• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    But why? Are we doing publc shamings again? Should we put him on the village square and have kids throw fruit at him?

    • brackled@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      It’s up to the public how they respond. The point here is not setting a precedent for police withholding bodycam footage regardless of who request. We can’t open any doors for police to try and withhold footage more than they already do. This time it just an embarrased celebrity but next time it might be copes wrongfully arresting, killing, etc. I do tngicr a shit about JT but I do care that body cam footage stays public information.

  • comador @lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    I hope he is so humiliated by this that he quits driving altogether.

    ‘Why are you treating me like a criminal?’

    Because you entitled drunk driving prick: You WERE a criminal at that moment.

  • surfrock66@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    It is bad and he needs to face consequences, but the headline made me think it was worse than it was. He was polite, and his team reacted stronger than he did. I wonder how much the suppression was his PR agency over him; when he was in the station and telling the officers he appreciated everything they do, that is as good as you can do in a situation like that. Drunk driving is inexcusable, but that is not a celebrity meltdown which is how it’s being shared in a lot of headlines.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Timberlake’s lawyers had sued to block the release of the video, arguing it would “devastate” Timberlake’s privacy by revealing “intimate, highly personal, and sensitive details”. They also said it would cause “severe and irreparable harm” to his reputation by subjecting him to “public ridicule and harassment”.

    I mean, Justin can just not drive drunk if we wanted to avoid this.

  • SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Just glad he wasn’t driving with Janet Jackson.

    “No officer, I had no idea she was gonna show nipple while I drove drunk.”

    Sorry, I know I should let it go, but I still have lingering resentment towards him about how that Super Bowl “fiasco” went down.