Indecipherable Vibes

An innocent man is home with his family instead of spending his kids' whole childhoods in jail for "resisting arrest" when none of the cops could agree on why he was being arrested in the first place. (But it definitely had nothing to do with him being a Black man in a nice car, honest! 🙄)

And it still took like two hours of delibration after we'd heard all the evidence because one lady was so gung ho about believing everything the cops said, even when not a single goddamn one could agree with their own testimony, let alone their colleagues'.

Pointing out all the inconsistencies and admitted misconduct and letting people slowly come to their own conclusions as the trial played out was fucking hard, I won't lie. I can be patient, but it doesn't come naturally to me.

But. Yelling about how this was obviously a bs case would have shut everyone down and made them stop listening. Asking questions and letting people discuss how the cops tried to make xyz sound suspicious but it was totally normal, or about how if things played out the way the cops said then logically events should have proceeded in a totally different direction, and positing different theories that actually lined up with the evidence presented?

That got people thinking, and everyone realized that for a variety of reasons we all had reasonable doubts that the defendent had committed any of the crimes of which he was accused.

Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

It is he

Goy: so what do Jews really think about J-sus?

Me: we don’t.

Goy: ???

Me: We don’t think about him. He is completely irrelevant to us.

Goy: I find that hard to believe. Good or bad, you must think something.

Me: we really, really don’t.

Goy: certainly you do.

Me: What’s your opinion on Moshe ben Maimon? No Googling.

Goy: who?

Me: Oh you don’t have an opinion or know anything about him because he’s entirely irrelevant to your life?

Goy: That’s not true, I just don’t know much about Judaism.

Me: yes. That is the point I am making.

Goy: but J-sus is famous all over the world! Even in Israel!

Me: yes. Xtians think about him a lot. Jews do not.

Goy: I still don’t believe you don’t have opinions.

Me: I cannot emphasize enough how little time Jewish people spend sitting around contemplating figures from other religions.