At their state convention, Minnesota Republicans held a moment of silence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Like many other GOP state chapters, the Minnesota Republican Party has been unabashed about flaunting its extremism in recent years.
One of the clearest examples of this has been in the party’s promotion of far-right figures like Royce White, who rode the Minnesota GOP’s endorsement in his 2024 Senate race to a shellacking in the general election.
But even so, a moment of silence the party held for Derek Chauvin over the weekend — that is, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — underscores a uniquely sadistic strain of racial bigotry within the state Republican Party.
Personally I think that these tools are only as good as their user and also they aren’t nearly as capable as they want us to think they are, be it due to weird gaps in their coverage, insufficient photo or video resolution, or simply too much parsable days I think these surveillance networks have notable holes in them. That’s not even getting into how the software side of things may be insufficient, biased, or simply broken.
The guy in charge of spying on you is typically drunk or polygraphing what’s left of his staff that wasn’t replaced with AI to see who stole his booze (which he drank and forgot about). They want you to believe Santa is always watching, and while we shouldn’t doubt they’re trying to get to Minority Report level, I agree that there’s too much info and too little skill. Even the most effective tyrannical bureaucracies are bureaucracies, filled with red tape, miscommunication, and petty tyrants willing to sabotage a rival to make themselves look good. They know they don’t have the Batcomputer, but if they can convince you to act like they do they don’t need it.
Based on nothing but vibes alone I wouldn’t be surprised if police and federal agents still use the incomplete or even false data to “solve” crimes. Wether or not they could use it on mangonie or the kid that shot Charlie Kirk, one of the like 10 people that have tried to shoot Trump, or even wether it’s even useable at all is where the real speculation starts. As far as I know, human beings are training these things to find a “match”, any match, even if it’s not a match and the person they are looking for isn’t in their searches whatsoever, it’ll find someone to convict
Agreed, just didn’t want to speculate all that much on back end shit that I can’t see. But yeah the match regardless of accuracy thing is almost certainly happening on statistics alone, I know damned well I’ve met folks with faces very similar to my own since I don’t facially differ all that much from the rest of the North American Scottish diaspora and that’s just from personal experience though funny enough I don’t get mistaken for other people because I am shorter than most other folks with similar faces to my own.
When I was a teenager I had cops straight up ask me if I was someone else that had warrants for his arrest, and once they stopped me it was on ME to prove that I wasn’t this person that I am not. I was in highschool with the guy ant the time and I don’t think I look anything like him.
Regardless, I was walking down the sidewalk with weed in my backpack and a cop literally drove up on the sidewalk in front of me and radioed in that they got me, only it wasn’t me because I’m not who they were looking for.
About shit my pants. Cops are dumb as fuck, it took them a solid 15 minutes to let me go even after I showed them my ID. Kid they were looking for was a literal rapist btw so I didn’t take very kindly to the implication I could just “be him” to them, never been mistaken like that before in my life. For non-white people it’s literally proven to be 1000x worse, they’ll photoshop your mugshot to make it look more like who they’re looking for.