First verdict in the Oakland "Ghost Ship" trial

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

Not guilty:

 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-05/ghost-ship-fire-verdict

 

Scroll down in the article and you will see the defense attorney blaming "income equality" instead of his client:

 

“None of this ever would have happened in the first place if the income inequality, the injustice … and the housing crisis, wasn’t permitted to get as bad as it has gotten in the Bay Area, and in Oakland, in the last few years,” he said. “These artists were living in this warehouse because … they were going to be living on the street otherwise."

[B-Man]

 

 

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[TakeYouToTasker]

A sound libertarian outcome, though I’m sure that wasn’t the intent.

[DC Tom]

1 hour ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

“None of this ever would have happened in the first place if the income inequality, the injustice … and the housing crisis, wasn’t permitted to get as bad as it has gotten in the Bay Area, and in Oakland, in the last few years,” he said. “These artists were living in this warehouse because … they were going to be living on the street otherwise."

 

Personally, I blame toxic masculinity and the hateful use of incorrect gender pronouns.  

 

But we all know it was probably caused by Climate Change.  

[3rdnlng]

1 hour ago, DC Tom said:

 

Personally, I blame toxic masculinity and the hateful use of incorrect gender pronouns.  

 

But we all know it was probably caused by Climate Change.  

Yes, Spontaneous Severe Localized Climate Change.