i desperately want to know what this is subtweeting

The judge who issued the order was horrified by the facts of the case, and told Jessica to be sure to call the police if AH ever violated the order, because he would be arrested.

Within a month, AH did just that, kidnapping the children from Jessica's front yard. Jessica did what the judge said,

and immediately called the police. She explained that the children had been kidnapped and that AH was violating a domestic violence order of protection. The two responding officers mocked Jessica, told her to let the children be with their father,

and to call them back if the children weren't back in a few hours.

So that's what Jessica did. At 10:00 pm that night, she called the police for a third time, only to be mocked again by the police. The responding officer told her to stop being so emotional and went to dinner.

At 3:00 am the following morning, AH followed Jessica to the police station in his truck and opened fire. The police shot and killed him. In his truck were the already dead bodies of the children. AH had killed them whilst the officer was at dinner.

Jessica sued the police department,

alleging that they owed her a duty to enforce the order of protection entered against her, and because they failed to do so, her children were killed. The case went to the SCOTUS as Castle Rock v. Gonzales in 2005. In ruling for the police, Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority,

explained that police have no duty to protect people because their only job is to protect property rights, and an order of protection was "not the sort of 'entitlement' out of which a property interest is created." The right to be protected from harm by police, wrote Scalia,

"would not, of course, resemble any traditional conception of property." As such, the SCOTUS held that police owe people no duty to enforce laws or court orders whose aim is the protection of people instead of property interests.

"We conclude, therefore, that [Jessica] did not,

for purposes of the Due Process Clause, have a property interest in police enforcement of the restraining order against her husband." And because nonproperty interests weren't protectable, said SCOTUS, she had no legal remedy.

Trump is basing his entire presidency, and the right wing bases its current fascist project, on cases like Castle Rock. Because if the government has no duty to protect you from others, it need not protect you from itself.

this is so real and something we think about a lot at my job - the full podcast APM did, Sold A Story, will haunt me for a long time. When she talks to the kids who were struggling, the teachers... WOOF. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

Kent /Kent/ Kent

me watching this hockey rn