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  • No parking

  • Single-stair buildings

  • A street width most fire departments wouldn’t allow

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

Depends on your income. Enough wealthy people get away with vehicular manslaughter with a few months of domiciliary arrest, that it is essentially a meme in the US legal system. While a poor person of color would get shot at on the spot by police for knocking on the wrong door. Land of the free…etc.

[-] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago

It's still a crime, just one that can have the punishment reduced to a fine

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

If it can be paid with a fine. Then it is not a crime, it is a paid event with a premium entry fee.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yeah even without the BLM Death Race laws, hardly anyone ever goes to jail for killing/injuring people with their car. Hell even people who kill others while under the influence very often won't get charged with vehicular homicide.

Remember that little "Afluenza" twerp from about 10 years ago who got a slap on the wrist after killing a bunch of people while driving drunk? The judge ruled "He's rich and therefore it's in his nature ("Afluenza") to do stuff like that, so he can't be held criminally liable."

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