Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

  1. @BOOMER 1960 Government misconduct - including police misconduct - is on us, the taxpayers and voters who elect those responsible for the hiring and oversight of police and all other officials. When it all goes sideways somebody's got to pay and in a democracy it finally comes down to We The People. The alternative is to keep immunity and impunity in place, authorizing and escalating the abuses of power.
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  2. The offending parties should be forced to take out a FULL-PAGE newspaper ad stating "The behavior.of arresting officers [insert names] was inexcusably vicious, menacing and insulting. The conduct of DA [insert name] was negligent and high-handed. The harm done to [insert victim's name] is irreparable and unforgivable. No apology could possibly undo the damage done." To anyone about to tell me that'd never be allowed: Ikr? I was only talking about what justice would look like, not reality.
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  3.  @mattmatt6572  True because that's how the deck is stacked, but it has nothing to do with the truth of the situation: It wasn't a violent act but a defensive one. The first violent move was by the police, and the use of pepper spray was an assault not a defense.
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  4. ​​ @dbfjohn2502 Thanks for adding that, it's important. A criminal cop's career should be ended, not just momentarily interrupted.
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  5.  @mwilliams1330  Absolutely. However I might go along with the imprisonment part too if the body camera was turned off in a situation where a civilian was harmed and there's nothing to indicate what happened other than the LEO's report. I think that might have been what Jeff meant anyhow.
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  6.  @radolfkalis4041  Right, so if you're a juror it's your fault that the prosecutor quashed exonerating testimony and evidence and the judge forbad the defense attorney from telling you about it.
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  7. If it's auto theft (according to Steve who should know) then why was the response a lawsuit instead of an arrest warrant?
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  8. Projection maybe? If he vehemently argued his innocence while knowing he wasn't innocent, he might imagine ANYONE who argues their innocence is equally guilty.
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  9. Police academy should begin with intensive training on what "rights" are. As it stands now it appears what police cadets are taught about the law stops at "I AM the law. Disobey me and you're disobeying the law."
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  10. Loved Steve's comments on drag-racing off a traffic light. When my brother was a teenager driving our mother's MG 1100 sedan, he was at a stoplight in the rain next to a Thunderbird. He rapped the accelerator till the other guy finally noticed it over the rumble of his own idle. The light changed and they both bugged out. My brother expected the T-bird to zoom past him; when it didn't he checked the rearview mirror. He saw it fishtailing all over the wet street and then the driver, embarrassed I'm sure, turned off at the next corner. The little MG sedan had front-wheel drive.
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  11. I'm just evil-minded enough to doubt all these "errors" were really errors. I find it all too easy to imagine they were so unhappy about the acquittals of his codefendants they just didn't want to go through that again. Sounds totally Georgia to me.
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  12.  @senseisecurityschool9337  I agree if he told the bank he didn't authorized it. Guess I missed that part.
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  13.  @senseisecurityschool9337  Oh I never thought "I changed my mind" was a reasonable defense, just wasn't sure whether the guy was lame enough to think there's a real case to be made for second thoughts or whether he planned from the beginning to renege.
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  14.  @orppranator5230  Yikes! Now if someone writes "based" I have to stop and ponder whether they might MEAN based or whether they mean one of the other two things.
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  15. I propose a law that buying land adjacent to public land includes an obligation to allow access the public land by the SHORTEST POSSIBLE ROUTE, thus minimizing the inconvenience.
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  16.  @MrMartinSchou  I agree with you but I don't think we're really talking about the same thing. You've profiled tribalism pretty accurately while I was thinking instead of authoritarianism. Both could be in play when decisions like this one are handed down but my opinion is it's authoritarianism more than tribalism. Either way, I'm on board with what you said about scapegoating doctors (and healthworkers in general).
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  17. Now I'd like to see a SCOTUS case on what I think is the most unjust thing about property taxes as we know them: If you buy a home for what amounts to all the money you could afford to pay and then gentrification sets in, raising property values in your area, your home is then assessed at a value you couldn't possibly have paid. That rate is intended to force you to sell out and is a punishment for not doing so. Your home should be yours for life regardless of richer people moving in next door and across the street and down the block who don't want you for a neighbor. Local taxing entities shouldn't be allowed to weigh in and shake you down on behalf of the newcomers taking over your neighborhood. What you pay for your home should remain the assessment until and unless you decide on your own to sell. Then and only then you could be charged a one-time tax on any windfall profit you made from the sale. If you choose instead to spend your whole life in the home you've had for years, that should be your right.
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  18.  @jrstf  Well you dodged my reply pretty neatly so I'll assume you really DO think the county was having blackouts just because she recycled some garbage. The video didn't mention the county claiming any such thing but I'm sure you know more about it than the county does - ha!
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  19.  @brentfarvors192  Hint: Cow manure wasn't mentioned in the video as far as I recall. Have you got a link to those odor complaints? Note that I'm passing over your nasty personal remark and refocusing this conversation just as if you're communicating productively and civilly.
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  20. That's true all too often but this time it was evidence omitted by the defense, which is just as bad if not worse. After all the state has a good-faith duty to provide the accused with adequate counsel, yes?
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  21. I don't believe the Founders ever specified or intended that laws and rules should override fairness, justice or plain human decency.
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  22. New parents should go get a copy of Lenore Skenazy's book Free-Range Kids and read it. Imo it would be a very valuable public service if cities or counties sent a stack of them to every obstetrician and maternity ward.
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  23. I have a hunch the whole thing happened because of carelessness not intent, but that's just as bad because it means they have so little respect for artists that they didn't bother to pay attention.
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  24.  @silverXnoise  Nice alliteration
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  25. 9:01 "What format" sounds like an innocent question but I, a lay person with no experience working in radio, might not have realized it meant "What genre?" So when Steve said "Classic rock" instead of "Huh?" the border agent decided he was telling the truth.
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  26. A friend of mine who was a major in the Air Force was transferred to Germany. He and his family relocated and rented out their home till his time overseas ended. Does that make them hoteliers?
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  27. Can't help thinking the ambulance company might be getting a kickback on those tickets, or somebody at the city has got something on somebody at rhe ambulance company...or something else similar might be going on under wraps. But that's just me. Regardless, I think in a case like that I'd want the defense to ask each and every prosecution witness "If you're ever a patient in an ambulance in a life-threatening condition, do you want the driver to stop at all the red lights?"
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  28. It's always gratifying when real people win any kind of judgement against a debt shark. It's unfortunate that so few of us will (or can) pursue a fight like this one as exhaustively and tenaciously as Maisie Green did. Debt sharks win way too often. Hats off to Green for persevering and even doing it without an attorney, whose fees might render any ultimate legal victory moot.
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  29. ​ @mvpfocus  As a lifelong incorrigible grammar nazi I'm with you. I'm not on board with the idea that the English language is now whatever anyone wants it to be and anything you write means anything you say it means.
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  30.  @Jameshstone  Wait, what? There's no law like that. I don't live in CA but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out Newsom couldn't have gotten the legislature to pass anything worded even remotely like that. I was asking for a serious answer.
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  31.  @DaveBigDawg  I've often thought that too. What's more, I'd rather they didn't even have to say it. I think having a lawyer present should be opt-out not opt-in, and if the detainee opts out there should be a video of them saying it with NO police prompting
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  32. ​​ @marcocanb  Nailed it👍
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  33.  @bergmanoswell879  I've thought that was just about JFK's best quote ever since the first time I read it (I was in junior high and then high school during his presidency but didn't know he said that till later). I still hope peaceful revolution remains an option - most people still aren't giving it a chance because most people don't vote. The small number of lawmakers who run corporate-free campaigns, and work for the people instead of the ruling class, is slowly growing and if We The People get more engaged and elect more of them the SCOTUS could be reformed. There are plenty of ways that could be accomplished like term limits, forcing strict judicial ethics standards and/or expanding the bench. Probably there are potentially more measures that haven't even been proposed yet.
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  34. Hmmm, I wonder if I could successfully sue whenever an orbiting satellite passes directly above my condo.
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  35. I'm seeing a lot of comments here about big government overreach. The reasoning seems to be that as long as big business's will gets done it's ok but if farmers try to protect their crops and can actually get some help, THAT'S overreach.
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  36. It's nauseating and immoral that any state can opt out of making restitution to the innocent when they've been wrongfully deprived of years out of their lives.
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  37. "It's not his job to fabricate evidence. It's amazing that it takes a court of appeals to say that." Wow. Just wow.
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  38. Haven't seen Tangled but the Grimm version of Rapunzel is pretty juicy. While the prince was having regular meetings in the tower with the girl it's stated that she "accepted" him as her "husband" and it doesn't mean the prince hauled a priest up there with him to perform a wedding. Rapunzel was busted when her pregnancy got so advanced she couldn't conceal it from the witch. I don't see any reason a 21st-century child needs to be shielded from the story though.
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  39. "Cat & mouse jiggler" lol...I bet Steve could hardly wait to get to that part of the story so he could say that😂
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  40. Talking about revisiting Bad Axe, Steve remarks "Some things change, some never do." I wish I could say the same about Austin. I came here in 1970 and today nearly nothing is the same. It's been overrun and mutilated by developers. I especially hate the new skyline. I saved this to my playlist titled "Politics: law and/or justice" only because that's where the rest of my saved Lehto videos are. Maybe it's time to create a separate Lehto list.
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  41. A city deliberately and with malice aforethought makes free speech against its officials "illegal" and thinks it's safe from exposure and legal action? What are those council members using for brains?
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  42. I wonder how many other jokes have turned into urban legends.
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  43. ​ @davidgerwin7885  Great, so it's rigged to allow land-greedy folks to expand while shutting out anyone who just wants to live there.
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  44.  @JRRob3wn  I get your point and it's important that people be aware of this. I don't get how the people in this thread want to skip the training issue. It's like they want the abuses to continue so they can keep being outraged.
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  45.  @MarkNutt37  I stand by what I said about training for important reasons but I've replied to you three times and every reply was deleted - whether by the .o.p. or by YT I wouldn't know.
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  46. @Chickenmonger "...they think...that because it’s happening to them, that it can happen to them." ???Clarification? I have a strong hunch that I'd probably agree if I were sure what you meant.
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  47. @Chickenmonger I mean, I know the context because I read the post you were replying to, but I'm not clear what point you were making with that response. I ask for clarification only because I suspect it was a valid point.
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  48. I don't use self-service checkout because I don't like it for the same reason Steve doesn't: I prefer doing business with a live human. But if I did use it I'm not so sure I'd deserve a discount for helping the company lay off more workers.
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  49. ​ @zafarsyed6437 No fooling! I've changed residences multiple times over the decades and I've put stuff including whole beds by the sidewalk. They were usually gone within the hour.
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  50. "Disappointing" is a very mild term for a decision that deliberately and cold-bloodedly enables yet more state-ordered homicides of the innocent.
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