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Your link title is so inaccurate. ** -- 48zip 08/28/2020 12:51PM Not my title- it's from the article -- VT48uva0 08/28/2020 1:16PM You typed "assault now misdemeanor" Article says "allowed", meaning -- 48zip 08/28/2020 1:28PM Based on your poster names, this discussion is ironic and amusing. ** -- vt90 08/28/2020 1:32PM Haha. Yep. He's a young'un. ** -- 48zip 08/28/2020 1:41PM 4 spineless reps didn’t even vote ** -- B777Fr8Dog 08/28/2020 11:31AM Mark Peak (your bro) voted against it. Mark Obenshain (VT 1984) didn’t vote** -- CrystalCoveHokie 08/28/2020 12:08PM Lived in our House with him one year. 👍🏻 ** -- B777Fr8Dog 08/28/2020 2:58PM Shameful. Glad I live in SC -- HokieHutch 08/28/2020 10:46AM That's OK. We are too. ** -- 48zip 08/28/2020 12:50PM On the flip side, how many people are now "convicted felons" because they -- HokieFan14 08/28/2020 12:14PM Yeah, this seems like a no-brainer honestly ** -- Gobbler-100 08/28/2020 2:05PM What's the equivalent law in SC anyways? ** -- jmanatVT 08/28/2020 11:49AM Not sure honestly, just hate the errosion of protections is the key ** -- HokieHutch 08/28/2020 1:08PM I take things for what they are, not what movement they might be -- jmanatVT 08/28/2020 2:02PM Maybe we should give an impartial justice system more tools for appropriate -- BG Hokie 08/28/2020 11:43AM It devalues first responders versus other classifications of people.... -- CrystalCoveHokie 08/28/2020 1:32PM Why leave it wishy-washy when the law can be explicit? -- jmanatVT 08/28/2020 11:42AM Well, like all professions, there's a smallish number of bad cops out there -- mancunian 08/28/2020 11:20AM A little surprised by this** -- typed by ben 08/28/2020 10:57AM Yea, from my perspective you couldn't pay me to be a cop now -- HokieHutch 08/28/2020 12:59PM FWIW -- Beerman 08/28/2020 1:34PM Well, he's got a point about the officer choosing not to press charges. -- Hokie CPA 08/28/2020 11:06AM It gives the state another option to press charges -- typed by ben 08/28/2020 11:34AM FYI - I interpreted your comment as being surprised Hutch supported -- Hokie360 08/28/2020 11:48AM I interpreted it as ben being surpised at Hutch's reaction. -- Hokie CPA 08/28/2020 11:52AM Sure - that's why I said Hutch :-) Thanks, corrected. ** -- Hokie360 08/28/2020 11:58AM As stated below, it creates a lessen option for charging. Onion Ring rule. -- RhinoVT 08/28/2020 10:14AM But if I flick an onion ring at someone because of their gender..... -- CrystalCoveHokie 08/28/2020 12:33PM So. There's a fine distinction here. -- Beerman 08/28/2020 1:43PM I see it as a distinction without much difference..... -- CrystalCoveHokie 08/28/2020 2:05PM I think points are being lost -- Beerman 08/28/2020 2:36PM Here's my final thought on this.... -- CrystalCoveHokie 08/28/2020 4:08PM Any we didn't even get a daisy cutter! -- Beerman 08/28/2020 4:13PM This does NOT eliminate anything. It gives the officer an option to charge -- RhinoVT 08/28/2020 12:39PM Did you happen to see what happened when three armed thugs broke into... -- EDGEMAN 08/28/2020 1:16PM Is this what you're talking about? Hard to tell from your attempt at facts -- RhinoVT 08/28/2020 1:28PM VA wouldn’t be at the top of my list of places to live in the USA ** -- CrystalCoveHokie 08/28/2020 1:24PM You mean the Prosecutor. Officers don't press charges. ** -- 48zip 08/28/2020 12:53PM You're saying that a cop can't decide to charge w/ reckless or speeding? ** -- RhinoVT 08/28/2020 12:56PM No, they're traffic infractions. An officer can, but usually leaves it to -- 48zip 08/28/2020 1:02PM I once had a charge reduced from reckless to speeding to "improper equip" -- HokieHutch 08/28/2020 1:11PM So you think reckless driving is an infraction? ** -- RhinoVT 08/28/2020 1:03PM Traffic violations are. They're less than misdemeanors. Usually a ticket -- 48zip 08/28/2020 1:08PM So if you're 20 over and the cop gives you a speeding ticket, the judge can -- RhinoVT 08/28/2020 1:10PM All the ticket says is the speed. By law.over 85 (formerly 80) IS reckless. -- 48zip 08/28/2020 1:40PM "All the ticket says is the speed"??? How do you know this? -- RhinoVT 08/28/2020 1:51PM Reckless CAN be a misdemeanor, or a felony. And speed can be anything, BUT -- 48zip 08/28/2020 2:05PM No option if convicted at 20 over? So you're saying a cop can't charge -- RhinoVT 08/28/2020 2:12PM I’m referring to the mandatory 6 month sentence....... -- CrystalCoveHokie 08/28/2020 12:47PM Yup. Police are no more or less equal in our society in my view ** -- HokieHutch 08/28/2020 12:51PM Sounds like theonion.com article ** -- Ho_Ki 08/28/2020 10:25AM Flinging an onion ring at a cop should come at a mandatory sentence -- jmanatVT 08/28/2020 10:20AM Forcing someone to eat onions is cruel and unusual punishment. ** -- RhinoVT 08/28/2020 10:21AM But I'll bet that guy hasn't flicked onion ring at police again, has he? :) ** -- Hokie360 08/28/2020 10:19AM It was a woman with mental health problems ** -- Thumper 08/28/2020 11:35AM And a committee just approved banning use of tear gas and rubber bullets ** -- HokiesBill48 08/28/2020 10:13AM Tear gas ban is idiotic. ** -- 48zip 08/28/2020 12:54PM That seems like common sense -- hoosnowahokie 08/28/2020 10:07AM Doesn't eliminate the Felony charge, simply creates a Misdemeanor option ** -- HWA 08/28/2020 10:05AM
