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Michigan outlaws the 'gay and trans panic defense' in criminal trials
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Good, because that is fucking bullshit. Imagine if there was a "black panic defense" where someone claimed that they lost control violently because a black person made a pass at them?
Or even better(?) a "white panic defence" for non-whites (hold for crowd's audible gasp). The fact someone came up with that garbage is yet another example of how absurd it is getting over there.
This one isn't recent. This particular "defense" goes back to the 1960s and it's based on "science" from the 1920s.
That’s where they got the “xyz panic defense” from!
“The Big Scary Black Man™️ got on the elevator with me! I had to mace him because he said HeLlO”
(Yeah. That was my security guard. He was in uniform, starting his shift and you just maxed him for starting his rounds.)(fortunately it was that cheap pink pepper spray that- for the record- can’t stop any one for shit. It’s just… irritating.)
That's pretty much what happened to Emmett Till
I think I'm seen American police do that, though that could just be the way its reported
Very few black people in America are making passes at cops. At least not when they know they're cops.
The comparison is that the cops are using something about the person to be an excuse for violently panicking. Not literally the same thing, but the same kind of fear based on who the person is.
I bet they did used to use that defense
Not successfully enough for it to become a known phrase.
Like Emmitt Till?
It's not about making a pass, but the corollary is all the cops claiming "excited delirium" is what kills their victims.