron lives in san jose with his mother, and andrew lives in oakland with his foster parents cass and richard spear. they are unaware of each other

november 14th², 1999: oakland raiders vs san diego chargers football game at ring central stadium in oakland. aaron and tilda go with one of tilda's boyfriends, and whilst there, aaron is mistaken for andrew by officer phil higgins, who takes tilda's contact information to pass onto andrew's foster mother, hoping to reunite the brothers

november 15th, 1999: cass spear calls tilda to arrange a meet up for aaron and andrew, but tilda refuses, telling cass she wants nothing to do with andrew and to not call her again. aaron hears all of this by listening in on the upstairs phone line, and he and tilda argue.

november 29th* 1999: aaron recieves a letter from andrew that basically says "fuck you, go away."

december 1999: cass writes aaron a letter asking him to try contacting andrew again in the spring, and that holidays are a difficult time at their house

march 2000: andrew goes to juvie for an unspecified offense

may 2000: tilda and aaron move to columbia, south carolina, and aaron meets his cousin nicky hemmick for presumably the first time.

*unspecified time in early-ish 2001³: luther hemmick finds out about andrew and begins a 'years-long' campaign to reunite him with tilda and aaron. i am choosing to place this around april 2001

six months later, approx. october 2001: luther flies to california to meet andrew and his foster family

one month later, november 2001: aaron flies out to 'meet' andrew for the first time at juvie. they have probably just turned 15

march⁴ 2003: andrew makes early parole and is released from juvie. luther makes tilda take him home, and then aaron, andrew, and tilda, finally all live together in columbia

→ sidebar: on the second night living there, andrew makes his deal with aaron

august 2003: aaron and andrew start their junior years at macon high school, andrew's first outside of juvie

early september 2003⁵: tilda mistakes andrew for aaron and hits him. andrew goes to the hemmicks' who call tilda and she takes him home. aaron is actually at a study group standing in for his brother, and on the drive back, andrew orchestrates the car crash that kills his mother

→ nicky hemmick moves back from germany on the day of tilda's funeral, presumably about a week after the crash. he gets a job at sweetie's diner to provide for the twins, eventually becoming their legal guardian⁶

→ not long after, andrew locks aaron in the bathroom to get him clean from the drugs tilda got him addicted to

october* 2003: nicky and the twins start working at eden's twilight

november 4th, 2003: the twins turn 17, their first birthday together

december 2003: nicky is attacked by four homophobes outside eden's. andrew saves him, almost killing the men in the process, and he is arrested

may⁷ 2004: andrew, 17, finishing his junior year of high school, is put on trial for what he did and sentenced. his parole agreement includes court-mandated therapy and mood altering drugs that he is scheduled to be on for 3 years

august 2004: andrew and aaron begin their senior year at macon high school

february⁸ 2005: kevin day and riko moriyama offer andrew a contract to play with the edgar allan ravens, which he refuses. kevin and riko travel to south carolina to find out why, where andrew refuses again and he and aaron play a scrimmage with kevin on the court

march 2005: david wymack meets with the twins and nicky at subway, and gives the three of them contracts to sign with the palmetto state foxes, which they do

june 2005: aaron, andrew, and nicky finally join the lineup for the PSU foxes

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notes/citations under the cut

1) guesstimate based on when i think it's legal to give children to foster care. i assume its not that long after birth, and i believe the twins had to spend time in the ICU beforehand as well. the 14th is an approximation based on the fact that nicky says tilda went back for aaron after a week

2) raiders v chargers was an actual football game that took place in oakland 10 days after aaron's 13th birthday and therefore works out perfectly for the timeline thank youu nora

3) nicky says this in the start of the raven king, october 2006:

4) he went to juvie in march 2000 so i'm assuming his 3 year sentence just works out linearly like that

5) approximated from being about 5 months after andrew moves to columbia

6) while he DOES do this it's probably a very long process so i assume its ongoing as other events in the timeline happen

7) this is just me counting backwards because andrew is SUPPOSED to come off his drugs in may 2007 (obviously he doesn't) and so once again i assume the 3 year time period is linear or nothing else works

8) i'm saying february for this for two reasons: 1) i'm completely guessing when college teams recruit athletes 2) in the EC aaron describes the drive home as being darker earlier in the evening, so late winter feels about right

[rupertograves]

Steve Coogan as Simon Garden in The Parole Officer (2001) dir. John Duigan

[brightlotusmoon]

In winter 2001, having moved from New York to Maryland, I got a job as a receptionist at a parole office. Everyone was wonderful and kind and warm, including most of the parolees. I would greet them all happily, yes the free condoms basket has been filled, there's a water cooler with paper cups, etc.

One day probably in mid 2002, an Army Recruiter wandered in, a young guy who looked fresh and cheerful. He tried to recruit me. I told him I had asthma. He said that was fine, he'd find a job for me. I told him I had cerebral palsy. He didn't know what that was. After I explained, he looked kind of lost, like he wasn't sure how to work that into a "don't worry the military still wants you" spiel. He left the building looking a bit dejected.

The supervisor who had been hovering nearby patted my shoulder and said "they're doing that a lot because of what happened in September." And I just nodded. Back then we still didn't really know anything.

I keep seeing TV ads for joining the Army and the Reserves, and they still look like fancy video game trailers.

My roommate had been forced into the Army in the early 90s by her wicked mother. She retained an extraordinary ability to make beds and fold sheets like a magician. She'll tell stories. She hated it, she hated how they broke her. She was thrilled to get a medical discharge for endometriosis which finally convinced her family she was in pain.

[tea-with-evan-and-me]

Unfortunately the very fact that BL was allowed to work with Evan at all means that his parents weren't vigilant.

BL was already on the sex offenders reguster when Evan stared to work with. Parents in their town had reported Lambs boy model website to the police and had been told that because he kept it just the right side of legal there was nothing they could do.

Why would any vigilant parent allow that man near their child regardless of whether they were always present or not?

It is much more likely that Lamb groomed Evan to keep things from his parents so they weren't aware than it is they thought their son working with a convicted paedo was cool so long as they were present.

Abusers also groom parents as well as children to earn their trust which is another way they get away with it.

A police report from the time if his 2006 arrest

"Township police confirmed last year that they were aware Lamb was running a model and photography business that specialized in teenage boys, but they concluded some of his photos of young boys were suggestive but legal.

In August 2001 and March 2002, Mundy Township police received separate complaints about Lamb's recruitment of boy models, according to police reports

In 2001, a woman told police that Lamb on three separate occasions approached her son at the Meijer store on Hill Road, where the boy worked. Lamb left business cards with the boy, who was 17 but looked younger, his mother told police.

A Mundy Township police report said police talked to Lamb's old parole officer, who stated Lamb's previous approach had been to to approach boys 13 to 15 years old and ask them to model for him.

In 2002, an employee at the Kessel's store on Fenton Road in Mundy Township also contacted police about Lamb "coming in the store and approaching young men to young boys and handing out a card stating that he is a photographer looking for models."

i’m glad someone else said this because i have said the same thing in the past, and no - i am not attacking his parents nor insinuating any dubious intent. i’m merely stating the fact that there is no situation in which parents should allow adults access to their children without fully background checking AND ensuring they are not ever alone. i have issues with the very premise of children in the entertainment industry because of this. BL was a convicted sex offender before he ever met evan and his family.

personally, any man whose career is photographing kids, i am looking sideways at them. 🤷🏻‍♀️ and i’m not a parent but i especially wouldn’t let any male photographer around any kids i love or care about and am responsible for.

[beardedmrbean]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday as attorneys working on behalf of Marcellus Williams seek to save him, just a day before his scheduled execution.

Oral arguments were scheduled for Monday morning in the hearing before the state Supreme Court. Williams, 55, is set to die by injection Tuesday evening for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in University City, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb.

Williams has long maintained his innocence. DNA evidence raised enough questions that a previous governor halted an execution in 2017, and St. Louis County's current prosecutor challenged Williams' guilt in a court hearing last month.

Attorneys for Williams also have an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, a clemency request before Gov. Mike Parson focuses largely on how Gayle's own relatives want the sentence commuted to life in prison without parole. The national NAACP also is urging Parson, a Republican, to stop the execution of Williams, who is Black.

The execution would be the third in Missouri this year and the 15th nationwide.

Williams was hours away from execution in August 2017 when then-Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican, granted a stay after reviewing DNA evidence that found no trace of Williams’ DNA on the knife used in the killing. Greitens appointed a panel of retired judges to examine the case, but that panel never reached any conclusion.

That same DNA evidence prompted Democratic St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell to request a hearing challenging Williams’ guilt. But days before the Aug. 21 hearing, new testing showed that the DNA evidence was spoiled because members of the prosecutor’s office touched the knife without gloves before the original trial.

With the DNA evidence unavailable, Midwest Innocence Project attorneys reached a compromise with the prosecutor’s office: Williams would enter a new, no-contest plea to first-degree murder in exchange for a new sentence of life in prison without parole.

Judge Bruce Hilton signed off on the agreement, as did Gayle’s family. But at Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s urging, the Missouri Supreme Court blocked the agreement and ordered Hilton to proceed with an evidentiary hearing, which took place Aug. 28.

Hilton ruled on Sept. 12 that the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence would stand.

“Every claim of error Williams has asserted on direct appeal, post-conviction review, and habeas review has been rejected by Missouri’s courts,” Hilton wrote. “There is no basis for a court to find that Williams is innocent, and no court has made such a finding.”

The clemency petition from the Midwest Innocence Project focuses heavily on how Gayle’s relatives want the sentence commuted to life without parole. “The family defines closure as Marcellus being allowed to live,” the petition states.

Parson, a former county sheriff, has been in office for 11 executions, and has never granted clemency.

Issues of racial bias in Williams’ conviction also have been raised.

The prosecutor in the 2001 first-degree murder case, Keith Larner, testified at the August hearing that the trial jury was fair, even though it included just one Black member on the panel.

Larner said he struck just three potential Black jurors, including one man because he looked too much like Williams. He didn’t say why he felt that mattered.

Executing Williams would perpetuate a history of racial injustice in the use of the death penalty in Missouri and elsewhere, NAACP President Derrick Johnson wrote to Parson last week. The NAACP is opposed to the death penalty.

“Taking the life of Marcellus Williams would be an unequivocal statement that when a white woman is killed, a Black man must die. And any Black man will do,” Johnson wrote.

Prosecutors at Williams’ original trial said he broke into Gayle’s home on Aug. 11, 1998, heard water running in the shower, and found a large butcher knife. When Gayle came downstairs, she was stabbed 43 times. Her purse and her husband’s laptop were stolen.

Authorities said Williams stole a jacket to conceal blood on his shirt. Williams’ girlfriend asked him why he would wear a jacket on a hot day. The girlfriend said she later saw the laptop in the car and that Williams sold it a day or two later.

Prosecutors also cited testimony from Henry Cole, who shared a cell with Williams in 1999 while Williams was jailed on unrelated charges. Cole told prosecutors Williams confessed to the killing and offered details about it.

Williams’ attorneys responded that the girlfriend and Cole were both convicted of felonies and wanted a $10,000 reward.

[gatheringbones]

[“In 1985 the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women in New York held historic hearings on the devastating links between criminalization and gender-based violence; incarcerated women and their advocates testified about the devastating pipeline between experiencing sexual violence and incarceration. Sisters Inside, an Australian abolitionist group that supports incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women, in 2001 presented the term “state sexual assault” to argue that the state itself is a perpetrator of sexual violence through policing, incarceration, and other carceral methods.

State sexual assault is strip searches and cavity searches of incarcerated or arrested people; it’s the enabling of rampant sexual assault by police officers and prison guards, the general punitiveness and systemic denial of incarcerated people’s bodily autonomy. Sisters Inside organizers who had been incarcerated themselves described how physical and sexual abuse from interpersonal partners and from agents of the state carry many of the same impacts and feel virtually indistinguishable from each other.

Despite the inevitable sexual violence perpetuated by the prison system, mainstream feminist leaders like Gloria Steinem spent the summer of 2022 shilling for the creation of an ostensibly “feminist” women’s prison to be built in a shut-down jail in Harlem. It would be called the Women’s Center for Justice and incarcerate “women and gender-expansive people.” The proposal was immediately shot down by abolitionist feminists, pointing out how prisons are inseparable from white supremacy and are innately sexist and dehumanizing, no matter what they’re called.

“Feminist” organizing for the Women’s Center for Justice is hardly the first time criminal justice reformers have unveiled supposedly more humane forms of prison, like house arrest, electronic monitoring, or parole. This level of state surveillance amounts to a prison without walls, all around us. In their 2020 book Prison by Any Other Name, Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law note that all these ideas raise fundamental questions about the prison system as a whole: “What does it mean to reform—to improve—a system that, at its core, relies on captivity and control? What are the dangers of perfecting a system that was designed to target marginalized people?”

Abolitionist feminists recognize the futility of reforms or collaborations with police to help abuse victims. Abolition entails the end of prisons and policing; it reconstructs society to ensure everyone’s needs are met, survival-based “crimes” are no longer necessary or criminalized, and harm is addressed without dehumanizing, carceral resolutions, which are more likely to reproduce and worsen harm than alleviate it. The carceral system, a fundamentally racist web of processes and institutions that criminalize and incarcerate people, has always been deeply tied to our societal crises of domestic and sexual violence—from the hostility and threats of criminalization that many victims of abuse face when they seek help, to the prevalence of sexual abuse and violence carried out by police officers and within prisons.

Lived experience first prompted me to question the norms of how we understand gender and violence from a carceral lens that frames law enforcement as saviors rather than assailants. With time and reflection on my own experiences with sexual assault, I learned the complexity of acts of interpersonal harm, and multilayered paths to personal restoration that are threatened and upended rather than supported by carceral logic. As a teenager, I balked at the idea of talking to people with guns about what had happened to me when I couldn’t even talk to my own parents. When your only option to process or seek “justice” for acts of sexual harm is to implicate yourself and someone who’s hurt you—someone you may hold complex or even loving feelings toward—into a violent, permanent system, truthfully, you’re left with no options at all. Even then, I think on some level I understood that victims of abuse are not the people that our law enforcement systems and punitive traditions are designed to serve. The police state is built to perpetuate rather than alleviate abuse, to disempower rather than support those who survive violence. The result is a culture in which victims of a wide range of acts of sexual and interpersonal harms are left to fend for themselves or risk incurring additional trauma—even, in no shortage of documented cases, criminalization and incarceration. Carcerality is incompatible with creating environments in which abuse victims feel safe enough to seek recourse. Overinflated police and prison budgets mean that publicly funded resources for victims are severely lacking if not nonexistent. Yet carceral policy is the governing model of nearly all cities across the country, which rely on it to generate revenue through policing, incarcerating, and exploiting Black and brown people, consequently slashing funding for essential resources.”]

kylie cheung, from survivor injustice: state-sanctioned abuse, domestic violence, and the fight for bodily autonomy, 2023

[lboogie1906]

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is a political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He became known while on death row for his writings and commentary on the criminal justice system in the US. After numerous appeals, his death penalty sentence was overturned by a Federal court. The prosecution agreed to a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. He entered the general prison population early the following year.

He was born in Philadelphia, where he grew up.

He became involved with the Black Panther Party and was a member until October 1970. He completed his high school education and became a radio reporter. He served as president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists. He supported the MOVE Organization in Philadelphia and covered the 1978 confrontation in which one police officer was killed. The MOVE Nine were the members who were arrested and convicted of murder in that case.

His trial has been criticized for constitutional failings; some have claimed that he is innocent, and many opposed his death sentence. His family, politicians, and other groups involved with law enforcement, state, and city governments argue that his trial was fair, his guilt beyond question, and his death sentence justified. Many of these groups exist within the Prison-Industrial Complex, a system that he has criticized.

When his death sentence was overturned by a Federal court in 2001, he was described as “perhaps the world’s best-known death-row inmate” by The New York Times. During his imprisonment, he published books and commentaries on social and political issues; his first book was Live from Death Row.

He married Biba (1973) and they had two children. He married Marilyn (1978) and they had a son. He married Wadiya (1981-2022). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[elbereth-de-lioncourt]

1994 - 2007 LAREINE

Il est inconcevable de ne pas s’attarder sur le groupe LAREINE, pour différentes raisons. L’une d’elles est son incroyable concept, qui va nous entraîner au-delà de l’imaginable. Nous allons donc nous pencher sur la romance entre « Lillie Charlotte » et « Jérémie Florence de Jarger » qui traite, paradoxalement, de la très mince frontière séparant les sentiments de tristesse et de bonheur.

V - Pour commencer, pouvez-vous nous parler plus en détails de la toute première rencontre de « Lillie» et « Jérémie » ?

K - Au commencement, « Jérémie» était amoureux de quelqu’un d’autre que « Lillie ». Il est donc probable que la rencontre entre ces deux protagonistes ait été réellement douloureuse pour la jeune femme.

V - « Asphodel », « Jérémie » ou encore « Illusion Bleue » ont tous un rapport entre eux. Pouvez-vous nous parler du lien qui les unis ?

K - « Jérémie » représente la vie antérieure d’« Asphodel ». Quand И « Illusion Blue », il est en réalité l’âme de « Jérémie », qui était celle celle d’« Asphodel » à l’époque où il a vécu.

V – Pouvez-vous nous expliquer de quelle façon nous pourrions nous rendre au « Lac de Réminiscence » s’il existait réellement ?

K - Et bien... Il s’agit d’un lac qui se trouve dans le coeur de tout le monde. Donc, si vous fermez les yeux, vous pourrez très bien le voir vous aussi.

V - « 1, 2, 3, 4, 22, 23, 24... » dit le petit garçon dans le « Café des Fées », lors de la lecture de la «Lettre à Lillie ». Dans ce scénario, chaque personnage a un rêe bien précis, et les questions que nous nous posons sont les suivantes : Qui est cet enfant ? Pourquoi compte t-il ? Et pourquoi saute-il des numéros ?

K - En fait, l’enfant compte le temps. Il n’est pas évident de compter « le temps », c’est pourquoi il « saute des numéros ». Mais en admettant que ce petit garçon ait été un « Dieu », ça devait être facile pour lui.

V - Avant d’en finir, attardons-nous encore un instant dans ce café et sur ses occupants, principalementsur la femme qui lit les mémoires de « Lillie ». D’après la « troisième lettre », qui fait office d’introduction à la chanson « Fiançailles», pouvons-nous en conclure que cette personne est en quelques sortes la réincarnation de « Lillie-Charlotte » ?

K - Tout à fait. Cette femme, qui lit à voix haute les écrits de « Lillie », est effectivement sa réincarnation.

2001 - 2002 NEW SODMY

… Est en réalité une métaphore de ce que pourrait représenter l’évolution, le temps qui passe, et le fait d’aller de l’avant. Ici, on ne s’attarde plus autant que précédemment sur le visuel, et l’on creuse vers une expression plus brute des émotions.

V - Détachons-nous doucement de LAREINE avec le titre « Since J&L ». Les paroles nous font nous demander si l’homme qui « laisse la plume dans le livre » ne serait pas une sorte d’anamorphose de « Jérémie », lui-même transposé comme tel dans un autre monde ?

K - Bravo, c’est exact ! L’homme « à la plume » est une incarnation physique de « Jérémie ».

V - « Phantom » et « Are you sodmy ? », à titre d’exemple, semblent très éloignés de l’univers poétique auquel vous nous avez habitués. Ces titres ont une dimension plus « réaliste ». Pouvez-vous nous en parler ?

K - Pour moi, la chanson « Phantom » représente la nature profonde de KAMIJO. En ce qui concerne « Are you sodmy ? », c’est en réalité un jeu de mot !

V - Dans toutes vos oeuvres, chaque musicien incarne un personnage, secondaire ou non. Dans NEW SODMY, les artistes qui vous accompagnent symbolisent-t-ils des protagonistes, des sentiments, ou encore des allégories ?

K - D’après l’idée que je m’en suis faite, « AYA » et « YOU » sont tous les deux comme des loups solitaires.

V - Tout au long de votre parcours, l’esthétique poussée à l’extrême a toujours prôné. Sachant cela, et en nous appuyant sur le fait que NEW SODMY se veut dans « l’air du temps », pouvez-vous nous expliquer pourquoi ce look beaucoup plus « soft » et épuré ?

K - Parce qu’à l’époque, nous avons décidé de changer et de nous diriger vers un style plus « mode ».

V - Enfin, si vous deviez choisir une expression qui selon vous définirait au mieux NEW SODMY, laquelle serait-ce ?

K - Tout simplement « Mode Rock ».

[masterofd1saster]

CJ current events 16jan25

America's crime problem has never been everyone committing one crime

New York City saw a “staggering” 146.5% jump in felony assault busts for repeat offenders over the past six years, the Big Apple’s top cop said — as the crime reached a two-decade high in 2024. Suspects with at least three arrests on their rap sheet were charged with assault 442 times last year, up from 274 in 2018 — part of a pattern that shows wrongdoers are being cut loose too often, with the NYPD blaming soft-on-crime Albany lawmakers.  “That is what we’re up against,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters at a briefing Monday. “And we know why. The key driving factor is the revolving door of our criminal justice system, created in large part by legislative changes that took effect in 2020.”*** Tisch singled out 57-year-old parolee Gary Worthy, accused of shooting and injuring both an NYPD cop and a 26-year-old woman – an innocent bystander – during an attempt to rob a Queens bodega. The injured officer, 7-year veteran Rich Wong, returned fire, fatally striking Worthy. “The shooter had 17 prior arrests — 17 of which happened when he was out on lifetime parole, including arrests for robbery, burglary and menacing within the past year,” Tisch said. “Let me repeat that: he was arrested and then released over and over again while on lifetime parole. This is evidence of a broken system, one that doesn’t put the rights and needs of victims first.”***

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Pres-Elect Trump sentencing

On Fri, 10jan, Judge Juan M. Merchan apparently sentenced Pres-Elect Trump to no punishment. This was the business records case. It's sort of a double edged sword: Merchan and co get to call Trump a convicted felon, and Trump can now appeal the conviction. Many reasonable lawyers doubt that Trump rec'd a fair trial.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-new-york-sentencing/2025/01/10/id/1194595

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Britain: Pay no attention to the rapes behind the curtain!

An attempt by the Conservatives to have the government set up a national inquiry into grooming gangs has been voted down by 364 votes to 111 votes, a margin of 253. The amendment was attached to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which would have been killed had the vote passed. Earlier in the day, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch argued the government risks fuelling accusations of "a cover up" by refusing an inquiry.*** A local Rotherham inquiry uncovered the sexual abuse of 1,400 children over 16 years, mainly by British Pakistani men. In Telford, up to 1,000 girls faced abuse over 40 years, with some cases overlooked due to "nervousness about race" as most suspects were men of south Asian heritage.***

"South Asian" is the term polite Britain uses for "Pakistani."

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Hey, you two, rent The Villages. Or something

WAUKESHA, Wis. - A man and woman – already charged with having sex in the Waukesha County Jail lobby last year – are now accused of having sex at a Waukesha laundromat. Desmound Cleveland and Karen Hill are each charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Hill is additionally charged with two counts of misdemeanor bail jumping.***

Because what the world needs to see is more geriatric sex.

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Your job is following leads

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Detectives who arrested a Battle Creek man for two murders he didn't commit could soon be forced to pay up. A settlement conference is set for Feb. 5, nearly two years after Jeff Titus was released from prison. Titus was arrested in 2001, about 11 years after he was accused of murdering hunters Doug Estes and Jim Bennett near his Kalamazoo County property in 1990.*** By time Titus was released, he was 71 years old. This happened after authorities revealed Titus' lawyer was never given a police file with details about another suspect, Thomas Dillon, in 2002. Dillion was an Ohio serial killer whose five victims were killed between 1989 and 1992 while they were either hunting, fishing, or jogging.***

He was imprisoned >20 years.

The thing I hate about these stories is that they never talk about why the exonerated person was a suspect in the first place. For all we know, Titus may have threatened to kill Estes and Bennett and his dna was found on the murder weapon. I don't think so, but the story doesn't tell you.

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How could I pass up a headline like

Gang Member "La Barbie" Allowed to Remove Ankle Monitor Before Being Caught Running Hotel Sex Prison

Estefania "La Barbie" Primera, a member of the Tren de Aragua gang, was permitted to remove her ankle monitor a year before authorities caught her orchestrating a lawless and brutal sex trafficking operation at a border hotel, according to sources. Allegedly, federal immigration officials allowed Primera, a suspected Venezuelan sex trafficker, to discard her tracking device after she complained that her belongings, including the monitor's charger, had been stolen. This leniency granted to "La Barbie" raises serious questions about the oversight of individuals involved in criminal activities. Subsequently, Primera was apprehended by law enforcement in El Paso, Texas, where she was accused of managing a sex trafficking ring within the confines of the Gateway Hotel. Shockingly, the hotel had been overtaken by members of the Tren de Aragua gang, adding a layer of complexity to the criminal activities unfolding within its walls.*** Disturbing court documents reveal harrowing testimonies from victims, with one individual alleging that Primera drugged her with a fentanyl-laced pill and facilitated a series of rapes while she was unconscious. The victim suffered severe injuries as a result of the traumatic ordeal. Furthermore, when the victim attempted to escape, "La Barbie" purportedly resorted to physical violence, forcibly returning the victim to the hotel by employing physical aggression in the form of punches and kicks, as detailed in the legal filings. Primera's arrest unfolded in late September outside the Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, a sanctuary for migrant arrivals. She was accompanied by her five young children, whom she allegedly exploited by involving them in drug trafficking activities.***

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who knew porn was addicting

A Florida deputy has resigned after body camera footage showed he was looking at pornography when he crashed into a car last year, according to a report. Lake County Deputy Tristan Macomber resigned his position after an internal investigation into the Nov. 6 crash, NBC6 affiliate WESH reported. The body camera footage showed Macomber driving when he suddenly slammed into a vehicle that was stopped in front of him. His airbag deploys before he gets out to check on the other driver, who was stopped for a school bus.***

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Excellent article about norms and feminism

***For these women, risking everything for the sake of extramarital orgasms with a person who doesn’t love you is not a destructive and selfish impulse to be resisted, but the path to a higher realm of self-actualization. They owe nothing to the world, or to their occupations, or to the people who love and rely on them; certainly they cannot be expected to honor the promises they’ve made if it means denying themselves something they desire. Films like Babygirl are brave in that they acknowledge that women, empowered to have sex like men, will do exactly that—up to and including taking inappropriate liberties in the workplace with their much younger underlings. Where they fail is in pretending that this makes them heroic figures, as opposed to total sleazebags. What equality truly demands of us is not just the license to behave just as badly as men, but to be held to the same standards of human goodness. This is the nature of middle age—when you aren’t too old to start over, but you’re definitely old enough to know better. Eventually, the path ahead of you becomes narrowed by the choices behind you; eventually, you become accountable not just to yourself but to others, too. And if some shimmering possibility presents itself, be it another lover or another life, the truly heroic thing to do is to understand the difference between a possibility and a promise, between a fantasy of what might have been and the deep-rooted truth of the life you’ve chosen—and to gently close the door.

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Not helping the immigrant community

A man seen in a viral video being confronted and apprehended by Los Angeles residents, and who was eventually arrested by police with an alleged blowtorch, is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sources tell Fox News. Los Angeles police took the man into custody after a group of local residents grabbed him near the Kenneth Fire, allegedly carrying a blowtorch, according to video from Fox 11 Los Angeles.*** ICE sources tell Fox that he is a Mexican illegal immigrant named Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva. He is in custody due to a probation violation and has not been charged with arson. ***

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In America today, there are nearly 1,500 biological men incarcerated in federal women’s prisons. Nearly half of them are sex offenders, according to the Bureau of Prison’s own data—almost four times the rate of the general prison population. Across the country, female inmates have been harassed, raped, and even impregnated by male prisoners they’ve been forced to house with. Today, Free Press reporter Madeleine Kearns speaks to one of the women fighting back: 58-year-old Rhonda Fleming, who is serving a 27-year sentence for Medicare fraud. Fleming says she’s had to share facilities, including showers and restrooms, with at least 10 male felons simply because they identify as transgender. Today, a judge in Tallahassee will hear arguments that the conditions of her confinement violate her constitutional right to bodily privacy. “When you’re most vulnerable, you’re naked in a shower,” Fleming told The Free Press. “There’s no officer monitoring the showers unless some kind of emergency happens, and so at any time, anything can happen to you.” Fleming’s experience is not a one-off. All 29 federal female prisons in the U.S. allow male criminals who identify as women to be incarcerated—a practice that began in the early 2010s under the Obama administration. Trump mostly walked it back; Biden reinstated it. What would a victory for Rhonda Fleming mean for incarcerated women across the country? Read Madeleine’s investigation: “Biden’s Transgender Prison Policy Goes to Trial.”

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NDIANAPOLIS, IN (KGAN) — A Texas man appeared in an Indiana courtroom Tuesday morning for allegedly stalking and sending sexually violent text messages to WNBA superstar and Iowa grad Caitlin Clark. Michael Thomas Lewis, 55, had his initial appearance where a judge read his level 5 felony charges. "Morning, Mr. Lewis," the judge said after the suspect entered the courtroom. "Guilty as charged," Lewis said.***

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Policing good news

Excellent column by Olivia Reingold

If you’re a New Yorker, you probably know how Mayor Eric Adams spent part of last Friday afternoon: getting his eyebrows threaded at a salon in Corona, Queens. The now-viral moment was meant to symbolize how civilized the whole area had become in the past 90 days. A few months earlier, locals had complained that this wasn’t the kind of block you’d want to set foot on, let alone visit for a spa treatment. The only massage parlors and salons open for business seemed to be fronts for the neighborhood’s booming sex trade, with police estimating as many as 50 brothels operating in the area. The neighborhood had even developed a nickname: the “Market of Sweethearts.” “It was anarchy outside,” said Ramses Frías, a second-generation Queens native. “People were scared to leave their homes.”

After Frías and other locals held a series of rallies and protests, Adams deployed hundreds of NYPD officers, plus 50 state troopers, in a 90-day crackdown dubbed “Operation Restore Roosevelt,” referring to Roosevelt Avenue, the neighborhood’s main thoroughfare.*** Things began to change in 2021, when the NYCLU and other progressive groups successfully lobbied the state to repeal an anti-loitering law, which they claimed “enabled law enforcement to target Black and Brown transgender women, non-binary people, immigrants, and low-income communities for innocuous behavior.” They referred to the law as the “Walking While Trans Ban.” Frías says the rollback hamstrung police from taking action just as thousands of migrants were streaming into New York, exacerbating the problems mounting on Roosevelt Avenue.***

Prostitutes on Roosevelt Avenue began operating in broad daylight about two years ago. On their way to school, Frías said, kids had to start walking past scantily clad women counting cash. In September, parents at a local elementary school passed a resolution demanding “increased school safety measures.” Among the issues they said their children encountered on the way to and from school: “Open prostitution and illegal massage parlors employing sex workers,” “rampant drug use,” and “organized crime syndicates.”*** From the moment the city announced its campaign to crack down on crime in the area, progressives began to protest. Groups like Red Canary Song, which advocates for “BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Trans GNC, and Disabled Sex Workers,” claimed to speak on behalf of the people of Queens—despite being co-founded by a Columbia-educated dominatrix (other “core organizers” include a Barnard graduate turned “BDSM practitioner,” a Brown University professor, and a Yale graduate student with they/he/she pronouns). “We demand the removal of state and local troops from Queens,” an October Red Canary Song press release demanded. “These dehumanizing narratives are fabricated and weaponized to justify increased surveillance, perpetuating our community’s precarity through police violence.”***

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Stone (2010) (1322)

Stone is a 2010 American crime thriller film directed by John Curran, written by Angus MacLachlan, and starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich. Most of the filming was done in Washtenaw County, Michigan. It was the final film to be released by Overture Films. This is the second film in which De Niro and Norton starred together, after The Score (2001). Stone (2010 film) - Wikipedia

Stone (2010) - IMDb 5'4

A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.

link https://ok.ru/video/9224517126707

Milla Jovovich (35) in Stone (2010) REBLOG actress-playground

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Earliest version I remember is Parole Officer (2001)

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Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Devos in Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard, 2001)

Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Vincent Cassel, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier, Olivia Bonamy, Bernard Alane, Céline Samie, Pierre Diot, François Loriquet, Serge Onteniente, David Saracino, Christophe Vandevelde. Screenplay: Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benacquista. Cinematography: Mathieu Vadepied. Production design: Michel Barthélémy. Film editing: Juliette Welfling. Music: Alexandre Desplat. 

It's so easy to imagine an American remake of Jacques Audard's Read My Lips that it's surprising it hasn't been done with, say, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in the roles played by Emmanuelle Devos and Vincent Cassel. At its core it's a romantic thriller about a mousy office worker who blossoms when she teams up with a scruffy ex-con for a heist that depends in large part on her ability to read lips. But this is the French version, so it's also violent and murky, with some complicated backstories and sidebar episodes. Devos plays Carla, an overworked secretary/office manager with a hearing impairment, who collapses one day after being harassed once too often by other members of the staff. Her boss takes notice, however, and lets her hire an assistant to do some of the grunt work like photocopying. The hire is Paul (Cassel), who has just got out of prison, and Carla is so grateful for what he does -- and so obviously turned on by his rough masculinity -- that she goes out of her way to help him find a place to live and even gives him money. Paul repays her by helping her get even with one of the office harassers, but he still owes money to Marchand (OIivier Gourmet), one of his old criminal associates. That's where Carla's ability to lip-read comes in. So Carla and Paul team up to rob a large amount of money that Marchand is holding for some fellow criminals. Read My Lips was well received, winning César awards for Devos and for the screenplay, and nominations for Cassel, Audiard's direction, and for best film. But it also has some detractors, who criticize it as overlong and needlessly complicated, including a subplot involving Paul's parole office (Olivier Perrier) that seems to have nothing to do with the main plot. The treatment of Carla's hearing impairment is vague, and some have questioned whether even the most skilled lip-readers could do what the film has her do. But Devos and Cassel are terrific, generating real sexual tension, and Audiard skillfully provides suspense and surprises. 

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‘La Bête dans la jungle’ de Patric Chiha Panorama, sortie le 16/08

Dans les premières minutes de ‘La Bête dans la jungle’, le personnage de May interprété par Anaïs Demoustier se dirige vers une boîte de nuit avec un groupe d’amis en disant : « J’adore les ouvertures, je trouve cela excitant. » Pour ouvrir cette première édition de la Berlinale que nous couvrons, cela ne pouvait pas mieux débuter. Mais hélas, l’excitation autour du film de Patric Chiha est très vite retombée. Le long-métrage, qui est une adaptation d’un roman court de Henri James publié en 1903, s’avère rapidement très répétitif et surtout d’une vacuité extrême. Son étalement temporel est peu crédible et scandé inutilement par des événements historiques largement inexploités par le scénario (depuis l’élection de François Mitterrand en 1974 jusqu’aux attentats du 11 septembre 2001, en passant par la mort du chanteur Klaus Nomi, les années Sida ou encore la chute du mur). Seule Anaïs Demoustier tire son épingle du jeu. Tom Mercier ne nous a pas vraiment séduits malgré tout le bien qu’on pense de lui depuis ‘Synonymes’ (2019) de Nadav Lapid et Béatrice Dalle ne peut se défaire de son rôle très caricatural de videuse prêtresse omnisciente, avec entre autres une scène à la limite du risible face caméra. Les bons points sont plutôt rares (la scène d’ouverture en images d’archives, le grain très prononcé de l’image, l’étrangeté du début) mais le film tourne à vide. Une déception. ‘Blackberry’ de Glenn Ross Compétition, prochainement

Le tonitruant film ‘Blackberry’ de Glenn Ross présenté en Compétition aborde le succès fulgurant et la chute vertigineuse de la marque technologique canadienne, avec comme parti pris une bonne dose d’humour assez réussie. Le long-métrage est très instructif et habile dans sa vulgarisation aussi bien scientifique (l'image de l’appareil défectueux avec un bourdonnement énervant, les phrases choc comme « You can only put a minute in a minute. » pour expliquer l'essor de l’intérêt pour la donnée chez les opérateurs) que commerciale (le “time-to-market” avant tout, avec des vols d’avion à gogo). Il pâtit certes grandement de la comparaison avec ‘The Social Network’ (2010) de David Fincher dont il reprend certains codes (notamment au niveau de la musique et de la caractérisation du protagoniste) mais il se démarque par un une autodérision salvatrice très explicitement inspirée de ‘The Office’ (caméra qui zoome sur les réactions de colère des dirigeants divers ou d’étonnement des employés). Certains personnages sont plus attachants et élaborés que d’autres, en particulier la bande de geeks menée par les deux co-fondateurs Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) et Doug Fregin (Matthew Johnson). Dans sa forme, ‘Blackberry’ se rapproche plus du traitement d’un téléfilm que de celui d’un vrai long-métrage de cinéma, mais il parvient à emporter l’adhésion par une conscience apparente de ses propres défauts. Joli coup. 'The Survival of Kindness’ de Rolf De Heer Compétition, sortie le 13/12

‘The Survival of Kindness’ est pour le moins original. Sans aucune parole intelligible (on n’entendra que des grognements et de rares phrases non sous-titrées car prononcées dans des langues non comprises par les personnages qui les reçoivent) pour symboliser l’incapacité à communiquer et sans personnage caractérisé par un nom (les crédits affichent “Black Woman”, “Brown Man”...) pour souligner la déshumanisation, le film est porté par le point de vue d’une protagoniste chaplinesque circonspecte face à l’absurdité et la violence du monde qui l’entoure et dans lequel elle survit tant bien que mal. Le procédé fonctionne à merveille, avec néanmoins un léger essoufflement vers la fin du long-métrage. La mise en scène est remarquable (choix de la position de caméra toujours judicieux, cadrage à propos) et oscille constamment entre les différentes échelles, de l’infiniment grand (le cosmos, le désert aride à perte de vue) et l’infiniment petit (les miniatures sur le gâteau et autour des rails de train, les fourmis). On est saisis de la première à la dernière minute par ce film à la fois horrifiant et lumineux sur la violence exacerbée des heures sombres de l’histoire (on pense bien sûr au nazisme ainsi qu’aux génocides en Afrique). Une belle surprise forte en inventivité. A&B

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Cory Campbell, Idaho inmate 135848, born 2001, incarceration intake at 18, scheduled for parole consideration May 2039, Sentence Satisfaction date: August 2058

Battery with intent to commit rape.

In 2019, after three hours of victim impact statements, as well as defense and prosecution arguments, a District Judge sentenced the Eagle (Idaho) teenager to 40 years in prison on two counts of felony battery with intent to commit rape.

“I share the sentiments that I don’t know I’ve ever seen a case with such grim circumstances,” the judge said in court. ”When action is taken such as yours, Mr. Campbell, it renders a great deal of societal harm, and that’s not limited to pain of victims or parents … but also your family, friends and people who supported you.”

Campbell was arrested as a 17-year-old and charged with five felonies — four counts of rape and one of forcible penetration by use of a foreign object, with the victims ranging in age from 14 to 17. Facing trial as an adult, he pleaded guilty to two counts of felony battery with intent to commit rape in a plea deal with prosecutors. That agreement allowed all of his alleged victims — a number that swelled to 10, according to a news release from the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office — to deliver statements at sentencing.

Twelve people shared victim impact statements in court — some of the girls he was accused of assaulting and some of their parents. Many read the accounts themselves, while others had a parent or prosecutor read them.

In that testimony, the victims said that more girls came forward after first hearing of Campbell’s arrest. They said the attacks happened in a car, at Campbell’s residence or at show homes belonging to his father’s company.

“Cory sentenced my daughter to a life in fear,” one of the victim’s mothers said during her statement.

The DA also said a psycho-sexual evaluation showed that Campbell is a moderate risk to reoffend.

The defense attorney argued that Campbell acted impulsively and not in a premeditated manner, and the psycho-sexual and psychological evaluations showed him to be a good contender for rehabilitation. Describing him as a “model inmate” in juvenile detention, Campbell would be at low risk of reoffending with treatment.

“We have a boy,” Campbell’s attorney said, “and he has no understanding of what a healthy sexual relationship looked like.”

In addition to the prison time, the court ordered Campbell to register as a sex offender and to have no contact with any of his victims for 40 years.

“The pattern of behavior was particularly disturbing: predatory and serial,” the judge said. “There is a frightening disconnect between how you present yourself to your family, church and these girls.”

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Last reviewed August 2024

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Hey all, I finally have a creepypasta oc, shocking I know :0 but anyways! I have an opening in a rp I want to try out. I want to do a slow burn relationship roleplay with this guy and Jason the Toymaker. I'm working on a backstory, but I also have a fic going on as well if anyone wants to read it. I'll place down some basic information here about this dude, and I will give more information in messages either on here or discord

Tada! Finns ref!

Name: Finn Lancer

Age: 21

Birthday: November 8th, 2001

Star sign: Scorpio

Sexuality: Gay (questioning bisexual)

Bio:

Finn was born dirt poor and never really had a chance to be spoiled, that is until his mother went to prison for hoarding loads of drugs and cooking meth with her boyfriend. Finn was only a few months old. He was passed to his grandparents after almost being placed in foster care, from there he was raised until the ripe age of four where his mother was finally bailed out, having a parol officer monitoring her every move. Finn didn't want to talk to his mother, he felt as though he didn't know her, and in reality he didn't. She left him at such a young age. As he grew, so did his family. His mother had two more children, a little sister four years apart from him and a brother 11 years apart, he was an accident but it didn't matter, Finn still loved him dearly...

Finn was the 'mother' of his siblings, his grandparents couldn't watch all three of them, so Finn decided he could handle it by himself. And he did as best as he could manage, as he grew older he became very distanced from his family, they stopped caring about him like they used to, and instead of the soft encouraging words his grandparents gave it was replaced by screaming, yelling, and things being thrown. He hated it. So one night he picked his things up and left, stealing almost all of the families savings to go and start his own life.

It lasted until he turned 18. When he did, he celebrated alone, he found a significant other but it really..didn't last that long, because he had felt no attraction, nothing. He hated how he couldn't care about another like how they cared for him. As he grew to the age of 20, he was informed of his family passing, or at least his grandparents and mother, neither had left Finn in their will. He had an urge to find his brother and sister, but they didn't want him, and neither did he. So instead he went home, and tried to take up living, but with his money depleted he couldn't really find a place to stay, he also attempted to get a job, but with no records on him, he couldn't get one. He had no idea how to get an ID, or even a birth certificate, so he gave up, living around the city, that is until fate decided to take a turn towards the better side.