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Lakeland woman was charged Tuesday after police said she ended a call to an insurance company with the words, “Delay, Deny, Depose.”

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[-] leadore@lemmy.world 118 points 3 months ago

They set $100K bond and she could get a 15 year prison sentence!?!?!? That's insane. Far far out of proportion to what she said. Obviously there's no way she is any kind of a threat to anyone and they know it. But they're going to fuck her over to make an example of her. What a dystopia we're living in.

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 75 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It feels like the elites "putting us in our place". This is a form of torture, a sentence or threat of a sentence that is far too strict for the crime. Publicize it so the masses can see.

Feels like they're trying to show us what happens when we get uppity with the billionaire class.

Hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully there's still rule of law, a judge throws it out, and maybe she can sue. Time will tell.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Time will tell

Weelll, lets say history tells it already.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

No shit. There's no need to "wait and see". We see it every day.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Too many people support the attractive suspect, find some loud lower class woman to use instead!!!

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

She's lucky. They could have sent Israel after her for those hamas-level terrorist threats.

[-] TherapyGary 38 points 3 months ago

[she] was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism

How

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next.

Probably the last sentence

[-] TherapyGary 22 points 3 months ago

She doesn't even own a gun and seems to pose little tangible threat, yet they're claiming intent to commit mass murder or terrorism. Its a ridiculous stretch from that little comment

You do realize that it's possible to possess a weapon that isn't registered to you, right?

Why would you not take a person referencing a recent assassination and telling you that you are next seriously? I'd 100% call the cops if that happened to me when I was a call center agent.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

You'd only think it was a credible threat if your system was so fucked up the powder keg was lit

Mass shootings are almost a daily occurrence in the US. Why wouldn't you take the threat seriously?

If this person had actually shot up a call center and the FBI was found to have said, "Eh, they probably didn't mean it that way," people would be equally as outraged.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

There's a difference between investigating a possible threat, and attempting to prosecute. I suggest you learn it.

[-] TherapyGary 3 points 3 months ago

I'm not saying it shouldn't have been followed up on but, given what we know now, it seems ridiculous to charge her with intent to commit a mass shooting or terrorist attack

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The woman just means that the people she was talking to will be screwed over by insurance too.

She was saying we’re all in this together, basically!

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Why was her claim denied? Guys? WHY WAS HER CLAIM DENIED?

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

I hear “self defense”

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

No, see, everyone is misunderstanding. She was threatening to commit mass murder by starting her own health insurance company and using the tried and true Delay, Deny, Depose method of profiting from murder.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 months ago

Somebody ought to rally like a million people to all call their insurance company on the same day and just say delay, deny, depose. If so many people do it, and they try to arrest everybody, they would be absolutely overwhelmed.

[-] solomon42069@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Careful tempting the state into violence - you might be surprised to the depths they're willing to sink to and for how little. Nixon had the state guard execute peaceful student protesters - American kids!

If you haven't heard about America's own "Tiananmen square" before, here's the link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

And then people wonder why state regimes get toppled.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

The people working the phone lines are paycheck to paycheck and just trying to get by like the rest of us. I highly doubt they deserve that.

[-] solomon42069@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

The judge is going to create the exact effect they're trying to avoid with that $100,000 bond!

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago

Her words after this were "you people are next"

Kinda gives her less leeway here

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 months ago

I don't think so tbh, at least for me personally. People in power have said way worse things

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

The difference is .. people in power said those things.

Some animals are created more equal than others.

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 11 points 3 months ago
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